The Max Planck-Cardiff Centre Funcat lays the foundations for the systematic development of chemical reaction accelerators more

King Felipe the VI of Spain visited the Fritz Haber Institute more

The organisation's 73rd Annual Meeting will also see the announcement of the new President-Elect more

The experimental elucidation of the structures at the interface between a working catalyst and the reacting molecules is the key to a fundamental understanding of heterogeneous catalysis. Researchers from the Department of Inorganic Chemistry have reassigned the vibrational spectrum of vanadium pentoxide, an important catalyst for the synthesis of valuable products through the reaction of organic molecules with gas-phase oxygen, and have thus been able to elucidate which centres are involved in the activation of the oxygen molecule and the oxidation of hydrocarbons. more

In an international collaboration led by scientists from the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, a novel approach to controlling the speed of magnetic processes has been developed. more

Scientists from the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Vanderbilt University, City University of New York, University of Nebraska, and University of Iowa have just published new results on asymmetric light-matter waves in the renowned magazine “Nature”. They have uncovered that low-symmetry crystals can support a new type of wave enabled by optical “shear forces”. The results offer new possibilities for compact optical technologies to enable new ways to guide light or to store information optically. more

Max Planck Director Robert Schlögl in an interview about green hydrogen and sustainable CO2 recycling more

Creating a metal with laser light more

Findings on how a catalyst converts methane into ethene could help prevent the flaring of natural gas more

Liquids can become metallic and you can observe a splendid play of colours while it is happening more