Heske, J.; Walczak, R.; Epping, J. D.; Youk, S.; Sahoo, S. K.; Antonietti, M.; Kühne, T. D.; Oschatz, M.: When water becomes an integral part of carbon – combining theory and experiment to understand the zeolite-like water adsorption properties of porous C2N materials. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 9 (39), pp. 22563 - 22572 (2021)
Walczak, R.; Savateev, A.; Heske, J.; Tarakina, N. V.; Sahoo, S.; Epping, J. D.; Kühne, T. D.; Kurpil, B.; Antonietti, M.; Oschatz, M.: Controlling the strength of interaction between carbon dioxide and nitrogen-rich carbon materials by molecular design. Sustainable Energy & Fuels 3 (10), pp. 2819 - 2827 (2019)
Yan, R.; Josef, E.; Huang, H.; Leus, K.; Niederberger, M.; Hofmann, J. P.; Walczak, R.; Antonietti, M.; Oschatz, M.: Understanding the charge storage mechanism to achieve high capacity and fast ion storage in sodium-ion capacitor anodes by using electrospun nitrogen-doped carbon fibers. Advanced Functional Materials 29 (26), 1902858 (2019)
Oschatz, M.; Walczak, R.: Crucial factors for the application of functional nanoporous carbon-based materials in energy and environmental applications. C Journal of Carbon Research 4 (4), 56 (2018)
Walczak, R.; Kurpil, B.; Savateev, A.; Heil, T.; Schmidt, J.; Qin, Q.; Antonietti, M.; Oschatz, M.: Template- and metal-free synthesis of nitrogen-rich nanoporous noble carbon materials by direct pyrolysis of a preorganized hexaazatriphenylene precursor. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 57 (33), pp. 10765 - 10770 (2018)
Yan, R.; Heil, T.; Presser, V.; Walczak, R.; Antonietti, M.; Oschatz, M.: Ordered mesoporous carbons with high micropore content and tunable structure prepared by combined hard and salt templating as electrode materials in electric double-layer capacitors. Advanced Sustainable Systems 2 (2), 1700128 (2018)
Walczak, R.: Molecular design of nitrogen-doped nanoporous noble carbon materials for gas adsorption. Dissertation, II, 155 pp., Universität, Potsdam (2019)
Thanks to a collaboration agreement with battery manufacturer Gelion and with Markus Antonietti acting as an advisor, nanomaterials developed in the Department of Colloid Chemistry are now being used to produce longer-lasting sodium-sulfur batteries.
With a prestigious Max Planck Fellowship (2025–2028), microbiologist Gabriele Berg from the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB) is launching a research collaboration with Markus Antonietti. Together, they’re developing a solution to soil exhaustion and infertility: a custom-made soil created in the lab from plant residues, enriched with carefully selected microorganisms.
Scientists have long sought to understand the exact mechanism behind water splitting by carbon nitride catalysts. For the first time, Dr. Paolo Giusto and his team captured the step-by-step interactions at the interface between carbon nitride and water, detailing the transfer of protons and electrons from water to the catalyst under light. This…
The German Colloid Society’s Young Investigator Award acknowledges Zeininger's work in predicting and controlling the behavior of soft materials outside of thermodynamic equilibrium, as well as his establishment of guidelines for next-generation smart materials capable of responding to external stimuli in real time.
The secret ingredient for a groundbreaking sodium-sulfur battery with improved energy performance and longer lifespan grows in our gardens: lavender. By combining lavender oil with sulfur, Dr. Paolo Giusto's team has created a unique material that solves a persistent failure problem – polysulfide shuttling. This research marks an important step toward developing more powerful and sustainable batteries for the next-generation large-scale energy storage systems.
Our director, Markus Antonietti, received the prestigious Solvay Chair in Chemistry. The common thread of his lectures was the "black magic" of carbon materials, which can replace transition metals as catalysts for some of the most relevant reactions, thus revolutionizing chemistry and making it greener.
Mateusz Odziomek’s research group looked to the past to create innovative carbon materials for the future. Inspired by flame-retardant fabrics from the 1950s, the team added a record-high content of phosphorus to carbons. This new material could serve as an efficient catalyst in fields ranging from pharmaceuticals to plastics production.
The German Research Foundation is supporting the research on novel artificially intelligent emulsion systems in Dr. Lukas Zeininger's Emmy Noether Junior Research Group for another three years with additional funding of about one million euros.
Aleksandr Savateev has developed a unique online database. To do so, he has analyzed and standardized research data from 300 papers published over the past forty years in the field of photocharged semiconductors.
Using targeted gamma radiation, researchers at the Institutehave revealed the appearance and the specific role of non-crystalline phases during the formation of mesocrystals. Their findings provide fundamental insights for the controlled development and design of new mesocrystalline materials.
Soils are the basis of life and climate protectors at the same time - but things are not good for them. Due to overfertilization, deforestation, salinization and overgrazing, nearly two billion hectares of arable and pasture land worldwide are affected by moderate to severe soil degradation.