Research Topics:

• Materials for Lithium-ion batteries and oxide nanostructures 
• Fe-based superconductors and related materials 
• Carbon-encapsulated nanomagnets for biomedical applications 
• Low-dimensional quantum spin systems
• Molecular magnets/magnetic multi-center molecular complexes
• Magnetoelectrics
• Spin, charge and orbitals in transition metal oxides
• Misc.: 4f-systems ; layered thin film systems

Experimental Techniques

• DC-Magnetometry
• Micro-Hall magnetometry
• High-frequency Electron Spin Resonance (in progress)
• Application of AC magnetic fields (Specific absorption rate for hyperthermia)
• Thermal expansion and magnetostriction
• Potentiometry/Electrochemical characterisation
• Single crystal growth (in progress)
• Synthesis of self-organised nanoscaled oxides