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Since December 1st Prof. Siegfried R. Waldvogel has been Director of the new Department of Electrosynthesis at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (MPI CEC) in Mülheim an der Ruhr. The focus of his department is on electrosynthesis, in which mostly waste and residual streams are converted into valuable chemicals that are essential for the pharmaceutical and chemical industries by feeding in electricity. Already in his previous position as a full professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Prof. Waldvogel focused his research on the entire spectrum of electrolysis development, from novel screening methods to upscaling of electrosynthetic conversions. At the MPI CEC, he continues to pursue his passion for research into the sustainable and climate-neutral production of organic and inorganic materials. ...

On September 22nd, 2023, the first joint symposium of all ETOS participants took place at KIT. More than 80 guests from research and industry attended the meeting, among them the members of the steering committee as well as the international scientific advisory board of ETOS. ...

The Summer School of Electrocatalysis (ElCats2023) took place in Trento (It) September 10th-15th 2023. Ulrike Krewer gave a lecture at the summer school. Topics of ElCats2023 were fundamentals and applications on electrocatalytic processes, thermodynamics and kinetics on interfaces, theory and computational methods, kinetic modelling, spectroscopic methods, material design and catalyst development in industry. Further information can be found here: http://elcats2023.unimi.it/lecturers/ ...

The International Summer School of Electrocatalysis took place in Interlaken (CH) August 28th-31st 2023. Prof. Siegfried R. Waldvogel was a speaker and co-organizer of the summer school. Topics were sustainability and planetary aspects, simulation, AI driven systems, electrocatalysts testing and design, large scale electrolyzers, and industrial applications of electrocatalysis. Further Information can be found here: https://electrosem23.scg.ch/ ...

Wiebke Schrader recieved the 2nd best poster presentation award during the International Conference on Electrolysis (ICE2023) in Sun City, South Afrika. Wiebke presented her recent work on "Multi-objective adjoint optimization tool for electro-chemical systems applied to membrane-less electrolyzer", which has been carried out in collaboration with IAM-ET within the BMBF-funded ETOS cluster. ...

Her exceptional poster contribution presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) in Lyon, France, held from September 3rd to 8th, 2023, was recognized with the BEST POSTER Prize. Swantje's poster, titled 'Model-based Kinetic Analysis and Reaction Mechanism Identification of the Cyclohexanone Reduction in a PEM-Cell,' takes a deep dive into the electrification of cyclohexanol synthesis, shedding light on the of the reaction mechanism behind the process. ...

Prof. Dr. Siegfried R. Waldvogel, Professor at the Department of Chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and spokesperson of its Top-level Research Area "SusInnoScience" (Sustainable Chemistry as the Key to Innovation in Resource-efficient Science in the Anthropocene) and the BMBF Cluster4Future ETOS (Electrification of Technical Organic Syntheses) was honored yesterday by the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, for founding his company ESy-Labs GmbH. At a ceremony in Berlin, Stark-Watzinger awarded him the title "UNIPRENEUR" of the initiative UNIPRENEURS. This is under the patronage of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection, cooperates with the Donors' Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany and has the task of promoting entrepreneurship at German universities. "We want to strengthen the start-up scene at our universities. Professors play a central role in this. They make a ...

M. M. Hielscher, M. Dörr, J. Schneider, S. R. Waldvogel, LABS: Laboratory Automation and Batch Scheduling – A Modular Open Source Python Program for the Control of Automated Electrochemical Synthesis with a Web Interface, Chem. Asian J. 2023, 18, e202300380, open access. [DOI: 10.1002/asia.202300380] In the ETOS area, we were able to make an exciting contribution to the topic of automated reaction optimization in electrosynthesis with our publication on LABS (Laboratory Automation and Batch Scheduling). LABS is a Python-based open-source software that is capable of orchestrating various laboratory instruments and provides users with a modern browser-based front-end. Our goal was to provide an easily customizable software for laboratory automation and to provide the basis for many future automation projects. ...

On June 14 and 15, 2023, the 10th German-Japanese Symposium on Electrosynthesis (GJSE) occurred at Keio University in Yokohama, Japan. The Japanese committee consisting of Prof. Dr. Mahito Atobe (Yokohama National University), Prof. Dr. Takashi Yamamoto (Keio University), and Prof. Dr. Naoki Shida, co-chair (Yokohama National University), invited the German electrosynthesis community. ...

April 01, 2023, was the start date for most ETOS projects. Currently, the alliances are meeting in kick-off meetings, exchanging ideas, and starting to work on the projects. More news will be coming soon! ...