Welcome Carlos
Carlos Lange Bassani joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher. He will be conducting research on porous materials using multiscale simulation. Welcome!
Category: Team
Chromatography Simulation Tool
For the outreach event “Gscheid Schlau”, Navid Panchi, Nydia Varela Rosales, and Federico Tomazic developed an interactive applet that allows experiencing how chromatography works. Play with different parameters to improve separation efficiency!
Further information is found in the video here.
Check out the simulation tool here:
Chromatography Simulation Tool
Group Excursion 2021
This year we finally had another group excursion. We went hiking and did Via Ferrata climbing near Hirschbach in the Hersbrucker Alb. Great fun!
PhD defense Marco
Marco Klement defended his thesis and obtained a PhD in Physics. The title of his thesis is: “Computational Studies of Anisotropic Particles”.
Congratulations!
Watching nanoparticles disappear
What happens when you etch nanoparticles? This process has now been recorded in real time and in situ by our collaborator Xingchen Ye using a small droplet sandwiched between two graphene sheets. Alberto Leonardi resolved details of the anisotropic kinetics of their gradual dissolution using molecular dynamics and lattice Monte Carlo simulations. Together, experiment and simulation help understanding the mechanism of etching at atomistic resolution, which is important to design more stable catalysts.
Read about this work here:
Lei Chen, Alberto Leonardi, Jun Chen, Muhan Cao, Na Li, Dong Su, Qiao Zhang, Michael Engel, Xingchen Ye
Imaging the Kinetics of Anisotropic Dissolution of Bimetallic Core-Shell Nanocubes using Graphene Liquid Cells
Nature Communications 11, 3041 (2020)
Research in times of the coronavirus
Greetings from this week’s group meeting!
The coronavirus stopped in-person teaching and work in the buildings of FAU but our research continues remotely. We work from home and partially from the lab at low occupancy. We write codes and papers, submit and analyze simulations. Meetings are conducted via Zoom.
Welcome Aswathy
Aswathy Muttathukattil joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher. She will be working in the large field of colloidal self-assembly. Welcome!
New Collaborative Research Center awarded
The German Research Foundation (DFG) approved a new Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) ‘Design of Particulate Products’ to start in January 2020. The CRC will be coordinated by FAU and its researchers are set to receive around 11 million euros in funding for nanoparticle design.
The research team, including the Engel Lab, are planning a novel approach by developing models to design and optimise the nanoparticles before they are produced in the laboratory, a technique that has been made possible by close collaboration between mathematics and particle technology.
For more information, read the FAU Press Release and visit the Webpage of CRC 1411.
Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
The following Saturday,
Oct 19, 2019, 18h–1h, in the foyer of IZNF (Cauerstraße 3)
our lab will participate at Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, an established form of public relations activity in Germany. We will present our work in form of interactive particle simulations, 3d visualizations, and a small hands-on experiment involving a laser interacting with a colloidal monolayer.
Kommen Sie uns besuchen!
A high-resolution version can be viewed by clicking on the image.
Group hike near Muggendorf
Some pictures from the 2019 group hike to several caves near Muggendorf in the Franconian Switzerland.
