In Area C, we take a detailed look at the catalysts and their interactions with reactants and products as well as with the pore wall.
To this end, we analyze the electronic and geometric structure of immobilized catalysts and support materials using a comprehensive set of experimental and theoretical methods covering all relevant length scales. Additionally, we measure and simulate the mass transport into the pore towards the catalyst and away from it.
The following analytical and theoretical methods are currently applied or further developed in the CRC 1333 during the second funding period (2022-2026):
- Electron Paramagnetic Resonance & Mössbauer spectroscopy (Project C02)
- Atom Probe Tomography (Project C03)
- Solid-State NMR spectroscopy (project B08)
- X-Ray absorption spectroscopy (project C10, project B05)
- Small Angle X-Ray/ Small Angle Neutron Scattering (project C08)
- Transmission Electron Microscopy (project C09)
- SEIRAS/ Single-Entity Electro Chemistry (project A03)
- Fully automated analytical platform with online analytics (project B02)
- DFT and kinetic modelling (project C04)
- (Coarse-grained) Molecular Dynamics Simulations (projects A08, B07, C05)
- Machine Learning (project A04)
- Lattice Boltzmann (project B07)
