Read our paper with Ali Rauf’s group at Lahore University of Management Sciences on how to turn plastic waste and CO₂ into formic acid using electricity. We stabilised electrodes based on earth-abundant elements by redox-doping to enable simultaneous oxidation of ethylene glycol and reduction of CO₂. Both half-rections yield formic acid as the sole product, making this a green, convergent approach to valueable feedstocks currently produced from fossil reosurces (link to paper).

Moritz is appointed to a tenured position as Chair of Inorganic Chemistry (W3) in the Institute of Chemistry at the University of Hohenheim. Moritz also serves as managing director of the Institute of Chemistry and as Head of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry (formerly Department of Bioinorganic Chemistry and Chemical Evolution).

Read our paper with Sudha Pitchaimuthu’s group at Heriot-Watt on photoelectrochemical hydrogen production from wastewater. We demonstrate a dual protection strategy to enhance the stability of WO₃/BiVO₄ photoanodes with TiO₂, enabling us to couple it with hydrogen evolution from polluted mine effluent (link to paper).

Many thanks to the Chairs for selecting Moritz’s abstract for a talk at the upcoming Renewable Energy: Solar Fuels Gordon Research Conference held in Ventura, California on 4^th-9^th February 2024 (link to conference).