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In order to be CO2 neutral by 2050, significant upscaling of technology and intensification of research and innovation in hydrogen and green chemistry will be needed in the coming years.

It was a practical with a calorimeter – how do you heat up a litre of water – during the physics open day, which caused Matthijs van Berkel to decide not to study physics. ‘I found heating up water quite dull.

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.