On the 4th of March 2019 Huifang Hu started her PhD project in the Interfacial Electrochemistry Group.
Welcome Huifang!
Poster Prize
Alena Cedeño López was awarded with the Poster Prize at the 28th ATC 2019: Industrial Inorganic Chemistry – Materials and Processes (Frankfurt am Main), organized by DECHEMA.
Her poster presentation was entitled:
“Towards 3D analysis of interconnects: a fs-laser mass spectrometry approach”
(Dr. Kerstin Schierle-Arndt (BASF SE) and Alena Cedeño López at the award ceremony)
Congratulations to Alena!
Faculty Prize 2018
Carina Morstein was awarded with the Faculty Prize for the best master thesis in chemistry 2018.
Her thesis is entitled
“Porous Silver Foams and Silver Microparticles: Applications in the Electrochemical Conversion of Carbon Dioxide”
Congratulations to Carina!
Carbon dioxide research activities
Members of the CO2 group after their beamtime at the Swiss Light Source (SLS).
From the left: Kiran, Motiar Rahaman, Abhijit Dutta
This project is a collaboration with Prof. Mehtap Oezaslan (University of Oldenburg)
Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship
Motiar Rahaman received an Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). He is going to start his postdoctoral project at the University of Cambridge in April 2019.
Congratulations to Motiar!
SCCER Meeting
The CO2-group at the annual meeting of the SCCER (Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research) Heat and Electricity Storage:
(in the back; from left to right) Peter Broekmann, Motiar Rahaman, Abhijit Dutta, Pavel Moreno-García
(in the front; from left to right) Ivan Zelocualtecatl Montiel, María de Jesús Gálvez Vázquez, Kiran Kiran, Yuhui Hou, Aline Bornet.
The symposium took place on November 6 at the Hochschule für Technik in Rapperswil
Recent research of the group on catalyst development for the electrochemical CO2 conversion and ammonia synthesis was presented.
ISE Regional Representative of Switzerland
Peter Broekmann is elected as ISE Regional Representative of Switzerland for a second term (2019-2021).
Congratulations to Peter! Thanks to all the members for the support!
New Paper Published
Abhijit Dutta, Akiyoshi Kuzume, Veerabhadrarao Kaliginedi, Motiar Rahaman, Ilya Sinev, Mahdi Ahmadi, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya, Soma Vesztergom, Peter Broekmann
Probing the Chemical State of Tin Oxide NP Catalysts during CO2 Electroreduction: A Complementary Operando Approach
Nano Energy
DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2018.09.033
New Paper Published
Dmitry Vasilyev, Erfan Shirzadi, Alexander Rudnev, Peter Broekmann, Paul J Dyson
Pyrazolium Ionic Liquid Co-catalysts for the Electroreduction of CO2
ACS Applied Energy Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.8b01086
International Summer School
International Summer School on
Power to X: Fundamentals and Applications of Modern Electrosynthesis
Villars-sur-Ollon, August 27 – 31, 2018
70 people from industry and academia participated in the International Summer School: Power to X in Villars-sur-Ollon (August 27 – 31).
In the focus of the lectures and discussion were various topics related to the so-called ‘energy transition’ (Energiewende) including CO2 capture, CO2 conversion and alternative concepts of storing the surplus of renewable electricity in form of value added chemicals.