OPTIMAS
OPTIMAS combines optics and materials science under the overarching research theme of spin - light - matter. As one of two research centers at TU Kaiserslautern, OPTIMAS was established as part of the state's research initiative.
NanoKat
In the coming decades, dwindling resources will lead to a change in the supply of raw materials that every developed society will have to face. It will become necessary to integrate carbon-containing building blocks from sustainable resources into material flows.
BioComp
The aim of BioComp is to understand the adaptation reactions of cells to changing environmental conditions with the help of systems biology approaches in order to ensure the productivity of our crops. High-throughput methods based on nanotechnology(next generation sequencing), mass spectrometry and imaging techniques are used for this purpose. These methods make it possible to track cellular adaptation reactions in their entirety, i.e. at all levels between genetic information and its functional conversion by protein molecules.
WERA - Recyclable waste water
Research Training Group (DFG)/ RTG 2908 WERA
In WERA, 11 cooperative research projects on the recovery of the important raw material phosphorus (P) from wastewater are being worked on together using novel scientific and engineering approaches through to technical implementation. In WERA, various processes, such as the synthesis of customized adsorbers and innovative separation units for phosphorus recovery, are developed, combined in process chains and validated at a wastewater recycling pilot plant.
STRESSistance
Research Training Group (DFG)/ RTG 2737
It is becoming increasingly clear that very different stress conditions such as heat, drought or exposure to reactive oxidants are balanced by surprisingly similar "routines" of response programs . It is not well understood how these different responses are orchestrated and shaped to enable specific responses of cells and organisms to very different situations.
SBP- Smart batch processes
Smart batch processes in the energy system of the future
Accounting for 11% of electricity demand, the process industry is one of the main consumers of electrical energy in Germany. The switch to a renewable power supply is therefore crucial to the success of the energy transition. While electricity demand was previously covered according to demand, a variable renewable electricity supply requires processes to adapt flexibly to the electricity supply. This requires fundamentally new methods and processes to be developed and tested in real-life applications.
Halocycles
Halogen cycles to stabilize the power grid and defossilize the future industrial society
(Carl-Zeiss Breakthroughs project of JGU Mainz with the participation of RPTU)
In a circular economy, organic halogen compounds such as Teflon are to be electrochemically converted into new materials and thus recycled. By using surplus electricity, the flexible process could contribute to stabilizing the power grid.