RESOLV Cluster of Excellence extended for a further seven years

The RESOLV Cluster of Excellence has established a new research discipline in chemistry and physics with its focus on solvents. The network, which is based at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and TU Dortmund University, will enter its third funding phase in 2026. The Bochum-Dortmund team will continue its successful interdisciplinary collaboration with researchers from the University of Duisburg-Essen and the three Max Planck Institutes for Coal Research, Chemical Energy Conversion and Sustainable Materials. Although biological and chemical reactions usually take place in solvents, the solvent has long been regarded as a bystander in this process. However, the RESOLV team was able to show that the role of the solvent has been underestimated to date and that it actively participates in chemical reactions. The aim of the upcoming funding phase is to gain an even better understanding of such solvent-controlled processes and to control them in a targeted manner.

The working groups of Prof. Igor Schapiro, Prof. Edvardas Narevicius and Prof. Jelger Risselada at the Department of Physics are involved.

Further information: https://forschung.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/de/ruhr-explores-solvation