Abstract：

        A key feature of the current transition from a fossil based energy system to a carbon neutral, fully sustainable mode of operation is energy conversion and storage. EU countries are leaders in the field of Sustainable Energy Generation, but its intermittent Nature without novel storage will restrict its relative contribution to about 50 %, taken Germany as a typical case. This is why energy-to-chemicals schemes (“electrocatalysis”) and fundamentally new, denser and more affordable electron storage devices are eagerly needed.

        I will report in this presentation first on new, noble Carbons and COF-like, ionic Carbon Nitrides with extreme stability. These systems directly enable cocatalyst-free new electrocatalysis and new electrode constructions. Due to the positive work-function the new versions are remarkably suitable for single atom deposition and thereby represent a key step to extend the electronegativity and reactivity range of known metals (“making Ni to act as Pd”). Here I report on direct H₂O₂ synthesis and methane mono-oxidation by solar photochemistry.

        In electric energy storage, I will present the use of these systems for new, save metal anodes, for solid-state sulphur cathodes. If time allows, I will also report on a new, record breaking “Nitrogen-battery”, where we ideally can story 8 electrons per nitrogen atom.

Biosketch：

        Markus Antonietti is Director of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces and has contributed with about 1000 papers to the field of material/polymer chemistry in the last 20 years. His work was appreciated with a number of honours, and his current work is cited about 14000 times/year, with an H-index of 215. He is also an amateur chef of fusion cuisine and is playing in a rock band.