Methods
Selected synthesis methods:
Classic solid-state synthesis
High-pressure synthesis with oxygen autoclaves
High-pressure synthesis with Voggenreiter mavoPress (multi-anvil press)
Syntheses with and under highly oxidative acidic conditions
Solvothermal synthesis
“Classic” Schlenk syntheses under exclusion of air and moisture
Characterization:
Single crystal diffraction
Powder diffraction
Thermal analysis with DTA/DSC/TG methods, incl. TG-MS-coupling
IR /UV /Raman spectroscopy
Cyclic voltammetry
Luminescence spectroscopy (Prof. C. Wickleder, Siegen)
Magnetic measurements (Prof. R. Pöttgen, Münster)
Mößbauer spectroscopy (Prof. R. Pöttgen, Münster)
Solid state NMR (Prof. J. Senker, Bayreuth)
Scanning elctron microscopy (SEM) / transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX)
X-ray photo electron spectroscopy (XPS) (Prof. K. Al-Shamery, Oldenburg)
Thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS) (Prof. K. Al-Shamery, Oldenburg)