Magnetocaloric effect for more efficient hydrogen liquefaction

Hydrogen will play a key role in the transformation towards a carbon-neutral society. By comparison with current usage, it is estimated that global hydrogen requirements will increase fivefold by 2050 to some 550 million tons. But in order to store hydrogen, enormous amounts of energy are needed. During liquefaction, approximately a third of the energy content of hydrogen is lost, which makes the process largely uneconomical. In the Horizon Europe project HyLICAL with a budget of about some five million euros, a team including the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), TU Darmstadt and the start-up MAGNOTHERM wants to significantly improve the technologies for storing liquid hydrogen. To this end, the team is building on magnetocaloric materials that change their temperature when they are exposed to a magnetic field.

Qube Hotel Bahnstadt, 12 – 16 March, Heidelberg, Germany

The workshop “Fermi Level Engineering of Antiferroelectrics and Beyond” is aiming at a discussion of the results and understanding achieved in the LOEWE project FLAME by synthesis, characterization and modelling of Pb-based and Pb-free antiferroelectrics.

ISMES School is back to ERICE !

The school will review critical materials issues for the renewable and sustainable production and storage of energy.

New Publication on Multi-scale Designed Co x Mn3– x O4 Spinels: Smart Pre-Catalysts towards High-Efficiency Pyrolysis-Catalysis Recycling of Waste Plastics

Prof. Dr. Anke Weidenkaff receives GDCh-GCCCD Award for Excellent Supervisors of Chinese PhD Students

As part of the 33rd Annual Conference of the GCCCD, Prof. Dr. Anke Weidenkaff was awarded the GDCh-GCCCD Award for Excellent Supervisors of Chinese PhD Students.

New Publication on Improving thermoelectric performance of half-Heusler Ti0.2Hf0.8CoSb0.8Sn0.2 compounds via the introduction of excessive Ga and Co-deficiencies