New catalysts: Hall and casting rely on innovative research!

New catalysts: Hall and casting rely on innovative research!

Wittenberg, Deutschland - jun.-Prof. Dr. Frederik Haase from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg received the promise from the Emmy Noether program of the German Research Foundation (DFG). It is funded with up to 1.5 million euros to research intensely frustrated materials. With these special materials, molecules prevent their optimal bonds from entering into, which can be important for different chemical applications.

The results of hair research could provide important impulses for the development of new catalysts for chemical reactions. Part of the funding is invested in the acquisition of a synthesis robot that enables certain laboratory handles to be carried out automatically. This should create more time for the researchers for scientific work.

research focuses and career by Frederik Haase

Haase examines whether frustrated molecules can be used as catalysts. Catalysts activate chemical reactions and are often used using expensive metals such as gold or platinum. In nature, enzymes that the body itself produces take over this catalyzstorf function. Haase now researches whether the principle of enzymes can also be transferred to chemical reactions in the laboratory using frustrated molecules.

Exact research on frustrated materials requires precise and repeatable handles and dimensions. Frederik Haase, born in 1988, has been a junior professor for "bio -intended hybrid materials" at the University of Halle since 2022. He studied chemistry and biochemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and received his doctorate in 2018 at the Max Planck Institute for Fixed Body Research in Stuttgart. The Emmy Noether program has a funding rate of around 17 percent and is aimed at outstanding researchers in early career phases. It is named after the mathematician Emmy Noether, who was the first German woman in the field of mathematics, as

dr. Gellrich combines experimental studies with computer -aided quantum mechanical calculations to achieve his goals. The JLU is proud of this success, since this is already the second Emmy Noether youth group, which starts work this year at the JLU department of JLU. Dr. Gellrich studied and received her doctorate at the Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg and had previously had a postdoc stay at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Since April 2017, he has been working as a Liebig scholarship holder of the chemical industry fund at the JLU. The Emmy-Noether program promotes qualified young scientists and enables you to head for a youth group, such as Uni-giessen.de reports .

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