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The host Institute, “Department of Chemistry”, belongs to the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Since its foundation, Humboldt-Universität has been a “Universitas litterarum” embracing all major scientific disciplines in the humanities and arts, social and cultural sciences, mathematics and natural sciences, medicine and agricultural sciences. The profile of Humboldt research is reflected in Clusters of Excellence, twelve DFG Collaborative Research Centers and in 14 Research Training Groups in which Humboldt-Universität has the coordinating function. Humboldt-Universität also plays a significant role in the DFG Research Center Matheon. Being aware of the growing need for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research, Humboldt began to set up ad hoc Integrative Research Institutes and Interdisciplinary Centres across faculty boundaries, some of which include Collaborative Research Centres. Although basic research is the dominating element of the university's research profile, research work is also concerned with social and ecological questions with a view to the economic applicability of the results obtained. The quality of research conducted at Humboldt-Universität is demonstrated by € 230m of third party funding which Humboldt academics attracted in 2011.
The group lead by Prof. Nicola Pinna is majorly focused on the synthesis of nanostructures with control over particle size, shape and assembly. The long term research goal is to develop general concepts for the fabrication of complex architectures, made up of nanocrystalline components that are hierarchically ordered by specific interactions between the nanoparticle building blocks. At the heart of this research is the high scientific and technological interest in general methodologies that make it possible to reproducibly synthesize and process metal oxide nanoparticles into 1-, 2- and 3-dimensional nanostructures over "all" length scales. Thus, Pinna’s group is focusing on three main objectives: (1) Synthesis of crystalline metal oxide and organic-inorganic hybrid nanostructures with appropriate surface functionality, (2) Assembly of these nanoscale building blocks into hierarchically organized superstructures, and (3) Implementation of the expertise gained to fabricate nanodevices.
List of recent publications related to the project:
- P. A. Russo, et al. Room Temperature Hydrogen Sensing with Hetero-nanostructures Based on Reduced Graphene Oxide and Tin oxide, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 11053
- A. Pucci, et al. One-Step Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles into 3D Superlattices, ACS Nano 2012, 6, 4382
- C. Marichy, et al. Atomic Layer Deposition of Nanostructured Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications, Adv. Mater. 2012, 24, 1017
- S. Baek, et al. A one-pot microwave-assisted non-aqueous sol.gel approach to metal oxide/graphene nanocomposites for Li-ion batteries, RSC Adv. 2011, 1, 1687
- S.-H. Yu, et al. Surfactant-free nonaqueous synthesis of lithium titanium oxide (LTO) nanostructures for lithium ion battery applications, J. Mater. Chem. 2011, 21, 806
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