Horst Hahn
Executive Director, Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Distinguished Visiting Professor, MSE, UCI
| Location: | Engineering Tower | |
| Email: | hahnhw@uci.edu, horst.hahn@kit.edu | |
| Phone: | +49 721 6082 6350 | |
| Fax: | +49 721 6082 6368 | |
| Address: | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Institute of Nanotechnology, Postfach 3640, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany, and Dept. MSE, University of California Irvine, Irvine CA 92697-2575 |
Profile
Hahn is internationally renowned for his innovative fundamental research on nanostructured metals and ceramics, and interface-dominated materials, leading to application relevant materials for energy storage and printed electronic devices. Hahn has published 500 peer-reviewed publications in high impact journals, such as Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Energy and Environmental Science, and more and holds approx. 70 patents and patent applications. He is recipient of the Robert Franklin Mehl Award by TMS, the Heyn Denkmünze by DGM, Germany, fellow of the MRS and member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Inventors, the German National Academy Leopoldina and the European Academy of Sciences. He is Distinguished Professor for lifetime at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, Honorary Professor at the University of Hyderabad, India, the Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, and principal investigator at the Herbert Gleiter Institute of Nanoscience at Nanjing University of Science and technology. Hahn is founding director of the Helmholtz Institute Ulm for Electrochemical Energy Storage, an institute focused on battery research of high international standing and recipient of an excellence cluster on post-Lithium battery materials. The close cooperation with industrial partners can be seen in the long-term existence of the BELLA electrochemistry laboratory between the Institute of Nanotechnology and the chemistry corporation BASF.
Education
PhD, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, 1982
Research
Hahn’s current research focuses on the synthesis, processing, characterization of structure and properties, and the establishment of structure-property relationships. His group strives to develop novel advanced materials, such as nanoglasses and high entropy oxides, by using a range of unique synthesis methods, such as inert gas condensation, cluster ion beam deposition, severe plastic deformation, atomic layer deposition, etc. Depending on the properties studied, particulate systems such as clusters and nanoparticles, thin films, porous and dense morphologies and bulk structures are prepared. The mechanical, chemical and physical properties are studied fundamentally, some are close to applications in electrochemical energy storage and printed electronics.
Links
http://www.int.kit.edu/hahn.php