Prof. Michael Schlüter, spokesperson of the CRC 1615 from TUHH, delivered a keynote speech on the topic "Trajectory-Based Optimisation of SMART Reactors".
The latest results from the collaborative research between several institutes of the CRC are presented in this open access paper, focusing on the role of crosslinking, copolymerization, and solvent in the swelling kinetics of pNIPAM lyogels.
The guest from Milano/Italy gave an outstanding talk on "Bubble column fluid dynamics: a multi-scale perspective towards smart bubble column reactors" at the CRC seminar.
Mirko Skiborowski and his coworkers Kai Kruber and Siv Kinau have contributed a chapter on "Hybrid optimization methodologies for the design of chemical processes" in the new book on "Optimization in Chemical Engineering", edited by Fernando Israel Gómez-Castro and Vincente Rico-Ramírez.
Professor Daniel Ruprecht presented their latest research results on "Efficient numerical methods for the Maxey-Riley-Gatignol equations" at the GAMM Annual Meeting 2025 of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik from 7 to 11 April.
CRC researcher Niclas Alkazaz and his supervisor Prof. Patrick Huber from the Institute for Materials and X-Ray Physics at the TUHH presented a poster at this year’s MRS Spring Meeting in Seattle focusing on their latest research on in situ hydrogen detection in reactors.
For the third time, CRC researcher Dr. Pavel Gurikov co-organized the seminar, together with the team of Ameya Rege, Maciej Haranczyk, and Danila Prikazchikov.
The Best Lecture Award of the "Fachgruppe Mehrphaseströmungen" was given to our PhD candidate Kathrin Eckert from the Institute of Thermal Separation Processes for her talk on "Stimuli-Responsive Structures for SMART Reactors".
The guest from Raleigh/USA gave an inspiring talk on „Exploring Solid-Liquid Interfaces: Insights from Atomic Force Microscopy“ at our CRC seminar, showing how AFM can be utilized to ionic arrangement on solid-liquid interfaces and how this contributes to our understanding for new energy materials.
Today we enthusiastically placed the first prototype of a SMART Reactor in our world's largest vertical MRI for process imaging at the Hamburg University of Technology.
