admin2023-09-08T11:40:33+01:00March 16th, 2023|Project News, public dissemination|
Gumaa El-Nagar Thanks to Dr Gumaa El Nagar of the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group “Electrochemical Conversion of CO2 for the preparation of the lay summary of their recent paper "Comparative Spectroscopic Study Revealing Why the CO2 Electroreduction Selectivity Switches from CO to HCOO– at Cu–Sn- and Cu–In-Based Catalysts". The publication appeared in the journal ACS Catalysis in December 2022. Read the lay summary here.
admin2023-09-08T13:00:09+01:00December 20th, 2022|Project News, Publication|
Congratulations to our partners at Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin in Germany for the most recent FlowPhotoChem research publication. Author/researchers Gumaa A. El-Nagar, Fan Yang, Sasho Stojkovikj, Stefan Mebs, Siddharth Gupta, Ibbi Y. Ahmet, Holger Dau, and Matthew T. Mayer published "Comparative Spectroscopic Study Revealing Why the CO2 Electroreduction Selectivity Switches from CO to HCOO– at Cu–Sn- and Cu–In-Based Catalysts" in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Catalysis on December 5th, 2022. Citation: ACS Catal. 2022, 12, 24, 15576–15589 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.2c04419 The Helmholtz Young Investigator Group “Electrochemical Conversion of CO2” targets the development of new electrochemical pathways to upgrade CO2 into high-value products. Their approach combines the synthesis of new materials based on mixed metal [...]
admin2023-09-08T13:23:04+01:00October 3rd, 2022|presentation, Project News|
Congratulations to Gumaa El-Nagar, Flora Haun, Siddharth Gupta, Sasho Stojkovijk and Matthew T. Mayer of the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin for the award of first prize at the GDCh Electrochemistry 2022 meeting held in Berlin on September 27th- 30th. The prize was awarded for Gumaa's presentation of the study titled: Effects of cation Crossover through Anion Exchange Membranes on the Operation of Zero-gap CO2 electrolysers. The preprint of this study on the impact of unintended cation crossover on CO2RR is now available on https://researchsquare.com/article/rs-2077889/v1 'Electrochemistry' is a successful series of conferences, held every other year. Starting in Gießen (2008), followed by Bochum [...]
admin2023-09-08T13:25:05+01:00September 12th, 2022|presentation, Project News, public dissemination|
Early-stage researcher Siddharth Gupta, based at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has had a few busy months recently presenting his PhD research at three venues this summer. In a flash presentation before a subsequent poster session at the ISE Regional Meeting at the Clarion Congress Hotel in Prague on August 18th, 2022, Siddharth presented 'CO Reduction in gas diffusion electrolysers: Overcoming operational challenges and developing operando methods'. Siddharth presented a poster 'Impact of cation crossover on the product selectivity of zero gap CO2 electrolysers' at the DTU Surfcat Summer School 2022 in Gilleleje, Denmark on August 9th. Also, on September 5th, 2022 at the [...]
admin2023-09-08T13:59:30+01:00May 26th, 2022|PI Spotlight, presentation, Project News|
The Gordon Research Conference, 2022 Renewable Energy: Solar Fuels Conference GRC took place from May 8th through the 13th, 2022 in Lucca, Italy. On May 11th, FlowPhotoChem PI Professor Csaba Janaky (left) of the University of Szeged, Hungary gave a talk entitled "Electrolyzer Development and Process Optimization: Paving the Road for Industrial Carbon-dioxide Electroreduction." Dr Matt Mayer, (right) HZB presented FlowPhotoChem research in a poster presentation titled: CO2 and CO Electrolysis in gas diffusion electrolysers: Overcoming operational challenges and developing operando methods. The poster provided an overview of what the team is working on in Work Package 3. The 2022 [...]
admin2023-09-08T14:03:09+01:00May 13th, 2022|Project News, public dissemination|
Early-stage researcher Siddarth Gupta, supervised by Dr Matt Mayer, the leader of the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group “Electrochemical Conversion of CO2” at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin provides an update on the tasks within FlowPhotoChem in which his group are involved. Significant progress is being made and challenges are overcome with the input from project team members. Well done, Siddharth and thank you for providing an update from your lab. https://vimeo.com/709073890 Watch Siddharth's introductory video here.
admin2023-09-08T14:17:10+01:00February 28th, 2022|PI Spotlight, Project News, public dissemination|
Dr Matthew Mayer After our recent face-to-face meeting in Dublin, Danielle Nicholson at Pintail Limited posed a set of questions to PI Dr Matthew Mayer, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. Dr Mayer is an expert on photoelectrochemical and electrocatalytic water splitting and CO2 reduction, nanomaterials synthesis, and photovoltaics. Enjoy! How and when did you first become interested in chemistry? I started my undergraduate studies (in Boise, Idaho, USA) with the goal of becoming a pharmacist. But when I took the course Organic Chemistry, something changed for me. That course makes you draw lots of molecules, thinking about their physical structure and how [...]
admin2023-09-08T14:19:26+01:00February 28th, 2022|Project News, Publication|
Congratulations to all authors at HZB and ICIQ: Laura C. Pardo Pérez, Alexander Arndt, Sasho Stojkovikj, Ibbi Y. Ahmet, Joshua T. Arens, Federico Dattila, Robert Wendt, Ana Guilherme Buzanich, Martin Radtke, Veronica Davies, Katja Höflich, Eike Köhnen, Philipp Tockhorn, Ronny Golnak, Jie Xiao, Götz Schuck, Markus Wollgarten, Núria López, and Matthew T. Mayer. "Determining Structure-Activity Relationships in Oxide Derived CuSn Catalysts During CO2 Electroreduction Using X-Ray Spectroscopy" was published in Advanced Energy Materials on December 24, 2021. DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202103328.
admin2023-09-08T14:36:11+01:00December 13th, 2021|Project News|
From August 4th through the 6th, 2021, researchers Siddharth Gupta and Dr Gumaa El-Nagar from the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group “Electrochemical Conversion of CO2” at Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin travelled to the University of Szeged in Hungary to learn more about the work being done at the group of Profs. Csaba Janaky and Balázs Endrődi. Siddharth comments, "The primary aim of the trip was to understand the operating procedure used by the group in Hungary for the EC reactor developed by them in conjunction with ThalesNano. This was done with the view to overcome reproducibility challenges within the consortium and enable rapid catalyst [...]
admin2023-09-08T14:41:47+01:00December 2nd, 2021|presentation, Project News|
Dr Federico Dattila Dr Federico Dattila of the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) presented a poster at the International Conference on Frontiers in Electrocatalytic Transformations that took place on November 22nd and 23rd at the Adeit Fundación Universidad Empresa de València in Spain. The poster title was titled “Modeling the Electrochemical Interface with Cations and Electric Field” and it won the runner-up prize. Congratulations to the team! Also at this conference, FlowPhotoChem PIs Dr Matthew Mayer of the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group “Electrochemical Conversion of CO2” was an invited speaker, and Prof. Nuria Lopez of ICIQ was one [...]
