“Excellence is an art won by training and habitation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)
We are interested in developing chemistry that has a potential societal impact, for example, more sustainable and efficient methods to make bio-active compounds, non-precious electrocatalysts and fluorine-free membranes for renewable energy conversion and storage, or improved electrochemical devices. Our research is highly interdisciplinary and cover many aspects of inorganic, organic, bio, applied physical, and electrochemistry, as well as chemical engineering. Likewise, we collaborate broadly with people in these areas.
Check out our publications for the latest research results.
Some current research topics are described below.
Focus area I: Biocatalysis for enantioselective organic synthesis
Focus area II: Ion exchange membranes for energy devices
Focus area III: Electrocatalysts for low-temperature water and CO2 electrolysis
Focus area IV: Electrocatalysts for high-temperature solid-oxide electrochemical cells
Focus area V: Interfacial electrochemistry in membrane electrolyzers