admin2024-09-30T16:15:25+01:00September 30th, 2024|presentation, Project News, public dissemination|
At the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, early-stage researcher Siddarth Gupta defended his thesis titled: Electrochemical CO/CO2 conversion: Impact of the catalytic micro-environment on 29 August 2024. All of us at FlowPhotoChem wish Dr Sid Gupta the very best in his future career as an electrochemical engineer!
admin2023-11-27T14:47:55+00:00November 27th, 2023|Project News|
Twenty-four FlowPhotoChem team members gathered in Berlin/Postdam on 23 and 24 November 2023 for a productive meeting hosted by partner Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, HZB. Others joined remotely. Updates were presented for each of the PEC, PC and EC reactors, outlining recent progress, as we move ever closer to final integration. Plans were made for efficiency optimisation and experimental campaigns in the months ahead. Our work on sustainability analysis from a life cycle perspective is advancing well. We continue to disseminate our results to our target audience and plan for the future exploitation of our FPC innovations. To cap off the meeting, a [...]
admin2023-08-31T09:07:57+01:00August 31st, 2023|Project News, public dissemination|
Early-stage researcher Siddharth Gupta has created his third and final FlowPhotoChem research results vlog in August 2023. Sid works within the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group “Electrochemical Conversion of CO2” and is supervised by Dr Matthew Mayer. Watch it here: https://vimeo.com/859333643?share=copy
admin2023-09-08T10:55:21+01:00August 30th, 2023|presentation, Project News|
Siddharth Gupta, early-stage researcher at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin will present his FlowPhotoChem research at the 74th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry in Lyon, France. Sid's talk is titled 'Electrochemical CO reduction in zero gap electrolysers necessitates careful water management' and will take place during Symposia 6b in the Salon Tete d'Or, from 14:15-14:30 on the 4th of September, 2023. Sid is a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Dr Matthew Mayer in the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group “Electrochemical Conversion of CO2” which targets the development of new electrochemical pathways to upgrade CO2 to high-value products. Learn more about Siddharth's work [...]
admin2023-09-08T11:00:31+01:00July 7th, 2023|Project News|
The Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin for Materials and Energy (HZB) & the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) carried out a joint campaign at the High flux solar simulator (HFSS), Lausanne in the first week of June 2023. The experiments served as a demonstration for the integration of the PEC (Photoelectrochemical conversion) reactor of WP1 and the EC (Electrochemical conversion) reactor of WP3 to carry out tandem electrolysis of CO2 to CO and CO to hydrocarbons. The weeklong experimental campaign focused on relating the operational conditions of the individual reactors to the performance of the integrated PEC-EC device across various performance metrics. [...]
admin2023-09-08T11:19:25+01:00April 13th, 2023|Project News, Publication|
Congratulations to our partners at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) for their recent study published in Nature Communications! Gumaa A. El-Nagar, Flora Haun, Siddharth Gupta, Sasho Stojkovikj, Professor Matthew T. Mayer in the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group “Electrochemical Conversion of CO2” saw their paper titled "Unintended cation crossover influences CO2 reduction selectivity in Cu-based zero-gap electrolysers" published on April 12th, 2023. Within FlowPhotoChem, the HZB partners target the development of new electrochemical pathways to upgrade CO2 to high-value products. Their approach combines the synthesis of new materials based on mixed metal alloys, oxides, nitrides, and sulfides with a detailed in situ study of catalytic activity, product [...]
admin2023-09-08T13:00:09+01:00December 20th, 2022|Project News, Publication|
Congratulations to our partners at Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin in Germany for the most recent FlowPhotoChem research publication. Author/researchers Gumaa A. El-Nagar, Fan Yang, Sasho Stojkovikj, Stefan Mebs, Siddharth Gupta, Ibbi Y. Ahmet, Holger Dau, and Matthew T. Mayer published "Comparative Spectroscopic Study Revealing Why the CO2 Electroreduction Selectivity Switches from CO to HCOO– at Cu–Sn- and Cu–In-Based Catalysts" in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Catalysis on December 5th, 2022. Citation: ACS Catal. 2022, 12, 24, 15576–15589 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.2c04419 The Helmholtz Young Investigator Group “Electrochemical Conversion of CO2” targets the development of new electrochemical pathways to upgrade CO2 into high-value products. Their approach combines the synthesis of new materials based on mixed metal [...]
admin2023-09-08T13:23:04+01:00October 3rd, 2022|presentation, Project News|
Congratulations to Gumaa El-Nagar, Flora Haun, Siddharth Gupta, Sasho Stojkovijk and Matthew T. Mayer of the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin for the award of first prize at the GDCh Electrochemistry 2022 meeting held in Berlin on September 27th- 30th. The prize was awarded for Gumaa's presentation of the study titled: Effects of cation Crossover through Anion Exchange Membranes on the Operation of Zero-gap CO2 electrolysers. The preprint of this study on the impact of unintended cation crossover on CO2RR is now available on https://researchsquare.com/article/rs-2077889/v1 'Electrochemistry' is a successful series of conferences, held every other year. Starting in Gießen (2008), followed by Bochum [...]
admin2023-09-08T13:25:05+01:00September 12th, 2022|presentation, Project News, public dissemination|
Early-stage researcher Siddharth Gupta, based at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has had a few busy months recently presenting his PhD research at three venues this summer. In a flash presentation before a subsequent poster session at the ISE Regional Meeting at the Clarion Congress Hotel in Prague on August 18th, 2022, Siddharth presented 'CO Reduction in gas diffusion electrolysers: Overcoming operational challenges and developing operando methods'. Siddharth presented a poster 'Impact of cation crossover on the product selectivity of zero gap CO2 electrolysers' at the DTU Surfcat Summer School 2022 in Gilleleje, Denmark on August 9th. Also, on September 5th, 2022 at the [...]
admin2023-09-08T14:03:09+01:00May 13th, 2022|Project News, public dissemination|
Early-stage researcher Siddarth Gupta, supervised by Dr Matt Mayer, the leader of the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group “Electrochemical Conversion of CO2” at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin provides an update on the tasks within FlowPhotoChem in which his group are involved. Significant progress is being made and challenges are overcome with the input from project team members. Well done, Siddharth and thank you for providing an update from your lab. https://vimeo.com/709073890 Watch Siddharth's introductory video here.
