PIER New Materials

With the primary objective of developing new, sustainable materials, the partners in Hamburg work together in established and co-founded centers, such as the Center for Integrated Multiscale Materials Systems (CIMMS), Center for Hybrid Nanostructures (CHyN) and Zentrum für Hochleistungsmaterialien (ZHM), as part of PIER New Materials.

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Overview

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Collaborative research

The fundamental goal is to develop functional nanomaterials and three-dimensional, multi-scale, and multifunctional material systems. These integrated materials systems differ fundamentally from existing materials in that – as with natural, biological materials – they can perform different functions from what is effectively a single source. This then allows for multifunctional optimization within a material system, which, in reducing chemical diversity, results in more sustainable materials management for new technological developments in the fields of energy, mobility, and medicine.

This research topic opens up interfaces with the following profiles in particular:

Research activities

Cluster of Excellence The Hamburg Center for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI)

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The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging: Advanced Imaging of Matter

This cluster of excellence unites researchers in physics, chemistry, and structural biology to increase understanding of functionality in physical and chemical systems in non-equilibrium. Its success depends on representing the dynamics of these complex systems in real-time and on the atomic scale.

Go to CUI website

Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts

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Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts

What does writing do to people and what do people do with writing? In the interdisciplinary cluster of excellence, researchers in the humanities, natural sciences, computer sciences, and psychology systematically study and document the cultural diversity of written artefacts based on their substance and how they are made.

Go to the Understanding Written Artefacts website

Tailor-Made Multi-Scale Materials Systems

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Tailor-Made Multi-Scale Materials (MMM)

In this project, innovative materials are being developed using synthesis and assembling processes in chemistry, materials sciences, and process technology. Researchers are looking at how macroscopic functions in material systems can be controlled using hierarchic structures.

Go to MMM website

SMART Reactors

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SMART Reactors for Future Process Engineering

The processing technology of the future needs new reactors and processes without fossil raw materials. This is why an interdisciplinary team is now working on flexible, autonomously operating, transferable, reactors that can master the fluctuating quality and availability of sustainable raw materials.

Go to SMART Reactors website

NANOHYBRID research training group

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Research Training Group NANOHYBRID: Hybrid Structures on the Nanoscale

The research training group combines a customized qualification concept for doctoral researchers in the research field of nanoscopic hybrid systems. Theoretical modeling and chemical and physical methods should give rise to heterogeneous nanostructures with anisotropic material properties.

Research Training Group NANOHYBRID website

Helmholtz Graduate School for the Structure of Matter (DASHH)

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DASHH Data Science in Hamburg - Helmholtz Graduate School for the Structure of Matter

At the DASHH Graduate School, doctoral researchers conduct interdisciplinary research using innovative methods in data and information science to address complex challenges in the fields of photon science, accelerator research and particle physics, as well as in materials science and structural biology.

Go to DASHH website

Control of the Special Properties of Water

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State research group Control of the Special Properties of Water in Nanopores

The research group is developing customized nanoporous materials with purposefully changeable properties to systematically study the basic processes and the influence of limited geometries on the thermo- and structural dynamics of water and hydrogen bonds.

Nanoconfinement research group website

Nanoporous materials

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EU OPEN-FET project Energy Harvesting by Wetting-Drying Cycles with Nanoporous Electrodes (EHAWEDRY)

Researchers in this project are developing a new technological concept for the cost-efficient transformation of heat waste in electricity. The innovation: modifying the electrolyte state in innovative nanoporous electrodes using periodic drying and wetting as well as charging and discharging.

EHAWEDRY website

BlueMat: water-driven materials

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BlueMat: water-driven materials

BlueMat is developing a new class of sustainable and interactive materials that derive their functionality from the interplay of water and multi-scaled, hard materials. Nature provides the inspiration, but functionalities beyond nature are also planned.

ALIGHT website