Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen
| Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen CENIDE |
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 CENIDE's official logo since March 2012 |
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| Category: | research Institute |
| Facility location: | Duisburg , Essen |
| Type of research: | Applied research |
| Subjects: | Physics , chemistry , engineering , biology and medicine |
| Areas of expertise: | Nanosciences |
| Management: | Heiko Wende (Scientific Director), Tobias Teckentrup (Managing Director) |
| Homepage: | www.cenide.de |
The Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen ( CENIDE ) is a central research facility of the University of Duisburg-Essen .
history
The Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen, or CENIDE for short, represents the relevant research focus of the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE): Since 2005, it has been networking research and teaching activities dealing with the nanodimension in the natural and engineering sciences as well as in Medicine.
goals and tasks
The scientists in CENIDE form an interdisciplinary network that promotes interdisciplinary cooperation and helps to bridge the gap between academic basic research and industrial implementation. CENIDE supports its members and partners from science and industry in establishing and coordinating research collaborations.
Research priorities
CENIDE coordinates and promotes scientific progress in chemistry, physics, engineering, biology and medicine. The focus is on:
- catalysis
- Dynamic processes in solids
- Gas phase synthesis of nanomaterials
- Magnetic materials
- Nanomaterials for health
- Nanotechnology in Energy Applications
NanoEnergieTechnikZentrum (NETZ)
One of the main focuses of CENIDE is nanoenergy technology - the use of nanotechnology for energy technology applications. The research building NanoEnergieTechnikZentrum, or NETZ for short, is specifically dedicated to the development of processes for the synthesis of nanomaterials with customized properties. The aim of the researchers here is to understand the formation and growth processes of nanomaterials and, on this basis, to produce specific materials with tailor-made properties. Suitable processes up to industrial application are to be developed.
Interdisciplinary Center for Analytics on the Nanoscale (ICAN)
One of CENIDE's services is the DFG Interdisciplinary Center for Analytics on the Nanoscale, or ICAN for short . At the UDE, it combines devices, methods and technical competence for analysis on the nanometer scale. Here, basic scientific research flows into the application-oriented development of new materials. This requires extensive analytical methods to optimize the processing and structure of the materials and to understand the underlying mechanisms. This is the only way to produce tailor-made materials with defined properties in a targeted manner. A major focus of ICAN is the microscopy center in the NanoEnergieTechnikZentrum (NETZ) on the Duisburg campus. Here, right next to the synthesis laboratories, specific, air-conditioned laboratories have been set up in which the most modern devices are operated mechanically and electromagnetically shielded in order to enable sensitive measurements with the highest resolution down to the atomic level.