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The Ruhr University Bochum has established a new centre of excellence for materials science, the ZGH. With around 3,000 square metres of usable space, the new building with its adjoining low-rise building offers around 80 scientists room for interdisciplinary research into new high-performance materials. With its polygonal cubature framed by a dark metal façade, the building closes the gap between the high-rise buildings IA and IB as well as IAFO. An entrance hall extending over all floors is the identity-forming centre of the new research building and allows a view into the clean rooms, which are not accessible, through large windows. The research centre, built by BLB NRW, was financed in equal parts by the federal government and the state. Numerous representatives from politics and science attended the ceremonial opening at the beginning of May.