27/11/2024 Daniel's article on the electrocatalytic conversion of CO2 to solid carbon has appeared in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C. From CO₂ to Solid Carbon: Reaction Mechanism, Active Species, and Conditioning the Ce-Alloyed GaInSn Catalyst. DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c05482.

22/10/2024 Two articles of Mario on post-lithium battery systems have gone online: In Magnesium and Aluminum in Contact with Liquid Battery Electrolytes: Ion Transport through Interphases and in the Bulk we look at transport mechanisms through interphases and -faces. DOI:10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01589. Operando Investigation of Al Plating Regimes on HOPG in [EMImCl]:AlCl3 by Electrochemical Reflection Anisotropy Spectroscopy, on the other hand, shows how RAS can be used to study charging and discharging mechanisms in a time-resolved manner. DOI:10.1002/batt.202400610.

17/07/2024 Erica Schmitt will receive this year's Försterpreis for her work on solar water splitting during the Kepler lecture on 24.07.2024. Congratulations!

28/06/2024 Margot Guidat has, as the first Ph.D. student of our group, defended her thesis on electrochemical RAS. Congratulations!

28/05/2024 Maximilian Diecke has won a scholarship of Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt for doing a PhD in our group. Congratulations!

05/03/2024 The work of the NETPEC consortium, turning CO₂ into carbon flakes, has been featured in the science TV-show Nano on 3Sat.

06/02/2024 Justus' article The relevance of structural variability in the time-domain for computational reflection anisotropy spectroscopy at solid-liquid interfaces where we explore the impact of structural fluctuations on the fs-timescale in DFT-molecular dynamics on computational RAS has appeared in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. DOI:10.1088/1361-648X/ad215b.

01/02/2024 Our new Apium P220 3d printer for creating electrochemical sample environments in PEEK has arrived.

13/10/2023 Margot's article "In Situ Monitoring of the Al(110)-[EMImCl]:AlCl₃ Interface by Reflection Anisotropy Spectroscopy" has appeared in Batteries & Supercaps: DOI:10.1002/batt.202300394. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first use of electrochemical RAS for a battery system.

02/10/2023 Erica's article "Photoelectrochemical Schlenk cell functionalization of multi-junction water-splitting photoelectrodes" demonstrating very high solar-to-hydrogen efficiencies of >18% on larger areas for a photoelectrochemical system has appeared in Cell Reports Physical Science. The cell is based on an absorber from our project partner AZUR SPACE and we have developed a routine to modify the absorber-electrolyte interface photoelectrochemically in a well-controlled manner, also using in situ reflection anisotropy spectroscopy. DOI:10.1016/j.xcrp.2023.101606.

13/06/2023 The first lecture ANM16 - Fortgeschrittene Elektrochemie takes place on 15/06/2023 in room VG 1.034 (Auf der Morgenstelle 15) from 12:15 to 13:45.

05/2023 Our work on carbon dioxide removal in the NETPEC-project has been featured in Uni Tübingen's magazine attemtpo!.

23/03/2023 Margot's review "Experimental and Computational Aspects of Electrochemical Reflection Anisotropy Spectroscopy: A Review" has appeared in ChemElectroChem. DOI:10.1002/celc.202300027.

28/11/2022 Jongmin's article "Resta-like preconditioning for self-consistent field iterations in the linearized augmented planewave method" has appeared in Electronic Structure. DOI:10.1088/2516-1075/aca24a.

15/11/2022 Our newest article on electrochemical operando spectroscopy using reflection anisotropy spectroscopy to study the structure of InP in contact with electrolytes has appeared in RSC Advances: The interfacial structure of InP(100) in contact with HCl and H₂SO₄ studied by reflection anisotropy spectroscopy.

07/10/2022 We  have an open experimental postdoc position from 01.12.2022 on in the H2Demo project on highly efficient solar water splitting. More detailed infos to follow soon!

19/08/2022 Our paper The annual-hydrogen-yield-climatic-response ratio: evaluating the real-life performance of integrated solar water splitting devices has appeared in Sustainable Energy & Fuels. DOI:10.1039/D2SE00561A .

14/06/2022 Our Perspective The role of selective contacts and built-in field for charge separation and transport in photoelectrochemical devices by Markus Schleuning et al. has been accepted in Sustainable Energy & Fuels. DOI: 10.1039/D2SE00562J. It has also made it on the inside front cover of the journal.

10/04/2022 Our Perspective Negative Emissions as the New Frontier of Photoelectrochemical CO₂ Reduction, the first publication of the NETPC-project, has appeared in Advanced Energy Materials. DOI:10.1002/aenm.202103801.

23/03/2022 Our newest review paper Combining experimental and computational methods to unravel the dynamical structure of photoelectrosynthetic interfaces has appeared in Current Opinion in Electrochemistry. DOI:10.1016/j.coelec.2022.100968 .

16/03/2022 Daniel, Erica, and Holger have joined our team. Welcome!

09/12/2021 An overview talk of what we're doing in our group can be found here: https://www.merckgroup.com/de/hall-of-fame-der-deutschen-forschung/hof-2021.html?#anchor-2

07/12/2021 Our Website at Uni Tübingen is online! But still under construction...