Research at the Faculty of Chemistry

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Research at the Faculty of Chemistry

The research and development projects at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Hochschule Niederrhein are very complex. R & D tasks are carried out in the specialisations of the Faculty of Chemistry and in the ILOC institute.

 

 

Institute for Coatings and Surface Chemistry

The Institute for Coatings and Surface Chemistry (ILOC) of the Hochschule Niederrhein in particular sees itself in its public and industrial research and development work as a regional innovation center with a focus on coatings chemistry, coatings technology, chemical engineering, green polymer materials , biophysical chemistry of surfaces and analytics and measurement technology for surfaces. The institute is thus an impulse generator and problem solver for companies and institutions.

Link to ILOC homepage

Center of Analytical Research (CAR)

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Research in the specialisations

Information

For more information on research expertise, please visit the professors' personal pages.

Biotechnology

  • Microbiology
  • Bioanalytical Methods
  • Enzyme technology
  • Toxicological tests
  • Genetic engineering methods

Responsible

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uta Bergstedt
Molecular Biotechnology Member ILOC Institute
Prof. Dr. Michaela Wagner
Biotechnology Member ILOC Institute

Institute for Coatings and Surface Chemistry

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

 

Institute Council

Prof. Dr. Bernd Strehmel
Paint Chemistry and New Materials ILOC Institute Director
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heyko Jürgen Schultz
Chemical Engineering ILOC Institute Council
Prof. Dr. Ernst Cleve
Prof. Dr. Ernst Cleve
Physics and Data Processing, ILOC institute council, faculty council, hlb-NRW Executive Board, Executive Board Heinrich Lange Foundation
Prof. Dr. Christian Schmitz
Paint Chemistry and Digital Processes ILOC Institute
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Hoffmann-Jacobsen
Professorship for Biophysical Chemistry, Member ILOC-Institute
Research at the ILOC Institute

Coating Engineering

  • Coatings for corrosion protection
  • Coatings and interfacial phenomena
  • Modern coating raw materials (pigments, block copolymers, photoinitiators, binders, additives)
  • Modern paint application processes

Responsible

Prof. Dr. Christian Schmitz
Paint Chemistry and Digital Processes ILOC Institute
Prof. Dr. Michael Dornbusch
Prof. Dr. Michael Dornbusch
Coatings Technology Member ILOC Institute
Prof. Dr. Bernd Strehmel
Paint Chemistry and New Materials ILOC Institute Director
Dr. Thomas Sturm
Academic staff Lack/ILOC Member ILOC Institute

Organic chemistry

  • Synthesis of organic compounds (Prof. Dr. Michael Lindemann)
  • sustainable polymer chemistry (Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Veronika Strehmel)
  • ionic liquids and polymers (Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Veronika Strehmel)
  • surfactant chemistry and application technology, especially personal care products and cosmetics (Prof. Dr. Andrea Wanninger)

Responsible

Prof. Dr. Veronika Strehmel
Organic Chemistry Member ILOC Institute
Prof. Dr. Andrea Wanninger
Organic Chemistry Member ILOC Institute
Prof. Dr. Michael Lindemann
Organic Chemistry Member ILOC Institute

Organic trace analysis and structural analysi

  • Pharmaceuticals in surface, ground and waste waters
  • Advanced Oxidation Processes for the removal of anthropogenic micropollutants from wastewaters
  • Environmental analysis with chromatography-mass spectrometry coupling techniques
  • Micro Process Analytical Technology
  • Spectroscopy for process analytics: FT-IR, NIR, Raman, Compact NMR
  • Mobile spectrometers and mobile environmental laboratories (Niederrhein Rover)
  • Multivariate data analysis for the investigation of fuels, fruits...

Responsible

Prof. Dr. Martin Jäger
Instrumental Analytics, Dean, Member ILOC Institute
Joachim Horst, Dipl.-Ing.
Organic trace analysis
About the research area

Physical chemistry

  • Droplet evaporation: physicochemical processes in chemistry-wetting coupling on solid surfaces and significance for applications (Prof. Graf)
  • Hydrogels: Development of special polymers for water desalination by reversible swelling and contraction processes (Coop. Prof. Graf with Prof. Dr. Jochen S. Gutmann, DTNW u. University Duisburg-Essen)

 

Responsible

Prof. Dr. Kerstin Hoffmann-Jacobsen
Professorship for Biophysical Chemistry, Member ILOC-Institute
Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Graf
Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Graf
Physical Chemistry Member ILOC Institute
Prof. Dr. Andreas Roppertz
Technical Chemistry Member ILOC Institute

Technical Chemistry

  • Stirring and Mixing Technology: The optimization of stirring and mixing technology processes is one of the most important tasks in Technical Chemistry. We pass on our extremely extensive expertise in this area in teaching education and to interested companies.
  • Fluid and Particle Flows: Everything is in motion! The description of fluid and particle flows is our concern.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD): Flow simulation is the future of modern apparatus and equipment design methods.
  • Flow Field Measurements: Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF), Shadowgraphy, and high-speed camera imaging in what is believed to be the world's only state-of-the-art facility for non-contact measurement of velocity, temperature, concentration, and pH fields are available in our laboratories.
  • Gas hydrates: We develop technical application potentials of gas hydrates, e.g. flow insurance (inhibitor research), gas storage, gas transport, gas separation and processing, energy production, wastewater treatment and seawater desalination, heat storage, hydrogen and biogas handling, carbon dioxide disposal.

Responsible

Prof. Dr. Georg Krekel
Inorganic Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Member ILOC Institute
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heyko Jürgen Schultz
Chemical Engineering ILOC Institute Council
Prof. Dr. Andreas Roppertz
Technical Chemistry Member ILOC Institute
Prof. Dr. Reza Saadat
Inorganic Chemistry, Member ILOC Institute

Environmental and elemental species analysis

  • Ion analytics
  • Elemental analytics
  • Materials analytics
  • Elemental species analysis
  • Structure elucidation of (bio)inorganic compounds
  • Environmental history
  • Forensic analytics
  • Archaeometry
  • Automation Engineering
  • Cultural history of chemistry

Responsible

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schram
Instrumental and chemical analysis
Petra Straßburg, Dipl.-Ing.
Elemental and species analysis

Inorganic chemistry

Our research focuses on diverse aspects of nanotechnology, surface chemistry and sustainability.

  • Nanoparticle synthesis
  • Nanoparticle Functionalization
  • Scale Up of Syntheses
  • Nanocomposites
  • Multi-material mix composites
  • Surface functionalization of various materials (inorganic, organic and polymer)
  • Sustainability in the sense of substitution and evaluation of used materials
Prof. Dr. Reza Saadat
Inorganic Chemistry, Member ILOC Institute