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Under the lead of Dr. Marcus Einert, a new young research group is developing at Surface Science Laboratory. A positive grant was given by the BMBF for research on hydrogen production with photoelectrolysis employing tandem absorbers.

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Mellin et. al used In-vacuo scratching combined with carbon- and binder-free preparation of battery cathode material, leading to well-defined XPS core-level spectra.

As part of a German-Canadian call on sustainability, we will soon be launching the consortium project 'NSERC-DFG SUSTAIN: Carbon materials from oil sands-based asphaltenes for future sodium batteries – from mechanistic studies to life cycle analysis'. We are working together with the group of Prof. Martin Oschatz from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the groups of Prof. Weixing Chen and Prof. Amit Kumar from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, on novel anode materials for sodium ion batteries. The Surface Science Lab will deal with fundamental aspects of materials characterization and the investigation of sodium storage mechanisms.

The Fermi level as a descriptor for the defect chemistry of oxidic electroceramics: how it can describe the compensation of dopants and the resulting materials properties.

Can the NiOOH active phase of NiOx-based electrocatalysts be studied by ex situ techniques? To adress this question, the time-stability of the phase was studied by combining operando Raman spectroscopy with ex situ x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.