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SPP 1181:  Nanoscaled Inorganic Materials by Molecular Design: New Materials for Advanced Technologies

Subject Area Materials Science and Engineering
Term from 2005 to 2015
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 12550070
 
The aim of the Priority Programme is to develop concepts for the production of novel multifunctional inorganic materials with a tailor-made nanoscaled structure. Industrial demands on future technologies have created a need for new material properties which exceed by far those of materials known today and which can only be produced by designing the material structure at a nanoscale. Furthermore, the increasing miniaturisation of components calls for new process technologies allowing reliable production of materials at and below a micrometre scale. In particular inorganic-organic hybrid materials as well as amorphous and polycrystalline ceramics are to be used as material classes and produced by means of cross-linking routes in various states of condensation.
In accordance with the so-called bottom-up approach specific inorganic molecules are to be assigned to higher molecular networks and solid-state structures in the form of molecular nanotools by means of condensation and polymerisation processes. This method aims at linking organic components to inorganic structures producing materials inaccessible by thermodynamically controlled chemical syntheses. Therefore, the experimental studies will focus on the development of solids derived from molecular units by means of kinetically controlled synthesis processes in the interface between molecular and solid-state chemistry enabling specific adjustments to the solid-state properties.
Thus, the ultimate objective of the Priority Programme is to systematically study the bottom-up approach with regard to the synthesis and exploration of novel materials in order to establish the technological fundamentals for the development of these new materials and their potential use. Possible fields of application for materials produced at a nanoscale are key technologies of the 21st century such as transport systems, information technology, energy as well as environmental systems and micro or nano electro mechanical systems. The correlation between the structure of the molecular precursors and the nanostructure of the derived materials and their properties will provide the focal point for detailed experimental studies.
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Spokesperson Professor Ralf Riedel
 
 

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