admin2024-09-30T16:15:25+01:00September 30th, 2024|presentation, Project News, public dissemination|
At the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, early-stage researcher Siddarth Gupta defended his thesis titled: Electrochemical CO/CO2 conversion: Impact of the catalytic micro-environment on 29 August 2024. All of us at FlowPhotoChem wish Dr Sid Gupta the very best in his future career as an electrochemical engineer!
admin2024-05-20T16:44:53+01:00April 20th, 2024|PI Spotlight, presentation, Project News, public dissemination|
Dr Matthew Mayer During the 2024 EcatalytiX Symposium, Dr Matthew Mayer of the Helmhotz-Zentrum Berlin delivered a talk titled- An operando zero-gap MEA cell for combined spectroscopy, diffraction, and imaging, applied to the study of ion effects in CO2 electrolysis on April 5th. The EcatalytiX symposium in Strasbourg, France aimed to examine the current and future techniques, based on X-rays or electron beams, to observe these reactions under conditions as close as possible to operation. This symposium served as an opportunity to meet beamline scientists, microscopists and electrochemists alike, discovering state-of-the-art operando approaches and how the future of the [...]
admin2024-02-08T14:36:26+00:00February 8th, 2024|Project News, public dissemination|
Six FlowPhotoChem partners at DLR, Membrasenz, HZB, EPFL, eChemicles and SoHHytec are listed on the EU Innovation Radar. The Innovation Radar is a European Commission initiative to identify high-potential innovations and innovators in EU-funded research and innovation projects. The goal is to allow every citizen, public official, professional and business person to discover the outputs of EU innovation funding and give them a chance to seek out innovators who could follow in the footsteps of companies that received EU funding in their early days. The EU Innovation Radar platform is the first step to making information about EU-funded innovations from high-quality [...]
admin2023-11-27T14:47:55+00:00November 27th, 2023|Project News|
Twenty-four FlowPhotoChem team members gathered in Berlin/Postdam on 23 and 24 November 2023 for a productive meeting hosted by partner Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, HZB. Others joined remotely. Updates were presented for each of the PEC, PC and EC reactors, outlining recent progress, as we move ever closer to final integration. Plans were made for efficiency optimisation and experimental campaigns in the months ahead. Our work on sustainability analysis from a life cycle perspective is advancing well. We continue to disseminate our results to our target audience and plan for the future exploitation of our FPC innovations. To cap off the meeting, a [...]
admin2023-10-18T12:35:55+01:00October 18th, 2023|presentation, Project News|
Several FlowPhotoChem consortia members delivered presentations at the recent Electrochemistry Society 224th meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden. Professor Balázs Endrődi of University of Szeged: Electroreduction of Inert Molecules: CO2, CO and N2 on October 10th, 2023 FlowPhotoChem Coordinator Professor Pau Farras, University of Galway: Metal Oxide Nanoparticles for Stable Alkaline Oxygen Evolution Reaction in An Anion Exchange Membrane Electrolyser Cell on October 11th, 2023 Dr Matthew Mayer of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin: Unintended Cation Crossover in CO2 Conversion MEA Cells: Causes and Effects, October 12th, 2023. Balázs Endrődi Prof. Pau Farras Dr Matthew Mayer
admin2023-08-31T09:07:57+01:00August 31st, 2023|Project News, public dissemination|
Early-stage researcher Siddharth Gupta has created his third and final FlowPhotoChem research results vlog in August 2023. Sid works within the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group “Electrochemical Conversion of CO2” and is supervised by Dr Matthew Mayer. Watch it here: https://vimeo.com/859333643?share=copy
admin2023-09-08T10:55:21+01:00August 30th, 2023|presentation, Project News|
Siddharth Gupta, early-stage researcher at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin will present his FlowPhotoChem research at the 74th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry in Lyon, France. Sid's talk is titled 'Electrochemical CO reduction in zero gap electrolysers necessitates careful water management' and will take place during Symposia 6b in the Salon Tete d'Or, from 14:15-14:30 on the 4th of September, 2023. Sid is a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Dr Matthew Mayer in the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group “Electrochemical Conversion of CO2” which targets the development of new electrochemical pathways to upgrade CO2 to high-value products. Learn more about Siddharth's work [...]
admin2023-09-08T11:00:31+01:00July 7th, 2023|Project News|
The Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin for Materials and Energy (HZB) & the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) carried out a joint campaign at the High flux solar simulator (HFSS), Lausanne in the first week of June 2023. The experiments served as a demonstration for the integration of the PEC (Photoelectrochemical conversion) reactor of WP1 and the EC (Electrochemical conversion) reactor of WP3 to carry out tandem electrolysis of CO2 to CO and CO to hydrocarbons. The weeklong experimental campaign focused on relating the operational conditions of the individual reactors to the performance of the integrated PEC-EC device across various performance metrics. [...]
admin2023-09-08T11:05:55+01:00May 22nd, 2023|Project News, public dissemination, Publication|
Dr Matthew Mayer Special thanks to Dr Matthew Mayer of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) for penning a lay summary of his group's recent open-access publication titled: Unintended cation crossover influences CO2 reduction selectivity in Cu-based zero-gap electrolysers. The paper appeared in Nature Communications on April 12th, 2023. Download the lay summary here. Citation of the original paper: El-Nagar, G.A., Haun, F., Gupta, S. et al. Unintended cation crossover influences CO2 reduction selectivity in Cu-based zero-gap electrolysers. Nat Commun 14, 2062 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37520-x FlowPhotoChem researchers are creating lay summaries of their breakthrough publications to inform interested non-specialists of our research.
admin2023-09-08T11:19:25+01:00April 13th, 2023|Project News, Publication|
Congratulations to our partners at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) for their recent study published in Nature Communications! Gumaa A. El-Nagar, Flora Haun, Siddharth Gupta, Sasho Stojkovikj, Professor Matthew T. Mayer in the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group “Electrochemical Conversion of CO2” saw their paper titled "Unintended cation crossover influences CO2 reduction selectivity in Cu-based zero-gap electrolysers" published on April 12th, 2023. Within FlowPhotoChem, the HZB partners target the development of new electrochemical pathways to upgrade CO2 to high-value products. Their approach combines the synthesis of new materials based on mixed metal alloys, oxides, nitrides, and sulfides with a detailed in situ study of catalytic activity, product [...]
