About the Project

THE ENERGY CRISIS: HIGH NOON!

  • Energy demand is growing worldwide global warming and climate change.
     Paradigm shift: replace fossil fuels by renewable resources.
  • Challenge: we have to store huge amounts of renewable energy, which can only be done in chemical bonds. Thus, we need reversible carriers for renewable energy.
  • Electro- and photocatalysis for the generation of green H2, chemicals, and fuels.

THE HARSH REALITY

  • Rare expensive metals, low efficiency, not stable, or even toxic
  • Despite decades of academic and industrial research: insufficient fundamental, atomistic, and mechanistic understanding
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Incapable to fulfill the demand

THAT’S WHERE OUR RESEARCH VISION COMES INTO PLAY!