Please contact C. Marek for any inquiries regarding the announced meetings.
06 February 2025; 14:00 hrs (CataLysis Joint Colloquium)
12-14 February 2025 - TRR 247 Annual Meeting
27 February 2025; 15:30 hrs - Seminar Series
09-10 April 2025 - 4th Conference of the GDCh Division of Chemistry and Energy
Please contact C. Marek for any inquiries regarding the announced meetings.
23 January 2025; 14:00 hrs - Seminar Series
17 January 2025; 14:00 hrs (CataLysis Joint Colloquium)
12 December 2024; 14:00 hrs - Cluster Meeting "Ethylene Glycol Oxidation" (5th meeting)
28 November 2024; 14:15 hrs - Seminar Series
14 November 2024; 10:00 hrs - Seminar Series
26-27 September 2024 - PI Meeting
24-26 September 2024 - CataLysis Conference
26 September 2024; 13:15 hrs - Seminar Series
12 September 2024 - Cluster Meeting "Theory" (3rd meeting)
12 September 2024; 12:00 hrs - Seminar Series
25 July 2024 - Cluster Meeting "Molecular Models" (3rd meeting)
22 July 2024 - Cluster Meeting "Ethylene Glycol Oxidation" (4th meeting)
11 July 2024; 14:15 hrs - Seminar Series
09 July 2024; 14:15 hrs - Seminar Series
04 July 2024 - Cluster Meeting "Radicals in Oxidation Catalysis" (1st meeting)
27 June 2024; 17:15 hrs (CataLysis Joint Colloquium)
13 June 2024 - Cluster Meeting "Ethylene Glycol Oxidation" (3rd meeting)
23 May 2024 - Cluster Meeting "Molecular Models" (2nd meeting)
16 May 2024 - Cluster Meeting "Ethylene Glycol Oxidation" (2nd meeting)
25 April 2024 - Cluster Meeting "Ethylene Glycol Oxidation" (1st meeting)
18 April 2024 - Cluster Meeting "Theory" (2nd meeting)
14-16 February 2024 - TRR 247 Annual Meeting
13 February 2024; 16:00 hrs - Seminar Series
12 February 2024; 14:15 hrs - Seminar Series
01 February 2024 - Seminar Series (CataLysis Joint Colloquium)
30 January 2024; 14:15 hrs - Seminar Series
22 January 2024 - Lunch Time Seminar
15 January 2024 - Lunch Time Seminar
11 January 2024 - Seminar Series (CataLysis Joint Colloquium)
19 December 2023 - Cluster Meeting "Molecular Models" (1st meeting)
07 December 2023 - Seminar Series
20 November 2023 - Lunch Time Seminar
10 November 2023 - Cluster Meeting "Synthesis and Application" (3rd meeting)
26 October 2023 - Cluster Meeting "Theory" (1st meeting)
26 October 2023 - Seminar Series
15 September 2023 - Cluster Meeting "Operando Electrochemisty" (2nd meeting)
09 June 2023 - Cluster Meeting "Operando Electrochemisty" (1st meeting)
[26-27 September 2024] In this PI-Meeting at the Parkhotel Pforzheim, we exchanged our newest findings in the field of oxidation catalysis and strengthened our collaborations within the consortium to reach our joint goals of identifying active sites and reaction mechanisms in this 2nd funding period. We also used this meeting to jointly start shaping our Transregio for the upcoming application for a 3rd funding period.
[26 September 2024] Congratulations!
Our PhD student Anas Akhtar was awarded with a poster prize. His poster on Investigation of Cobalt Oxide-Based Spinels and Hydrous Oxides Under OER Conditions Using Correlative Microscopy was selected among the 7 best posters at the CataLysis conference!
[24-26 September 2024] The 3rd CataLysis Conference took place from 24-26 September 2024 at the CCP in Pforzheim. That biannual international event brings together the communities of the German DFG-funded collaborative research centers (CRCs) and Transregios (TRRs) working within the field of catalysis. This time, around 250 participants from the CataLysis CRCs had the chance to exchange on their latest fascinating research and to discuss interdisciplinary topics. We had selected talks from each CRC/TRR presented in two parallel sessions. The scientific evenings ended with interesting poster sessions. To stimulate discussion, leading national and international experts presented keynote plenary lectures. The TRR 247 invided Prof. Iryna Zenyuk (Irvine University, USA) to give the keynote talk.
It was a very successful and enjoyable event!
[01 September 2024] During our UnOCat Summer School, which took place from 26-30 August 2024 in Flensburg, all participants elected their new PhD-Representatives-Team: Anastasiia Kotova and Anas Akhtar! Congratulations!
Anastasiia is doing her PhD in Dr. Linnemann's group at RUB. Anas is doing his PhD in Prof. Tschuliks group at RUB. For him its already his second term as a PhD-representative.
[21 June 2024] We are happy to announce our annual Soft Skills Summer 2024, taking place for the fourth time. This joint event is initiated by CRC/TRR 247, CRC 1242, CRC/TRR 270, 2D-Mature, and CENIDE.
We would like to invite all female PhD candidates and postdocs to be a part of this event and to improve your soft skills.
[08 June 2024] The "Gordon Research Conference: Inorganic Chemistry" took place at the Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, US from 02-07 June 2024.
Our PhD student Timo Fockenberg (Project C03, DUE) participated in this event. This conference, which takes place every two years, has a long history dating back to 1951. It focuses on the exchange of scientific knowledge between scientists at all career stages. Timo represented our CRC 247 with his work on molecular models to mimic the surface of the nanoparticle surfaces we synthesize and use in our consortium.
[24 May 2024] Welcome, Prof. Dr. Mei!
We are very happy to welcome Prof. Dr. Mei (RUB) as a new PI in our consortium. Prof. Mei will work on "Modulation of liquid phase thermal oxidation catalysis using optical stimuli". The new project A11 aims at bridging thermal and electrocatalytic reaction conditions to elaborate fundamental insights into common structural motifs/catalytically active sites, facet-specific activities and reaction mechanisms in heterogeneously catalyzed liquid-phase oxidation. The official start of the project is 2024 July 01.
[16 March 2024] The “57. Jahrestreffen Deutscher Katalytiker” took place in Weimar from 13-15 March 2024.
Our PhD candidates Akhil Hareendran (RUB), Jan Smyczek (CAU) and Pascal Fandré (MPI Kofo) participated in this conference, which is recognized as one of the most important European catalysis events. More than 400 experts from universities, research institutes and industry meet annually to present their research, exchange their ideas and share new developments and the latest results in all areas of catalysis.
Akhil’s poster on LaCoxFe1-xO3 Perovskites for the Selective Catalytic Oxidation of Cyclohexane to KA Oil in Liquid Phase was selected among the 5 best posters in the whole conference and was awarded jointly by DECHEMA and GeCatS! Congratulations!
[13 March 2024] Congratulations!
Congratulations to our TRR 247 member Prof. Corina Andronescu who received the Carl Duisberg Memorial Prize this year! With this award, the German Chemical Society honors Prof. Andronescu for her work in the field of technical chemistry. You can read the respective article on the UDE website in German or English. Congratulations!
[12 March 2024] Congratulations!
We are thrilled that our TRR 247 member Prof. Beatriz Roldán Cuenya has been elected to the Leopoldina (German National Academy of Sciences) in recognition of her scientific excellence and leadership strength. You can read the respective article on the FHI website in German or English.
Congratulations on this glorious recognition!
[16 February 2024] From 14-16 February 2024 our TRR 247 Annual Meeting took place at the Kardinal Schulte Haus in Bergisch Gladbach. It was a very productive meeting with intense and fruitful discussions. Our PhD candidates presented in short talks the status of each project. We were also very excited that our Mercator Fellows Prof. Robert Schlögl, Prof. Iryna Zenyuk and Prof. Plamen Atanassov joint this event and contributed with their expertise and panel talks. Iryna and Plamen also joint our PhD network meeting at the first evening and made our AMA-(science related)Session very joyful.
[14 February 2024] During our TRR 247 Annual Meeting in Bergisch Gladbach, our PhD network meeting took place at the first evening on 14 February 2024. The Mercator Fellows Prof. Iryna Zenyuk and Prof. Plamen Atanassov joint this event in an AMA-(science related)Session. The second part of this meeting was all about the organizational issues of our UnOCat Summer School, which will take place 26-30 August 2024 in Flensburg.
[13 February 2024] From 12-13 February 2024 our UnOCat Electrochemistry workshop took place at the Ruhr University Bochum. The workshop was organized and performed by the projects A01, A02 and A09. In lectures, the PhD candidates learned about Characterizing electrocatalytic activity by linear potential sweep methods (LSV, CV) and Characterizing electrocatalytic activity by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The theoretical knowledge was then deepened through lab work sessions. The day eneded with a joint dinner at Q-West. The second day focused on spectroscopy, including a visit to the spectroscope of the Schuhmann lab. Moreover, the electrocatalytic activity results were analyzed and discussed.
[18 December 2023] Our PI Prof. Dr. Rossitza Pentcheva, PhD candidate Achim Füngerlings, and colleagues have investigated the crystal facet-dependent surface transformation and how this controls the activity of the oxygen evolution reaction. A phenomenon which is poorly understood – so far.
Read the entire press release here.
[02 November 2023] Our PI Prof. Dr. Kai S. Exner has implemented the principle of Walden inversion for the first time in the investigation of catalytic processes on solid surfaces. The focus of his investigations is the evolution of oxygen gas in electrolysers. This reaction determines the energy efficiency in the electrolysis of water, since the overvoltage for this anodic process is significantly larger than for the formation of gaseous hydrogen at the cathode. Read the entire press release here (in German).
[19 September 2023] Dr. Stéphane Kenmoe, member of our CRC/TRR 247, is working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Born in Cameroon, he is actively involved in promoting African early career researchers and communicate popular scientific topics in an easily understandable way to the African community. Since 2022, Dr. Kenmoe is editor-in-chief of the African Physics Newsletter (APN), a quarterly online publication launched in 2019.
[11 September 2023] Congratulations Adarsh!
Our PhD candidate Adarsh Koul (project A02) won the poster prize in the 74th annual conference of the International Society of Electrochemistry, which took place from 3-8 September 2023 in Lyon, France. The poster was entitled Ni-foam modified electrodes for epoxidation of cyclooctene. "We investigated Ni(OH)2 modified Ni-foam substrate for cycloctene epoxidation in different water:acetonitrile mixtures. We also investigated the effect of hydrophobicity by modifying the electrode surface with Sodium Dodecyl Sulphate. We could achieve a conversion of 40 % with a selectivity of above 90 % towards our desired product i.e. cyclooctene-oxide. The results will be published very soon."
[01 September 2023] Welcome, Prof. Dr. Behler!
We are very happy to welcome Prof. Dr. Behler (RUB) as a new PI in our consortium. Prof. Behler will work on "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Oxidation Catalysis at Complex Interfaces". The goal of project A10 is the detailed atomistic understanding of the thermal oxidation of small alcohols in aqueous solution at Co3O4 surfaces.
[26 June 2023] We are happy to announce our annual Soft Skills Summer 2023, taking place for the third time, This joint event is initiated by CRC/TRR 247, CRC 1242, CRC/TRR 270, 2D-Mature, CENIDE, SPP 1980, FOR 2284 and the team for Equal Opportunities of the Faculty of Physics at UDE. We would like to invite all female PhD candidates and postdocs to be a part of this event and to improve your soft skills.