The Nanoparticle Process Technology (NPPT) / Winterer group performs scientific research on synthesis, processing, structure, properties and application of nanoparticles and nanostructures. We teach courses in nanotechnology, measurement science, chemical engineering  and materials science and developed the novel NanoEngineering bachelor and master study program together with Gerd Bacher and Wolfgang Mertin (WET).

Our scientific goals are to generate, characterize and integrate functional nanomaterials and to discover, develop and understand corresponding processes along the process chain.

NPPT is a division of the Institute for Energy and Materials Processes, the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering (MBVT) and the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Markus Winterer is founding member of the Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen, CENIDE.

Änderungen ab Sommersemester 2026: Durch die neue Prüfungsordnung (PO24) und den Ruhestand von Professor Markus Winterer ab dem 1.8.2026 und die damit verbundene Auflösung der NPPT ergeben sich ab SoSe 2026 Änderungen in der Lehre. Detaillierte Informationen hierzu finden Sie auf: https://www.nppt.de/education/lehre_aktuell/

Videos

The Winterer Group	rmcxas	NanoTropics
Introducing teaching and research by NPPT / the Winterer group	Reverse Monte Carlo Analysis of EXAFS data	The first music video ever created using a scanning electron microscope SEM Images: NPPT Video: Cornelius Koch, Lukas Helmbrecht Music: Arbeitsgruppe Metaphonetik