CatLab – Catalysis Laboratory

Programme

DAY BY DAY

As of 29^th August 2022 - Subject to change

DAY 1 - MONDAY, 29th AUGUST

DAY 1 • MONDAY, 29th AUGUST
SESSION 01
09:00	KEY NOTE LECTURE Catalysis for renewable energy • Robert Schlögl (Fritz-Haber-Institute, Germany) 09:45 DISCUSSION
10:15	KEY NOTE LECTURE Dynamics in Electrocatalysis • Beatriz Roldan (Fritz-Haber-Institute, Germany) 11:30 DISCUSSION
12:00	COFFEE BREAK
12:30	Electrocatalytic CO2-Reduction in Acid Medium at Cu2O-Derived Polycrystalline Cu Sites Immobilized within Network of WO3 Nanowires • Pawel Kulesza (University of Warshaw, Polen)
12:50	PLD preparation of electrodes for water electrolysis • Martin Kostejn (Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the CAS, Czech Republic)
13:10	LUNCH BREAK
SESSION 02
14.30	KEY NOTE LECTURE Electrocatalysis at high entropy alloy surfaces • Jan Rossmeisl (Department of Chemistry University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 15:!5 DISCUSSION
15:45	Stability of electrocatalysts: From high-throughput and model studies to real systems • Serhiy Cherevko (Forschungszentrum Jülich / Helmholtz-Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy, Germany)
16:05	Atomistic Insights into the Electrolyte/Electrode Interface of Solid Oxide Cells • Thomas Lunkenbein (Fritz-Haber-Institute / CatLab, Germany)
16.25	Stability Challenges in Oxygen Electrocatalysis: Atomic-Scale Insights and Design of Advanced Materials • Olga Kasian (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany)
16:45	COFFEE BREAK
17:15	Intermetallic Compounds and Catalysis: Perspectives and Challenges • Yuri Grin (Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Germany)
17:35	Hybrid electrocatalytic systems composed of PtSn nanocenters and Ru additives for oxidation of dimethyl ether as alternative fuel • Iwona Rutkowska (University of Warshaw, Polen)
17:55	Challenges of intensifying electrochemical technologies for renewable energy storage • Sonya Calnan (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin / CatLab, Germany)
18:30	DINNER

DAY 2 - TUESDAY, 30th AUGUST

DAY 2 • TUESDAY, 30^th AUGUST
SESSION 03
09:30	KEY NOTE LECTURE Storage Technology Needs for the New Energy System and their Industrialization Trends • Max Fleischer (Siemens Energy, Germany) 10:15 DISCUSSION
10:45	COFFEE BREAK
11:15	Challenges and opportunities of electrochemical CO2 conversion: from nanoscale catalysis to industrial implementation • Csaba Janaky (University of Szeged, Hungary)
11:35	Electrochemical scanning probe microscopy for catalysis research • Christopher Kley (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin / Fritz-Haber-Institute, Germany)
11:55	Experimental and Numerical Reactor Diagnostics: How to look inside catalytic reactors at work • Raimund Horn (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany)
12:15	LUNCH BREAK
SESSION 04
14:30	KEY NOTE LECTURE Renewable energy systems: The role of O-vacancies in catalytic CO2 reduction reactions • Jürgen Behm (Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Ulm, Germany) 15:15 DISCUSSION
15:45	COFFEE BREAK
16:15	Electrocatalysis as Major Enabling Technology for Decarbonization • Plamen Atanassov (University of California, Irvine, USA)
16:35	Chemical behaviour of Al-Pt compounds in oxygen evolution reaction (OER) • Iryna Antonyshyn (Max-Plank-Institute for Chemical Phyics of Solids, Germany)
16:55	Size selected sub-nm clusters in heterogenous catalysis, electrocatalysis and Li-O2 batteries • Stefan Vajda (Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czech Republic)
17:15	CatLab for novel Thin-Film metal Catalyst • Katarzyna Skorupska (Fritz-Haber-Institute / CatLab - Germany)
17:35	Thin-film technologies for catalyst preparation and characterization • Daniel Amkreutz (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin / CatLab - Germany)
18:00	CONCERT
19.00	CONFERENCE DINNER

DAY 3 - WEDNESDAY, 31st AUGUST

DAY 3 • WEDNESDAY, 31st AUGUST
SESSION 05
09:00	KEY NOTE LECTURE Energy Efficiency: Key to Defossilizing the Chemical Industry • Michael Bender (BASF - Germany) 09:30 DISCUSSION
10:00	Density Functional Theory studies of catalytic systems for solar energy harvesting and storage • Dorota Rutkowska-Zbyk (Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry PAS, Poland)
10:20	Influence of host structure and synthesis technique on the formation of active Fe, Co and Ni catalysts for ammonia decomposition under reaction conditions • Annette Trunschke (Fritz-Haber-Institute, Germany)
10:40	COFFEE BREAK
11:10	Transformation of methane to liquids by its selective oxidation by molecular oxygen • Jiri Dedecek (J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the CAS, Czech Republic)
11:30	LDH-derived multinary magnesioferrites as alternative precursors for ammonia synthesis catalysts • Jan Folke (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Germany)
11:50	X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Studies of Pd Thin Film Catalysts • Eylül Öztuna (Fritz-Haber-Institute / CatLab, Germany)
12:10	Catalytic Performance of Thin Film Pd for Selective Acetylene Hydrogenation • Zehua Li (Fritz-Haber-Institute / CatLab, Germany)
12:30	LUNCH BREAK
SESSION 06
14:30	KEY NOTE LECTURE Mechanisms of Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution and CO2 Reduction • Marc Koper (Leiden University, The Netherlands) 15:15 DISCUSSION
15:45	COFFEE BREAK
16:15	Effect of the Surface Charge on the Oxygen and Hydrogen Peroxide Reduction Reactions • Enrique Herrero (University Alicante, Spain)
16:35	Electrochemical CO2 Conversion: Current Status, Perspectives and Caveats • Soma Vesztergom (Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Department of Physical Chemistry, Hungary)
16:55	Intermetallic Compounds as Water Splitting Electro(pre)catalysts • Prashanth Menezes (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin / CatLab, Germany)
17:15	Synthesis of NiSi and PbSn as cathodic materials • V. Drinek (Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, Czech Republic)
17:35	CLOSING and FAREWELL
18:30	DINNER

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