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CO₂ recycling: What is the role of the electrolyte?

How to prevent clogged cathodes

26-Apr-2023

The greenhouse gas carbon dioxide can be converted into useful hydrocarbons by electrolysis. The design of the electrolysis cell is crucial in this process. The so-called zero-gap cell is particularly suitable for industrial processes. But there are still problems: The cathodes clog up quickly. ...

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Bottleneck identified: researchers discover the cause of long charging times for solid-state batteries

Solid-State Lithium-Sulfur Batteries: Neutrons unveil sluggish charge transport

11-Apr-2023

Solid-state Lithium-Sulfur batteries offer the potential for much higher energy densities and increased safety, compared to conventional lithium-ion batteries. However, the performance of solid-state batteries is currently lacking, with slow charging and discharging being one of the primary ...

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Green hydrogen: How photoelectrochemical water splitting may become competitive

22-Mar-2023

Sunlight can be used to produce green hydrogen directly from water in photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells. So far, systems based on this "direct approach" have not been energetically competitive. However, the balance changes as soon as some of the hydrogen in such PEC cells is used in-situ for a ...

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Electrocatalysis under the atomic force microscope

More insights with AFM

17-Mar-2023

A further development in atomic force microscopy now makes it possible to simultaneously image the height profile of nanometre-fine structures as well as the electric current and the frictional force at solid-liquid interfaces. A team from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the Fritz Haber ...

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Superstore MXene: New proton hydration structure determined

14-Mar-2023

MXenes are able to store large amounts of electrical energy like batteries and to charge and discharge rather quickly like a supercapacitor. They combine both talents and thus are a very interesting class of materials for energy storage. The material is structured like a kind of puff pastry, with ...

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Electrocatalysis: Iron and Cobalt Oxyhydroxides examined at BESSY II

20-Feb-2023

A team led by Dr. Prashanth W. Menezes (HZB/TU-Berlin) has now gained insights into the chemistry of one of the most active anode catalysts for green hydrogen production. They examined a series of Cobalt-Iron Oxyhydroxides at BESSY II and were able to determine the oxidation states of the active ...

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New software based on Artificial Intelligence helps to interpret complex data

Smart compression of noisy data

22-Dec-2022

Experimental data is often not only highly dimensional, but also noisy and full of artefacts. This makes it difficult to interpret the data. Now a team at HZB has designed software that uses self-learning neural networks to compress the data in a smart way and reconstruct a low-noise version in ...

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World record back at HZB: Tandem solar cell achieves 32.5 percent efficiency

Interface modifications

20-Dec-2022

The current world record of tandem solar cells consisting of a silicon bottom cell and a perovskite top cell is once again at HZB. The new tandem solar cell converts 32.5 % of the incident solar radiation into electrical energy. The certifying institute European Solar Test Installation (ESTI) in ...

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New monochromator optics for tender X-rays

Highly precise spectromicroscopic measurements of nanostructured systems

06-Dec-2022

Until now, it has been extremely tedious to perform measurements with high sensitivity and high spatial resolution using X-ray light in the tender energy range of 1.5 - 5.0 keV. Yet this X-ray light is ideal for investigating energy materials such as batteries or catalysts, but also biological ...

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Nanodiamonds can be activated as photocatalysts with sunlight

These inexpensive materials could be a key to further processing CO₂ into valuable hydrocarbons with sunlight in the future

02-Dec-2022

Nanodiamond materials have potential as low-cost photocatalysts. But until now, such carbon nanoparticles required high-energy UV light to become active. The DIACAT consortium has therefore produced and analysed variations of nanodiamond materials. The work shows: If the surface of the ...

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