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MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes

    MAPEX

    The goal of MAPEX is the system-oriented research and development of materials and processes for sustainable transport and energy applications. Our research encompasses the fields of natural and engineering sciences as well as mathematics, aiming at a thorough understanding of the process-properties-performance relationships in materials.

    MAPEX merges the know-how more than 1000 scientific and technical staff, 480 of which are doctoral candidates. Its 55 Principal Investigators, 19 Associate Investigators, and 20 Early Career Investigators are affiliated to five different university faculties and six external research institutes on the university campus.

    Established in 2014 as the governance form of the high-profile area Materials Sciences and Technology MAPEX has the aim to:

    • establish and maintain a network of competencies in the fields of materials science, materials technology, and materials processing;
    • increase the visibility of the MAPEX Research Landscape;
    • apply for and participate in third-party funding programmes;
    • promote cooperative research activities of early career researchers;
    • support an interdisciplinary doctoral education;
    • cooperatively acquire and share scientific equipment,
    • offer our scientists a diverse and family-friendly environment with equal opportunity, quality assurance, and data handling policies at the highest international standards.

    Events

    06.−07. May
    MAPEX Core Facility Workshop on In-situ Analysis
    Haus der Wissenschaft
    11:16 − 14:16
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    04.−05. Jun
    Poster Design and Graphical Abstracts
    MARUM I, Room "Atlantic Ocean"
    09:00 − 17:00
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    08. Jul
    Science on Screen: Creating Videos with Your Smartphone
    AIB 1020/30 (Hochschulring 40)
    09:00 − 17:00
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    24. Sep
    Doctoral Thesis in Focus: Smart strategies for Managing Projects and Staying Motivated
    AIB 1020/30 (Hochschulring 40)
    09:00 − 16:00
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    21.−22. Oct
    Scientific Writing in the Natural and Engineering Sciences: Towards Organization and Motivation
    AIB 1020/30 (Hochschulring 40)
    09:00 − 17:00
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    News

    MAPEX| MAPEX News| MAPEX Presse|

    A Look at the Collaborative Research of Melanie Walther and David May

    The interview about their joint research as part of the Northwest Alliance is now online.

    Dr. Lars Henning
    © University of Bremen
    MAPEX| MAPEX Presse| MAPEX News|

    Dr. Lars Henning joins MAPEX as the new Science Manager.

    We are pleased to announce that Dr. Lars Henning will be joining us this month as Science Manager at the MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes, and we look forward to working with him.

    [Translate to English:]
    © Matej Meža, University of Bremen
    MAPEX| MAPEX News| MAPEX Presse|

    MAPEX Jubiläumssymposium 2025

    Looking back, moving forward – 10 Years of Collaboration in Materials Science and Technology

    Instructor notes something on an index card.
    © Bastian Dincher
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    How to bring research from university to school

    In March, researchers from MAPEX and teachers from Bremen schools discussed how current research can find its way out of the laboratory and into the classroom.

    Mars landscape with habitat in the background and astronauts working in the front
    © Joris Wegner
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    Millions in Funding for Space and Port Research

    The Bremen Senate approved an EU ERDF grant of 3.7 million euros with which the Center for Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) will build a Mars laboratory. 2.8 million euros will be made available for the optimization of processes in Bremen’s ports.

    from left to right: Professor Jutta Günther, President of the University of Bremen, Professor Sabine Kunst, CEO of the Joachim Herz Foundation, and Irene Strebl, State Councilor for the Environment, Climate, and Science.
    © Annemarie Popp, University of Bremen
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    Up to 30 Million Euros for Technology Transfer

    A celebratory contract signing at the University of Bremen made the founding of Germany’s first JHS MaTeNa innovate! Center official. The Joachim Herz Foundation (JHS) will provide 30 million euros for materials science research applications.

    Kirsten Tracht, Bremen Institute for Mechanical Engineering and Mayor Andreas Bovenschulte.
    © Universität Bremen, Annemarie Popp
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    Mayor Bovenschulte Visits University of Bremen

    One of the focus points of the visit was the newly applied “The Martian Mindset: A Scarcity-Driven Engineering Paradigm” Cluster of Excellence of the Materials Science and Technologies high-profile area.

    [Translate to English:]
    © MAPEX, University of Bremen
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    Science with humor: PhD students transform themselves into science slammers

    The science slam workshop used props, visualizations and performative elements to explain scientific results to a wide audience in an entertaining and accurate way.

    Mycelium-based composite material made of straw, husks, and starch.
    © Universität Göttingen, Michael Unger
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    Avoiding Packaging Waste with the Help of Mycelium

    Mycelium is a fine thread-like network of fungi. It is suitable as a packaging material. A new research project led by BIBA at the University of Bremen focuses on this biodegradable material as well as the production, use, and recycling of packaging.

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    Research Highlights

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    © 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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    Emerging extra-large pore zeolites as adsorbents for antibiotics: A comparative computational study

    Jakob Brauer, Michael Fischer

    Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 398 (2025): 113832

    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micromeso.2025.113832

    The recent synthetic accessibility of aluminosilicate and all-silica zeolites with extremely large pore sizes opens new opportunities in materials science. Beyond…

    Emerging_extra_large
    © 2025 The Author(s)
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    3D printing of composites of Martian regolith simulants and cyanobacterial biomass towards sustainable material production on Mars

    Sophia Mannes Guesser De Oliveira, Kurosch Rezwan, Cyprien Verseux, Michael Maas

    npj Microgravity 11 (2025): 1-9

    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41526-025-00521-9

    The long-term goal of establishing a sustained human presence on Mars requires the capacity to produce essential consumables on-site. To this…

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    © 2025 Attribution 4.0 International ( CC BY 4.0 )
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    Magnetically induced convection enhances water electrolysis in microgravity

    Ömer Akay, Macià Monfort-Castillo, Theo St Francis, Julian Becker, Shaumica Saravanabavan, Álvaro Romero-Calvo, Katharina Brinkert

    Nature Chemistry  (2025): 1-7

    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-025-01890-0

    Since the early days of space exploration, the efficient production of oxygen and hydrogen…

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