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Improving the efficiency of photoelectrochemical cells requires detailed understanding of all that is going on at the electrode surface. In an ACS Catalysis paper, the Bieberle group shows how a novel modeling approach not only explains what is happening, it can also guide selection of better performing materials.

Minister Ingrid Van Engelshoven van het Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap heeft een werkbezoek gebracht aan DIFFER. Dit gebeurde vanwege corona online. Het bezoek was op maandag 7 december 2020.

It sounds like a do-it-yourself project: take a tube light and convert it into a chemical  reactor. Yet DIFFER researcher Edwin Devid receives a NWO XS grant to do just that. Within a year, Devid wants to build a device that can efficiently convert CO2 into green chemicals and fuels with renewable electricity.

DIFFER organized a celebration event to thank former director Richard van de Sanden for his 10 years giving guidance to the institute. The celebration was on November 26, 2020.

Tijs Wijkamp won the Shell Graduation Award for Physics 2020 for the master project he carried out at DIFFER. The award is one of the annual Young Talent Awards by the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities).