Wars bring suffering and destruction and cost a lot of money. What do the people of a warring country think about rising spending and government redistribution policies? Scientist Dr. Philipp Chapkovski (UDE) has investigated this question in a survey experiment for Russia.
Pollutants from industry, households, and agriculture strain rivers. Despite past restoration improving water quality and biodiversity, progress has stalled. A team led by Prof. Dr. Peter Haase found species' dispersal capacity crucial for recolonization.
The UDE hosts the world’s largest algae collection. Using infrared spectromicroscopy, UDE scientists aim to decode the chemical composition of algal cells and explore biomolecules like lipids for sustainable biofuel production at Berkeleys Advances Light Source.
Europe's water bodies are polluted. Each day, up to 70,000 chemicals are used in industries and agriculture. Researchers at UDE have developed a method to purify water using chemically modified diatom fossils to remove contaminants.
Around 12% of drinking water in Germany comes from lakes and reservoirs. Climate change, pollution, and invasive species threaten biodiversity. The IQ Water project is developing an AI system to monitor water quality and biodiversity.
Stress is typically considered unhealthy. Prof. Dr. Kathrin Thedieck, newly appointed for Metabolism, Senescence & Autophagy at the UDE-Faculty of Medicine, investigates how stress affects metabolism. She investigates signaling networks that control tumor metabolism.
Catalysis without precious metals: researchers led by the UDE show how electrical voltage makes the surfaces of 2D materials catalytically active. The finding, just published in JACS, is groundbreaking (not only) for the production of green hydrogen.
Antibacterial nanomaterials are regarded as promising in the fight against bacteria. The team led by Prof. Dr Anzhela Galstyan has utilised fluorescence lifetime microscopy to visualise active sites in membranes for the first time, thereby linking activity with properties.
An important success for water research at the UDE: the CRC RESIST has been extended by the DFG for four years. The researchers are investigating how rivers react to climate change, pollution and structural modifications - and how they can recover from these stressors.
The CRC/TRR MARIE has been renewed: Terahertz technology can be used to localise and detect materials at any place and at any time. Now the phase of prototypes and real scenarios outside of laboratory conditions begins.
Entrepreneurial potential in science is honoured at the Falling Walls Summit in Berlin: the start-up Greenlyte Carbon Technologies, nominated by the University of Duisburg-Essen, is one of the 25 winners that will pitch today at the Falling Walls Venture platform.
The Research Center One Health Ruhr defines new standards for interdisciplinary, internationally competitive cutting-edge research in health, the environment and society. It has now been officially opened by Minister-President Hendrik Wüst and Minister of Science Ina Brande…
Top researcher Prof. Dr. Xijie Wang has taken up his professorship for ultrafast electron diffraction at two universities. It is a first for the University Alliance Ruhr. In future, the physicist will be researching at both the UDE and TU Dortmund University
Urban mining in thermal waste recycling: UDE and industrial partners have developed an economical process to recover waste incineration slag as a raw material for cement production. Metals and minerals are separated and cleaned.
Researchers at the UDE have developed a model to regulate protein unfolding and degradation using compartmentalization strategies, which could advance artificial nanofactories. These tiny workshops, made from human molecules, may one day help detect disease markers.
