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| Name | Karppinen, Maarit |
| Research field | Chemistry and Biochemistry |
| Career stage | professor |
| Home university/institution | Aalto University, SF |
| Department/Research unit at home university/institution | - |
| Chair/Working group at home institution | - |
International activity |
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| Country | Germany |
| Location | Bochum |
| University | Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) |
| Fund Research School | VIP |
| Type of activity | research stay |
| Period |
starts 01-01-2016 ends 31-12-2018 |
| Keywords | - |
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Background Prof. Maarit Karppinen from Aalto University, Finland will start her first stint as a VIP at RUB starting January 2017. Prof. Karppinen is an outstanding, internationally well known researcher in the field of “Layer Engineering” and “Oxygen Engineering” of Novel Functional Materials. Prof. Karppinen’s research group develops new functional hybrid materials by combining thin inorganic and organic layers with atomic/molecular level precision using the currently strongly emerging combined atomic/molecular layer deposition (ALD/MLD) technique which can be used to grow thin-film materials on different surfaces and nanostructures. She and her research team are exploring ground-breaking functional materials for frontier applications including novel oxide-based materials for high-Tc superconductors, thermoelectrics, multiferroics, spintronics and phosphors. In addition, oxide-based electrode and electrolyte materials are developed for fuel cells, batteries and sensors by her research team at Aalto, Finland. The combined MLD/ALD technique enables to design materials built-up from both inorganic and organic components, thereby taking advantage of the synergy effect of the two methods. She has received many prestigious awards for her scientific excellence. In 2013 the European Research Council (ERC) awarded the “ERC-Advanced Grant” for the project “Molecular Layer Engineered Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials: (Project Acronym: LAYERENG-HYBMAT”; Call: ERC-2013-ADG; Panel PE5; Funding: 2, 4 million Euros; 2014 - 2019). In this LAYERENG-HYBMAT project she proposes to study a fundamentally new category of nanocomposite materials, that is, layer-by-layer grown coherent inorganic-organic hybrid materials where the cohesion between the layers is based on covalent bonding. Such materials are – once carefully designed and fabricated – able to display in a single material a tailored combination of properties of conventional inorganics and organics, and even beyond. In January 2016, once again, the European Research Council awarded her 150 000 Euros ERC Proof of Concept (PoC) funding to commercialize the ground breaking top level research results on thermoelectric materials. (Project Acronym: TES-Flex-Thin: Novel thermoelectric energy solutions based on flexible thin film materials; Call: ERC-2015-PoC). Prof. Karppinen has been a “Visiting Professor” at Oregon State University, USA and holding several official professor positions at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. She has published around 400 peer-reviewed scientific publications, several book chapters and holds seven patents. My first interaction with Prof. Karppinen was during the International ALD conference and we both have been also actively involved during the setting up the EU-COST action program MP1402 on ALD (HERALD: Hooking together European research in Atomic Layer Deposition) (http://www.european-ald.net/) and started to collaborate. While my research group (Inorganic Materials Chemistry, IMC) at RUB has a strong expertise in inorganic materials synthesis with focus on precursor chemistry for developing thin film materials through CVD, ALD and ALD/MLD process, the group of Prof. Karppinen focuses mainly on the development of novel hybrid materials. Therefore, the collaborative research activities between the two groups from Bochum and Aalto are complementary to each other. The first collaborative project between the two groups within the framework of the COST project “HERALD” (which deals with the networking of different ALD groups distributed all over Europe, towards a successful collaboration) was initiated in January 2016. This short-term science mission (STSM) was part of an internship of a Master student Mr. Lukas Mai from my group. The goal was to employ new rare earth precursors for the fabrication of hybrid organic-inorganic layers for luminescent applications. Moreover, one of my PhD students Mr. Maximilian Gebhard visited the group of Prof. Karppinen at Aalto University in early 2016 to evaluate the chances and opportunities for a possible stronger cooperation in the future. During the forthcoming visits of Prof. Karppinen, she will be mentoring a couple of doctoral students in my group in the field of ALD/MLD as well as hold guest lectures on topics related to Materials Chemistry. Projects January 8 - 12, 2017, July 24 - 31, 2017, June 17-21, 2018. Content of visit (workshops, supervision, etc). Three times as guest lecturer for the lecture on Materials Synthesis (LV181786) in WS16/17, SS17, SS18 given to the M.Sc. Chemistry and M.Sc. ICAMS students. GDCh Colloquium in SS2017 PhD thesis second supervisor of Mr. Lukas Mai. First year progress report and review of Mr. Mai in June 2018. Participants: Master students attending the lecture, PhD students and faculty members attending the GDCh colloquium. Resume of Visit: SS2019 to supervise the PhD research progress of Lukas Mai and deliver the lecture. Outlook on upcoming activities: A new EU project HYCOAT which is a Marie Curie ETN Network (www.hycoat.eu) was recently established where both Maarit and me are PI's with several others from the consortium. In this context there will be some more exchange activities between PhD students and the PI's between Helsinki and RUB. Maarit has been included as a visiting scientist in the third phase of the SFB-TR-87 project which entered into the third phase recently (July 1st 2018) where Prof. Awakowicz is the speaker. The first guest lecture was held on 9th January 2016 at 14.00hrs in NC2/99 Title: THERMOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTING: Fundamentals and Conventional Thermoelectric Materials The second guest lecture was held on 11th January 2016 at 12.00hrs in NC3/99 Title: NANOENGINEERING for ENHANCED THERMOELECTRICS: ALD/MLD Fabricated Oxide-Organic Superlattices Five most important recent Publications J.-P. Niemelä, A, Giri, P.E. Hopkins & M. Karppinen, Ultra-low thermal conductivity in TiO2:C superlattices, J. Mater. Chem. A 3, 11527 (2015). M. Nisula, Y. Shindo, H. Koga & M. Karppinen, Atomic layer deposition of lithium phosphorous oxynitride, Chem. Mater. 27, 6987 (2015). M. Nisula & M. Karppinen, Atomic/molecular layer deposition of lithium terephthalate thin films as high rate capability Li-ion battery anodes, Nano Lett. 16, 1276 (2016). E. Ahvenniemi & M. Karppinen, Atomic/molecular layer deposition: a direct gas-phase route to crystalline metal-organic framework thin films, Chem. Commun. 52, 1139 (2016). E. Ahvenniemi & M. Karppinen, In-situ atomic/molecular layer-by-layer deposition of inorganic-organic coordination network thin films from gaseous precursors, Chem. Mater. 28, 6260 (2016). L. Mai, A. Devi., M. Karppiene et al in J. Mater. Sci. 2017,11, 6216) Two further publications planned |