CTFM lab at FAU

Roles and expectations management -- a #ChemPrint #workshop led in small groups by @distinkt-dkc.bsky.social for our new #PhD #researchers to get started on the right foot!

#PhDlife #graduate #training
@fau.de @dfg.de
www.sfb1719.research.fau.eu/

ALAM-printed lines consisting of indium(III) sulfide characterized as thickness maps and thickness profiles by imaging ellipsometry

#Atomic-layer #additive #manufacturing (ALAM / DALP) of #semiconductors -- a demo by Yara, Syrine, Sonja & Micah w/ colleagues Latifa Bergaoui & Erdmann Spiecker (+group) published in #Chemistry #Africa!

#ChemPrint #CorMic #ChemSky #MaterialsSky #materials #ALDep

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View on the inner patio of IZNF under a blanket of snow.

Front of the IZNF building covered in snow

CTFM team photo

#Winter vibes at @fau.de's IZNF this morning...

Great day to do some cool #science with the amazing @ctfm-lab.bsky.social #team!

Thinking of those less fortunate than us who are left in the cold... Let us appreciate what we have and behave accordingly!

#ChemSky #chemistry #materialssky #materials

Dissolve My Nobel Prize! Fast! (A True Story) It's 1940. The Nazis have taken Copenhagen, and physicist Niels Bohr has just hours, maybe minutes, to make two Nobel Prize medals disappear.

If instead of gifting a #Nobel medal to a #dictator you want to save it from him, #chemistry provides the #solution: aqua regia!

Note: potassium triiodide, KI3, obtained by dissolving iodine crystals into an aqueous KI solution, works too.

#ChemSky #resist #gold

www.npr.org/sections/kru...

Graph showing the global installed electrical energy generation capacity of various sources from 2000 to 2025. Solar and wind exhibit the strongest growth, and solar has now overtaken all other sources of electrical energy.

Breakthrough of the year 2025: the unstoppable growth of #renewable #energy!

#Solar energy is now often the cheapest source of electricity, in addition to being highly decentralized and flexible.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Wissenschaftliche*r Koordinator*in (m/w/d)

#PhD #scientist open to #research #organization in a #diverse team?

Come work w/ us at @fau.de & coordinate the activities of the graduate school & research projects of our Coordinated Research Center #ChemPrint!

#chemjobs #chemsky #materialssky #jobs #academia

www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/wissens...

Clara Immerwahr (1870 -1915)
First female Doctor of Chemistry from University of Breslau, Immerwahr was married to another chemist, Fritz Haber. Haber developed chlorine & mustard gas for battlefield use in WWI. Immerwahr opposed chemical weapons. Immerwahr committed suicide with her husband's gun.

Outside front cover: Solution ALD of (CH3NH3)(PbI3) Perovskite Thin Films Yields Functional Quality and Stability Superior to Classical Processing Atomic layer deposition builds up solids in individual atomic steps by a cyclic repetition of successive surface reactions. In the Communication (e13903) by Julien Bachmann and co-workers this approa...

Our #ChemPrint paper on solution #ALDep (sALD) of a halide #perovskite w stability & carrier lifetimes improved wrt state-of-the-art #processing is on the cover of @angewandtechemie.bsky.social!
Check out the pivalates hovering over the #surface to deliver Pb ions.

#ChemSky
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Photograph of Mahtab Mortazavi

The @ctfm-lab.bsky.social lab at @fau.de welcome our newest doctoral candidate Mahtab Mortazavi, who joins the #ChemPrint team to investigate the #surface #chemistry of solution #ALDep! We look forward to seeing your exciting #research #results!

#PhDlife #chemsky #materialssky

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Maksym Plakhotnyuk, Atlant 3D CEO, Julien Bachmann, prof at FAU CTFM and Atlant 3D co-founder, and Micah Mc Naire, PhD student at FAU CTFM

The participants of the Atomhagen 2025 workshop on atomic-level processing

Micah wowed the crowd at the Atomhagen workshop on atomic-level #processing organized by Atlant 3D Nanosystems in Copenhagen, presenting his MSc thesis, an atomic-layer #additive #manufacturing procedure for miniaturized #solar cells!

#ALDep #3Dprinting

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Solution ALD of (CH3NH3)(PbI3) Perovskite Thin Films Yields Functional Quality and Stability Superior to Classical Processing Chemically controlled deposition of the prototypical hybrid halide perovskite methylammonium triiodoplumbate(II), MAPI, is demonstrated in layer by layer fashion from the solution phase. Theoretical ....

Just published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social:
Beautiful #ChemPrint collaboration btw. 8 @fau.de groups (@guldi-group.bsky.social & more) to establish 'solution #ALDep' (sALD) of halide #perovskites!
We observe nucleation & growth #in-situ & demonstrate superior quality!

doi.org/10.1002/anie...

Abir Ben Ouezdou

Abir Ben Ouezdou and the thesis examination committee

Abir Ben Ouezdou

#Congratulations Abir Ben Ouezdou, who defended at Institut National des Sciences Appliquées & Technologie (INSAT) in Tunis her diploma thesis on her #research performed at @fau.de's CTFM: she graduated w/ high honors!

Thank you Abir for your work building an automated #catalysis testing platform!

You could make your own CTFM button from scanning electron micrographs obtained in our research

Concentration while preparing a titania photoelectrode

The photoelectrode sensitized with fruit tea is almost ready!

We also do research on T-rex (it seems)!

'Long Night of Sciences' at @fau.de @ctfm-lab.bsky.social: #solar cells, #electrolysis & #atomic layer processing let children's eyes sparkle for the #materials #chemistry #research of #energy conversion!

Thanks to the team for preparing & engaging with the public!

#ChemSky #outreach #ChemPrint

True story:

Paper: Electrolytic current scales linearly w/ length ℓ of cylindrical pore due to geometry

Reviewers 1 & 3: Awesome!

Rev. 2: Wrong, cylinder area scales w/ ℓ^2

Our rebuttal: Ahem, A = ℓ × π r^2

Adv. Mater. editor: Reject unless you add ℓ^2

Us: Nope

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2012.03.022

Proud of my alma mater @mit.edu!

For #diversity, for #science: #resist!

www.reuters.com/world/us/mit...

Grace Androga sharing her journey. https://www.vacamr.org/grace-androga

Lisa Pecher @lisipea.bsky.social summarizing her message with a song

Malika Jeffries-EL @chemdiva.bsky.social presenting her research

Helen Hölzel presenting her research

@fau.de's #Women in #Science symposium wrapped! 3 days of exciting science, shared experiences, eye-opening conversations. Humbling & thought-provoking for the cis, heterosexual, white male in the audience... Even mikes are designed for bald white men, less so for Black women with braids!
#ChemPrint

We #welcome two new members of @fau.de's CTFM #team! Dr. Lynda Beddek is visiting for a month from Mouloud Mammeri University Tizi-Ouzou, and Dr. Mathilde Lambert has joined as a postdoc from @univ-amu.fr!

Looking forward to some exciting #ALDep and #pv #research together!

#ChemPrint

Photo of ChemPrint researchers and principal investigators at IZNF

Our coordinated #research center (CRC) #ChemPrint funded by @dfg.de at @fau.de and @helmholtz.de is running!

Project start: Oct. 1; 1st general assembly: Oct. 6, decision-making structure elected. Below: the team at this early stage.

Stay tuned for exciting results!
www.sfb1719.research.fau.eu

Scientists would say that the signal is beyond five sigma:

#immigration, #diversity, #exchange for the greatest benefit to mankind.

Published online (early view) today, presented to the #European COST Action 'RenewPV' crowd in Julien's master class tomorrow!

Still financed in part at @fau.de by our @erc.europa.eu project 'Solacylin'.

Ultrafast Dynamics of Complete Sb2S3 Solar Cells Unveiled via a Bifacial Architecture Highly transparent, bifacial solar cells using a ZnO layer and indium tin oxide (ITO) are developed, enabling transient absorption spectroscopy (TAS) measurements. These bifacial cells show photovolt...

Transparent extremly thin absorber #solar cells enable super systematic ultrafast transient abs. #spectroscopy investigation of photoinduced dynamics in #semiconductors -- w/ @mitchemistry.bsky.social alum Liz Young at Lehigh!

#chemsky #materialsky

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Big scare & spectacular save in #lab at CTFM this week: mislabeled oxygen & nitrogen lines caused diethylzinc fire in a glovebox. Perfect reaction by the team achieved containment inside the box, quick cleanup enables the start of rebuild <48 hr later!

Amazing #teamwork!

#labels #safety #chemsky

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.

Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”

Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris

Et voila! Case proven.
#solar

Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated.

[Gift Link]

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Congratulations @fau.de @ctfm-lab.bsky.social alum Joschka, who was awarded the Master title today! And thank you to the band "Free Radicals" (featuring our Vice President People and Dean of Science) for providing the #music!

#chemsky

Kimia Hashemizadeh from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg' CTFM lab presenting her poster on Atomic-Layer Additive Manufacturing at the Atomic Layer Processing Workshop 2025 in Warwick, UK. She won a poster award.

Our own @kimiaha.bsky.social @ctfm-lab.bsky.social @fau.de has received another poster award, this time at the Warwick Atomic Layer Processing Workshop, presenting her Atomic-Layer Additive Manufacturing (ALAM) results!

#ALDep #chemsky #materialssky #ChemPrint
@rsc.org @nanoscale-journals.rsc.org

#ChemPrint web site is up! Still to be complemented with data as we gear up for our start in October, it already features information on the #research program, #chemjobs, and #publications!
#chemsky #materialssky #solar
@fau.de @solarfau.bsky.social

Check it out:
www.sfb1719.research.fau.eu

Come #work with us on atomic layer deposition and #solar cells in our awesome coordinated #research center #ChemPrint newly funded at @fau.de!

#chemsky #chemjobs #jobs #science #materialsky #ALDep #PhDlife #photovoltaics

#Immigrants contribute extraordinarily to the societies that they integrate, advancing #science & arts, starting companies & creating jobs.
Among many others, Moungi Bawendi & the #research community of my alma mater @mitchemistry.bsky.social provide a perfect example!
#chemsky #materialsky #tunisia