{"title":"Alleskönner: dünne Schichten","authors":"Ulrich Schubert","doi":"10.1002/ciuz.70074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ciuz.70074","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The properties of a structural material can be synergetically complemented by a thin layer (<~5 μm) of another material with functional properties. The most important coating technologies are wet chemical and gas phase methods, such as chemical and physical vapor deposition (CVD and PVD) or sol-gel, layer-by-layer and electrochemical methods. The case studies presented in this article are layers with different functions in integrated circuits, transparent conducting oxide films, corrosion protection layers and antimicrobial and flame-retarding coatings.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":9911,"journal":{"name":"Chemie in Unserer Zeit","volume":"60 5","pages":"246-252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zum 250. Geburtstag Avogadros: Mehr Waffelrezepte als Teilchen im Mol","authors":"Doris Fischer-Henningsen","doi":"10.1002/ciuz.70098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ciuz.70098","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Wie viele Teilchen enthält ein Mol? Die Antwort kennen alle Chemikerinnen und Chemiker im Schlaf: 6,022 · 10<sup>23</sup> [1, 2]. Diese unvorstellbare Zahl trägt den Namen des italienischen Forschers Amedeo Avogadros, dessen Geburtstag sich in diesem Jahr zum 250. Mal jährt. Anlass genug, sich der großen Zahl auf ungewöhnliche Weise zu nähern.</p>","PeriodicalId":9911,"journal":{"name":"Chemie in Unserer Zeit","volume":"60 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Warum verschwanden die Dinosaurier?: Das Kreide/Paläogen-Ereignis chemisch-physikalisch betrachtet","authors":"Fritz E. Kühn","doi":"10.1002/ciuz.70040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ciuz.70040","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The massive extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period owes its popularity largely to the demise of the (non-avian) dinosaurs. However, many other life forms disappeared at the same time. For a long time, the reasons for this event remained shrouded in extensive and sometimes in hindsight dilettantish speculations. Only after a multidisciplinary team of researchers had identified a significant enrichment of the element iridium (and other platinum group elements) in the boundary layer between the Cretaceous and the Paleogene period, a plethora of examinations was unleashed to confirm or falsify their asteroid impact hypothesis. After 45 years of research, chemical, physical and geological evidence appears to strongly support the assumption of the impact of an asteroid of more than 10 km in diameter. Large quantities of produced sooth and released carbon dioxide, sulphate aerosols, and ejecta, together with global wildfires, earthquakes and mega-tsunamis triggered a massive but short-lived climate change, beginning with a significant cooling and global darkening. Preceding massive volcanism and regressing ocean levels may have had already weakened global ecosystems before the impact. Without this extinction event, originating from a particularly unlucky (and in principle unlikely) combination of circumstances, also with respect to the geochemical conditions of the impact location, the rise of mammals, leading also to the species homo sapiens and its ancestors would most likely have never occurred.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":9911,"journal":{"name":"Chemie in Unserer Zeit","volume":"60 5","pages":"216-229"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chemie Unterwegs: Spät kommt er, doch er kommt – der Safran!","authors":"Dieter Sicker","doi":"10.1002/ciuz.70064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ciuz.70064","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Safran ist weit mehr als ein kostbares Gewürz: Hinter den feinen roten Fäden stecken eine eigenwillige Herbstblüte, Anwendungen in Medizin und Gastronomie und natürlich faszinierende Chemie. Der Beitrag folgt dem „Roten Gold“ vom Krokusfeld bis in Küche und Labor – und zeigt, warum Safran so teuer, so farbstark und ein beliebtes Ziel für Fälscher ist.</p>","PeriodicalId":9911,"journal":{"name":"Chemie in Unserer Zeit","volume":"60 5","pages":"254-260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rätsel: Pille und Karpfen?","authors":"Deike Hatscher","doi":"10.1002/ciuz.70095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ciuz.70095","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Wissen Sie, welche Substanz Geoff Denman das fiktive Leben gekostet hat und welches mit Pikrinsäure ein gelbes, schwerlösliches Salz zum qualitativen Nachweis bildet?</p>","PeriodicalId":9911,"journal":{"name":"Chemie in Unserer Zeit","volume":"60 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wetterextreme: Ein Wald hilft sich selbst","authors":"Larissa Tetsch","doi":"10.1002/ciuz.70087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ciuz.70087","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Im Zuge des Klimawandels kommt es immer häufiger zu extremen Wetterlagen, auf die sich Pflanzen einstellen müssen. Eine Studie hat nun gezeigt, dass die Bäume im Amazonas-Regenwald bei anhaltender Dürre das Spektrum der von ihnen abgegebenen flüchtigen Kohlenwasserstoffe verändern. Das kann langfristig wiederum das Klima beeinflussen.</p>","PeriodicalId":9911,"journal":{"name":"Chemie in Unserer Zeit","volume":"60 5","pages":"212-214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Versuche aus dem Küchenschrank: Wenn's mit hartem Wasser nicht so fluppt","authors":"Markus Emden, Pitt Hild, Livia Murer","doi":"10.1002/ciuz.70063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ciuz.70063","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Anliegen der in loser Folge erscheinenden Versuche ist es, Impulse für chemische Versuche zu geben, die mit haushaltsüblichen Gegenständen durchgeführt werden können. Die Versuche sind explizit nicht als Experimente im fachdidaktischen bzw. wissenschaftstheoretischen Sinn konzipiert, sondern sollen unter anderem durch Erzeugung einfacher naturwissenschaftlicher Phänomene eine positive Haltung gegenüber der Chemie wecken. Lehrpersonen öffnen sie Möglichkeiten, grundlegende chemische Zusammenhänge ohne teure Spezialchemikalien im Alltag aufzuzeigen. Nicht zuletzt sollen sie dazu anregen, unsere nächste Nähe stärker bezüglich ihrer chemischen Funktionen zu hinterfragen. Denn Chemie wirkt schließlich überall.</p>","PeriodicalId":9911,"journal":{"name":"Chemie in Unserer Zeit","volume":"60 5","pages":"262-263"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149099562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vorschau auf Heft 6/2026","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/ciuz.70102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ciuz.70102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9911,"journal":{"name":"Chemie in Unserer Zeit","volume":"60 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ciuz.70102","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eisbildung in den Wolken: Ein Feldspat mit Talent zur Eisbildung","authors":"Doris Fischer-Henningsen","doi":"10.1002/ciuz.70104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ciuz.70104","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Mineralstaub fördert in der Atmosphäre die Eisbildung und beeinflusst damit Wolkeneigenschaften, Niederschlag und Strahlungshaushalt. Während reines Wasser erst bei etwa −38 °C homogen gefriert, kann die heterogene Keimbildung an Oberflächen bereits bei deutlich höheren Temperaturen einsetzen. Bisher ging man davon aus, dass diese Eisbildung auf Feldspatmineralen vor allem an „aktiven Zentren“ wie Kanten, Rissen oder Poren einsetzt. Eine Studie zeigt jedoch, dass auch andere Faktoren eine Rolle spielen [1, 2].</p>","PeriodicalId":9911,"journal":{"name":"Chemie in Unserer Zeit","volume":"60 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beginn der Erdneuzeit","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/ciuz.70100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ciuz.70100","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Das Kreide/Paläogen-Ereignis chemisch-physikalisch betrachtet</b></p><p>Warum verschwanden die Dinosaurier und was verraten Gesteine, Spurenelemente und Schockminerale über die letzten Stunden der Kreidezeit? Der Beitrag verfolgt eines der berühmtesten Rätsel der Erdgeschichte aus chemisch-physikalischer Perspektive und zeigt, wie Iridium-Anomalien, Impaktspuren und Klimafolgen ein dramatisches Geschehen rekonstruierbar machen. Begeben Sie sich auf eine ebenso spannende wie fundierte Spurensuche.\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":9911,"journal":{"name":"Chemie in Unserer Zeit","volume":"60 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ciuz.70100","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149099428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}