Unifying Systems in Catalysis

23/09/2024

You're or late stage student ? Then don't miss this year's PostDoc Day on November 7 and 8 as part of this year's Berlin Science Week. The registration is still open TODAY: https://www.mdc-berlin.de/postdoc-day

We are pleased that researchers are also involved in the organization of the event. There will be presentations by various young and experienced academics and other prominent members of the non-academic scientific industry. Participants will also be able to present their research findings in the form of flash talks and posters.

Registrations open now !!

23/09/2024

You're a young female scientist in the field of research? Then don't miss your chance to apply to the Clara Immerwahr Award 2025😉 The call for applications is now open! ➡️ https://www.unisyscat.de/clara-immerwahr-award

The Clara Immerwahr Award shall promote equity and excellence in catalysis research fostering young female scientists at an early stage of their career. The award is dedicated to Dr. Clara Immerwahr (1870-1915), who was the first woman in Germany to earn a doctorate in Physical Chemistry in 1900.

The Clara Immerwahr Award is conferred annually to a young female scientist from Germany or abroad for outstanding results in catalysis research. It is associated with financial support of 15.000€ for a research stay at UniSysCat - Cluster of Excellence.

18/07/2024

New book by postdoc Benjamin Steininger and Alexander Klose: "The ’Atlas’ is many things in one: historical and geographical non-fiction, cultural theory essay, and picture book. We confront with petromelancholy, with catharsis, cosmos with cosmetics." Free download from punctumbooks.com

In their new book, UniSysCat-Postdoc Benjamin Steininger and Alexander Klose present insight into technologies, geographies, politics, and cultures of this ambivalent epoche. It consists of forty-four short essays on the era of petroleum modernity.



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The 'Atlas of Petromodernity' written by UniSysCat Postdoc Benjamin Steininger and Alexander Klose consists of forty-four short essays on the era of petroleum modernity. Their book is now available for open access download and as paper copy.

15/07/2024

There have been so many interesting recently at . Here's an overview:

🧪 1) The group of Ariane Nunes Alves studied the pathways of and inhibitory gases through a hydrogenase in order to improve its inhibitor resistance. Hydrogenases are very interesting enzymes for clean applications.

Read more & watch the video: https://t.ly/NbenS

💦2) On the search for new electrodes for electrocatalytic water splitting - How stable are the non-noble metal based electrodes designed at UniSysCat really?

Read more: https://t.ly/7KNT8

🔬3) UniSysCat team from Technische Universität Berlin, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and developed a new and very stable catalyst material for the production of propylene, which is one of the most important raw materials in the chemical industry.

Read more: https://t.ly/NDNeC

💻 4) Also interesting in this context: Scientists from BasCat and the FHI developed an accelerated discovery approach for the catalytic production of propylene that can compete with a procedure developed over decades.

Read more: https://t.ly/_Hq7As

🌿5) With cryo-electron microscopy, a UniSysCat team resolves the structure of photosystem II at highest resolution ever achieved and thus gains new insights into its function in .

Read more: https://t.ly/FdlFH

15/07/2024

Congratulations 👏 This year's Gerhard Ertl Lecture Award goes to Graham Hutchings. We're happy to share these great news and are already looking forward to the award ceremony in December!

With the award, Prof. Dr. Graham Hutchings is honored for his outstanding achievements in the development of novel heterogeneous catalysts based on gold nanocrystals and gold palladium alloy catalysts.

The award is named after Gerhard Ertl who won the Nobel prize in chemistry in 2007. We're proud to have him as our spiritus rector.

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Prof. Dr. Graham Hutchings from Cardiff University wins this year's Gerhard Ertl Lecture Award for his pioneering work on novel heterogeneous catalysts, in particular with gold nanocrystals and gold-palladium alloy catalysts.

12/06/2024

💡 Alle -Fans aufgepasst! Die Berliner laden zum ein: Im Rahmen der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften wird in zwei Runden um 19 und 20:30 Uhr an der Technische Universität Berlin gerätselt bis die Köpfe qualmen 😉

Anmelden könnt ihr euch vor Ort - kommt einfach vorbei, wir freuen uns auf euch!

Mehr Infos gibt's auch hier: https://shorturl.at/QLsuE

Science of Intelligence MATH+ Temporal Communities Technische Universität Berlin

15/05/2024

📣 A new publication in Nature Chemistry offers insights into a reaction that didn’t seem possible before. First author Dustin Kass explains what they found out in a video. It is a story of success, but also one of persistence in the face of problems...

Check out our website for the full article here: https://t.ly/qJ77y

Watch the video here: https://t.ly/Ru7eU

Find the full paper here: https://t.ly/JkLWZ

12/04/2024

Wir leben immer noch wie in der Steinzeit?🔥 Ja, weil wir auf fossile setzen! Doch es gibt einen Ansatz, dies radikal zu verändern: Von der lernen. Wie das geht, erklärt Tom Bötticher in diesem Video mit :
📽️ https://youtu.be/3JKjeSE8PJo?si=T9yIq0fxj6BO_eKl
Schaut rein und schafft euch einen Eindruck von der Motivation und der Forschung von UniSysCat - Cluster of Excellence. Unsere Forschenden leben von der Idee, die Chemie mit ihren Ideen zu revolutionieren. Zusammen machen wir die Chemie grüner 💚

Ihr interessiert euch für UniSysCat's Forschung? Dann kontaktiert uns gern! Wir freuen uns über Fragen, Ideen und Anregungen.

Wir leben technologisch gesehen immer noch wie in der Steinzeit. Denn unser Leben wird im Hintergrund weitestgehend noch durch fossile Brennstoffe betrieben....

25/03/2024

Great news!! Berlin has reached the final round for a transfer center for "New materials for sustainable technologies". The nationwide competition is initiated by the Joachim Herz Stiftung that wants to support the of research results into application with up to 30 million euros within 10 years. We're keeping our fingers crossed!

The application of the Berlin University Alliance was orchestrated by Martin Rahmel, Coordinator of greenCHEM | Chemical Invention Factory. is closely connected to these two institutions that support the transfer of research results on green chemistry into practice. We are enthusiastic about the influence of the promoters of green chemistry on the capital's transfer landscape.

Researchers from the Berlin science area are now invited to submit their specific transfer projects based on their research results that they would like to further develop toward implementation within the innovate! Center.

You're interested in contributing your research as a transfer project to the innovate! Center Berlin? You're welcome!! Please contact the coordinator of the proposal Martin Rahmel. Deadline for submission is April 14, 2024.

21/03/2024

🧪 Research Highlight: Active sites in enzymes can have very different functions although being structurally almost identical. But how and why? researchers study one interesting example: https://t.ly/zaugj

Catalytic reactions are essential for a wide variety of chemical processes in nature. are nature's catalysts, accelerating chemical reactions specifically. Interestingly, there are enzymes with structurally very similar active sites, but which trigger completely different chemical reactions. Why nature designed its catalysts in such a way is not yet understood. One example are the two enzymes superoxide reductase (SOR) and cytochrome P450, which occur in many forms of life. Their mechanisms have recently been illuminated by a UniSysCat team...

20/03/2024

🔬 Research Highlight: How can we reuse man-made CO2? scientists design surfaces with asymmetric metal pairs to promote electrochemical valorization of into multicarbon e-chemicals.

Read more about the article by the group of Prof. Arne Thomas from Technische Universität Berlin in the news on our website: https://t.ly/8n7HL

or check out: https://t.ly/aD-Ja

19/03/2024

recently had the honour of having the renowned chemist Omar Yaghi from University of California, Berkeley, College of Chemistry for a colloquium. He gave fantastic insights into his work on "Organic for Solving the Problem".

This lecture was also his inaugural lecture for the presentation of the Humboldt Research Award. This award and the associated collaboration with the group of Prof. Matthias Driess at Technische Universität Berlin. This will enable Omar Yaghi to cooperate closely with in the future. We're looking forward to it!

Read more: https://t.ly/vN0RL

On 4 March, Prof. Omar Yaghi from the University of California, Berkeley, gave a special UniSysCat lecture to mark the presentation of the Humboldt Research Award.