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2006-05-05 News Headlines
BASF’s Chemicals Research and Technology division Catalysis Lab A collaborative research effort with BASF Chemicals R&D Division and the University of Heidelberg, lab CaRLa, is dedicated to developing new homogeneous catalysts.
BASF and the University of Heidelberg signed contract agreement, is funded by the two partners and the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, where the laboratory will be dedicated to the development of new homogeneous catalysts. Starting in the fall of 2006, six postgraduate scientists from the university as well as six researchers and a head of laboratory from BASF will work together to investigate basic research issues and industrial applications in the field of homogeneous catalysis from their base in the Heidelberg Technology Park. “Setting up the new Catalysis Research Laboratory CaRLa in Heidelberg
enables us to participate more intensively in the rapid developments in
the field of homogeneous catalysis, while our alliance with the University
of Heidelberg gives us access to a highly innovative scientific environment,”
said Prof. Rainer Diercks, head of BASF’s division for Chemicals
Research and Engineering, explaining the strategic objective of the new
laboratory. Proximity to BASF’s research laboratories and cooperation with
Heidelberg University’s special research area - “Molecular
Catalysts: Structure and Functional Design” (SFB 623: sfb623.uni-hd.de),
whose spokesman Prof. Peter Hofmann is to assume scientific management
of the facility - provides an ideal setting for efficient collaborative
catalysis research. “Our special research area’s focus and infrastructure, the wide-ranging scientific expertise of the Heidelberg faculty, BASF’s chemical technology know-how, and the exciting and novel concept behind CaRLa are bound to draw top scientific talent to this new laboratory,” Hofmann said. The positions to be filled will be advertised at an international level. “We mean to attract the world’s best minds and put together the best team to meet tomorrow’s challenges,” said Dr. Guido Voit, head of BASF’s department for Basic Products Research. “We believe a melting pot of this kind is ideal to develop the successful innovations of tomorrow.” Dr. Christoph Jäkel is the designated CaRLa lab manager. During his time as a Humboldt grantee at Stanford University, California, Jakel learned the importance of an interdisciplinary and international approach for excellence in research. Upon returning to Germany in 2002, he joined BASF’s Chemicals Research and Technology division where he works on the development and application of homogeneous catalysts. For the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg, the establishment of CaRLa and the research alliance with BASF is part of an innovative, forward-looking strategy in connection with the current nationwide quest for excellence in the German university system. The university’s strategy is directed at optimizing knowledge transfer between basic research and applied science. With its hands-on, balanced collaboration of scientists from academia and industry, the catalysis lab CaRLa is the first research platform of its kind in Germany. “The University of Heidelberg is assuming a pioneering role here,
with the support of the Baden-Wurttemberg government. We look upon CaRLa
as a model example of our university’s new value-adding ‘Industry
on Campus’ concept and as a far-reaching signal designed in particular
to help young scientists to present the results of their research to a
wider community and put their achievements to industrial use,” said
Prof. Peter Hommelhoff, Rector of the University
of Heidelberg Catalysis is the single most important technology in the chemical industry.
More than eighty percent of all chemical products come into contact with
catalysts at least once during their synthesis process. Unlike heterogeneous
catalysis, which uses catalysts in their solid form to mediate reactions,
homogeneous catalysis makes use of catalysts that have been dissolved
in the reaction mixture. High-performance catalysts have huge benefits,
both ecological and economic. For instance, they help to cut down significantly
on the resources used for substance reactions while producing fewer by-products;
open up new, more cost-effective ways of manufacturing established products;
and enable the efficient manufacture of new products. Read a recent press release from BASF about; 'BASF is opening a new nanotechnology research center in Singapore.'
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