Please join us next week for part 1 of BertWeckhuysen’s tutorial lectures towards our #CatalysisCommunity on operando spectroscopy of catalysts, organized by Copéret Group / @coperetgroup.bsky.social at D-CHAB! 📅 Parts 1 & 2: Tue, Apr 12 & 19 2022 ⏰ 17:15-18:45  📍 ETH Hönggerberg, HCI J 7 or Zoom

In part 1 of his #NCCRCatalysis tutorial lectures, BertWeckhuysen led us through the history, social network of the community, trends and practical aspects of operando spectroscopy for catalysts. Thanks Bert for the great lecture, Copéret Group / @coperetgroup.bsky.social for organising it & to all attendees!

Happy #WorldQuantumDay! Today is all about promoting the public understanding of quantum science & technology. The best ambassadors for this young field surely are our bright students. We asked a few of them here at ETH Zurich what 'quantum' is for them. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Our article on metal-promoted In2O3 catalysts prepared by flame spray pyrolysis for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol is highlighted in the front cover of @AdvSciNews. NCCR Catalysis collaboration TheorHetCat ICIQ @RobertGrass17 Javier Perez-Ramirez PSI Paul Scherrer Institut👇 doi.org/10.1002/aenm.2…

"The Nitrogen Element – Sustainable food production?" webinar tomorrow! It's not too late to register yet 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… See the final programme and read about the speakers ⤵️ euchems.eu/nitrogen-works…

📣 Apply now for an #NCCRCatalysis Young Talents Fellowship to conduct your funded master thesis project on catalysis & sustainable chemistry 🌱🧪🌍 within our member labs in 🇨🇭! Deadline is June 30 2022, see bit.ly/3laZ8Zv for more info. RTs much appreciated!

Time flies: Realising that my sabbatical finishes in one month! Enjoying to talk with PhD students & postdocs about their projects & seeing their labs and equipment. On the picture young scientists from the Gunnar Geschke (a.o. EPR) & Renato Zenobi (a.o. TERS) ETH Zurich groups.

Professor Shane Ardo UCI Chemistry is helping head NSF center for ion chemistry playing a central role in the development of better batteries for electric vehicles #SolutionsThatScale ps.uci.edu/news/2818

Welcome to our new first-years! We are overjoyed to have Hye Won, Tolik, Joel and India join us for their graduate school journeys. Can't wait for the amazing science you'll all do, and for the memories we'll make!

Thanks for the highlight, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)! And most importantly, thanks to the staff MIT Chemistry that keeps our building, instruments, and research moving. news.mit.edu/2022/mit-dlc-h…

Blisteringly hot off the press—800 °C! Jo and Andrew don't just electrolyze molten sodium phosphates to white phosphorus, they demonstrate analytically that oxide (Lux) acidity promotes the reduction just as proton (Brønsted) acidity promotes aqueous HER! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

It's no secret that we're electrochemical partisans here in the Surendranath Group, so we're a big fan of @Dereklowe's latest! (of course, it helps that our recent phosphate electrolysis paper got a shout-out ⚡️) science.org/content/blog-p…

the authors of this paper, every day for the past five years:

Five years ago, Magdalena Lederbauer and I represented 🇦🇹 at the International Chemistry Olympiad. Now, we contribute to IChO2023 at ETH Zürich 🇨🇭 as task authors. We talked to D-CHAB about lessons learned from IChO, studying at ETH Zürich and experiencing IChO from a new angle. Check it out!

If you've ever felt like an imposter in academia, then you know what a Prussian Blue win means — that with support, we can all make it. Vote Prussian Blue.

From Tim:  Still hard to comprehend that Bob Grubbs is gone.  The memoir for the NAS is finally published and I think will be a good read for those that want to know more about this legendary chemist. nasonline.org/publications/b…

Hydrogen is a well-known reductant, but can H2 itself be further reduced? Our latest in Nature Catalysis on the demonstration of a new electrochemical reaction, the hydrogen reduction reaction (HRR)! Congrats to HX, James and Bryan! nature.com/articles/s4192…

Very proud of what we've been growing here at Oregon Center for Electrochemistry over the last 3 years! It's a great time to be an electrochemist.

Congrats to Sophia!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳 our lab's newest paper, out now in JACS! We promise that it won't spoil Barbie too much

"Providing Electronics the Sense of Smell" - Prof. Andreas Güntner at World Economic Forum in Davos, 18 January 10.30 - 13.30 (CET). The talk is part of the session linked below led by State Secretary Martina Hirayama and ETH President Joël Mesot. ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zur…