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We are the Solid-State Chemistry & Catalysis research team at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry @accau of #UniKiel headed by Prof. @maltebehrens.

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🍀 A happy new year to everyone! 🎊

📣 New paper out: Our year 2025 has ended with a new insight into the near-surface dynamics of solid oxidation catalysts.

🤝 In a consortium led by Thomas Lunkenbein (formerly at @fhi_mpg_de, now at @unibayreuth) within the […]

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Scheme of near-surface transformation of a cobalt oxide oxidation catalyst under working conditions leading to dynamical redox changes. December cover of the journal Nature Catalysis visualizing the atomic rearrangements on catalysis surfaces.
January 3, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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Have joyful 😋 and relaxing 😌 holidays, everyone!
Digital Christmas card of the Solid-State and Catalysis Group at Kiel University showing the Christmas tree in front of the institute building. The text says "'Habe a reactive Christmas and a Solid New Year!" and the card also shows the logos of Kiel University and its research profile area KiNSIS.
December 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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🎄 Today at the Christmas Colloquium of the local @gdch at #kieluni: Awards for the best Bachelor, Master and PhD Thesis of the year in #chemistry. ⚗️
Young talents, impressive science, and a good mood. 🔔 Gratulations to all the winners. 👏
Group photo of the winners for best Bachelor, Master and PhD Thesis with professors from Kiel university Presentation of the best Master Thesis 2025 Food, drinks, and relaxed conversation in the foyer during the break. Presentation of the best Master Thesis 2025
December 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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🧪 Synthesizing solid catalysts is one thing, but for their application, they also need to undergo shaping or - in case of 🔌 #electrocatalysis - deposition on electrodes. Such steps are sometimes underrated in academic #catalysis research.

👉 Find out more on […]

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Scheme two electrode surfaces that are different in roughness and lyophilicity, which impact the bubble adhesion during gas formation in electrocatalytic oxygen evolution.
December 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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🔎 Applied solid catalysts often have complex defects and functional groups at their #surface that are non-innocent in heterogeneous #catalysis. These are hard to identify on real particles, but can be studied on model surfaces.

🤝 In a beautiful collaboration […]

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scanning tunneling microscopy image of hydroxyls at a cobalt oxide surface and scheme of the proposed reaction mechanisms of 2-propanol dehydrogenation on these sites
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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💠 Can a crystal have different magnetic properties in alternating domains?

👉 Check out in our latest work, how close we can get to such scenario. A "topotactic jump" into a miscibility gap allows #synthesis of metastable crystalline spinel nanoflakes with […]

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Cartoon showing the scheme of the synthesis of porous nanoflakes with alternating magnetic domains by mild calcination of a precursor compound. The background is a TEM-EDX map that shows the domain distribution by means of composition enrichment in iron or cobalt
October 27, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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🔬 🧪 Check out our latest work on a novel synthesis method for a highly active nickel methanation #catalyst in ChemSusChem and the corresponding German press release of @kieluni Anna and colleagues. Congratulations to Anna and all co-authors! 👏
🔗 […]

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scientist pipetting a green solution in a chemistry lab schematic representation of a catalyst synthesis showing the different stages as a mountain climb in a cartoon Transmission electron microscopy images of a nano-scaled nickel and magnesium oxide aggregate.
October 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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👏 Applause for the Poster Prize winners of the "3rd Symposium on Insights into Gas Diffusion Electrodes" last month in Berlin!
💪 Tobi from our group took a prize home (right) and the other winners are Nils Näser from @CBI_FAU (left) and Mario H. Kirschner […]

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Three smiling PhD students standing outside on a sunny day in front of green trees showing their certificates on poster prizes into the camera
October 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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🎓 Yesterday, Dr. Jihao Wang, former PhD student in our group, now postdoc at the FHI Berlin @fhi_mpg_de received the KiNSIS Doctoral Thesis Awards 2025 🏆 of @kieluni. Congrats, Jihao! 🍾

The event was embedded in the wonderful award ceremony for the […]

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Dr. Wang giving a short presentation of his PhD Thesis topic Handover of flowers and the prize certificate of the 2025 KiNSIS doctoral Thesis Award to Dr. Wang.
September 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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💡 Raimund Horn from @tuhamburg and Matthias Beller from @likat.bsky.social lecturing at the Ostseelehrverbund Katalyse #olk2025 in Kiel on chemical engineering and industrial homogeneous catalysis. We have seen insightful lectures and lively discussions from […]

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Raimund Horn delivering a lecture on chemical engineering in catalysis in Kiel Matthias Beller delivering a lecture on industrial homogeneous catalysis in Kiel group photo of the OLK2025 in Kiel in front of the lecture hall building of the Chemistry Section at Kiel University Logo of the Ostseelerhverbund Katalyse OLK
September 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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🔋 Have a look at Lina's and Sebastian's latest work on electrochemical sodium ion #intercalation #chemistry into layered materials.

👉 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c02331

👏 Beautiful refinement of stacking faults effects in powder diffraction data […]

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September 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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⚗️ 🖥️ Our latest experiment-theory collaboration shows how iron catalysts for the release of #GreenHydrogen can be stabilized against nitridation in the #ammonia reforming reaction.

👉 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscatal.5c04795

🤝 Many thanks to […]

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Molecular scheme showing how an ammonia molecule becomes decomposed to nitrogen and hydrogen at an iron-cobalt alloy surface, while it reactions with pure iron to iron nitride.
September 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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👋 Welcome to Kiel! ⛵️

This year, the Ostseelehrverbund Katalyse #olk2025 will take place at @kieluni again. We are looking forward to host the north German summer school for doctoral students in #catalysis starting next week at the Institute of Inorganic […]

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Group photo of students and lecturers of the OLK summer school on a balcony at the Kiel Fjord with a cruise ship and ship yards in the background
September 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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🔬 Find the results of our beautiful collaboration 🤝 with the Rupprechter-Lab and the TACO team @taco-oxides.bsky.social at TU Wien in this new paper. We have provided a reference catalyst to benchmark their impressive and precise single-atom alloy #catalysis […]

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Scheme in blackboard-style labelled "active site engineering" showing a nanometer scale bar, the chemical equation for the water gas shift reaction and models of catalysts.
September 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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☀️ See us smiling in sunny Trondheim.

🤝 Last week, the #europacat2025 conference in Trondheim with wonderful networking and countless inspiring discussions on the latest results in #catalysis was a great success in a beautiful town!

👏 Thanks to the […]

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Eleven smiling members of our research group standing at the waterfront in Trondheim on a sunny day. The background shows the fjord, a blue sky with light clouds and the hilly coastline of Norway.
September 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM