• Photoelectrochemistry, Photocatalysis, Solar energy conversion and storage

• Artificial photosynthesis, Solar fuels, Water splitting

• Photocatalytic degradation of harmful pollutants

• Light-driven selective synthesis of high-value chemicals from low-cost feedstock

• Photoelectrochemical sensors

• Materials synthesis (semiconductors, hybrid materials, functional micro- and nanostructures)

Equipment

• Custom-made irradiation system for wavelength-resolved photocurrent measurements (IPCE) (Instytut Fotonowy)

• Potentiostat SP-300; incl. FRA + low-current option (BioLogic)

• 2 x 150 W Xenon lamps (L.O.T.-Oriel) + cut-off filters

• 2 x Home-made set-up for photocatalytic activity measurements under simulated sunlight

• Chamber furnace (Carbolite, ELF 11/23/E301) and tube furnace (carbolite, MTF 12/38/400/E301)

• UV-Vis spectrophotometer incl. diffuse refelectance accssory for solid samples (Shimadzu UV-2600)

• UV-Vis spectrophotometer incl. fiber optic probe (Agilent Cary 60)

• Fluorescence spectrophotometer (Shimadzu RF-6000)

• FTIR spectrometer incl. DRIFTS (Shimadzu IRTracer-100, Harrick)

• HPLC (Shimadzu Prominence)

• Gas chromatograph (Shimadzu Tracera)

• Oxygen meters (Inolab Oxi 740 SET; OxySense 325i)

• Further spectroscopic, microscopic and surface science techniques available within the Ulm University

Cooperations

• Prof. Timo Jacob, Institute of Electrochemistry, Ulm University

• Prof. Anjana Devi, Inorganic Chemistry II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

• Dr. Rainer Eichberger (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany)

• Dr. Jennifer Strunk, MPI for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim, Germany

• Prof. Martin Muhler, Industrial Chemistry, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

• Dr. Oleksiy V. Khavryuchenko, Kyiv, Ukraine

• Dr. Rosalie K. Hocking, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

• Dr. Erwin Reisner, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK

• Dr. Jan Macák, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic

•  Dr. Junwang Tang, Prof. Xiao Guo, Dr. Stephen Shevlin, University College London, UK

• Dr. Jaromír Jirkovský, J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague, Czech Republic

• Prof. Dr. Wojciech Macyk, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Poland

• Prof. Markku Leskelä, University of Helsinki, Finland

• Advanced Materials -JTJ sro., Czech Republic

Funding