Prof. Dr. Karl J.J. Mayrhofer
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Prof. Dr. Karl J. J. Mayrhofer

Director of Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg (HI ERN)

Head of ‘Electrocatalysis’ research department at HI ERN

  • Electrochemical reactions that occur at solid-liquid interfaces and are relevant to electrochemical energy conversion (fuel cells, water or CO2 electrolysers etc)
  • Reactions of interest include oxygen evolution, oxygen reduction, and carbon dioxide reduction
    • focus on finding active, selective and stable electrode materials for such reactions and subsequently integrating them into real systems
  • Development of innovative tools for on-line monitoring of electrochemical reactions by coupling sophisticated electrochemical cells (e.g. the scanning flow cell) with highly-sensitive analytical techniques like ICP-MS or QMS

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