Research Area "Material and Energy"

Join us on our journey to synthesize new materials and design sustainable energy conversion and storage systems for a better future.

The aim of the research focus Materials & Energy Research and the DFG Cluster of Excellence "e-conversion" is the development of sustainable energy conversion and energy storage systems. To this end, both the synthesis of new materials and fundamental mechanistic studies to understand microscopic energy conversion processes and their targeted control are being carried out. This research work forms the basis for a whole range of applications, in particular for new types of sustainable solar cells, for electrochemical, photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production and for electrochemical energy storage in new battery concepts. The special research strategy of the cluster focuses on fundamental mechanistic questions of energy conversion processes at interfaces, which are omnipresent in solar cells, electrolyzers and batteries, for example, and is advanced by the optimal use of synergies between synthesis, operando studies, theoretical modeling, nanoscience and device design. The research focus thrives on the close cooperation of expert groups within chemistry, physics and biology.

Professors

Prof. Dr. Benjamin P. Fingerhut

Professor

Prof. Dr. Achim Hartschuh

Professor

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Prof. Dr. Ivana Ivanović-Burmazović

Chair Holder, Deputy Director Dep. Chemistry

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Prof. Dr. Dirk Johrendt

Professor

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Prof. Dr. Thomas M. Klapötke

Chair Holder

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Prof. Dr. Don C. Lamb, PhD

Professor

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Prof. Dr. Bettina Valeska Lotsch

Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research

Nanochemistry

Prof. Dr. Knut Müller-Caspary

Professor

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Prof. Dr. Christian Ochsenfeld

Chair Holder, Director Dep. Chemistry

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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schnick

Chair Holder

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Prof. Dr. Philip Tinnefeld

Chair Holder

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Prof. Dr. Joost Wintterlin

Professor

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