Dr Andreas Heyn – Cutting the Cost of Corrosion $2.5 Trillion USD. That’s the most recent estimate for how much corrosion costs us globally every year. That’s about the same as the Gross Domestic Product of the entire UK. It’s no wonder, then, that there is an...
Dr Gernot Schaller – Maxwell’s Demon: Extracting Energy from Chaos Since it was theorised over 150 years ago, physicists have viewed the concept of ‘Maxwell’s demon’ as a highly desirable yet ultimately unattainable source of energy. For over a century, the...
Professor Gustaaf Jacobs – Modelling Shock Waves and Particle Interactions in High-Speed Flows Understanding how shock waves, flow dynamics and turbulence all interact and affect the distribution of particles has applications ranging from high-speed vehicles to...
Professor Thomas Voigtmann – Non-Equilibrium Materials: Bridging a Gap in Understanding Measuring the mechanical properties of different materials by analysing their behaviour is a familiar task to many scientists and engineers. Yet for some more unusual...
SFB 1027 – Cell Physics: Understanding How Biological Matter Self-Organises The Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1027 at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken and Homburg is an interdisciplinary research team that aims to achieve a quantitative understanding...
Dr Albert Guskov – Metal Transport Unlocks Routes to New Antibiotics Metals have been improving our lives since the bronze age, but they also play a key role in keeping us healthy. We rely on numerous metals, such as cobalt, zinc and magnesium (among others), to...
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