Highlights & Events
Scientific Highlights
New catalysts for pharmaceutical companies
In partnership with Roche, PSI scientists are developing new, potentially more efficient catalysts for manufacturing active substances for drug therapies.
Watch them growing: New mechanistic insights into catalytic methane coupling
Methane valorization is a promising technology to utilize this platform compound to produce aromatics and hydrocarbons. Researchers from PSI and ETH Zürich unveiled this reaction mechanism and observed the molecular growth from the ground up. Besides stepwise CH3 addition, novel routes involving the dimerization of resonantly stabilized propargyl (C3H3) radicals to benzene (C6H6) were identified. These mechanistic insights will aid the development of valorisation strategies.
The dynamics of overlayer formation on catalyst nanoparticles and strong metal-support interaction
The editors at Nature Communications have put together an Editors’ Highlights webpage of recent research called “Catalysis” and chose to feature Arik Beck's et al. article, entitled “The dynamics of overlayer formation on catalyst nanoparticles and strong metal-support interaction”.
News
New group member Dr. Anna Liutkova
We warmly welcome Anna Liutkova.
Anna is a PostDoc working for the Syncat group for the next 24 months. She is going to work on the tandem CO2 capture and catalytic conversion to methanol with metal-organic framework materials (MOFs).
New group member Dr. Liliana Lima Gonçalves
We would like to welcome Liliana Lima Gonçalves. She started with us on February 1, 2023.
New group member Dr. Paul Leidinger
We would like to welcome Paul Leidinger who started on Friday, April 1.
Paul is a PostDoc working for both, the Laboratory for Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry and the Electrochemistry Laboratory for the next 24 months. Paul is going to work on the catalytic and electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide on silver surfaces.