Surface Physics & Catalysis (SURFCAT)

The main objective of SURFCAT is to investigate the fundamental relation of surfaces reactivity and activity with perspctive of developing new and more efficient catalysts.

SURFCAT featured publications

Identifying and alleviating the durability challenges in membrane-electrode-assembly devices for high-rate CO electrolysis

Q. Xu, S. Garg, A. B. Moss, M. Mirolo, I. Chorkendorff, J. Drnec & B. Seger

Electrocatalysis

Development of catalysts for electrochemical reactions where the electrode acts as a heterogeneous catalyst – particularly of interest for sustainable energy conversion

Heterogeneous catalysis

Focuses on gaining fundamental understanding of catalysis and catalytic processes and applying the knowledge for exploring novel catalytic materials

Photocatalysis

"Dream device" for water splitting: A high-bandgap semiconductor and a low-bandgap semiconductor work in conjunction (using both the blue and red light respectively) making a 2-photon tandem unit to efficiently split water into hydrogen and oxygen

Nanoparticle

Fundamental research in the catalytic behavior of mass-selected nanoparticles – with a special focus on catalyzing sustainable fuel production.