Approved projects: 2006-2009
List of projects in the period 2006-2009
- Quantum-chemical prediction and computational characterization of high-pressure transition metal nitrides and oxynitrides (main proposer: Prof. Dr. Richard Dronskowski)
- Synthesis and in-situ characterization of boron-doped superhard nanodiamond materials (main proposer: Dr. Leonid Dubrovinsky)
- The system Si-Al-O-N at extreme pressures: A synthetic and computational route to novel materials? (main proposers: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Heide, Prof.Dr. Jens Kortus, Prof.Dr. Edwin Kroke)
- Ammonium in high-pressure minerals - a sink for hydrogen and nitrogen in the Earth'mantle (main proposer: Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich)
- High-pressure synthesis of gallium oxonitrides and indium oxonitrides and their solid solutions (main proposers: PD Dr. Hubert Huppertz, Dr.Isabel Kinski)
- High-pressure synthesis of novel binary and ternary superhard phases in the Si-C-N system (main proposers: PD Dr. Peter Kroll, Prof. Ralf Riedel)
- Synthesis, structure and properties of carbonates at earth-mantle conditions (main proposers: Dr. Sandro Jahn, PD Dr. Karsten Knorr)
- High-pressure high-temperature synthesis and in situ characterization of new compounds with special electronic transport properties, using "lone-pair" oxides, fluorides and selenides of elements from groups 14-16 (main proposer: Prof. Dr. Martin Jansen)
- Water partitioning between coexisting olivine (ol) and wadsleyite (wads) and the effect of the OH-defect concentrations on the P - T- x coordinates of the ol/wads phase transfomation (main proposer: Prof. Dr. Monika Koch-Mueller)
- High-pressure phases of nitridosilicates and oxonitridosilicates (main proposers: PD Dr. Peter Kroll, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schnick)
- High-pressure high temperature 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy in laser-heated diamond anvil cells: Applications for the mineralogy of Earth's lower mantle and core (main proposer: Dr. Catherine McCammon)
- High pressure-induced renormalization phenomena in lead scandium niobates and tantalates with relaxor behaviour (main proposer: Prof.Dr. Boriana Mihailova)
- Nitride chemistry of geomaterials: Formation, crystal structures and properties of multinary metal nitrides prepared at high pressures (main proposers: Prof. Dr. Rainer Niewa, PD Dr. Ulrich Schwarz)
- Iron dynamics in earth mantle minerals probed by Mössbauer spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation (main proposer: Prof.Dr. Volker Schünemann)
- Synthesis, in situ charakterisation and quantum mechanical modelling of Earth materials, oxides, carbides and nitrides at extremely high pressures and temperatures (main proposer: Prof. Dr. Frank Schilling)
- Laser-heating facility for diamond anvil cells (main proposer: Prof. Dr. Björn Winkler)
- High - (P,T) properties of tantalum and titanium carbides and nitrides (main proposer: Prof. Dr. Björn Winkler)
- Coordination of the priority program 1236 (main proposer: Prof. Dr. Björn Winkler)
- Systematics of the post-spinel transition in Fe-bearing compositions ( main proposers: Prof. Dr. Alan Woodland, Dr. Dan Frost, Prof. Dr. Falko Langenhorst)
