TO TOP

CRC/TRR 247
Heterogeneous Oxidation Catalysis in the Liquid Phase

News & Events


Please contact C. Marek for any inquiries regarding the announced meetings.

 

20 November - Lunch Time Seminar

  • Date: 20 November 2023; 12:00 hrs
  • Topic: "Knowledge on Active Sites"
  • Venue: online via Zoom. The link will be distributed via E-Mail.
  • Remark: Each project should prepare 1 slide summarizing all central results related to active sites/species with respect to 1. oxidation states and 2. coordination environment, for both reactions: OER and alcohol oxidation!

 

07 December 2023 - Seminar Series

  • Date: 07 December 2023; 14:15 hrs
  • Speaker: Prof Dr.-Ing. Thomas Turek (Institute of Chemical and Electrochemical Process Engineering, TU Clausthal)
  • Topic: "Alkaline water electrolysis: history, current status, and research needs"
  • Venue: Hybrid; Campus Essen (UDE); Room: T03 R02 D39 & Zoom (The link will be distributed via E-Mail).
  • Host: Kai S. Exner

 

19 December 2023 -  Cluster Meeting "Molecular Models" (1st meeting)

  • Date: 19 December 2023; 14:00 hrs
  • Venue: online via Zoom. The link will be distributed via E-Mail.
  • Remark: The meeting will be recorded and uploaded on our database.

 

14-16 February 2024 - TRR 247 Annual Meeting

  • Venue: Kardinal Schulte Haus, Bergisch Gladbach; details will follow soon.
  • Remark: The Annual Meetings for the upcoming years are scheduled: 12-14 February (2025) and 11-13 February (2026)

 

March/April 2024 - Cluster Meeting "Theory" (2nd meeting)

  • Date: March/April 2024 (exact date: tba); 14:00 hrs
  • Venue: online via Zoom. The link will be distributed via E-Mail.
  • Remark: The former meeting was recorded and can be accessed via our database.

 

25 April 2024 - Cluster Meeting "Ethylen Glycol Oxidation" (1st meeting)

  • Date: 25 April 2024; 14:00 hrs
  • Venue: online via Zoom. The link will be distributed via E-Mail.
  • Remark: The meeting will be recorded and uploaded on our database.

 

04 July 2024 - Cluster Meeting "Radicals in Oxidation Catalysis" (1st meeting)

  • Date: 04 July 2024; 14:00 hrs
  • Venue: online via Zoom. The link will be distributed via E-Mail.
  • Remark: The meeting will be recorded and uploaded on our database.

 

24-26 September 2024 - CataLysis Conference

  • Venue: Pforzheim
  • Hosts: CataLysis Network CRCs
  • Our Keynote: Prof. Dr. Iryna Zenyuk (University of California, Irvine; Mercator Fellow TRR 247)

Please contact C. Marek for any inquiries regarding the announced meetings.

 

10 November 2023 - Cluster Meeting "Synthesis and Application" (3rd meeting)

  • Date: 10 November 2023; 14:00 hrs
  • Venue: online via Zoom.
  • Remark: All three meetings were recorded and can be accessed via our database. Please note: The former two meetings took place under the name: "Operando Electrochemisty".

 

26 October 2023 - Cluster Meeting "Theory" (1st meeting)

  • Date: 26 October 2023; 14:00 hrs
  • Venue: online via Zoom.
  • Remark: The meeting was recorded and can be accessed via our database.

 

26 October 2023 - Seminar Series

  • Date: 26 October 2023; 11:00 hrs
  • Speaker: Dr. Constanze Neumann (Max-Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim an der Ruhr)
  • Topic: "Metalloradicals in Confinement"
  • Venue: Hybrid; Ruhr University Bochum; Room: ZEMOS 0.19 & Zoom
  • Host: Kristina Tschulik

 

15 September 2023 - Cluster Meeting "Operando Electrochemisty" (2nd meeting)

  • Date: 15 September 2023; 14:00 hrs
  • Venue: online via Zoom.
  • Remark: The former meeting was recorded and can be accessed via our database.

 

09 June 2023 - Cluster Meeting "Operando Electrochemisty" (1st meeting)

  • Date: 09 June 2023; 14:00 hrs
  • Venue: online via Zoom.
  • Remark: The meeting was recorded and can be accessed via our database.

News
New Reaction Mechanism for Oxygen Gas Evolution

[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).

The results are published in the journal Advanced Science.

Connecting Physicists Across Africa and the World

[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.

Learn more about the project’s goals of fostering communication among African physicists and the African diaspora in an interview with Dr. Kenmoe in the Nature Review Physics.

Poster Prize

[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."


New Member

[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.


Soft Skills Summer 2023

[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.

More information about the workshops and registration here.