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Christian
Doppler
Laboratory
for Sustainable SynGas Chemistry (official website
- here) The Christian Doppler laboratory for
Sustainable SynGas Chemistry is housed in the Department
of Chemistry and part of the Reisner laboratory. The
Doppler project addresses application-oriented basic
research questions for a sustainable carbon-based
economy. Specifically, we aim to develop the basic
principles for a purely synthetic photochemical device
that allows for the light-driven conversion of the
greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and water to carbon
monoxide and hydrogen, a mixture known as syngas. Syngas
is an invaluable chemical feedstock for the
petrochemical industry and an attractive precursor to
produce hydrocarbons, liquid fuel.
The Christian Doppler
laboratory is jointly funded by the Austrian Christian
Doppler Research Association (CDG), the Federal Ministry
of Economy, Family and Youth, the National Foundation
for Research, Technology and Development and the OMV
Group for a period of seven years. The CDG is a non-profit organization that
supports basic science and technology to economically
relevant questions. The OMV Group is a
major oil- and gas group in Central Europe and Austria's
largest industrial company.
  
The Doppler laboratory was inaugurated on the 25th of April 2012 in the Todd Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry on Lensfield Road. The programme can be found - here. The start of the Doppler laboratory was featured in the news: Cambridge press release here and article in the national Austrian newspaper derStandard here (pdf, in German). Current members of the Christian Doppler Laboratory: Dr Moritz F. Kuehnel, Postdoctoral Research Associate (since August 2012) Dr Christine Caputo, Postdoctoral Research Associate (since September 2012) Dr Hyun S. Park, Postdoctoral Research Associate (since May 2013) Manuela Gross, PhD student (since April 2012) Yi-Hsuan Lai, PhD student (since July 2012) Janina Willkomm, PhD student (since April 2013) Former members of the Christian Doppler Laboratory: Dr Nicoleta M. Muresan, Postdoctoral Research Associate (2012) Bettina Basel (Doppler Summer student from the University of Erlangen, Germany, in 2012) Publications of the Christian Doppler Laboratory: “Facile assembly of an efficient CoOx “Immobilization of a Molecular Cobaloxime Catalyst for Hydrogen Evolution on a Mesoporous Metal Oxide Electrode.” Muresan, N. M.; Willkomm, J.; Mersch, D.; Vaynzof, Y.; Reisner, E. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, 51, 12749-12753 [to Paper] “Cu2O/NiOx nanocomposite as an inexpensive photocathode in photoelectrochemical water splitting.” Lin, C.-Y.; Lai, Y.-H.; Mersch, D.; Reisner, E. Chem. Sci., 2012, 3, 3482-3487 [to Paper] “Electron Transfer in Dye-sensitised Semiconductors Modified with Molecular Cobalt Catalysts: Photoreduction of Aqueous Protons.” Lakadamyali, F.; Reynal, A.; Kato, M.; Durrant, J. R.; Reisner, E. Chem. Eur. J., 2012 , 18, 15464–15475 [to Paper]. |
Pictures from the
inauguration: Group
Picture taken during Lab Tour on 25 April 2012; from
left to right: Mortiz Kühnel (postdoc), Masaru Kato
(postdoc), Walter Böhme (OMV), Ulrich Schubert (TU
Vienna), Martin Pilch (mbwfj), Daan Frenkel (HoD
Cambridge), Reinhardt Kögerler (CDG), Erwin Reisner,
Alexander Buchsbaum (OMV), Nicoleta Muresan (postdoc),
Manuela Gross (PhD), Janina Willkomm (UG student).
 Symposium Speakers on 25 April
2012: Reinhardt Kögerler (president
CDG), Walter Böhme (Head Science and
Innovation, OMV), Richard Friend (Cavendish professor of
Physics, Cambridge), Judy Hirst (Group leader MRC MBU,
Cambridge), Erwin Reisner (Head of Christian Doppler
laboratory, Cambridge).
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