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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of granular materials
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is widely applied in the medical science since it allows a look inside the living human body. However, MRI has also great potential to study the internal dynamics of granular materials, which exhibit thrilling but still poorly understood phenomena.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is widely applied in the medical science since it allows a look inside the living human body. However, MRI has also great potential to study the internal dynamics of granular materials. Why and when do landslides and avalanches form? How can we understand the motion of sand dunes? These are only examples of the many open questions we have regarding the thrilling world of granular materials which besides their omnipresence in nature, play also an important role in industrial processes (e.g. pharmaceutical industry, mining, CO2 sequestration).
In this master’s project, you will use cutting edge MRI technology developed in this lab to study dynamic granular phenomena. We envisage that these experiments will improve our fundamental understanding of granular dynamics.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is widely applied in the medical science since it allows a look inside the living human body. However, MRI has also great potential to study the internal dynamics of granular materials. Why and when do landslides and avalanches form? How can we understand the motion of sand dunes? These are only examples of the many open questions we have regarding the thrilling world of granular materials which besides their omnipresence in nature, play also an important role in industrial processes (e.g. pharmaceutical industry, mining, CO2 sequestration).
In this master’s project, you will use cutting edge MRI technology developed in this lab to study dynamic granular phenomena. We envisage that these experiments will improve our fundamental understanding of granular dynamics.
• Familiarization with granular matter and fundamental principles of MRI
• Construction of a granular system (e.g. fluidized shear cell, rotating drum)
• Acquisition of MRI measurements
• Analysis and interpretation of data
• Familiarization with granular matter and fundamental principles of MRI • Construction of a granular system (e.g. fluidized shear cell, rotating drum) • Acquisition of MRI measurements • Analysis and interpretation of data
Supervisor: Alexander Penn, apenn [at ]ethz.ch, ETZ F97, Tel. +41 44 632 7443 (please email for further details and application)
Professor: Christoph R. Müller, D-MAVT or Klaas P. Prüssmann, D-ITET
Supervisor: Alexander Penn, apenn [at ]ethz.ch, ETZ F97, Tel. +41 44 632 7443 (please email for further details and application) Professor: Christoph R. Müller, D-MAVT or Klaas P. Prüssmann, D-ITET