Kristallogrpahie & Geomaterialforschung
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News of the Crystallography & Geomaterials Research Group
April 2025
Dr. Christoph Vogt
has been part of a new Nature publication:
Stein, R., Frederichs,
T., Fahl, K., Geibert, W., Matthiessen, J., Niessen, F., https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59112-7
,
Sassenroth, C. & Bazhenova, E. (2025) A 430 kyr
record of ice-sheet dynamics and organic-carbon burial in
the central Eurasian Arctic Ocean. Nature Communications 16:
Paper 3822 (17 pages/32 pages Supplement), This tedious work is a
very high resolution multiparameter task (every cm
paleomagnetics, radionuclides, inorganic and mineralogical
assemblages, biomarker and detail core logging) which allows
for the first time a holistic view back into the
paleoceanographic development of the Arctic Ocean for 400000
years because stratigraphic matters could be solved.


August 2024
Juli 2024
We have provided a
blog text for Crystallography/Kristallographie on the
webpage "Kleine Fächer" (Profiles of small disciplines, only
German):

February 2024
Prof. Ella Schmidt -
Junior Professor of Crystallography & Geomaterials
- has been awarded this year´s Max-von-Laue Prize. The award
is presented by the German Society for Crystallography for
"outstanding scientific work by young scientists in the
field of crystallography". Ella Schmidt receives the award
"in recognition of her work on a novel approach to the
quantitative analysis of diffuse scattering using the
three-dimensional difference pair distribution function".
The young scientist has been working on the distribution of
defects in disordered crystalline materials since her
doctorate. In addition to classical X-ray diffraction, she
also uses neutron diffraction and electron diffraction, thus
making a fundamental contribution to understanding a variety
of materials at the atomic level.
Ella Schmidt will receive the award at the 32nd annual conference of the German Society of Crystallography on March 18 in Bayreuth.
Ella Schmidt will receive the award at the 32nd annual conference of the German Society of Crystallography on March 18 in Bayreuth.
You can read more
about the award and the research topic here:
- List of award winners on the DGK website: https://dgk-home.de/intern/ehrenmitglieder-und-preistraeger/preistraeger-des-max-von-laue-preises/
- List of award winners on the DGK website: https://dgk-home.de/intern/ehrenmitglieder-und-preistraeger/preistraeger-des-max-von-laue-preises/
Ella is also featured
in the new University of Bremen online publication Up2date.
more
October 2023
A
paper of Prof. Ella Schmidt is published in Nature
Communications incl. Artwork Cover: Schmidt, E.M., Klar,
P.B., Krysiak, Y., Svora, P., Goodwin, A.L. & Palatinus,
L. (2023) Quantitative three-dimensional local order
analysis of nanomaterials through electron diffraction.
Nature Communications 14, 6512
(9 pages), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41934-y .
(9 pages), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41934-y .

August 2023
A paper of us became
the cover of the Journal Environmental Science Advances:
Fischer M (2023)
Density functional theory study of hydrophobic zeolites for
the removal of triclosan from aqueous solution.
Environmental Science: Advances 2:1082-1098, http://dx.doi.org/1010.1039/D1083VA00078H.
July 2023
In the current issue
of the University of Bremen publication Up2date.
a feature is published on crystallography research and
lecturing.

© picture by Matej Meza / Universität Bremen
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June 2023
April 2023
Now our Nature
Portfolio papers are (nearly) published:
On Thursday,
20.04.2023, our colleague Paul Klar with coworkers
published an article in Nature Chemistry. :
Accurate structure
models and absolute configuration determination using
dynamical effects in continuous-rotation 3D electron
diffraction data
It presents a method to analyse 3D electron diffraction (3D ED) data as a tool for routine structure analysis for all kinds of materials, including minerals, framework structures and organic compounds. With modern electron crystallography, we can reveal structural details like guest molecules in zeolites, the position of hydrogen atoms in framework structures and the absolute structure in nanosized to submicrometric crystals with a typical thickness of about 100 nm.

Christoph Vogt
is Co-Author on a Nature Communications paper:
Coastal El Niño
triggers rapid marine silicate alteration on the seafloor

Fig. 1: Schematic of
marine silicate alteration reactions. See https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37186-5
and soon another paper with Chr. Vogt as Co-Author will be published on Arctic Ocean Paleoceanography in Nature Comm. Earth and Environment: Omnipresent authigenic calcite distorts Arctic radiocarbon chronology,
Several paper of Prof.
Reinhard X. Fischer have also been published, check
out our Research->Publications Pages.
March 2023
We have a first 2023
wave of accepted manuscripts. Some are at the Nature Portfolio system (stay tuned),
some are finally published (1, 2) :



27.01.2023
Today the highly
ranked Journal Science published our
paper including an related perspective article by :
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January 2023
We welcome a new
researcher: PhD candidate Christin Wiggers. She will work on
a MARUM
funded project related to Olivine mineral
crystallography.

November 2022
The manuscript of E.
G. Meekel, Ella
M. Schmidt et al. (10 more others) "Truchet-tile
structure of a topologically aperiodic metal-organic
framework" has been accepted on 18.11.22 by the high-ranked
journal Science. A preprint version of this
paper has been deposited at arxiv.org.
November 2022
Prof. Ella
Schmidt will give a public lecture on
"Kristallographie - von Mineralen zu Batterien und
Solarzellen" (only German) in the
Geowissenschaftlicher Arbeitskreis, 10.Nov. 2022,
Marum I Raum 0180, 19:20 Uhr s.t..
October 2022
Nature
Geosciences has emphasized the importance of
minerals by introducing the new essay/blog "Minerals
Matters", see relevant stories in "All Minerals
considered" here
August 2022
Check
out our colleagues public (German) science talk on you
tube: Zeolithe - "Kochende Steine mit
Anwendungen in Haushalt und Technik"...
..

August 2022
We welcome 3 new
researcher associated with our group: Lobna Saaed, Jakob
Brauer (PhD students in the Crystalline
Microporous Materials group) and Dr. Paul Klar
(own research group on Materials Mineralogy themes) who is
also welcomed by the Geoscience Department here.


June 2022
We welcome Prof. Juan
Manuel García-Ruiz as guest lecture in the Geoscience
Department colloquium on Wed 8. June at
12:15 in GEO1550 (The formation of giant gypsum crystals:
nucleation, growth and preservation). In recognization
of his immense achievements, the German Crystallgraphic
Society has recently awarded Juanma the Liebau-Prize for the Promotion of
Interdisciplinarity in Crystallography. To celebrate this
award and to allow for a lifely exchange of opinion and
ideas, there will be a reception with beverages and finger
food after the lecture just outside of the lecture hall.
(Source: FB05 Geoscience Department Web Page)
May 2022
We offer a PhD job
for 36 month in cooperation with MARUM on OLIVINE solid
solution series and compounds. Materials with the olivine
structure are frequently studied for various applications.
If you are interested in crystallography and want to look
for some diffuse scattering, please get in touch with us
as the deadline for application has passed.