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The Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster is the third largest in Germany. Currently, about 39,000 students are enrolled and every year about 5,000 are graduating. The university's popularity is no doubt due to the wide range of subjects on offer (over 120), the excellence of the research carried out in many departments, and the high quality of life in the city of Münster. More than 3,500 foreign students study in Münster. The university has partnership agreements with over 400 academic institutions all over the world. Together with Enschede (Netherlands) and Osnabrück (Germany), Münster forms a university triangle within the area known as "Euregio".
The Institut für Mineralogie of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster is active in research as well as in teaching within the study course Geosciences. The research of the institute covers topics within the fields of (1) Mineralogy, (2) Geochemistry/Geochronology, and (3) Petrology/Experimental Petrology. Research activities within the Mineralogy work group focus on:
- mechanisms and kinetics of the hydrothermal alteration of ceramic materials proposed as nuclear waste forms such as zirconolite and pyrochlore-group minerals and their dependence on the degree of self-irradiation damage
- vibrational spectroscopy of self-irradiated minerals and solid-solutions
- crystal growth and dissolution processes, including ligand promoted dissolution of metal ions, using both natural chelating agents such as siderophores and anthropogenic chelators such as EDTA and DTPA
- crystal growth inhibition processes using organic inhibitors such as phosphonates and carboxylates
- mineral replacement reactions occurring at fluid/mineral interfaces and the subsequent development of porosity
- mechanisms of mineral-fluid interaction in nature and experiment: replacement reactions in solid solutions such as garnet, olivine, apatite, pyrochlore, KBr-KCl
- pattern formation during (non-)equilibrium crystal growth and dissolution-reprecipitation reactions
- solid solution-aequeous solution (SS-AS) relationships at equilibrium and non-equilibrium.
The following equipment is available for the ACTINET network:
- UP193HE, Element2 Laser Ablation-Inductively-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (LA-ICPMS)
- Digital Instruments Multi-Mode Scanning Probe Microscope
- Digital Instruments Dimension 3000 Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
- JEOL 3010 (300kV) Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) with Energy Dispersive X-ray Microanalysis and Electron Energy Loss (EELS) analysis with a GATAN Imaging Filter.
- JEOL 6300F Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) with EDX X-ray Microanalysis System
- Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer (TOF-SIMS)
- JEOL JXA 8600 MX Superprobe Electron Microprobe Microanalysis System (EMP)
- JEOL 840 Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
- Phillips X´Pert Powder Diffractometer (XRD)
- Single-Crystal Diffractometer Enraf-Nonius-Delft CAD4
- Single-Crystal Diffractometer Picker FACS1/STOE
- Varian Spectra Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (AAS)
- Thermo Jarrell Ash Atom Scan 25 Inductively-Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES)
- Bruker Vector 22 Infrared Spectrometer
For more information: http://www.uni-muenster.de/Mineralogie/index.html
Address
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster - Institut für Mineralogie
Corrensstrasse 24
D-48149 Münster
Germany
Contactperson(s)
Thorsten GEISLER-WIERWILLE
+ 49 (0) 251 83 33450
+ 49 (0) 251 83 38397
