News

Scientific Highlights

02.09.2021

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.

27.01.2021

•Energy and Climate

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”.

In situ XPS of the catalysts during water gas shift reaction

21.01.2021

•Energy and Climate

PUBLISHED IN NATURE: A stable low-temperature H2-production catalyst by crowding Pt on α-MoC

Platinum isolated atoms and clusters supported on molybdenum carbide have been extensively characterized. The presence of both species is essential to boost the stability, so that the catalysts displays high metal-normalized turnover number of 4,300,000 moles of hydrogen per mole of platinum

News

01.02.2024

Welcome to Archana Ramakrishnan!

A warm welcome to Archana Ramakrishnan.

She will work as a PhD student on the reFuel.ch project.

01.04.2022

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.

01.03.2022

Welcome to Chiara Pischetola

We welcome Chiara Pischetola to the group. She is the new scientist in the Heterogeneous Catalysis group. Chiara will be responsible for a research program on the valorisation of carbon dioxide.

Info message

News

Scientific Highlights

Watch them growing: New mechanistic insights into catalytic methane coupling

The dynamics of overlayer formation on catalyst nanoparticles and strong metal-support interaction

PUBLISHED IN NATURE: A stable low-temperature H2-production catalyst by crowding Pt on α-MoC

News

Welcome to Archana Ramakrishnan!

New group member Dr. Paul Leidinger

Welcome to Chiara Pischetola