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The campus of TU Dortmund University is located close to interstate junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerlandlinie A 45 (Frankfurt-Dortmund) crosses the Ruhrschnellweg B 1 / A 40. The best interstate exits to take from A 45 is “Dortmund-Eichlinghofen” (closer to South Campus), and from B 1 / A 40 “Dortmund-Dorstfeld” or “Dortmund-Barop” (both closer to North Campus). Signs to the university are located at all the exits.

To get from North Campus to South Campus by car, there is the connection via Vogelpothsweg/Baroper Straße. We recommend you leave your car on one of the parking lots at North Campus and use the H-Bahn (suspended monorail system), which conveniently connects the two campuses.

By train

TU Dortmund University has its own train station (“Dortmund Universität”). From there, suburban trains (S-Bahn) leave for Dortmund main station (“Dortmund Hauptbahnhof”) and Düsseldorf main station via the “Düsseldorf Airport Train Station” (take S-Bahn number 1, which leaves every 15 or 30 minutes). The university is easily reached from Bochum, Essen, Mülheim an der Ruhr and Duisburg.

You can also take the bus or subway train from Dortmund city to the university: From Dortmund main station, you can take any train bound for the Station “Stadtgarten”, usually lines U41, U45, U 47 and U49. At “Stadtgarten” you switch trains and get on line U42 towards “Hombruch”. Look out for the Station “An der Palmweide”. From the bus stop just across the road, busses bound for TU Dortmund University leave every ten minutes (445, 447 and 462). Another option is to take the subway routes U41, U45, U47 and U49 from Dortmund main station to the stop “Dortmund Kampstraße”. From there, take U43 or U44 to the stop “Dortmund Wittener Straße”. Switch to bus line 447 and get off at “Dortmund Universität S”.

By plane

The AirportExpress is a fast and convenient means of transport from Dortmund Airport (DTM) to Dortmund Central Station, taking you there in little more than 20 minutes. From Dortmund Central Station, you can continue to the university campus by interurban railway (S-Bahn). A larger range of international flight connections is offered at Düsseldorf Airport (DUS), which is about 60 kilometres away and can be directly reached by S-Bahn from the university station.

H-Bahn

The H-Bahn (Suspended Monorail System) is one of the hallmarks of TU Dortmund University. There are two stations on North Campus. One (“Dortmund Universität S”) is directly located at the suburban train stop, which connects the university directly with the city of Dortmund and the rest of the Ruhr Area. Also from this station, there are connections to the “Technologiepark” and (via South Campus) Eichlinghofen. The other station is located at the dining hall at North Campus and offers a direct connection to South Campus every five minutes.

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The facilities of TU Dortmund University are located on two campuses, the larger North Campus and the smaller South Campus. In addition, some university facilities are located in the adjacent Dortmund Technology Park as well as in the city center and the wider urban area.

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Publikation in Nature Communications

Neuartige atmende Flüssigkeiten entwickelt

08/22/2023 -

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The graphic shows four containers filled with liquid in the upper half. Above the two containers on the left it is written "conventional liquid", above the two containers on the right "breathing porous liquid". In the lower half, two graphs are shown. The one on the left shows a slight, even increase in gas pressure, while the one on the right shows a sharp, abrupt increase in gas pressure. — Schematische Darstellung der Gasaufnahme in einer konventionellen Flüssigkeit (links) und in einer von der Arbeitsgruppe Henke entworfenen atmenden porösen Flüssigkeit (rechts). Darunter sind die zugehörigen Gassättigungskurven dargestellt.

Die Arbeitsgruppe um Prof. Sebastian Henke von der Fakultät für Chemie und Chemische Biologie hat synthetische Flüssigkeiten mit einem außergewöhnlichen Gassättigungsverhalten entwickelt, die künftig beispielsweise in der Gasreinigung eingesetzt werden könnten. Ihre Erkenntnisse haben die Wissenschaftler kürzlich in der renommierten Fachzeitschrift Nature Communications veröffentlicht.

Schon seit über 200 Jahren ist bekannt, dass die Gaslöslichkeit in Flüssigkeiten mit zunehmendem Gasdruck linear steigt. Die Natur liefert jedoch ein eindrucksvolles Beispiel für eine Flüssigkeit mit einer stufenförmigen Gassättigungskurve: Blut. Aufgrund einer kooperativen Strukturumwandlung des Hämoglobins während der Sauerstoffbindung zeigt sich die Sauerstoffsättigung des Bluts als eine charakteristische sigmoidale – also s-förmige – Kurve in Abhängigkeit vom Sauerstoffpartialdruck. Durch die sigmoidale Form der Sauerstoffsättigungskurve erfordert die Aufnahme bzw. Abgabe von Sauerstoff im Blut nur eine geringe Änderung des Sauerstoffpartialdrucks. Das ist wichtig für einen effizienten Sauerstofftransport von den Atmungsorganen zu den Geweben und Organen – und ist damit ein Schlüsselfaktor für den Stoffwechsel fast aller Wirbeltiere.