Two teaching awards for the IMC:

Dr. Maximilian Raab received the Dr. Zoltán Paál Award 2024, handed over during the Pannonian Catalysis Conference by the Foundation´s Chairman…

Esther Heid from our institute received a START award by the FWF (two of this year's eight awards were given to TU Wien).

Congratulations !

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Recent work, a collaboration of Prof. Rupprechter´s group with the Università Politecnica delle Marche (Ancona, Italy), was highlighted in Scientific…

Shaghayegh Naghdi has been awarded the prestigious Karl Schlögl Award by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).

Happy welcome to visiting PhD student Moulika Hazra from Università degli Studi di Cagliari working under the supervision of Prof. Carlo Ricci. Over…

Our recent participation in the 5th Scientific Workshop, organized by FemChem, saw notable achievements. Madeline, Hannah, and Shaghayegh represented…

Congrats to Hannah Rabl for winning the "Young Scientists Award" at eKKon2024! Her master thesis on microwave-assisted synthesis of MOCHAs for…

Scalable and cost-effective production of green hydrogen will play a key role in realizing a sustainable economy. In this direction, different types…

Technik Bewegt gives young people an insight into technical professions. Our 2D+ team is proud to represent the Faculty of Technical Chemistry at the…

Prof. Günther Rupprechter, Head of our institute, recently became Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences.

Zheao Huang's paper "Hierarchically Micro- ang Mesoporous Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks through Selective Ligand Removal" was accepted in the…

We warmly welcome Jana Bischoff to the Ph.D. program.

For the first time, researchers at TU Wien have successfully observed the operating principle of so-called promoters in a catalytic reaction in…

We are proud to say that Alexey has just submitted his Habilitation thesis.

Jasmin Schubert was the first Master student of our group in Vienna back in 2017. What a pleasure to see her graduating her PhD today! Thanks for all…

We have been working with a class of molecular inorganic metal-sulfur clusters since years and are now proud to write our first review article on the…

We had our third Solar Reactor FFG project meeting at AEE INTEC in Gleisdorf today discussing the latest developments.

Congratulations to Dr. Junjie Shi for receiving a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the European Commission entitled “Operando…

We had our internal MECS (Cluster of Excellence) project kick-off today.

Congrats to Hannah Rabl who has received the GÖCH (Austrian Chemical Society) Förderungspreis!

Alexey Cherevan is glad to be invited to give a talk at the University of Salzburg next Wednesday.

Bernhard Bayer has been featured in the newspaper Krone (Styria Career Supplement) as an alumni example by his former high school BG/BRG/BORG…

Our group took part in the European Researchers Night last Friday held at the beautiful University of Applied Arts here in Vienna.

This week, Shaghayegh is having an  incredible time at the Erlangen-Edinburgh School of Adsorption 2023! Special thanks to Prof. Thommes & Prof.…

2D+ team joins the Rote Nasen Clowndoctors charity run at the picturesque Prater park! Thanks for dedicating your well-deserved Sunday to run, bike,…

PhD students from our 2D+ team are set to showcase their groundbreaking research at the EUROMAT2023 conference in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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A few of our group members visited the EUROMOF conference in Granada.

Our team has recently become a part of the first Austria-wide Cluster of Excellence: Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage and we are currently…

September marks the kickoff of the FFG Takeoff project aiming to push the boundaries of photocatalytic hydrogen in powering sustainable aviation. …

This week we are hosting  Lakhan Lal (in the middle) from the group of Prof. Toroker at Israel Institute of Technology (TECHNION).

Our collaboration…

Prof. Maricruz Sánchez-Sánchez (E166-03-1) publishes a new study on metal-oxo nanoclustern for the selective oxidation of methane

The conference season has just started for some of us. This year Dominik, Jakob and Hannah are representing our group at the yearly Nanomat conference…

In collaboration with University of Porto (the group of Prof. Faria) our recent work demonstrates a novel 2D/2D CuAl-LDH/GCNN heterostructure that…

Cheers to Pablo for  for representing our team at the EUROPACAT conference this year in Prague, Czech Republic, and bringing the spotlight on his…

Tomas Chvojka, hailing from the University of Chemistry and Technology (UCT) in Prague, Czech Republic, recently completed a productive research visit…

Congratulations to Stephen Myakala for being awarded the prestigious Chemical Monthly Fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the…

Dogukan’s team (incl Hannah and Jakob) joined a 2-day symposium arranged at Brno University of Technology showcasing
results from the joint AKTION…

Alexey is excited to get his first FFG project granted within the TakeOFF program call. Together with Redeem Solar Technologies, we are going to…

Christian Schröder awarded the Best PhD Prize by the Federation of European Zeolite Associations

Stefan Müller takes over as head of research unit 7 "Fuel and Energy Systems Technology

In the face of escalating global energy challenges and a looming climate crisis, the race to discover sustainable and clean fuel alternatives has…

July marked the end of the teaching semester and the group has this time gathered at Herrmann Strandbar to welcome the summer break.

This is how all…

Meet the new PhD students who joined in 2023 so far: Yan Chen (first position funded from Bernhard’s ERC Consolidator grant), Bodo Baumgartner (FFG…

Samar is at MC16 this week (Dublin), the only one representing our group this year. Her poster P140 is featuring our recent work published in ACS…

Two conferences are on the radar here!

Bernard Fickl is representing the group at Graphene Conference held in Manchester and showing his study on the…

Pablo Ayala has recently uncovered the potential of the metal-organic framework (MOF), COK-47, in the realm of photocatalytic water splitting, a…

In a celebration of exceptional teaching at the Technical University of Vienna (TU Wien), Dominik has been honored with the prestigious "Best Lecture…

Matthias Steiger takes over as head of FB05-2

Our FWF Cluster of Excellence Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage will start on October 1. Be part of our team and contact Prof. Eder or Prof.…

Oliver Spadiut takes over research unit and group management

At the Institute of Materials Chemistry of TU Wien, scientists use microscopy techniques to observe chemical reactions on catalysts more precisely…

Last week our faculty at hosted a United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) delegation of high-level ministers from the Thailand…

Jovana Prekodravac and Bojana Vasiljevic from Belgrade University recently completed a fruitful research visit at TU Wien.

The Science Days event represents a crucial component of the evaluation process at TCH, designed to provide a formal platform for faculty groups to…

On 13 April there was an open day at the Getreidemarkt campus, where we welcomed almost 350 guests.

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Prof. Eder shared our insights on the topic of selective ligand removal in MOFs for catalysis at the 1st Mediterranean Conference on Porous Materials…

The recently concluded COAST 2023 conference witnessed a talk delivered by Bernhard Fickl. With expertise and finesse, Bernhard shared valuable…

For the fourth time in a row, the award for the best Austrian patent goes to the TU Wien: The prize was awarded for an electrochemical technology for…

We are very happy to see that Sreejith P. Nandan has completed his defensio well. His co-supervisors Dominik Eder and Alexey Cherevan, as well as the…

Polarization-dependent sum-frequency-generation (SFG) spectroscopy of adsorbed CO enabled to characterize the morphology of oxide-supported metal…

Alexey Cherevan has been selected for the ACS Materials Au Rising Star 2022.

Prof. Stavros Papadokonstantakis takes over as head of department

In an exciting update, Stephen's internship at SolHyCat group in CEA Grenoble, France, has reached its final week. Throughout his stay, Stephen…

For the 36th time, a Workshop on Novel Materials and Superconductors was organized by our Institute.

Today FWF announced 5 first Clusters of Excellence to be funded in Austria.

Sometimes, chemical reactions do not solely run stationary in one direction, but they show spatio-temporal oscillations. At TU Wien, a transition to…

This year the conference was hosted at the University of Vienna.

In the past six months we welcomed 5 new master and 3 new PhD students to the Eder Research Group.

We developed one of the best absorbers for the glyphosate removal from water using hierarchically porous metal–organic frameworks

Collaborative research from Professor Gϋnther Rupprechter’s group and the laboratory of

Professor Francesca Tittarelli, Department of Materials,…

Disorder can have its advantages: Bernhard C. Bayer will produce "high-entropy materials” as thin 2D layers. For this project, he is now receiving an…

Our group took part in the Lange Nacht der Forschung (#LNF22) or the Long Night of Research which gives an opportunity to anyone in Austria to look…

Paolo was part of the team from 2017 to 2023. He is our favorite Italian, who managed to convey to the group a lot of love for food, mountains,…

Hannah Rabl received her Bachelor degree from Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU) in Chemistry and Chemical Technologies in 2020. She then moved to…

Our PhD student Shaghayegh Naghdi receives travel funding, opens an external URL in a new window from the Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft (ÖFG) to join the group, opens an external URL in a new window of Hossein Kazemian…

A new master’s thesis started focusing on the role of selective ligand removal strategy in Metal–Organic Frameworks for nitrogen reduction reaction.

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ÖFG just awarded Stephen with 1500 Euro to support his project with CEA Grenoble early next year.

Our first comprehensive review on the use of MOFs for water purification applications is out.

Rupprechter´s group and FHI Berlin succeeded in monitoring a catalytic reaction on a defined catalyst surface with three different microscopies under…

Our traditional annual group hike brought us to Lainzer Tiergarten this time.

Participation of Eder Group members on the 4th annual scientific FemChem Workshop

We have the pleasure to host Sergio Belda, a PhD student from the University of Alicante over the next 3 months.

Dogukan, Bernhard, Shaghayegh and Alexey join the Annual Nanotechnology Conference (Nanomat 2022) as invited speakers.

Dominik, Sreejith, Shaghayegh, Alexey, Pablo, Samar and Stephen join ICCC for the first time.

Apparently, we have a lot of bubble tea enthusiasts in the group who are not only keen on drinking it but also making it.

SommerSummer break opening at Summer Stage

Samar Batool, one of our project assistants and a PhD student, is currently in Sevilla attending the 16th International Conference on Nanostructured…

Our Group Member Jakob Blaschke has just received the DOC-Fellowship by the ÖAW (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) for his proposal titled…

Our group took part in the open doors day (Tag der offenen Tür) of the Faculty of Technical Chemistry of the TU Wien presenting two stations to the…

Happy to see our work on [Mo3S13] cluster heterogenization published open access in ACS Catalysis. Here we use these tri-nuclear thiomolybdate anions…

Bridging graphene nanoscience and industrial manufacturing needs: Together with Joanneum Research, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and ZKW GmbH,…

How a catalytic reaction proceeds on the nanofacets of a single catalytic particle is revealed by a team of our Institute in the journal "ACS…

Viennese researchers led by Bernhard C. Bayer have succeeded in anchoring single atoms on carrier materials. The new method was presented in ACS Nano.

Bernhard C. Bayer, Tushar Gupta and Dominik Eder contribute high-resolution electron microscopy to ion transmission experiments by Richard W. Wilhelm…

The joint work between TUW, Berkeley National Labs, Johannes Kepler University Linz and University of Connecticut describes how self-assembled…

Zheao Huang received his Masters Degree in Condensed Matter Physics (2021) from Central China Normal University working on Synthesis and…

Congratulations Shaghayegh Naghdi, our last-year PhD student, on her work published in the recent issue of Nature Communications.

Our long-time group member Jakob Blaschke has now started his PhD degree in our group. After his Bachelor studies at the Technical University Vienna,…

Our group, together with AEE-INTEC (a research institute based in Gleisdorf Austria) and industry partners (GREENoneTEC and Asfinag), was awarded…

Our recent Nature Communications, opens an external URL in a new window paper now all over the news: Der Standard, ORF.at, Austria Press Agency, Nanowerk, Phys.org, ChemEurope, all explain…

Congratulations to newly minted Dr. Tushar Gupta for his excellent work on "Growth, Characterization and Application of 2D Pnictogens - Graphene…

A surprising discovery: A catalyst seems to contradict usual laws and can exhibit completely different activity states at the same time.

Dominik and Alexey have been invited to join the ICEMN 2021 held at Hubei University in China on 22 – 24 October 2021 (yes on the weekend!). Due to…

Important step in heterogenous catalysis: Scientists at TU Wien (Vienna) succeed in linking microscopic and macroscopic approaches - and thus solve an…

Samar Batool and Stephen Myakala presented our recent work on thiomolybdate clusters at the CataLight Young Scientist Symposium (CYSS).

Vivien Madi had successfully defended her graduation work entitled "Synthesis and control of nanostructured mixed metal oxide photocatalysts".

EUROMAT, opens an external URL in a new window is the premier international congress in the field of materials science and technology in Europe. In 2021 the conference took place in a…

New CVD system for high-quality 2D materials like graphene up and running in our ALD/CVD lab.

Great work by our PhD Bernhard Fickl, assisted by our…

Andreas Lechner, who already completed his Bachelor's Thesis in our group in 2018, now re-joins us to pursue the concept of single-site photocatalysis…

Jasmin's work on the development of Cu-based co-catalysts for photocatalytic water splitting has been published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry…

On September 6th, 2021 our group members Niusha Lasemi, Jasmin Schubert and Tushar Gupta gave talks at the International Online Conference on…

The City of Vienna awarded the excellent Diploma Thesis of Maximilian Raab entitled "Catalytic hydrogen oxidation on rhodium: regular and irregular…

Nanoparticles are often used as catalysts. The chemical reactions on their surface are more complex than previously thought, experiments at the…

Filip Smatlo, a freshly finished Master's Degree holder from Brno University of Technology, (also known for the miraculous rescue attempt of…

Why do metal oxide surfaces behave differently? Photoelectron Microscopy at the synchrotron and in the lab were combined to answer this important…