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.

Chemical Physics far from equilibrium

CatLab Highlight Lecture

• Date: Nov 2, 2022
• Time: 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Katharina Krischer
• Technische Universität München
• Location: Albert-Einstein Straße/Magnusstraße, 12489 Berlin, HZB
• Room: BESSY Lecture Hall & Online
• Host: Prof. Dr. Robert Schlögl
• Contact: acsek@fhi-berlin.mpg.de

In this talk, I will discuss recent examples from electrochemistry in which the system’s behavior is ‘more than the sum of its parts’ and nonlinear interactions generate complex forms of organization. Thereby, I will highlight general conditions that generate certain types of cooperative phenomena. Experimental examples range from electrocatalytic reactions, to the electrooxidation of photoelectrodes. The patterns forming can be understood in the framework of ‘many particle models’ with nonlinear and nonlocal interaction between the particles, as they are often found in electrochemical systems. [more]