e-conversion - Cluster of Excellence

Jennifer L.M. Rupp elected to the board of the Materials Research Society Prof. Dr. Jennifer L.M. Rupp. (Photo: Uli Benz / TUM) Materials researcher Prof. Jennifer L.M. Rupp (TU Munich) was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Materials Research Society (MRS)...

We are proud to announce that e-conversion expert Prof. Jennifer L.M. Rupp from @tum.de has been elected to the Materials Research Society's Board of Directors starting in 2026 — a great recognition of her work. Congratulations! 🎉
www.e-conversion.de/mrs-rupp-boa...
#materials #energy #research

Four days of energy, ideas and exchange at the e-conversion Cluster Conference 2025 in Tutzing ⚡ Don’t miss the highlights – check out the photo gallery 📸 here:
www.e-conversion.de/cluster-conf...
#science #research #ClustersOfExcellence #EnergyResearch #ScienceConference

14 TUM scientists among the most cited worldwide Fourteen TUM researchers belong to the world's most frequently cited scientists according to the latest Highly Cited Researchers rankings.

Congrats to 14 of our scientists, including Rupert Seidl, who have been recognized in the latest Highly Cited Researchers #rankings. This analysis reviews global #publications from 2014 to 2024: go.tum.de/537241 👏

#HighlyCited2025
📷A. Eckert

ERC Synergy Grants: Großer Erfolg für LMU-Forschende Drei Forschende haben mit der LMU hochdotierte Synergy Grants des Europäischen Forschungsrats eingeworben. Die geförderten Projekte beschäftigen sich mit Nanomaschinen aus DNA, den Proteinfabriken der...

💪 #ERC Synergy Grants: Großer Erfolg für die #LMU✨
Der Physiker Tim Liedl, der Biochemiker Roland Beckmann und der Meteorologe Fabian Hoffmann haben an der LMU in Kooperation mit internationalen Forschungsteams jeweils einen #SynergyGrant eingeworben. #ERCSynergyGrants #LMUMuenchen

Magnets for a cleaner future Magnetism could become a new regulating factor in electrocatalysis. Prof. Karsten Reuter, Director of the Theory Department at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society and a e-conversion ex...

Can magnetic fields speed up the energy transition?

That’s what Karsten Reuter from @thdept-fhi-mpg.bsky.social @fhi-mpg.bsky.social and his team are trying to find out. Their project MAGNESIS has just been awarded an ERC Synergy Grant.

www.e-conversion.de/magnesis-erc...

Congratulations 👏

Preventing dangerous short circuits in lithium batteries Dendrites are considered the most dangerous destroyers of lithium batteries — tiny metal structures that can cause short circuits. In the worst case, they can cause batteries to burn or explode. A res...

Meet the silent saboteurs hiding inside solid-state batteries: Lithium dendrites. Researchers in the team of @muellerb.bsky.social at @tum.de have discovered that these tiny structures can form deep inside polymer electrolytes.

Curious how? 👇
www.e-conversion.de/lithium-dend...

Magnets for a Cleaner Future: ERC Synergy Grant Funds MAGNESIS to Unlock Magnetically Enhanced Catalysis

🌍⚡ Can magnets help build a cleaner energy future?

Over the moon to announce that this is the question our @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grant-funded project MAGNESIS will be tackling! ⚡🧲

Press Release: www.fhi.mpg.de/2157238/2025...

Project digest below 👇

#ERC #MAGNESIS #GreenEnergy #Science

🚀 ¡Nueva subvención #ERCSyG para IMDEA Nanociencia!

#MAGNESIS explorará el campo emergente de la magnetoelectrocatalisis ⚡🧲
nanociencia.imdea.org/es/imdea-nan...

🇪🇸 Galán-Mascarós @ICIQ.org
🇩🇪 K. Reuter @fhi-mpg.bsky.social
🇩🇰 J.V. Lauritsen @au.dk
🇪🇸 D. Écija @imdeanano.bsky.social

Strong as a team Five Max Planck researchers secure prestigious ERC Synergy Grants in 2025, enhancing collaborative research in Europe.

Congratulations! In the current call of the European Research Council, Max Planck researchers have secured five Synergy Grants. Together with the University of Cambridge, we are among the top three most successful #research institutions in #Europe ! 🙌 www.mpg.de/25684336/erc... @erc.europa.eu

Researcher Fabian Apfelbeck, wearing glasses and a beige sweater, works in a laboratory with electronic measurement equipment and monitoring devices.

Dendrites can cause short circuits in #lithiumbatteries. Researchers, including Fabian Apfelbeck, found such structures may also form inside polymer-based #electrolytes, not only at electrodes. This finding could improve solid-state #batteries: go.tum.de/518497

📷V.Hiendl/ @e-conversion.bsky.social

Solid-state batteries, closer than you think. Qkera’s Co-Founder and CTO Dr Andreas Weis explains how oxide-ceramic electrolytes could change the game!

Qkera was founded in 2024 as a spin-off from @tum.de and @mit.edu.

www.e-conversion.de/andreas-weis...

Strength of gender biases in AI images varies across languages Text-to-image generators reproduce stereotypes and reinforce them. The direction and strength of the distortion depends heavily on the language in question.

Scientists, including Alexander Fraser, studied how text-to-image generators deal with #gender stereotypes in various #languages. The results show that the models not only reflect #genderbiases, but also amplify them: go.tum.de/446018

#AI #LLMs

📷T. Algeri

Graphic from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) titled 'TUM science glossary – Catalysis.' The text explains that catalysis is a chemical process accelerated by a catalyst, which is not consumed or altered during the reaction and helps save time, energy, and costs. The image has a purple background with the TUM logo and the website www.tum.de/energy

Let’s take a closer look at our next #scienceglossary term for the research field #energy: “catalysis". #Catalysts can be metals, chemical compounds, or enzymes — they speed up reactions without being used up: go.tum.de/917142

📷TUM CCC/ T. Hamacher

🔋 Solid-state batteries, redefined ⚡Munich-based startup Qkera secures a seven-figure pre-seed led by InnoEnergy to scale its ceramic electrolyte tech — safer, faster, and built for industry.

👉https://www.e-conversion.de/innoenergy_qkera_en/

@tum.de @mit.edu

Graphic from TUM explaining the term 'Sector coupling.' It describes how sector coupling connects different energy sectors such as heating, electricity, industry, and transportation. The approach integrates renewable energy sources to promote more sustainable energy use. The image features the TUM logo and the website www.tum.de/energy

In our #scienceglossary for the research field #energy, today’s term is "sector coupling". #Energysectors are the different areas of the economy where energy is produced, converted, distributed, and used: go.tum.de/917142

📷TUM CCC/ T. Hamacher

TUM launches Public Science Lab The Technical University of Munich (TUM) has founded the TUM Public Science Lab, which will involve people from all areas of society in research.

Our #university launched the TUM #PublicScience Lab — a new platform where science engages with society. The lab brings together diverse perspectives to address major #societalchallenges and promote #sustainableinnovation: go.tum.de/583509

#publicengagement

📷A.Heddergott

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” This Collection recognises the achievements of the Laureates. #chemsky 🧪

New work shows how to engineer phonons to potentially modify fundamental material properties, such as charge carrier mobilities, in perovskite thin films for light-harvesting and light-emitting technologies.

Read the OPN story: bit.ly/42wCuAO

#solar #energy #technology 💡⚛️🧪

In the latest OPN Market Report, Tom Hausken discusses the new opportunities optics and photonics is finding in the commercialized NewSpace industry.

Read the story for more! bit.ly/46LSdP5

#NewSpace #Space #Industry #Technology 💡⚛️

A new light-harvesting device mimics photosynthesis, combining organic semiconductors with bacterial enzymes to convert sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into fuel for further chemical transformations.

Read the OPN story: bit.ly/46V0pMV

#energy #technology #solar 💡⚛️🧪

For OPN's October issue, the team put together a beautiful collection of immersive #art installations that play with light and movement: bit.ly/4or4MFw

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📣 OPN's November issue is live 📣

Check it out for stories about AI factories, free-electron lasers and lithography, the super-star material silicon nitride and so much more! bit.ly/47fUReV

#AI #lasers #lithography #materials 💡⚛️🧪

There is just 3 days left to register for the Max Planck Science Policy Winter School, which aims to educate young scientist on the topic of science policy! Learn more at www.fkf.mpg.de/mpsps

Watercolour portrait of Ada Lovelace from 1840 in Victorian dress, digitally altered to hold a laptop, in the background a cascading binary code stream. Credit: Designergold for MPG

Happy #AdaLovelaceDay! 🤗A day to celebrate #WomenInSTEM 🎉, named after ‘poetical scientist’ #AdaLovelace, who in the 1840s (!) envisioned machines that could compose music, draw & calculate, & who wrote what’s considered the first algorithm for a computer: 100 years before they existed!💻

YouTube video by TUMuenchen Vorbild Pflanze: Künstliche Photosynthese im Labor

Curious about #artificialphotosynthesis? ☀️ Explore it on-site in the science #escaperoom Escape from Carbonia at the Deutsches Museum!
🎥 #PhD researcher Nina Miller shows how it works in the lab using #semiconductors: youtu.be/tWDPTsIcCM4

📹TUM / @e-conversion.bsky.social

Artificial photosynthesis uses #sunlight to drive #chemicalreactions — just like plants do.
See how this cutting-edge #research comes to life in the Escape from Carbonia game.
👉 www.tum.de/escape-from-carbonia

@e-conversion.bsky.social

Visit the full Escape from Carbonia experience at the Deutsches Museum #ScienceCommunication Lab:
🗓️October 11–17 (10 a.m.–3.30 p.m.)
🗓️October 18 (6 p.m.–12 a.m.) during the Long Night of Munich’s Museums

@e-conversion.bsky.social @w-i-d.de

Research for a sustainable energy future In our video series “EXplained,” we present the seven clusters of excellence with which our university is entering the next funding phase of the Excellence Competition. This episode focuses on the e-c...

In the latest EXplained episode, discover e-conversion, our #ClusterofExcellence that focuses on researching a #sustainable #energy future. Jennifer Rupp and Ian Sharp represent the cluster at our #university: go.tum.de/548997

#energyconversion @e-conversion.bsky.social

📷ProLehre

Fascinating EXplained episode about the #ClusterofExcellence @e-conversion.bsky.social, which has hosted a number of international IAS Fellows over the past years!

With a magnifying glass into the reaction center Turning greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide into valuable raw materials such as fuels is a true milestone for climate protection. That’s exactly what e-conversion researcher Christopher J. Stein, Pro...

Why describe chemical reactions with math? Realistic models help design better catalysts. A new study by @tum.de expert Christopher J. Stein shows how simulations can predict #CO₂Reduction on copper. The goal? Turn emissions into resources.

👉https://www.e-conversion.de/simulations-co2-reduction/