Electrocatalysis: Synthesis to Devices
News
2025
August
Basti’s paper on ‘Partially Exfoliated and Oxidized V2CTx MXene as a Beneficial Support for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction’ just got accepted in ChemElectroChem. Congratulations to Basti and the co-authors.
Check out our group at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in the Deutsche Welle Eco India episode on Green Mobility.
Big thank you to Anna Chaika and her team for interviewing and filming us in our labs and talking to us about our research on Green H2. Glad to be able to share this episode with Siemens Energy and Dr. Pooja Devi.
Samy’s paper ‘Ammonia tolerant alkaline oxygen reduction reaction on bimetallic cobalt spinels’, was published in Chemical Engineering Journal. Congratulations Samy and co-authors.
July
Can & Basti, as part of the DocTeam, successfully organized a summer event at MOPS, with great participation! Thank you for bringing the institute together!
Our team completed productive XPS measurements at Bessy II synchrotron facility.
Mir’s paper on ‘Compositional Engineering of Ti3C2Tx MXene-NiMoO4 Hybrid Nanostructures for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation’ was accepted in ACS Applied Energy Materials. Mir was with us for 6 months on a DAAD ERA Green Hydrogen Fellowship. Thank you to DAAD for the funding. Big Congratulations Mir and to all the co-authors.
Azra Şekercioğlu joined the group for an Erasmus plus project from Koç University in Turkey. Azra is working on PEM water splitting. Welcome Azra.
June
'Electrochemical hydrogen pumps: a researcher's guide and review' was published in Chemical Communications - Highlight, discussing our work in the electrochemical compression of hydrogen. Congratulations Rory and co-authors!
This paper was an invited paper part of the ‘Chemistry at the Forefront of the Sustainable Energy Transition’ issue.
May
Can’s paper on ‘Enhancing CoFe Catalysts with V2CTX MXene-Derived Materials for Anion Exchange Membrane Electrolyzers’ just got accepted in Advanced Functional Materials. Congratulations to Can and the co-authors.
Sudha joined the group for her masters internship project and thesis from FU Berlin. Sudha is working on CoFe based materials for the OER. Welcome Sudha.
Can and Basti presented their research at the Colloquium Day of the MatSEC Research School.
April
Bhargav joined the group for his masters project and thesis from Hochschule Bremerhaven. Bhargav is funded on the Daimler and Benz project. Welcome Bhargav.
Merve and Michelle were co-authors on a paper in Advanced Energy Materials called ‘Understanding the Metal-Center Mediated Adsorption and Redox Mechanisms in a FeMn(NbTa)2O6 Columbite Material for Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers’. The paper was in collaboration with Dr. Patrick Bacirhonde from Jeonbuk National University in South Korea.
February
Some of the group went to the Wiley HQ in Berlin for International Women’s Day.
Dr. Ahmed Aboubakr has joined our group on a DAAD ERA Green Hydrogen Fellowship as a post-doctoral researcher until December 2026. His project is called ‘Deciphering the Reaction Activity of Metal Hydroxide/Oxide-MXene Heterostructures for Oxygen Evolution from Water Electrolysis to Produce Green H2’. Welcome to the team Ahmed.
January
Merve’s paper ‘Optimizing bimetallic NiRu@Ti3C2Tx catalysts for oxygen evolution: The Impact of MXene content on Ru stability - ScienceDirect, was published in a special issue of Electrochemical Acta ‘Electrochemical Small Molecules Activation’. Congratulations Merve and co-authors 😊
Our group was highlighted in the Adlershof Journal. Thank you very much for the highlight on our research. Die Molekülspalterin - News - Technologiepark Adlershof
Dr. Rania Elhadi Adam Mohammed from Prof. Al-Shamery Group (University of Oldenburg) has join the group as a visiting researcher to make MXene based materials for her photoelectrochemical water splitting project under the Philipp Schwartz Initiative - Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. For more info PPRE alumni returns to Oldenburg as a Postdoctoral Researcher // University of Oldenburg
2024
August
Congratulations to Basti on publishing his first first-author paper 'Enhancing the oxygen evolution reaction activity of CuCo based hydroxides with V2CTx MXene' in 'Journal of Materials Chemistry A'. Well done Basti & co-authors!