LMER – Laboratory of Materials for Renewable Energy

Energy storage materials – Hydrogen – Hydrides – CO2 Reduction – Hydrocarbons – Catalysis

joint lab of EPFL and Empa

NEWS


	24. – 29. January, 2021 15th INT’L SYMPOSIUM HYDROGEN & ENERGY Chair: Andreas ZÜTTEL Hotel Seeblick Emmetten Emmetten, Switzerland
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	1. – 6. November 2020 17th International Symposium on Metal Hydrogen Systems (MH2020) PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA Chair: Craig Buckley
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	5. – 10. January, 2020 1st INT’L SYMPOSIUM Hydrogenomics combined with 14th INT’L SYMPOSIUM HYDROGEN & ENERGY Chair: Shin-Ichi ORIMO Hotel Monterey Edelhof Sapporo Sapporo, JAPAN
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	15. December 2019 Pamela CANJURA PhD candidate “High pressure hydrides”
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	5. November 2019 8th Symposium of the SCCER H&E Storage Akademie, Empa Dübendorf, Switzerland
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	4. November 2019 Informationsabends an die Eigentümer von Ölheizungen des Oberwallis Chair: Martin Stucky, AVENERGY Talk Andreas Züttel “In Zukunft mit erneuerbarem Öl” Kultur-& Kongresszentrum La Poste Visp, Wallis, Schweiz
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	14. October 2019 Medienanlass Wasserstoff – Treibstoff der Zukunft ohne Infrastrukturprobleme Datum/Zeit: Montag, 14. Oktober 2019, 10.30 Uhr  Ort: Hotel Schweizerhof, Bahnhofplatz 7, 8001 Zürich (Boardroom 10) Publications
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	8. – 9. October, 2019 6. Energie-Symposium Chairs: Johannes SCHMIDT, Gabriele SEITZ Graz, Austria
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	1. October 2019 Imen BOUSRIH external PhD student from the Université de Tunis el Manar Internship 1. 10. – 31. 12. 2019
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	27. September 2019 Seminar Heng-Yu CHI “Synthesis of MOF membranes via facile deposition in aqueous medium for different applications” 10:30 – 11:30, ENERGYPOLIS Sion, I17 4 F2, Tseuzier room
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	12. September 2019, 9:30 – 10:30 Seminar talk Hannes Jonsson EPFL Valais/Wallis Sion, 4th floor, Zeuzier Room “Calculations of the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 and the Competing Hydrogen Evolution Reaction” Prof. Dr. Hannes JÓNSSON Faculty of Physical Sciences, University of Iceland, Hjardarhagi 2, Reykjavík, Iceland
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	6. September 2019 PhD defence Robin MUTSCHLER “Investigation of the heterogeneously catalysed gas phase CO₂ hydrogenation reaction: Development of analysis methods and reaction analysis on basic catalysts”
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	6. September 2019 TEDx Martigny Talk Andreas Züttel “La future sans carburant fossil”
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	6. September 2019 Seminar Burak BAL “Hydrogen Embrittlement in a Fe-Mn-C Based Austenitic Steels” 10:30 – 11:30, ENERGYPOLIS Sion, I17 4 F2, Tseuzier room
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	15. August 2019 Xin ZONG external PhD student from the research group of Prof. Yueping Xiong, HIT, Department of Electrochemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, China, 150006 Internship 15. 8. – 14. 10. 2019, Study on CO2 electroreduction, electrocatalysis
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	15. July 2019 Sanaz SOODI Internship 15. July 2019 – 15. March 2020 on “Photocatalytic reduction of CO₂ to oxygenated fuels” PhD student of the Basic Sciences Institute of the University of Zanjan, IRAN
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	9. July 2019 Master Thesis defence Alexandre BORSAY “Stability of size-selected Cu-based model catalysts for CO₂ hydrogenation” Congratulation!
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	1. July 2019 Gunel AGHABAYLI Internship 1. July – 15. August 2019 on catalytic CO₂ reduction to methane Chemistry & Chemical Engineering graduate with over a year’s industrial experience, who is currently doing her PhD on “Dynamic simulation of CO2 utilization at variable flow rates using Low Carbon Energy” at University of Edinburgh.
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	27. June 2019, from 10:30 to 12:00 Inauguration of the near ambient pressure photoelectron spectrometer (NAP-XPS) Hosts: Andreas ZÜTTEL, Wen LUO The first lab based near ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectrometer (NAP-XPS) in Switzerland is installed at EPFL Valais/Wallis in Sion. The instruments allows to investigate the surface chemistry of materials on an atomic level. The surface is the interface between the solid and the gas phase (atmosphere) it is where the interaction of molecules in the gas phase with the solid takes place i.e. where heterogeneous catalysis occurs. We acknowledge the financial support that allowed us to purchase the instruments from Swiss National Science Foundation, EPFL, Start-up budget of the Laboratory of Materials for Renewable Energy (LMER) and Empa Material Science and Technology.
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	15. June 2019 Youngdon KO PhD candidate (Hydrides), supervisor: Dr. Heena YANG
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	June 30 – July 5, 2019 SCCER Summer School HELIX, CANCELED at Dorint · Blüemlisalp · Beatenberg/Interlaken, Switzerland Hubel 114 · 3803 Beatenberg · Schweiz Chair: Thomas Schmidt, Jörg Roth, PSI 3. July 2019 Day program: Hydrogen Production, Storage & Applications 1. Hydrogen Production 1.1. Elektrolysis & Photoelectrolysis: Kevin Sivula, confirmed 1.2. Battolyzer: Fokko Mulder, confirmed 1.3. High Temperature Electrolysis: Ligang Wang (Jan Van Herle), confirmed 2. Hydrogen Storage 2.1. Fundamentals of Hydrogen Storage: Andreas Züttel, confirmed 2.2. Metal Hydrides & Complex Hydrides: Andreas Züttel, confirmed 2.3. Organic liquid hydrides: Peter Wasserscheid, Erlangen, confirmed 3. Applications 3.1. Fuel cells: Felix Büchi, confirmed 3.2. Mobility: Christian Bach, confirmed 3.3. Demonstrators & GRZ: Noris Gallandat, GRZ, confirmed Workshop Design a system that covers the energy demand of a one family house.
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	June 30 – July 5, 2019 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Hydrogen-Metal Systems Chairs: Ned Stetson and Michael Hirscher Rey Don Jaime Grand Hotel Castelldefels, Spain Applications for this meeting must be submitted by June 2, 2019 June 29-30, 2019 Gordon Research Seminar chaired by Hope Sartain and Giovanni Capurso
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	May 5 – 10, 2019 Gordon Research Conference on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Chair Marco Mazzotti, Vice Chair Roger Aines Les Diablerets Conference Center Eurotel Victoria Les Diablerets, CH Applications for this meeting must be submitted by April 7, 2019
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	18. – 19. 5. 2019, 10:00 – 17:00 SCIENTASTIC ENERGYPOLIS Sion, 1^st floor, Lab LMER & SSDSReception: Ivana SUTER, Lena SUTER, Hugo TOMÉ SSDS: Yannick BAEHLER, LMER Lab: CO₂ reduction, methan reactor: Marco CALIZZI, Emanuele MOIOLI, Robin MUTSCHLER, Kun ZHAO, Jie ZHANG, Qin ZHANG LMER Lab: Hydrogen storage, Hydrides: Heena YANG, Loris LOMBARDO, Victoria HE LMER Lab: XPS & Cluster source: Wen LUO, Mo LI, Alexandre BORSAYTalk par Andreas ZÜTTEL: “LA DEUXIEME EVOLUTION ENERGETIQUE EN VALAIS” Talk par Emanuele MOIOLI: “LA PREMIÈRE RÉALISATION D’UN RÉACTEUR DE TAILLE INDUSTRIEL DE L’EPFL EN COLLABORATION AVEC GAZNAT
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	16. 5. 2019, 10:30 – 11:30 ENERGYPOLIS SEMINAR ENERGYPOLIS Sion, 4^th floor, ZEUZIER Seminar room “e-Infrastructure to compile and provide e- Learning Content and Engineering Tools“ Olaf JEDICKE Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Institut für Kern- und Energietechnik (IKET), Hermann-von-Helmholtz Platz 1 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
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	10. 4. 2019, 10:30 – 11:30 ENERGYPOLIS SEMINAR ENERGYPOLIS Sion, 4^th floor, ZEUZIER Seminar room “CO₂ conversion to oxygenate fuels using nanocomposite photocatalysts” Sanaz SOODI Department of Chemistry, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan 45137-66731, Iran
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	22. 3. 2019, 14:00 – 18:30 General Assembly of HYDROPOLE The Swiss Hydrogen Association HYDROPOLE (since 2001) General Assembly and site visit at the Power2gas demonstrator of HSR IET in Rapperswil
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	21. 3. 2019, 10:30 – 11:30 ENERGYPOLIS SEMINAR ENERGYPOLIS Sion, 4^th floor, ZEUZIER Seminar room “Al-N-Compounds – Possible Materials for Hydrogen Storage” Michael FELDERHOFF Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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	7. 3. 2019, 10:30 – 11:30 ENERGYPOLIS SEMINAR ENERGYPOLIS Sion, 4^th floor, ZEUZIER Seminar room “Transformation of waste into new biochemical and biofuels” Jorge Mario MARCHETTIThe Reactor Engineering and Catalysis Group, located in the Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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	1. 3. 2019 Victoria HE (Master student, TU Munich & EPFL)
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	15. 2. 2019 Qin ZHANG (Master student, ISIC, EPFL) Master semester work “CO2 reduction to ethanol”
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	15. 2. 2019 Alexandre BORSAY (Master student, ISIC, EPFL) Master work “Metal Clusters investigated by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy”
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	Jan. 20 – 25, 2019 13th INT. SYMPOSIUM HYDROGEN & ENERGY GYEONG WON JAE AMBASSADOR Incheon, South KOREA
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	11. 2. 2019, 10:30 – 11:30 ENERGYPOLIS SEMINAR ENERGYPOLIS Sion, 4^th floor, ZEUZIER Seminar room “Hydrogen storage systems for mobile and stationary applications: an overview“ Prof. Dr. Sabrina SATORI Department of Technology Systems, University of Oslo, Norway
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	7. 1. 2019 David AUBERT (Civil service)
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	1. 1. 2019 Ivana SUTER Administrative assistant, Secretary LMER Administration and Finances
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