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The Center of Analytical Research (CAR) provides researchers in the disciplines of chemistry, biotechnology, environmental analysis, textiles and food science with expertise, test methods and instruments for qualified analytical use. CAR supports knowledge- and application-oriented research, development and projects with extensive equipment and infrastructure. Liquid and gas chromatography, absorption and vibrational spectroscopy, nuclear and electron magnetic resonance spectroscopy, emission-absorption atomic spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, optical and electron microscopy, and especially hyphenated mass spectrometry are part of the instrumental-analytical compendium of CAR.

CAR is organizationally part of the Faculty of Chemistry 01 and the research institute ILOC. Thus, researchers and lecturers have access to an even more comprehensive set of tools for analysis, characterization, and property investigation. This includes access to synchrotron radiation at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.

CAR cooperates with individual researchers, research groups, the university's affiliated institutes ILOC, A.U.G.E, HIT and the competence centres KAMU and CCMB, public institutions and private companies.

CAR provides support in cooperation or through contract work.

CAR conducts its own research in the form of bachelor's theses, master's theses and dissertations.

Information

DEAL: All journals from Wiley are now available ONLINE on the university's network. Any accepted publication from our university with this publisher can now be made OpenAccess there. For more information, please contact the head of the library, Mr. Salmon.

 

Contact in CAR

Office

Frankenring 20, 47798 Krefeld, Building P

Prof. Dr. Martin Jäger
Instrumental Analytics, Dean, Member ILOC Institute
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schram
Instrumental and chemical analysis

Members in CAR

People
Prof. Dr. Martin Jäger
Instrumental Analytics, Dean, Member ILOC Institute
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schram
Instrumental and chemical analysis
Dr. Melanie Voigt
Research Assistant Organic trace analysis
Joachim Horst, Dipl.-Ing.
Organic trace analysis
Petra Straßburg, Dipl.-Ing.
Elemental and species analysis

Our competences

Management

 

The core of the Center for Instrumental Analysis (CAR) is formed by the laboratories for Organic Trace Analysis and Spect roscopy and Elemental and Species Analysis and SEM/ Microscopy with:

  • Prof. Dr. Martin Jäger - Organic Trace Analysis, Spectroscopy & Mass Spectrometry, Process Analytical Technologies (PAT).
  • Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schram - Elemental and species analysis, atomic spectroscopy and metry, archaeometry, microplastics, nanoparticles, sampling techniques
  • Dr. Melanie Voigt - Anthropogenic micropollutants in the environment, quantitative structure-activity relation, mass spectrometry
  • Dipl.-Chem. Joachim Horst - instrument specialist, mass spectrometry, chromatography
  • Dipl.-Chem. Petra Straßburg - instrument specialist, chemical analysis, organization
  • and permanently changing students and PhD students*.

PhD students in CAR

Indra Bartels, M.Sc.
Doctoral student / supervisor at the HN: Prof. Dr. Martin Jäger
Tobias Gantenberg, M.Sc.
Doctoral student / supervisor at the HN: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schram
Andrea Hermsen, M.Sc.
Doctoral student / supervisor at the HN: Prof. Dr. Martin Jäger
Marc Holly, M.A.
Doctoral student / supervisor at the HN: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schram
Lukas Mahler, M.Sc.
PhD student / supervisor at the HN: Prof. Dr. Martin Jäger
Yasmine Schulenburg, M.Sc.
Doctoral student / supervisor at the HN: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schram

Completed doctorates

Completed doctorates

  • Dr. Gerrit Renner (2019), Development of new spectroscopic and multivariate chemometric methods for the characterization of microplastics in the marine environment, University of Duisburg-Essen
  • Dr. Robin Legner (2019), Combined use of compact 1HNMR, NIR and Raman spectroscopy with multivariate data analysis in process analytics, University of Duisburg-Essen
  • Dr. Melanie Voigt (2017), Photoinduced degradation of pharmaceutically relevant substances in waters - kinetic, structural-chemical and ecotoxicological studies of active ingredients and their degradation products using advanced oxidation processes, University of Duisburg-Essen
  • Dr. Michael Dronov (2017), Concentration-Gradient-Method for improvement of precision and accuracy of isotope ratio analysis using quadrupole based inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, University of Duisburg-Essen.

CAR Internal

The annual final barbecue will be held on Thursday, July 14, 2022 from 5 pm in the courtyard.

We would like to invite you to this event.

Added value of our research

In CAR, application-oriented research and development tasks are carried out within the framework of theses, externally-funded projects from the public sector and industrial projects.

Selection of funded projects

  • Ministry of Culture and Science NRW, Major Instrumentation of the Länder (DFG), GZ: INST 231/4-1 LAGG, Prof. Dr. M. Jäger, Orbital ion trap mass spectrometer, 01/2020-12/2020, 796,100 €.
  • European Union / NRW, EFRE-0801523; Prof. Dr. K. Hoffmann-Jacobsen and Prof. Dr. M. Jäger; Enz4Water Enzymatic filtration for the 4th purification stage, 09/2019-09/2022, 360,675 €.
  • FH-Basis 2015 (equipment program) - Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Prof. Dr. M. Jäger (together with Prof. Dr. Jost Göttert), Miniature Laboratory, 2015, 67,473 €.
  • FH-Basis 2014 (equipment program) - Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia; Prof. Dr. M. Jäger; mass spectrometer; 2014, 67,500 €.

Service for companies/externals

Laboratory

 

We have many years of experience in cooperation with companies. We carried out very successful research and development projects with companies from the region, Germany and abroad. All companies were impressed by our range of services.

Please contact us.

 

 

Competence of our research

Research topics

Research

Research Topics

  • Anthropogenic micropollutants
  • Microplastics in environmental compartments
  • Nanoparticles in the environment
  • Elimination of micropollutants from surface waters and wastewater treatment plants
  • Mechanistic elimination studies using high-resolution and multifragment mass spectrometry
  • Quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR) in ecotoxicology
  • Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) for on-site pesticide identification
  • Calculation of Raman and SERS spectra using quantum chemical methods
  • Sampling of airborne contaminants
  • Archaeometric and forensic analysis
  • Process Analytical Technologies (PAT)
  • Real-time process monitoring with compact spectrometers
  • Stable isotope analytics
  • Elemental species analysis
  • Biomarkers for meat authentication
  • Hetero-Covariance Spectroscopy based on NMR, Raman, NIR and MIR spectra

Publications

Publications of CAR employees can be found on the people pages.

Prof. Dr. Martin Jäger
Instrumental Analytics, Dean, Member ILOC Institute
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schram
Instrumental and chemical analysis

Bachelor's and master's theses

Every year, 5-10 papers are carried out in the CAR on current research topics.

If you are interested, please contact Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schram or Prof. Dr. Martin Jäger about the research topics.

The laboratory of the center has high-quality equipment in the field of instrumental and environmental analysis (see equipment list).

Device list

Equipment