Dust particle from asteroid Itokawa / Iron whisker on troilite surface

Research

The focus of our research are processes on  micro- and nanoscale that require ananlytical methods with very high spatial resolution. We are using mainly analytical electron microscopy to understand such processes in detail.
Dust particle from asteroid Itokawa / Iron whisker on troilite surface
Image: Dr. Toru Matsumoto
Chondrule
Image: Dr. Dennis Harries
Meteorites
Witnesses of the solar system formation 4.5 billion years ago
Experimentally generated microcrater on an olivine surface
Image: Dr. Agnese Fazio
Impacts
Events of small planetary bodies that trigger changes
Membrane-driven diamond anvil cell
Image: Prof. Dr. Falko Langenhorst
High pressure mineralogy
Natural rocks and experiments on processes of the deep Earth
FIB preparation of a surface
Image: Dr. Kilian Pollok
Mineral surfaces
Places of geochemical exchange and of reactivity
FIB section of amorphous calcium carbonate in green algae
Image: Dr. Kilian Pollok
Bio-Geo interaction
The interaction of minerals with its environment are manifold
Electron energy loss spectroscopy on new battery materials
Image: Dr. Kilian Pollok
Materials science and analytical methods
Mineralogy is the material science of the geosciences!