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Photos © Patrick Scheerer

#catalysis #chemistry #biochemistry #proteins #enzymes #biocatalysis #medicine #xfel #charité

📽️ At X-FELs, scientists capture the motions of samples in snapshots that can be strung together into "molecular movies". Thus, X-FELs are a bit like super magnifying microscopes combined with a camera - really great tools. There are only a handful of such X-FELs in the world!

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⚡The photos were taken on a research trip: Andrea and Patrick were in the US conducting experiments at the "SLAC X-FEL" together with an international team from the USA, United Kingdom and Sweden.

SLAC stands for Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, X-FEL means X-ray free electron laser.

The #UniSysCat team of Dr. Patrick Scheerer and Dr. Andrea Schmidt focuses on understanding how signal transduction of membrane proteins works and how certain enzymes function. To do this, they analyze the structure of these molecules using X-rays.

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The colorful photos #1 & #2 have been taken by the researcher Dr. Christian Lorent from the group. © Christian Lorent

Photo #3 © UniSysCat / TU Berlin

🦠 Researchers in Ingo Zebger's group at @tuberlin.bsky.social for example study hydrogenase, an enzyme that can split and reassemble #hydrogen gas. Its ability makes it promising for #energy storage in hydrogen-based systems like fuel cells and electrolysers.

#catalysis #chemistry #spectroscopy

Spectroscopists can measure the tiny movements of a molecule, which no human eye can see, using special instruments. And from these measurements, they can draw conclusions about the structure and function of the molecule. These kind of measurements using light are called vibrational #spectroscopy.

💡How does #spectroscopy work?

Molecules like enzymes react to light. For example, they start to move: Light provides the energy needed to cause parts of a molecule vibrate, just as we humans can get energized by eating a piece of glucose and then go out and do sports!

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🧪Here you see the use of a "rotating disk electrode". By this setup, fundamental electrochemical investigations on catalysts are possible.

💚If you want to know more about the research of Peter Strasser’s group, don‘t hesitate to contact us.

Photos © Kevin Fuchs / UniSysCat

💧Where does the #hydrogen for a fuel cell come from? Green hydrogen can be obtained by #electrolysis: using electricity from renewable energy sources, water is split into hydrogen and oxygen in an electrolyzer. The photo shows an electrolyzer used to test different catalysts for water splitting.

This photo from the Strasser lab @tuberlin.bsky.social shows an experimental setup by which fuel cells can be tested. A fuel cell is an #energy converter: it converts chemical energy into electrical energy, often using hydrogen as the carrier of the chemical energy.
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⚡Sven Brückner, Pierre Schröer and Carla Coll are preparing samples for UV/Vis spectroscopy. By shining laser light on a sample and measuring its response, they can draw conclusions about the properties and behavior of molecules in the sample, as well as the exact course of chemical reactions.

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All photos © Christian Kielmann / BasCat

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🎛️ #BasCat researcher Dr. Michael Geske and PhD student Mishai Avila Zapata are standing next to a profile reactor in the "Analysis Lab“. The reactor can be used to investigate new catalysts and their performance under various conditions over a longer period of time (under "steady-state conditions").