A team of researchers from the Department of Interfacial Sciences has discovered how changes in the structure of copper catalyst particles during electrochemical CO2 reduction affect their catalytic performance. This should lead to the development of new catalysts that convert the greenhouse gas CO2 into useful chemicals.

FHI researchers have developed a new analysis method "ARISE" for materials based on the use of artificial intelligence. Today, the research report by Andreas Leitherer, Angelo Ziletti and Luca M. Ghiringhelli is published in the journal Nature Communications.
 

A tailored artificial-intelligence approach can be applied to model catalysis. It highlights the underlying physicochemical processes, and accelerates catalyst design.

Especially in a pandemic, scientific expertise is particularly important - as is objective, factual reporting! The FHI therefore supports the call for more objectivity in crisis situations issued by the Alliance of Science Organisations on 6 December. The background to this is the report in the BILD newspaper on 4 December about scientists ("The lockdown makers" / "Trio of experts gives us frustration for the holidays").