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.

Addressing the Surface Composition and Structure under Catalytic (T, p) Conditions

A Joint Seminar of the NOMAD Laboratory and of the Ma group

• Online Seminar
• Date: Jul 16, 2020
• Time: 10:15 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Yuanyuan Zhou
• NOMAD Laboratory, Fritz Haber Institute of MPG, Berlin, Germany
• Location: Join the seminar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83905638107?pwd=RVRvYXF4Z00ybTVlM0tQc1RNUEpRZz09 | Webinar ID: 839 0563 8107 | Password: NOMAD
• Host: Christian Carbogno

A prerequisite for reaching a microscopic understanding of heterogeneous catalytic is the identification of the catalyst surface composition and structure under catalytic (T, p) conditions. For decades, ab initio atomistic thermodynamic (aiAT) has been very successful in predicting phase diagrams for surfaces at realistic (T, p) conditions. [more]