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•••34••• Branchennews Entirely new catalysis concept awarded Efcient hydrogen release from organic molecules: researcher gets Advanced Investigator Grant V ery few scientists receive such awards. Peter Wasser- scheid, Professor for Chemical Reaction Engineering at Frie- drich-Alexander-Universität Er- langen-Nürnberg (FAU) has been awarded an Advanced Investi- gator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for the second time. With the grant of 2.5 million euros, Wasserscheid intends to push forward research into a fundamental new concept for catalysis that is based on the reaction-accelerating effect of metal droplets with a low melting point. Members of the audience at Pe- ter Wasserscheid’s presentations about ionic catalysts, chemically bound hydrogen or the secrets of catalyst research are instantly fascinated by his ability to devel- op and explain scientific visions, for example, when he’s talking about energy sources in twenty years’ time. Wasserscheid is one of the world’s leading experts on ionic liquids – salts in liquid form. For his ground-breaking research in this field, he received the Gott- fried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2006 – the most prestigious Ger- man research prize – and is only the third researcher at FAU to do so. Four years later, in 2010, he was awarded an Advanced Inves- tigator Grant by the ERC worth al- most 2 million euros. The European Research Council (ERC) has now decided to award Wasserscheid his second Ad- vanced Grant. The planned re- search project is a logical continu- ation of the work carried out to date, while using an entirely new research approach that is prom- ising ground-breaking scientific findings and a technological leap forward for the chemical industry. This project also deals with ef- ficient hydrogen release from organic molecules, again using liquid reaction accelerators. How- ever, this time the class of cata- lysts recently discovered by Was- serscheid and his colleagues in the EAM cluster of excellence are liquid drops of metal attached to porous carriers that are brought into contact with the reactants. The microscopically small drops of metal are fluid because they contain a high proportion of gal- lium, an element with a very low melting point. At the same time, this high concentration of gallium ensures that the atoms of the dis- solved secondary metal compo- nents are thoroughly dispersed: the individual metal atoms in solu- tion within the gallium are respon- sible for the catalytic effect. In contrast to traditional solid-state catalysts, the edges and corners of nanoscale particles are not the active sites of the reaction ac- celerators in this case, but single metal atoms that emerge from a “lake” of gallium and disappear back into the liquid after their job is done. The unique dynamics of the liquid surface of the catalyst open up completely new perspec- tives for metal catalysis. Prof. Dr. Peter Wasserscheid has been awarded an Advanced Investigator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for the second time. Photo: FAU / David Hartfiel ADZ NAGANO GmbH – Gesellschaft für Sensortechnik www.adz.de Halle: 11.0 • Stand: E35 ASHCROFT Instruments GmbH www.ashcroft.com Halle: 11.1 • Stand: F52 AXXAIR www.axxair.com Halle: 9.2 • Stand: B50 AZO GmbH + Co. 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