Report from Prof.Franz Faupel, Kiel University

 

Speaker: Prof.Franz Faupel

Affliation:  Institute for Materials Science, Kiel University, Germany

Time: 10:00am, May 10, 2016

Location: RM326, Chao Kuang Piu Hall of Science and Technology, Yuquan Campus

Host: Prof. Gaorong Han, MSE/ZJU

 

The research groups at the Institute for Materials Science in Kiel (http://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis) focus on advanced nanomaterials for functional applications and are part of the research focus KiNSIS (Kiel Nano, surface and interface science, http://www.kinsis.uni-kiel.de).Examples of current research include particulate nanocomposites with applications ranging from plasmonics to photoswitchable devices, smart materials and multiferroics, such as ultrasensitive magnetoelectric sensors for biomagnetic interfaces and highly fatigue resistant superelastic shape memory films for stents and energy harvesting, materials with extreme porosity and hosts of unique propertiesbased on tetrapodal zinc oxide, ultrahigh capacity anodes for Li-ion batteries made of porous silicon, and various nanomaterials for controlling cell behavior. Synthesis methods span from physical vapor deposition to novel wet chemical approaches like a Leidenfrost reactor. Tailoring of the functional properties benefits largely from clean room facilities and advanced analytical techniques, in particular, high resolution transmission electron microscopy, magnetic domain imaging, and measurement of the magnetization dynamics. The institute cooperates closely with the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology and the Helmholtz Center Geesthacht.

Franz Faupel received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Göttingen in 1985. From 1987 to 1988, he was postdoctoral fellow at the IBM Th. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York and got his habilitation from the University of Göttingen in 1992. Since 1994, he is full professor and holds the Chair for Multicomponent Materials within the Faculty of Engineering at the Kiel University, where he is also faculty member in the Physics Department. Faupel is Chairman of the North German Initiative Nanotechnology and Principal Editor of the Journal of Materials Research. He also served in the editorial boards of Applied Physics Letters, the Journal of Applied Physics, and other journals. Among various additional duties, he is member of Minerva-Weizmann Committee of the Max Planck Society, and from 2008 to 2010, he was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. Faupel published more than 300 peer reviewed publications and is listed in Google Scholar with 7135 citations and an h-index of 44. His research interests include functional nanocomposites, diffusion, metallic glasses, metal-polymer interfaces, and plasma deposition.
Website: http://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/matv/
Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YnVgzIoAAAAJ&hl=en
Research Gate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Franz_Faupel