Research Group Profile
We conduct applied and basic research on renewable energy sources for a safe, clean environment and a sustainable energy economy. Focus is the discovery and elucidation of principal mechanisms which govern behavior and properties of ceramics, in particular the correlation between materials structure and transport properties for electrochemical storage and conversion systems, the interaction of surfaces with gases, liquids, light, and organic matter. For the fundamental understanding of structure-property relationships on the mesoscopic and molecular scale, we employ in-situ and operando synchrotron x-ray and neutron scattering and spectroscopy. We collaborate with high profile partners worldwide.

Our Fields of Activity

• Ceramic Fuel Cell (SOFC) Materials for Anodes, Cathodes, Proton Conductor Electrolytes 
• Nano-Bio Hybrids forArtificial Photosynthesis
•  Photoelectrochemical Cells (PEC) for Solar Hydrogen Production
• Self Organization and Pattern Formation for Photoelectrode Design
• Gas Sensors from Metal Oxide Nano-particles

2012/2011/2010  Publications

Partners and collaborators

- Neutron and X-ray Methods for the Characterization of SOFC
- In-situ Electrochemical Synchrotron Studies
- Proton Dynamics in Ceramic Proton Conductors
- C 1s NEXAFS Spectroscopy on Carbon
- High temperature structure and transport in SOFC cathodes
- Lambert's W-Function in Physics & Engineering
- Self-Assembly by Electrohydrodynamic Instabilities