Let’s get packing! The Kühnel Lab is moving to the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart (Germany). Moritz accepted a position as Acting Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry from 1st October 2023.
Kühnel Lab moves to Germany
Author: chemopsycho
Kühnel-Lab zieht nach Deutschland
Kisten packen! Das Kühnel-Lab zieht an die Universität Hohenheim in Stuttgart. Moritz übernimmt ab 1.10.2023 die Vertretung der Professur für Anorganische Chemie (ehemals Prof. Henry Strasdeit) am Institut für Chemie und wird dessen Geschäftsführender Direktor.
New domain names
Our new domains kuehnel-lab.de and kuehnel-lab.com have been registered and connected. Migration to kuehnel-lab and German website are work in progess.
Posterpreis für Léonard
Glückwunsch an Léonard für die Auszeichnung seines Posters “Electroenzymatic CO2-to-CO conversion in Deep Eutectic Solvents by Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenase” als Best Poster im Symposium 2: Bioleectrochemistry des 74ten ISE-Meetings in Lyon.
Léonard wins poster prize
Congrats to Léonard for winning the Best Poster Prize at the 74th ISE meeting in Lyon at Symposium 2: Bioleectrochemistry for his poster entitled “Electroenzymatic CO2-to-CO conversion in Deep Eutectic Solvents by Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenase”.
Paper in I&EC Research
Read our paper together with Sudha Pitchaimuthu’s group at Heriot-Watt on simultaneous photoelectrochemical hydrogen production and wastewater treatment. We demonstrate degradation of surfactants – common pollutants in domestic and industrial wastewater – using a WO3/BiVO4 photoanode and couple it with hydrogen evolution (link to paper).
Léonard passes first year viva
Congratulations to Léonard for passing his first year PhD progression examination (Comité de Suivi Individuel de première année) in Grenoble! Many thanks to the examiners Noémi Lalaoui, Laurent Dessemond and Bertand Reuillard and to Alan, Christine and Léonard for a very nice welcome to Grenoble.
Paper in J Environ Chem Eng
Two birds with one stone. Photoelectrochemical hydrogen production can be coupled with effective degradation of pharmaceutical pollutants in wastewater. Read our paper together with Sudha Pitchaimuthu’s group at Heriot-Watt in which we use ibuprofen as a model and degrade it to hydrogen and non-hazardous species via in situ H2O2 generation (link to paper).
Paper in Energies
Around the world, hydrogen test centres are being built. Read our review on what you need to consider when performing large-scale tests of hydrogen technologies such as electrolysis, photoelectrochemistry and photocatalysis (link to paper).
Paper in Angewandte Chemie
Read Michael’s paper on making hydrogenase oxygen-tolerant using deep eutectic solvents (link to paper). This work was done in collaboration with the groups of Alan Le Goff (CNRS) and Christine Cavazza (CEA) in Grenoble.
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