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

On September 6th at 9:30 a.m., Aaron Pfleger will present the results of his Master Thesis with the title: "Structural and functional analysis of an oxidoreductase in hydrophilic and hydrophobic deep eutectic solvents through molecular dynamics simulations".

On September 3rd at 1 p.m., Bennet Rastar will present the results of his Bachelor Thesis with the title: "Untersuchung der Verweilzeit und Restfeuchte und deren Einfluss auf die Effizienz der kontinuierlichen überkritischen CO2-Trocknung von Aerogelen".

On September 2nd at 10:30 a.m., Jan Markgraf will present the results of his Bachelor Thesis with the title: "Untersuchung von Skalierungsmethoden und spezifischen Misfit- und Wasserstoffbrückenbindungs-parametern in openCOSMO-RS".

On September 10th at 10:00 a.m., Kirti Gupta will present the results of her Master Thesis with the title: "Characterization of porous transport layers in AEM Water Electrolysis".

Our PhD student Preethi Aranala Gurumoorthi won the Jerry King's Poster Award on the 20th European Meeting on Supercritical Fluids organized by the International Society for the Advancements of Supercritical Fluids. Her poster was titled "Novel aerogels from alginic acids: Structural transitions in fabrication process". Congratulations!

We are very happy to be part of the world's first United Nations University Hub "Engineering to Face Climate Change" here at the Hamburg University of Technology. The partnership between TU Hamburg and UNU aims to develop sustainable technical solutions to tackle climate change. Through three research areas innovative strategies are being developed to better manage resources, inform the public, and train researchers worldwide. One of two clusters started within this cooperation, “Circular Technologies for Bio-based Materials”, led by Prof. Smirnova, will research innovative technologies for materials made from biomass, focusing on both the production of biomaterials and the circular economy. This work will be central to the corresponding Campus Lab “Circular Economy”. More information about the UNU Hub can be found here.