Congratulations to Lara Gibowsky on receiving the Best Poster Award from the 1st Anuual UNU Hubs Meeting 2025 for her poster on converting food waste and byproducts into high performance aerogels.

Water is everywhere. Using it to change the properties of sustainable materials is one way to create innovative and environmentally friendly applications. The newly granted cluster of excellency will do just that.

Congratulations to Kathrin Eckert on receiving the Best Lecture Award from the DECHEMA/VDI "Fachgruppe Mehrphaseströmungen" for her presentation on Stimuli-Responsive Structures for SMART Reactors. We commend her accomplishment and look ahead with great interest to the future contributions of her work.

We warmly congratulate Dr. Baldur Schroeter on receiving the prestigious Professor-Siegfried-Peter Prize 2025, awarded during the closing session of the DECHEMA/VDI annual meeting at TUHH. His achievement makes us proud, and we’re excited to see how his research will continue to shape the field.

Congratulations to Mathis Kirstein on receiving the Best Poster Award from the DECHEMA/VDI Group on High-Pressure Processes for his work “Exploring Biopolymer-Derived Carbon Aerogels as Catalyst Supports: Tailoring Porosity and Deposition Methods for Improved Catalysis.” We’re proud of his achievement and look forward to the continued impact of his research.

On April 1st at 10:30 a.m., Mansi Aliveli will present the results of her thesis with the title: “Modelling of mass transfer in gel systems: insights from a coarse-grained lattice model”.

Our TVT family has grown with a new doctor! On December 19 2024, Xihua Hu has successfully defended his doctoral thesis.  Congratulations, Dr. Hu!

Wir laden herzlich nach Hamburg zum gemeinsamen Jahrestreffen 2025 der DECHEMA/VDI-Fachgruppen „Mischvorgänge“, „Hochdruckverfahrenstechnik“ und "Mehrphasenströmungen" ein und freuen uns auf Beiträge (Vorträge, Poster; deutsch oder englisch) aus Forschungseinrichtungen, Universitäten und der Industrie zu allen relevanten Themen unserer Fachgruppen. Wir erwarten durch die gemeinsame Veranstaltung interessante Impulse und neue Ideen für die Prozessführung, Modellierung, Auslegung und Maßstabsvergrößerung. Für die einführende (Plenar-)Session bitten wir um Beiträge mit Übersichtscharakter zu den neuesten Anwendungen und wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen aus Industrie und Forschung. Mit Blick auf die drei gemeinsam tagenden Fachgruppen freuen wir uns auch über Beiträge, die Mischprozesse in Mehrphasenströmungen unter hohem Druck beschreiben. Neben Vorträgen und fachlichen Diskussionen im Auditorium bieten Postersessions mit einführenden Kurzvorträgen die Möglichkeit, auch Arbeiten im frühen Entwicklungsstadium vorzustellen. Die besten Poster werden wie immer prämiert. Mehr Informationen finden Sie hier.

We are very proud and happy to welcome Prof. Ioannis Michaloudis at our International Seminar on Aerogels 2024 in Hamburg. Prof. Michaloudis is a visual artist, researcher and academic, internationally acknowledged as a leader in Art&Science, and the first researcher worldwide to apply the ethereal nanomaterial silica aerogel in visual arts and design. Prof. Michaloudis will present his fantastic and inspiring artworks during our Seminar! We are very much looking forward to welcoming him to the exciting event!

Our aerogel-team developed a novel method for the production of transparent cellulose aerogels, which is purely salt induced and allows to tailor the aerogel microstructure to a large extend. The results are now published in Advanced Functional Materials. For details, follow the link. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202407547