ERC Synergy Grant
Award year: 2023
Category: Scholarship / Grant
Type: ERC Synergy Grant
Awarding organization: Europäischer Forschungsrat (ERC)
In the project, “Directed Evolution of Metastable Electrocatalyst Interfaces for Energy Conversion”, DEMI for short, researchers from Germany, Denmark and Switzerland are systematically looking for electrocatalysts for manufacturing hydrogen. The project team is following an evolutionary strategy. They calculate and simulate promising material combinations, make small adjustments to them and check whether these have a positive or negative effect. Working systematically like this, the researchers hope to track down new, improved materials. A “material library” should allow researchers to create thousands of compounds at the same time, expose them to extreme electrochemical conditions and thereby identify the “survivors” very quickly.