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CRC 1487 "Iron, upgraded!"
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The CRC 1487 “Iron, Upgraded!” was established in 2022 and contributes to sustainability with its research on iron.
Nov. is the month of school visits:Our PR team is presents Iron, upgraded! to school students.Yannick&Markus introduce the topic of substitution using school experiments.Students show particular interest in sustainability-related contexts. It is a great to inspire young people to embrace innovation.
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Ass. Prof. Nadezda Kongi from University of Tartu, Estonia gave a very interesting lecture on „Scaling relations in electrocatalysis: from basics to opportunities“. Thanks for lively discussions and being our guest!

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November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
We are happy to welcome Ass. Prof. Nadezda Kongi from University of Tartu, Estonia on Thursday. Nadezda Kongi will talk about „Scaling relations in electrocatalysis: from basics to opportunities“. Participation is more than welcome, more info: www.chemie.tu-darmstadt.de/iron-upgrade...
November 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Congratulations! Collaboration in the C Research Area between C01, C02 and C08 on “Gram-Scale Synthesis of Fe3N Nanoparticles via a One-Pot Thermal Decomposition Route: Implications for Magnetic Fluid Hyperthermia Applications”. Further information: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
We are happy to announce that Ö project leader Markus Prechtl will be awarded the Hildegard Hamm-Brücher Prize for Equal Opportunities in Chemistry by the GDCh on December 1 for the joint project “DiversitySensitive Support (DiSenSu)”. More info:
gdch.app/article/dise...

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October 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Congratulations! Prof. Torsten Gutmann, now Paderborn University, (project C04) was awarded the Felix Bloch Lecture 2025 on September 16, 2025, during the 46th FGMR Annual Discussion Meeting in Bonn.

Photo: GDCh website

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October 17, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Collaborative work across the research areas on “Electronic Complexity of Active Site Models for FeNC Catalysts: A Systematic Study of Truncation Effects in Molecular and Periodic Models” from our projects A01 and B01. Congratulations!

pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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October 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
No irony!Again we have great news:On SMASH - Small Molecule NMR Conference in Porto, Timon Zankel (B05 project) got the prize for the best poster with the title "⁵⁷Fe NMR is Great - No Irony". Congratulations, Timon!
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October 2, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Great news from the ISE in Mainz mid of September: Sumin Lim (C06 project) from TU Munich was awarded the prize for the best poster on the topic of „Design of a channel flow cell for degradation and performance studies of electrocatalyst“. Congratulations, Sumin!
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September 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
It was a pleasure to attend Europacat2025 from 31.08. – 05.09. in Trondheim together with many members from our collaborative research center “Iron Upgraded!”.
Our CRC 1487 contributed with ...

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September 19, 2025 at 8:44 AM
“Highly active iron catalysts for olefin hydrogenation enable parahydrogen induced hyperpolarisation of 1H and 19F NMR resonances at 1.4 Tesla” is the topic of the collaborative work of the projects B03, B05 and C04. Congratulations!
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September 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Concentrated C-Power: 2 publications from our projects C06&C08:“Benchmarking the Stability of State-of-the-Art H2O2 Electrocatalysts under Acidic Conditions” and “Decoding systematic effects and mass transport in H2O2 production via Aux/C ORR electrocatalysis” Congratulations!
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August 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
“Finding the right synergy of iron and molybdenum in mixed metal oxide catalysts for the sustainable production of acetaldehyde via oxidative dehydrogenation of ethanol”–a great collaborative,cross research area work by our A03, A02, C04, S and A04 projects. Congratulations!
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August 22, 2025 at 7:38 AM
“A career-focused programme” promised the CRC 1487 summer school for doctoral students and postdocs. Find the report here: www.chemie.tu-darmstadt.de/iron-upgrade...
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August 15, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Collaboration across research areas A “Oxidic Environments” & C “Metallic Environments”:This was done by Möller, A04 & Zhang, C02 & published recently on the topic “Synthesis, Structures, Chemical Bonding, and Properties of Al9–xFexMo3 with 0.5 ≤ xFe ≤ 1.8” Congratulations!
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August 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
This week, our PhD students and Postdocs went on summer school in Altleiningen. Under the motto “Improving our Professional Skills” they participated workshops, learned about career paths and took a trip BASF. A detailed report will follow.

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July 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Last week, Prof. Dr. Carsten Streb was giving an inspiring talk on molecular and solid-state single-site catalysts. Thanks a lot for this! Discussions on this and other topics continued afterwards at our social event – it was a nice afternoon.
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July 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM
„Molecular and Solid-State Single-Site Catalysts for Sustainable Energy Technologies“ will be the topic of the talk of Prof. Dr. Carsten Streb, JGU Mainz, on Thursday, 10.07.2025. We are looking forward to it! Everyone is welcome, further info: www.chemie.tu-darmstadt.de/iron-upgrade...
July 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Congratulations to Danny Stark from our A03 project. On the "Annual Meeting on Reaction Engineering 2025" he received the Best Poster Award on the "Kinetic and Mechanistic Insights into the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethanol on Iron-Molybdenum Oxide Catalysts". Well done!
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July 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The success of the CRC depends largely on all employees,e.g. our student assistants.Our “Hiwis” in the S-Project Annika Hänssler and Nina Zöller have done a great job and therefore they were presented with a certificate for their expertise in the field of synthesis this week.Thank you for your work!
June 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
We are very proud of our former associated CRC member from the A02 project: Dr. Leon Schumacher was awarded 12,000 euro Kurt Ruth Prize from TU Darmstadt. Congratulations, Leon! Further information: www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet...

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June 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Thanks to Ass. Prof. Dr. Christoph Bäumer from Uni Twente for a great talk and lively discussion on „Operando X-ray characterization of complex oxide electrocatalyst surfaces and interfaces“. Thanks, that you visited us in Darmstadt.

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June 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Your are invited! Ass. Prof. Dr. Christoph Bäumer from Uni Twente will talk about „Operando X-ray characterization of complex oxide electrocatalyst surfaces and interfaces“ on Thursday, 12.06.2025. More info: www.chemie.tu-darmstadt.de/iron-upgrade...
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June 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Intensive three days lie behind us – all subgroups of our CRC met to discuss the current status and future perspectives. Thanks to all for participation and productive discussions. #iron_upgraded

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June 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Congratulations! d’Andrea et. al published collaborative work from our CRC 1487 projects C01, C02 and C03 on the topic “Improved lattice elongation for Fe8Nx (x > 1) thin films prepared via nitrogen ion implantation”. Find the publication here: pubs.aip.org/aip/adv/arti...
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May 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM