Gerhard Ertl Lecture & Award

Gerhard Ertl Lecture & Award

The Ertl Lecture Award was established in 2008 by the three Berlin universities (Humboldt University, Technical University and Free University) and the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society and is awarded once a year. It commemorates former FHI Director Gerhard Ertl's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which he received in 2007. The prize honours outstanding personalities and researchers in the field of catalysis where Ertl carried out exceptional research for many decades. The prize, sponsored by BASF, includes a one-week research stay at the participating Berlin institutions and a keynote lecture. The winner is typically announced in Spring, the lecture takes place around the December 10th, the anniversary of Ertl's Nobel Prize reception.

Host: HZB and FHI Location: HZB Adlershof BESSY II, Albert-Einstein-Straße 15, 12489 Adlershof

Operando Electron Microscopy

CatLab Lectures 2023/2024
Heterogeneous catalysis is considered one of the key technologies in prospective energy conversion scenarios. Yield, efficiency, and lifetime of heterogeneous catalysts will become of utmost importance and the demand of novel high-performance catalysts fulfilling the above- mentioned criteria will rise tremendously. To cope with the prospective high demand for these functional solids, current catalyst development approaches that are based on empirical optimization may become insufficient and should be replaced by knowledge-based catalyst design strategies. [more]

Applications of ICP-MS in Electrocatalysis Research

CatLab Lectures 2023/2024
Fuel cells and electrolysers require electrocatalysts to minimize losses during energy conversion processes. It is common practice that researchers rely solely on electrochemical methods to test stability in search of novel electrocatalysts. While degradation can be tracked using such methods, they fail when one aims to understand governing degradation mechanisms responsible for the losses in catalyst performance. Complementary physicochemical techniques are required. One such technique is inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) – the main topic of my talk. [more]

Fast electrons and hard X-rays for unravelling atomic-scale dynamics in homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis

CatLab Lectures 2023/2024
The increasing demand for renewable and low-cost energy motivates intensive research aimed at developing, characterizing and optimizing materials that can efficiently convert (sun) light into usable energy in the form of electricity or chemical fuels. Conventional characterization techniques either lack the spatial resolution necessary to resolve individual atoms, or they lack the temporal resolution required to capture structural rearrangements as they evolve. [more]

Understanding surfaces using probe molecules and in situ spectroscopies

CatLab Lectures 2023/2024
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Heterogeneous Catalysis as Enabler of Circular Economy

CatLab Lectures 2023/2024
The guidelines of sustainable development require a transformation of today's linear chemical industry with the aim of closed carbon cycles. In this process, renewable energy can be used as an energy/heating source and to provide chemical redox equivalents, e.g. in the form of hydrogen or electrons. Catalysts are essential to enable selective chemo-, bio-, or even electrocatalytic reactions under the dynamic supply of resources. [more]

Catalysis at interfaces: Atom-efficient metal catalysts based on single atoms, clusters, and nanoparticles

CatLab Lectures 2023/2024
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Magnetic characterisation of catalysts for energy applications

CatLab Lectures 2023/2024
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Uncovering electrocatalysts and electrochemical interfaces in situ at the nanoscale

CatLab Lectures 2023/2024
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Catalyst for Acetylene Hydrogenation - CatLab Approach

CatLab Lectures 2023/2024
The focus will be the catalyst characterization and development in heterogenous catalysis in particular in acetylene hydrogenation. The role of acetylene hydrogenation in industry and future renewable energy approaches will be discussed. [more]

Multiscale Studies and Engineering of Surface-Reactive Systems

CatLab Lectures 2023/2024
Tomorrow’s chemicals are facing massive transitions due to the need for an alternative energy input, changing feedstock, limited resources, varying cost structures, etc. Chemical and reaction engineering is in charge for chemical and electrochemical reactions to meet the upcoming business and technical objectives. For simultaneous process-product design, a multiscale understanding provides opportunities to consider phenomena on different time and length scales of the reaction system. [more]

Recent insights on the generation, transport, and separation of charge carriers in metal oxide photocatalysts

CatLab Lectures 2023/2024
Metal oxide photoelectrodes tend to be cheap, easy to fabricate, and show relatively good (photo)chemical stability in aqueous solutions. This makes them attractive candidates as light absorbers in a variety of photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic applications. However, the energy conversion efficiencies of these absorbers are poor compared to photovoltaic-grade materials. [more]
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