PhD student Tim Seifert from the Institute of Applied Physics has been awarded the Kekulé Scholarship from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI). The doctoral scholarship supports highly talented young scientists in chemistry and chemistry-related subjects for two years. In addition to outstanding academic achievements within the standard period of study, the FCI requires the recipient to be working on a doctorate in a scientifically renowned research group.
Mike Stummvoll successfully defended his PhD thesis with the title "Construction and Calibration of a Luminescence Scanning Tunneling Microscope". Congratulations!
For the first time, a team of scientists has been able to identify individual amino acids in a peptide, a combination of several amino acids, on the surface of a single molecule. This means that one of the basic building blocks of life can now be studied down to the nanometre level. Led by Professor Uta Schlickum from Technische Universität Braunschweig, the group in the QuantumFrontiers Cluster of Excellence developed a new measurement method, which they have published in the journal Nature Communications.
Anyone currently entering laboratory 005 at the LENA research center is initially a little taken aback. A large stainless steel device hangs from the ceiling. The working group “Nanoscopic Systems” is still setting up its self-constructed so-called photon scanning tunneling microscope (P-STM). Nevertheless, we were allowed to look into the heart of the microscope for the “Picture of the Month”.
Images of the Bruker Dimension Icon Atomic Force Microscope (3D AFM) and the Renishaw inVia confocal Raman Microscope at the research center LENA.
