Department of Chemistry at Ludwig-Maximilians University

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LMU
www.uni-muenchen.de
 

Organization profile:
The Department of Chemistry at Ludwig-Maximilians University covers all branches of chemistry, including two groups involved in solid-state material chemistry with a staff of about 40 persons including PhD students. Main topics concern the structural chemistry of nitridosilicates, commercially used LED phosphors (Prof. Schnick) and of transition metal compounds with unusual electronic or magnetic properties, predominantly superconducting pnictides (Prof. Johrendt).
 

Leader:
Dirk Johrendt is Professor of Inorganic Solid State Chemistry at LMU München. His activities cover the synthesis of solid transition metal compounds with outstanding electronic or magnetic properties, structural characterization by modern X-ray and neutron diffraction methods. He discovered superconductivity in potassium-doped BaFe₂As₂ in 2008, has extensive experience in the field of transition metal pnictide materials and published about 125 papers. He gave 15 invited talks on international conferences within the last three years, among them 6 plenary lectures. He is one out of four organizers of the recently launched German Research Foundation (DFG) priority program SPP1458 “High-Tc superconductivity in iron pnictides”.
 

Expertise:
Solid state synthesis at high temperatures and by soft chemistry methods, transition metal pnictides and pnictide-oxides, chalcogenides, structural characterization, crystallography (powder and single crystal), structural phase transitions, magnetic and electronic properties.
 

Specific facilities:

• synthesis laboratories, glove-boxes
• X-ray diffractometer
• AC-susceptometer, SQUID (shared)
• DC resistivity 

Personnel assigned to this project:
Prof. Dr. Dirk Johrendt, Dr. Fabian Nitsche, M. Sc. (Chemistry) Gina Friederichs, M. Sc. (Chemistry) Erwin Wiesenmayer.