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Solids & Catalysis Group Kiel @solidstatechemcatal-kiel.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

⚡️⚗️ Our electrocatalysis team has visited the symposium “30 years electrochemistry at RUB” in Bochum. It was also the 70th birthday event of the wonderful Wolfgang Schuhmann and the final meeting of the DFG-funded Research Unit 2982 UNODE. We had a great and […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Four scientists sitting in a row in a meeting room and smiling into the camera

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Solids & Catalysis Group Kiel @solidstatechemcatal-kiel.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

🏆 We are proud winners of the JCF volleyball tournament of CAU's chemistry section! 🥳 👏 Congrats to the team and thanks to the organizers! It was great sports 🏐, excellent team spirit 💪 & much fun 😄. See you there next year!

View on two beach volleyball courts on the campus of Kiel University with four teams playing and a group of spectators. Trees, a blue sky with light clouds and the high building of the biology institutes in the background.

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Solids & Catalysis Group Kiel @solidstatechemcatal-kiel.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

📣 New paper out: Mixed transition metal oxides of the perovskite-type are very promising oxidation catalysts, but not yet fully understood. Sharif and his team in our group have studied these materials in the supposedly simple catalytic test reaction CO […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Scientific graphic showing the S-shaped conversion curve in CO oxidation of two catalysts as a function of temperature alongside sketches of the proposed surface chemistry and temperature-resolved XPS spectra.

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Solids & Catalysis Group Kiel @solidstatechemcatal-kiel.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

⚡️ Last week in Gwangju, South Korea: The 9th Ertl Symposium on Electrocatalysis has been a great success with many excellent contributions from around the world. 🇰🇷 Many thanks to Prof Jaeyoung Lee and his team for making this possible and bringing together […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Entry of the Gwangju Institute of Technology with the banner for the Ertl Symposium, attendees discussing in the foreground in the sun.

Handover of Ertl Prize Award to Timo Jacob by Jaeyoung Lee

Handover of Ertl Prize Award to Shen Ye by Jaeyoung Lee

Group of symposium attendees in front of the collar rocks in Mudeungsan National Park in Gwangju

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Solids & Catalysis Group Kiel @solidstatechemcatal-kiel.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

👉 Syngas at its best: This week in Cape Town, the international catalysis community has discussed progress and new approaches to create and convert syngas in a sustainable manner. 📊 From our group, recent results from Yannick, Jihao and Shilong on the […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Sonia's cartoon impression of our talk at the Syngasconvention5 this March in Cape Town.

Malte Behrens presenting our latest results at the Syngasconvention5 this March in Cape Town

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Solids & Catalysis Group Kiel @solidstatechemcatal-kiel.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

👉 Three exciting days of catalysis research: The 59. annual meeting of the German Catalysis Society im Weimar has come to an end. 🤝 We have seen great talks and lectures. Also results from our group have been presented in various formats with a lot of […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Michael presenting his result at the annual meeting of the German Catalysis Society.

Jihao on the big stage at the Weimar convention center presenting his result at the annual meeting of the German Catalysis Society.

Benjamin being honored with a "red lion" for ten contribution to the annual meeting of the German Catalysis Society

Nick presenting his result at the annual meeting of the German Catalysis Society.

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Solids & Catalysis Group Kiel @solidstatechemcatal-kiel.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

🧂 Like adding spices to a meal, adding promoters to a solid catalyst can have a very important effect on the final result. Yet, the fundamentals of the interplay of active metals and promoters often remain unknown. 🔬 We have investigated the Ga-promotion of […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

schematic drawing of gallium promoter species changing on the surface of a copper nanoparticle as a function of reaction conditions

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Solids & Catalysis Group Kiel @solidstatechemcatal-kiel.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

🍀 A happy new year to everyone! 🎊 📣 New paper out: Our year 2025 has ended with a new insight into the near-surface dynamics of solid oxidation catalysts. 🤝 In a consortium led by Thomas Lunkenbein (formerly at @fhi_mpg_de, now at @unibayreuth) within the […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Scheme of near-surface transformation of a cobalt oxide oxidation catalyst under working conditions leading to dynamical redox changes.

December cover of the journal Nature Catalysis visualizing the atomic rearrangements on catalysis surfaces.

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Solids & Catalysis Group Kiel @solidstatechemcatal-kiel.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025

🎄 Today at the Christmas Colloquium of the local @gdch at #kieluni: Awards for the best Bachelor, Master and PhD Thesis of the year in #chemistry. ⚗️ Young talents, impressive science, and a good mood. 🔔 Gratulations to all the winners. 👏

Group photo of the winners for best Bachelor, Master and PhD Thesis with professors from Kiel university

Presentation of the best Master Thesis 2025

Food, drinks, and relaxed conversation in the foyer during the break.

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Solids & Catalysis Group Kiel @solidstatechemcatal-kiel.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/12/2025

🧪 Synthesizing solid catalysts is one thing, but for their application, they also need to undergo shaping or - in case of 🔌 #electrocatalysis - deposition on electrodes. Such steps are sometimes underrated in academic #catalysis research. 👉 Find out more on […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Scheme two electrode surfaces that are different in roughness and lyophilicity, which impact the bubble adhesion during gas formation in electrocatalytic oxygen evolution.

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Solids & Catalysis Group Kiel @solidstatechemcatal-kiel.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025

🔎 Applied solid catalysts often have complex defects and functional groups at their #surface that are non-innocent in heterogeneous #catalysis. These are hard to identify on real particles, but can be studied on model surfaces. 🤝 In a beautiful collaboration […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

scanning tunneling microscopy image of hydroxyls at a cobalt oxide surface and scheme of the proposed reaction mechanisms of 2-propanol dehydrogenation on these sites

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Solids & Catalysis Group Kiel @solidstatechemcatal-kiel.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025

💠 Can a crystal have different magnetic properties in alternating domains? 👉 Check out in our latest work, how close we can get to such scenario. A "topotactic jump" into a miscibility gap allows #synthesis of metastable crystalline spinel nanoflakes with […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Cartoon showing the scheme of the synthesis of porous nanoflakes with alternating magnetic domains by mild calcination of a precursor compound. The background is a TEM-EDX map that shows the domain distribution by means of composition enrichment in iron or cobalt

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Solids & Catalysis Group Kiel @solidstatechemcatal-kiel.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

🔬 🧪 Check out our latest work on a novel synthesis method for a highly active nickel methanation #catalyst in ChemSusChem and the corresponding German press release of @kieluni Anna and colleagues. Congratulations to Anna and all co-authors! 👏 🔗 […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

scientist pipetting a green solution in a chemistry lab

schematic representation of a catalyst synthesis showing the different stages as a mountain climb in a cartoon

Transmission electron microscopy images of a nano-scaled nickel and magnesium oxide aggregate.

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Solids & Catalysis Group Kiel @solidstatechemcatal-kiel.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025

👏 Applause for the Poster Prize winners of the "3rd Symposium on Insights into Gas Diffusion Electrodes" last month in Berlin! 💪 Tobi from our group took a prize home (right) and the other winners are Nils Näser from @CBI_FAU (left) and Mario H. Kirschner […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Three smiling PhD students standing outside on a sunny day in front of green trees showing their certificates on poster prizes into the camera

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Solids & Catalysis Group Kiel @solidstatechemcatal-kiel.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2025

🎓 Yesterday, Dr. Jihao Wang, former PhD student in our group, now postdoc at the FHI Berlin @fhi_mpg_de received the KiNSIS Doctoral Thesis Awards 2025 🏆 of @kieluni. Congrats, Jihao! 🍾 The event was embedded in the wonderful award ceremony for the […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Dr. Wang giving a short presentation of his PhD Thesis topic

Handover of flowers and the prize certificate of the 2025 KiNSIS doctoral Thesis Award to Dr. Wang.

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Solids & Catalysis Group Kiel @solidstatechemcatal-kiel.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025

💡 Raimund Horn from @tuhamburg and Matthias Beller from @likat.bsky.social lecturing at the Ostseelehrverbund Katalyse #OLK2025 in Kiel on chemical engineering and industrial homogeneous catalysis. We have seen insightful lectures and lively discussions from […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Raimund Horn delivering a lecture on chemical engineering in catalysis in Kiel

Matthias Beller delivering a lecture on industrial homogeneous catalysis in Kiel

group photo of the OLK2025 in Kiel in front of the lecture hall building of the Chemistry Section at Kiel University

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Solids & Catalysis Group Kiel @solidstatechemcatal-kiel.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2025

🔋 Have a look at Lina's and Sebastian's latest work on electrochemical sodium ion #intercalation #chemistry into layered materials. 👉 doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c023… 👏 Beautiful refinement of stacking faults effects in powder diffraction data […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

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Solids & Catalysis Group Kiel @solidstatechemcatal-kiel.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

⚗️ 🖥️ Our latest experiment-theory collaboration shows how iron catalysts for the release of #GreenHydrogen can be stabilized against nitridation in the #ammonia reforming reaction. 👉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscatal.5… 🤝 Many thanks to […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Molecular scheme showing how an ammonia molecule becomes decomposed to nitrogen and hydrogen at an iron-cobalt alloy surface, while it reactions with pure iron to iron nitride.

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Solids & Catalysis Group Kiel @solidstatechemcatal-kiel.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

👋 Welcome to Kiel! ⛵️ This year, the Ostseelehrverbund Katalyse #OLK2025 will take place at @kieluni again. We are looking forward to host the north German summer school for doctoral students in #catalysis starting next week at the Institute of Inorganic […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Group photo of students and lecturers of the OLK summer school on a balcony at the Kiel Fjord with a cruise ship and ship yards in the background

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Solids & Catalysis Group Kiel @solidstatechemcatal-kiel.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2025

🔬 Find the results of our beautiful collaboration 🤝 with the Rupprechter-Lab and the TACO team @taco-oxides.bsky.social at TU Wien in this new paper. We have provided a reference catalyst to benchmark their impressive and precise single-atom alloy #catalysis […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Scheme in blackboard-style labelled "active site engineering" showing a nanometer scale bar, the chemical equation for the water gas shift reaction and models of catalysts.

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Solids & Catalysis Group Kiel @solidstatechemcatal-kiel.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2025

☀️ See us smiling in sunny Trondheim. 🤝 Last week, the #europacat2025 conference in Trondheim with wonderful networking and countless inspiring discussions on the latest results in #catalysis was a great success in a beautiful town! 👏 Thanks to the […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Eleven smiling members of our research group standing at the waterfront in Trondheim on a sunny day. The background shows the fjord, a blue sky with light clouds and the hilly coastline of Norway.

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