GRK 689:  Reactivity in the Surface Region

• Subject Area: Chemical Solid State and Surface Research
• Term: from 2001 to 2004
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 273257

The research training group is aimed at the investigation of the behaviour of real surfaces and of surface regions of very different materials with respect to their interactions with relevant reactants. Owing to the special constellation of the involved working groups at the University of Essen, an extraordinary broad treatment of surface processes will become possible. Those are reaching from elementary reactions, caused by interactions of energy or particles with surfaces, via coating problems to refine materials, the interaction of inner surfaces of building materials in aggressive environments, up to the well known interaction of medical implants and biological systems. In all of these only apparently very different areas the essential of the behaviour of the respective material is to be seen in the interaction of its surface with the corresponding environment. This becomes very obvious for medical implants, the lifetime of which is no longer dependent on their mechanical stability, but on the biocompatibility of their surfaces.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Universität Duisburg-Essen; Campus Essen (aufgelöst)
• Spokespersons: Professor Dr. Herbert Jennissen, since 1/2004; Professor Dr. Heinz Rehage, from 4/2001 until 12/2003
• Participating Researchers: Professor Dr. Martin Aeschlimann; Professor Dr. Dieter Bingmann; Professor Dr. Volker Buck; Professor Dr. Hans Frieder Döbele; Professor Dr.-Ing. Alfons Fischer; Professor Dr. Eckart Hasselbrink; Professor Dr. Alfred V. Hirner; Professor Dr. Michael Horn-von Hoegen; Professor Dr. Herbert Jennissen; Professor Dr. Dieter Mergel; Professor Dr. Rolf Möller; Professor Dr. Reinhold Traugott Müller; Professor Dr. Heinz Rehage; Professor Dr.-Ing. Max Josef Setzer; Professor Dr. Ulrich Simon; Professor Dr. Andreas Wucher