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Dr. Molina

Dr. Ricardo Molina from the Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC) will give the seminar “Plasma polymerization in contact with liquids” on Wednesday, March, 29^th, in Bochum. This lecture explores some routes to synthesize polymers in liquid environment by means of dielectric barrier discharges (DBD). The properties of the treated surfaces, e.g. surface energy, are addressed as well.

Since 2009, Dr. Molina works as Tenured Scientist at IQAC-CSIC in Barcelona, Spain. Being an expert in remote plasma treatments and DBD applications, his work is focused on plasma treatment of polymeric materials, plasma sterilization, plasma in liquids (elimination of contaminants in wastewater and polymerization) and plasma in agriculture (plasma activated water, seed germination, etc).

The seminar will take place on 29.03.17 at 10.00 in the lecture room ID 03/445 in the RUB. Please confirm attendance by sending an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Workshop an der North-West University, Campus Potchefstroom, in Südafrika

Im Rahmen des BMBF-Projkets "Astrophysical Processes in the Heliospheric Environment" findet ein Workshop an der Kooperationshoschule in Südafrika statt. Neben einer Delegation aus Bochum werden von den anderen Projektpartner sich Vertreter in Südafrika zusammentreffen um die Ergebnisse zu diskutieren.

DPG Bremen

The DPG Spring Meeting has been held this year in Bremen, Germany, March 13-16, where scientists from the fields of plasma physics, matter and cosmos, short-range physics, environmental physics can exchange ideas. The Research Department Plasmas with Complex Interactions is represented at the DPG by talks and posters from students as well as PIs.

Presentations were given by:

• Astrophysikalische MHD-Schockstrukturen am Beispiel von λ Cephei 
      Lennart Robin Baalmann
• An improved analytical model of the local interstellar magnetic field: The extension to compressibility
      Jens Kleimann, Christian Röken, and Horst Fichtner
• Linear Disturbances in the Local Interstellar Medium: The Plasma-Gas Interaction in the Two-Fluid Approximation 
      Lukas Westrich
• Semi-Analytical Calculation of Interplanetary Magnetic Field Configurations 
      Sophie Aerdker
• Coronal active region modelling based on SDO data
      Stephan Barra
• A generalized two-component model of solar wind turbulence
      Horst Fichtner, Tobias Wiengarten, Sean Oughton, Eugene Engelbrecht, Jens Kleimann, and Klaus Scherer
• How hot is the heliosheath? 
      Klaus Scherer, Hans-Jörg Fahr, Horst Fichtner, Adama Sylla, and John Richardson

Durch Poster vertreten:

• Deposition of SiOx coatings by means of inductively coupled plasma 
      Markus Brochhagen, Vincent Layes, Marc Böke, and Jan Benedikt
• Argon Implantation in Composite Magnetron Targets 
      Sascha Monje and Vincent Layes
• Investigation of Microarray Plasmas with an adjacent dielecric 
      Sebastian Dzikowski, Ronan Michaud, Remi Dussart, and Volker Schulz-von der Gathen
• Correlation of spatially resolved in-vacuum XPS characterisation and optical diagnostics for composite magnetron targets in HiPIMS plasma
      Vincent Layes, Sascha Monjé, Carles Corbella, Volker Schulz-von der Gathen, Achim von Keudell, and Teresa de los Arcos
• Deposition of a-C:H layers using an atmospheric pressure He/Acetylene plasma jet 
      Theresa Urbanietz, Katja Rügner, Gert Willems, Achim von Keudell, and Jan Benedikt
• Broadening and shift of optical emission lines in a high power impulse magnetron sputtering discharge
      Julian Held, Ante Hecimovic, and Volker Schulz-von der Gathen
• Investigations on the dynamics of non-reactive and reactive high-power impulse magnetron sputtering plasmas
      Katharina Grosse, Wolfgang Breilmann, Christian Maszl, Jan Benedikt, and Achim von Keudell
• Electron dynamics in magnetized technological plasmas: A kinetic description 
      Ralf Peter Brinkmann and Dennis Krüger