Functional ceramics play a crucial role in energy technologies, but their environmental impact is often overlooked. A new review from @tum.de researchers takes a full value-chain perspective. www.e-conversion.de/functional-c...

🎉 A strong finish for "Escape from Carbonia": The sessions at the Deutsches Museum and at SPIELWIESN Augsburg marked the final sprint of our Science Escape Game - and immersive science communication. Take a look 📷 👇 www.e-conversion.de/escape-carbo... @tum.de @w-i-d.de

We are proud to announce that e-conversion expert Prof. Jennifer L.M. Rupp from @tum.de has been elected to the Materials Research Society's Board of Directors starting in 2026 — a great recognition of her work. Congratulations! 🎉 www.e-conversion.de/mrs-rupp-boa... #materials #energy #research

Four days of energy, ideas and exchange at the e-conversion Cluster Conference 2025 in Tutzing ⚡ Don’t miss the highlights – check out the photo gallery 📸 here: www.e-conversion.de/cluster-conf... #science #research #ClustersOfExcellence #EnergyResearch #ScienceConference

Congrats to 14 of our scientists, including Rupert Seidl, who have been recognized in the latest Highly Cited Researchers #rankings. This analysis reviews global #publications from 2014 to 2024: go.tum.de/537241 👏 #HighlyCited2025 📷A. Eckert

💪 #ERC Synergy Grants: Großer Erfolg für die #LMU✨ Der Physiker Tim Liedl, der Biochemiker Roland Beckmann und der Meteorologe Fabian Hoffmann haben an der LMU in Kooperation mit internationalen Forschungsteams jeweils einen #SynergyGrant eingeworben. #ERCSynergyGrants #LMUMuenchen

Can magnetic fields speed up the energy transition? That’s what Karsten Reuter from @thdept-fhi-mpg.bsky.social @fhi-mpg.bsky.social and his team are trying to find out. Their project MAGNESIS has just been awarded an ERC Synergy Grant. www.e-conversion.de/magnesis-erc... Congratulations 👏

Meet the silent saboteurs hiding inside solid-state batteries: Lithium dendrites. Researchers in the team of @muellerb.bsky.social at @tum.de have discovered that these tiny structures can form deep inside polymer electrolytes. Curious how? 👇 www.e-conversion.de/lithium-dend...

🌍⚡ Can magnets help build a cleaner energy future? Over the moon to announce that this is the question our @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grant-funded project MAGNESIS will be tackling! ⚡🧲 Press Release: www.fhi.mpg.de/2157238/2025... Project digest below 👇 #ERC #MAGNESIS #GreenEnergy #Science

🚀 ¡Nueva subvención #ERCSyG para IMDEA Nanociencia! #MAGNESIS explorará el campo emergente de la magnetoelectrocatalisis ⚡🧲 nanociencia.imdea.org/es/imdea-nan... 🇪🇸 Galán-Mascarós @ICIQ.org 🇩🇪 K. Reuter @fhi-mpg.bsky.social 🇩🇰 J.V. Lauritsen @au.dk 🇪🇸 D. Écija @imdeanano.bsky.social

Congratulations! In the current call of the European Research Council, Max Planck researchers have secured five Synergy Grants. Together with the University of Cambridge, we are among the top three most successful #research institutions in #Europe ! 🙌 www.mpg.de/25684336/erc... @erc.europa.eu

Dendrites can cause short circuits in #lithiumbatteries. Researchers, including Fabian Apfelbeck, found such structures may also form inside polymer-based #electrolytes, not only at electrodes. This finding could improve solid-state #batteries: go.tum.de/518497 📷V.Hiendl/ @e-conversion.bsky.social

Solid-state batteries, closer than you think. Qkera’s Co-Founder and CTO Dr Andreas Weis explains how oxide-ceramic electrolytes could change the game! Qkera was founded in 2024 as a spin-off from @tum.de and @mit.edu. www.e-conversion.de/andreas-weis...

Scientists, including Alexander Fraser, studied how text-to-image generators deal with #gender stereotypes in various #languages. The results show that the models not only reflect #genderbiases, but also amplify them: go.tum.de/446018 #AI #LLMs 📷T. Algeri

Let’s take a closer look at our next #scienceglossary term for the research field #energy: “catalysis". #Catalysts can be metals, chemical compounds, or enzymes — they speed up reactions without being used up: go.tum.de/917142 📷TUM CCC/ T. Hamacher

🔋 Solid-state batteries, redefined ⚡Munich-based startup Qkera secures a seven-figure pre-seed led by InnoEnergy to scale its ceramic electrolyte tech — safer, faster, and built for industry. 👉https://www.e-conversion.de/innoenergy_qkera_en/ @tum.de @mit.edu

In our #scienceglossary for the research field #energy, today’s term is "sector coupling". #Energysectors are the different areas of the economy where energy is produced, converted, distributed, and used: go.tum.de/917142 📷TUM CCC/ T. Hamacher

Our #university launched the TUM #PublicScience Lab — a new platform where science engages with society. The lab brings together diverse perspectives to address major #societalchallenges and promote #sustainableinnovation: go.tum.de/583509 #publicengagement 📷A.Heddergott

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” This Collection recognises the achievements of the Laureates. #chemsky 🧪

New work shows how to engineer phonons to potentially modify fundamental material properties, such as charge carrier mobilities, in perovskite thin films for light-harvesting and light-emitting technologies. Read the OPN story: bit.ly/42wCuAO #solar #energy #technology 💡⚛️🧪

In the latest OPN Market Report, Tom Hausken discusses the new opportunities optics and photonics is finding in the commercialized NewSpace industry. Read the story for more! bit.ly/46LSdP5 #NewSpace #Space #Industry #Technology 💡⚛️

A new light-harvesting device mimics photosynthesis, combining organic semiconductors with bacterial enzymes to convert sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into fuel for further chemical transformations. Read the OPN story: bit.ly/46V0pMV #energy #technology #solar 💡⚛️🧪

For OPN's October issue, the team put together a beautiful collection of immersive #art installations that play with light and movement: bit.ly/4or4MFw 💡⚛️🧪

📣 OPN's November issue is live 📣 Check it out for stories about AI factories, free-electron lasers and lithography, the super-star material silicon nitride and so much more! bit.ly/47fUReV #AI #lasers #lithography #materials 💡⚛️🧪

There is just 3 days left to register for the Max Planck Science Policy Winter School, which aims to educate young scientist on the topic of science policy! Learn more at www.fkf.mpg.de/mpsps

Happy #AdaLovelaceDay! 🤗A day to celebrate #WomenInSTEM 🎉, named after ‘poetical scientist’ #AdaLovelace, who in the 1840s (!) envisioned machines that could compose music, draw & calculate, & who wrote what’s considered the first algorithm for a computer: 100 years before they existed!💻

Curious about #artificialphotosynthesis? ☀️ Explore it on-site in the science #escaperoom Escape from Carbonia at the Deutsches Museum! 🎥 #PhD researcher Nina Miller shows how it works in the lab using #semiconductors: youtu.be/tWDPTsIcCM4 📹TUM / @e-conversion.bsky.social

Artificial photosynthesis uses #sunlight to drive #chemicalreactions — just like plants do. See how this cutting-edge #research comes to life in the Escape from Carbonia game. 👉 www.tum.de/escape-from-carbonia @e-conversion.bsky.social

Visit the full Escape from Carbonia experience at the Deutsches Museum #ScienceCommunication Lab: 🗓️October 11–17 (10 a.m.–3.30 p.m.) 🗓️October 18 (6 p.m.–12 a.m.) during the Long Night of Munich’s Museums @e-conversion.bsky.social @w-i-d.de

In the latest EXplained episode, discover e-conversion, our #ClusterofExcellence that focuses on researching a #sustainable #energy future. Jennifer Rupp and Ian Sharp represent the cluster at our #university: go.tum.de/548997 #energyconversion @e-conversion.bsky.social 📷ProLehre

Fascinating EXplained episode about the #ClusterofExcellence @e-conversion.bsky.social, which has hosted a number of international IAS Fellows over the past years!

Why describe chemical reactions with math? Realistic models help design better catalysts. A new study by @tum.de expert Christopher J. Stein shows how simulations can predict #CO₂Reduction on copper. The goal? Turn emissions into resources. 👉https://www.e-conversion.de/simulations-co2-reduction/

Do you want to stay ahead of developments in AI and learn first-hand experiences of applying them in your chemistry work? Join leading experts to discuss best practice tips for working across disciplines. Register now: https://rsc.li/3Ie3Kx7 #ChemSky

Nature research paper: A room temperature rechargeable all-solid-state hydride ion battery go.nature.com/4pKlpNZ

By capturing not just the shape of light but also its timing and color, researchers can provide more detailed, dynamic 3D images. Learn more in this week’s issue of #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/46FmSgH

Now is the time for getting adsorbed in the pores of #EuroMOF 2025 @euromof.bsky.social

I will give a talk about MOCOFs at Oral 45 on Tuesday morning #EuroMOF

📢Jetzt anmelden: Beim Leopoldina-Symposium „New World Disorder“ am 6./7.10. in Berlin kommen führende ExpertInnen aus Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft zusammen, um über die aktuellen Herausforderungen in #Geopolitik und #Weltwirtschaft zu sprechen. ➡️ www.leopoldina.org/veranstaltun...

Are you interested to explore how to turn your research into a tech spin-off? TUM Climate Ventures is your launchpad.

A #nanophotonics breakthrough 🚀 Researchers at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social show how to switch light resonances on & off in just picoseconds using metasurfaces. Potential impact: ⚡️solar cells, 🌱 photocatalysis, 💡 ultrafast photonic circuits. Published in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔬 Towards Operando Nanoscale Microscopy & Spectroscopy – 7 Oct 2025, Munich. Workshop on real-time insights into energy conversion at the nanoscale. Register by 29 Sept. 🔗 www.e-conversion.de/workshop-tow...

🔬 Towards Operando Nanoscale Microscopy & Spectroscopy – 7 Oct 2025, Munich. Workshop on real-time insights into energy conversion at the nanoscale. Register by 29 Sept. 🔗 www.e-conversion.de/workshop-tow...

S. Yin et al. in Adv. Mater. Interfaces @ACS_AMI: "#Structural #Evolution During Repeated #Spray #Deposition of #FeCl3-Doped Poly(Styrene)-b-Poly(4-#Vinyl #Pyridine) #Layers: Advanced Materials Interfaces 12, e00298 (2025) doi.org/10.1002/admi...

Solid-state batteries could revolutionize energy storage — if we get the electrolyte right. A new study from the @lotschgroup.bsky.social shows promising results for scalable, safer, and more sustainable batteries. 👉 doi.org/10.1039/D5EB... #solidstate #batteries #energymaterials #econversion

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Solid-state batteries could revolutionize energy storage — if we get the electrolyte right. A new study from the @lotschgroup.bsky.social shows promising results for scalable, safer, and more sustainable batteries. 👉 doi.org/10.1039/D5EB... #solidstate #batteries #energymaterials #econversion

We’re proud to announce that ACS Applied Engineering Materials has received its first #ImpactFactor of 3.5. Explore all metrics available to understand the reach, impact, and influence of ACS Applied #Engineering Materials: buff.ly/HR4eHh1

Collaborator Qing Chen et al. in Advanced Materials & Interfaces @ACS_AMI: "#Reconfigurable Soft #Actuators Constructed via #Layer-by-layer Assembly": Advanced Materials Interfaces 12, 2500269 (2025) doi.org/10.1002/admi...

In keynote and invited lectures, the possibilities and new trends in GISAXS and GISANS will be highlighted with a special emphasis on real-time investigations and data analysis. DEADLINE for abstract submission: 1st September 2025