A few weeks ago, we had the joy of listening to an engaging colloquium talk by Alec Wodtke (MPI for Multidisziplinary Sciences), who was "Bridging the Gap in Heterogeneous #Catalysis". Now you can listen to his talk on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/YU_IM2FIReU?... Enjoy! @chemistry-tuw.bsky.social

The 6th and last invited talk at our recent TACO Retreat was delivered by Johannes Margraf/@unibayreuth.bsky.social, who showed "How Foundation Models for Atomistic Modelling are Changing #Materials Discovery". Here is his talk video on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/i46DEXQlnJk?... Enjoy!

The next TACO Colloquium is coming up! Marc Koper/@unileiden.bsky.social will present the "Electric Double Layer of Platinum Electrodes" at 5 pm on Mon, Nov 24. You will find all essential information, including credentials for remote participation, on our TACO website: sfb-taco.at/electric-dou...

Alexander Ganose/@virtualatoms.bsky.social introduced the #Materials Project at the TACO Retreat, highlighting the latest work on developing automated workflows for obtaining electronic and thermal transport properties in materials discovery efforts. See his talk video here: youtu.be/BwKbpR3Qgrs

The next video of an invited talk at the TACO Retreat went live. Benjamin Rotenberg/@sorbonne-universite.fr was "Making Sense of Electrical Noise by Simulating #Electrolyte Solutions". Here is the video of his presentation on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/tiwNetCQMYk?... Enjoy!

Lorenzo Monacelli from Sapienza Università di Roma gave an invited talk at the TACO Retreat in September about "Quantum Simulations of Ions" (full title below). The video of his recorded talk in now available on our TACO YouTube channel: youtu.be/d7ki3t-wpHs?... Enjoy!

Greg Kimmel (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) delivered the second invited talk at the TACO Retreat: "The Structure and Reactivity of Water and Carboxylic Acids on Model TiO2 Catalysts". The talk video is now online on our TACO YouTube channel: youtu.be/JBG5TnrBS6w

In the days ahead, we will publish videos of the invited talks by renowned international scientists we enjoyed at our retreat in September. The first one is the talk "Towards Improved Methodology for #Photocatalysis Simulations" by Hannes Jonsson (University of Iceland): youtu.be/NNRQakayH3U Enjoy!

Alec Wodtke from the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences delivering his colloquium talk about "Bridging the Pressure Gap in Heterogeneous Catalysis":

Right now, our project members enjoy a retreat at Steinschaler Dörfl, Lower Austria, and have intense scientific exchanges during talks and poster sessions. The happy faces in the workshop photo prove that the meeting is very fruitful!

Invitation to our next TACO Colloquium on Oct 6: Alec Wodtke will be "Bridging the Pressure Gap in Heterogeneous #Catalysis" in his talk at the Faculty of Chemistry at @univie.ac.at. All details, including credentials for remote participation, are on our project website: sfb-taco.at/bridging-the...

Some scientists in the fog (and other creatures) at the retreat of @taco-oxides.bsky.social in Frankenfels, Lower Austria.

🔬 Find the results of our beautiful collaboration 🤝 with the Rupprechter-Lab and the TACO team @taco-oxides.bsky.social at TU Wien in this new paper. We have provided a reference catalyst to benchmark their impressive and precise single-atom alloy #catalysis […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Greetings from the Psi-k conference! Several TACO researchers, such as Ralf Wanzenböck, Eva Doloszeski, Georg Madsen, and Georg Kresse, are currently attending the Psi-k conference, the world's largest conference in electronic-structure, at EPFL in Switzerland. Have a successful meeting!

Have you seen the newest talk video on our YouTube channel? Olga Safonova (PSI Villigen) uncovered “Active Sites in Heterogeneous Catalysts Using Operando X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy” in her colloquium talk in June. Here is the video link: youtu.be/r92M47WLbwo Enjoy!

Inspiring week in Zaragoza @Zcam workshop zcam.bifi.es/2025/02/08/i... @unizar.es @taco-oxides.bsky.social

Frieder Mugele from the University of Twente also gave a TACO colloquium talk. The talk title was "Atomic Force and Confocal Raman Microscopy Studies at Mineral and Photocatalytic Semiconductor Surfaces in Ambient Electrolyte". Enjoy the video on our TACO YouTube channel: youtu.be/XVvwZnZWPB0

We have new talk videos on our TACO YouTube channel! M. Veronica Ganduglia-Pirovano gave an inspiring colloquium talk entitled "Metal-CeO2 Interfaces and their Role in Methane Conversion to Fuels". The topic is also motivated by tackling man-made climate change. Enjoy! youtu.be/PwtPRMY_tEM

Congratulations to TACO PhD student Alexander Imre for this big success! He was awarded the ICSOS Young Scientist Prize at last week's ECSCD/ICSOS Conference for convincing the jury with his talk entitled “ViPErLEED and Parameter-Tree-Based Tensor LEED”. 🥳👏

Following the ECSCD/ICSOS Conference this week, our TACO project hosts a LEED-I(V) Workshop that convenes the LEED community and presents applications of the ViPErLEED package, developed by our group. Today, the participants do structure calculations in hands-on labs with the @vscluster.bsky.social.

1/2 This week, @tuwien.at hosts the ECSCD/ICSOS* conference, where the newest developments in surface structure, crystallography, and dynamics are presented. Here, Lutz Hammer (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) presents "Today's Possibilities, Demands, and Limitations of LEED Structure Determination".

#LabNews New publication in @digital-discovery.rsc.org @royalsociety.org by our PhD student Jakob Baumsteiger on #ML for non-collinear spin energies. In cooperation with Todorovic @utu.fi and Rinke @tu-munich.bsky.social pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

#LabNews Our paper introducing #LEOPOLD (LEarning Of POlaron Dynamics), a software based on message-passing neural networks, has been published in Physical Review Letters. @apsphysics.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @univie-physik.bsky.social @taco-oxides.bsky.social journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

Wonderful @taco-oxides.bsky.social talk given by Julia Wiktor in Vienna today. @juliawiktor.bsky.social

Our TACO project runs two more social media channels. Our LinkedIn page already has 483 followers - soon also you? www.linkedin.com/company/7960...

Our TACO project runs a YouTube channel where we publish short videos with our scientists, but also talks of invited speakers at our project events. Here is the link to our channel: youtube.com/@taco_oxides...

This is the account of the collaborative project TACO, hosted by @tuwien.at and @univie.ac.at, and funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social. TACO does surface science on the atomic scale and focuses on complex oxides. It combines 4 theoretical PIs & 5 experimentalist PIs. Here, we feature project updates.

Good discussions about ice nucleation at our Feldspar Day in Vienna (with strong participation from @taco-oxides.bsky.social) @univie.ac.at @tuwien.at

Hello world! Hello @chhdellago.bsky.social, hello @cesarefranchini.bsky.social! Are there more TACO scientists on bluesky?