The Faculty of Applied Chemistry has a long history steeped in tradition. Following the foundation of the Städtischen Polytechnischen Schule (city polytechnic school) in 1823, the first chemist, Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Engelhart, was appointed as a teacher of physics and chemistry at the school in 1829.

Today, around 500 students are taught by 17 professors in the bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes, supported by over 40 adjunct teaching staff and scientific and technical staff.

Prof. Natalie Gerhardt was a guest at the “Data Science mit Milch und Zucker” podcast

Real food or clever fakes – Science in action

How can you tell whether foods such as saffron, honey, or olive oil are genuine or have been faked or imitated? This episode offers exciting insights into innovative analysis methods such as profiling and fingerprinting, which are used to verify origin and authenticity. It is demonstrated how large amounts of data are analysed to identify patterns, detect fraud, and create reliable reference databases. This episode provides insight into the challenges and solutions in this field - especially for students of applied chemistry who are interested in data science and chemometrics.

What does chemometrics mean?

Chemometrics combines chemistry with data science and uses of modern analysis techniques to make complex chemical data understandable an useful. Using statistical methods and intelligent algorithms, patterns can be identified, connections discovered, and chemical processes can be optimised.
These approaches are used in various aspects of chemistry, including quality control, process optimisation, and analytical research. Chemometrics is particularly useful in the pharmaceutical industry, where it can be used to detect impurities in medicines and improve quality control. It is also useful in industrial research - making processes more efficient and for focused analysis of material properties - a valuable tool for science and industry.

 

Podcast on Spotify for mobile users: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4s2wfaJFp0oIhpJTypE7q0

Podcasts from the original page: https://datamics.podigee.io/33-chemometrie

Training course for fire protection and evacuation assistants at the AC Faculty

Before the semester started, the Ohm’s fire prevention officer, Mr Gruber, provided a course tailored for the AC Faculty to train fire prevention and evacuation assistants. So many members of the Faculty were interested in the training, that we had to book a larger seminar room on short-notice. What to do in an emergency and the prevention of an rapid extinguishing of fires are important areas in laboratory safety, which is of course greatly significant in chemistry. 25 Faculty members were able to gain hands-on experience with evacuation and, in particular, extinguishing fires using various extinguishing agents, which allowed them to refresh and deepen both their theoretical and practical knowledge. It was a very informative and successful training - even though we all hope that the emergency we practiced for will never actually come to pass.

Impressions from the fire prevention and evacuation training workshop (Photos: Herbert Schlachter and Dominik Söthje)

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SMART-H2 research project in Prof. Eichelbaum’s research group

One focus of Prof. Maik Eichelbaum’s research group is to gain a deeper understanding of the processes associated with the degradation of fuel cells. Once these processes are understood, ways to reduce or avoid the degradation effects can be developed. This will facilitate using hydrogen as an energy carrier for commercial vehicles over long distances, in addition to other applications. SMART-H2 stands for smart monitoring of degradation and regeneration of truck hydrogen fuel cells using neural networks and impedance tomography. This exciting project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and is presented in the following video.

SMART-H2 - The Ohm

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Impressions of the Faculty of Applied Chemistry

At the Faculty of Applied Chemistry, chemistry is not only studied and researched, but also celebrated and discussed and we are passionate about communicating our love of all aspects of chemistry at events like the Long Night of Sciences, the KinderUni, Science Slams, or many other events and workshops.

Here are a few pictures from our current activities - more information and more pictures are available on our web pages. Enjoy!

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