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11. Juni 2012
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Heisenberg fellowship for the physicist Dr. Andrey Turchanin
Promoting graphene research
Privatdozent [senior lecturer] Dr. Andrey Turchanin, a member of the Physics of Supermolecular Systems and Surfaces research group at Bielefeld University’s Faculty of Physics, has been awarded a Heisenberg fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG). The physicist Andrey Turchanin is engaged in research on the new two-dimensional carbon material graphene. Among its many potential applications, this new material could well revolutionize computer technology, because it can be used to manufacture components that are many times faster. With Heisenberg fellowships, the DFG supports young academics who are already qualified for professorships and have proven themselves by carrying out particularly outstanding research. The fellowship will initially enable the physicist to pursue his research freely for 3 years with Bielefeld University providing the infrastructure. The DFG awards about 50 scholarships each year, each paying 4,500 Euro per month.
Graphene is a material composed of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a grid of hexagonal ‘honeycombs’. Graphene is both the thinnest and the strongest material that human beings have ever produced. During his post-doctoral habilitation, Turchanin developed a procedure for manufacturing graphene from organic monolayers. This innovative procedure is compatible with the production of graphene with specific properties, granting it a major potential for applications in research and industry.
With the Heisenberg fellowship, the DFG is supporting a research project to develop hybrid materials from graphene. These materials – combinations of graphene with other two-dimensional substances – should not only possess unique physical and chemical properties but also be biocompatible. Depending on the combination, they can be, for example, extremely conductive or extremely stable. The hybrids will make it possible to use graphene in new types of optic and electronic components and ultrasensitive biosensors. Andrey Turchanin also wants to use his Heisenberg fellowship to cooperate with the University of Ulm and the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Braunschweig.
Andrey Turchanin, born in 1972, gained his doctorate in 1999 at the National University of Science and Technology in Moscow. He was then an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the University of Karlsruhe (TH), where he worked at the Institute of Physical Chemistry until 2004 when he joined Professor Dr. Armin Gölzhäuser’s research group at Bielefeld University. In 2010, he received his post-doctoral habilitation for his work on the topic ‘Novel phenomena and materials in two-dimensional inorganic and organic systems’.
For further information in the Internet (in German), go to:
www.uni-bielefeld.de/graphen
Contact:
Privatdozent Dr. Andrey Turchanin
Faculty of Physics/Bielefeld Institute for Biophysics and Nanoscience (BINAS)
Telephone: 0521 106-5376
Email: turchanin@physik.uni-bielefeld.de
Privatdozent [senior lecturer] Dr. Andrey Turchanin, a member of the Physics of Supermolecular Systems and Surfaces research group at Bielefeld University’s Faculty of Physics, has been awarded a Heisenberg fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG). The physicist Andrey Turchanin is engaged in research on the new two-dimensional carbon material graphene. Among its many potential applications, this new material could well revolutionize computer technology, because it can be used to manufacture components that are many times faster. With Heisenberg fellowships, the DFG supports young academics who are already qualified for professorships and have proven themselves by carrying out particularly outstanding research. The fellowship will initially enable the physicist to pursue his research freely for 3 years with Bielefeld University providing the infrastructure. The DFG awards about 50 scholarships each year, each paying 4,500 Euro per month.
Dr. Andrey Turchanin – Heisenberg fellow at Bielefeld University
With the Heisenberg fellowship, the DFG is supporting a research project to develop hybrid materials from graphene. These materials – combinations of graphene with other two-dimensional substances – should not only possess unique physical and chemical properties but also be biocompatible. Depending on the combination, they can be, for example, extremely conductive or extremely stable. The hybrids will make it possible to use graphene in new types of optic and electronic components and ultrasensitive biosensors. Andrey Turchanin also wants to use his Heisenberg fellowship to cooperate with the University of Ulm and the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Braunschweig.
Andrey Turchanin, born in 1972, gained his doctorate in 1999 at the National University of Science and Technology in Moscow. He was then an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the University of Karlsruhe (TH), where he worked at the Institute of Physical Chemistry until 2004 when he joined Professor Dr. Armin Gölzhäuser’s research group at Bielefeld University. In 2010, he received his post-doctoral habilitation for his work on the topic ‘Novel phenomena and materials in two-dimensional inorganic and organic systems’.
For further information in the Internet (in German), go to:
www.uni-bielefeld.de/graphen
Contact:
Privatdozent Dr. Andrey Turchanin
Faculty of Physics/Bielefeld Institute for Biophysics and Nanoscience (BINAS)
Telephone: 0521 106-5376
Email: turchanin@physik.uni-bielefeld.de
Graphene has great potential