Engel Lab
Carlos Lange Bassani received a Humboldt Research Followship. The Humboldt Fellowship allows researchers from abroad in all disciplines to carry out their own long-term research project in collaboration with an academic host of their choice at a research institution in Germany.
The faculty of engineering highlighted the prestigous award with a Research Profile.
Congratulations!
This year’s group excursion visited Streitberg in Fränkische Schweiz and consisted of several activities: kayaking, hiking, and visiting a cave. Thanks all for participating!
Our lab will participate again at this year’s long night of science (open door to the university).
Visit us on south campus this Saturday, May 21 from 18h to 24h and learn about other activities at: https://nacht-der-wissenschaften.de/
Thanks to Navid, Federico, and Nydia for javascript/html5 coding and the design of the demos!
Check out the simulation tool here:
Interactive Particle Simulations for LN ’22
Carlos Lange Bassani joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher. He will be conducting research on porous materials using multiscale simulation. Welcome!
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
This year we finally had another group excursion. We went hiking and did Via Ferrata climbing near Hirschbach in the Hersbrucker Alb. Great fun!
Marco Klement defended his thesis and obtained a PhD in Physics. The title of his thesis is: “Computational Studies of Anisotropic Particles”.
Congratulations!
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)
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.
Aswathy Muttathukattil joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher. She will be working in the large field of colloidal self-assembly. Welcome!