Properties of the gas/liquid interface of Interface-enhanced SILP systems (B04)

• Subject Area: Technical Thermodynamics ; Physical Chemistry of Solids and Surfaces, Material Characterisation
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 431791331

We aim at understanding the fundamental processes that determine the properties of the gas/liquid interface of Interface-enhanced SILPs. Towards this aim, the Steinrück and Koller groups will apply X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy under ultraclean conditions and the pendant drop method as well as surface light scattering under reaction conditions. This enables to develop relationships between the surface properties on the nanometre scale and the macroscopic properties surface tension, viscosity and dynamics of surface fluctuations. Based on this concerted characterisation, we envisage to identify those factors which are responsible for the enrichment of catalytic metal complexes at IL interfaces. 

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1452: Catalysis at Liquid Interfaces (CLINT)
• Applicant Institution: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Project Heads: Dr.-Ing. Thomas Manfred Koller; Professor Dr. Hans-Peter Steinrück