What's UniSysCat all about?

UniSysCat stands for Unifying Systems in Catalysis. We are a Cluster of Excellence - more than 300 researchers from four universities and four research institutes in the Berlin and Potsdam area - working jointly together on current challenges in the highly relevant field of catalysis.

UniSysCat unites biologists, chemists, engineers and physicists with the aim to revolutionize catalysis research.

News

In an interdisciplinary approach, six UniSysCat-related research groups investigated the isolated core unit of a [NiFe]-hydrogenase, which displays basic catalytic properties and may serve as blueprint for chemically…

Scientific researchers at UniSysCat are collaborating on a research project to evaluate the immune status of the population against COVID-19.

Prof. Dr. Juri Rappsilber from the TU-Berlin is working together with other colleagues from the TUB and the Charite on the SARS-CoV-2 virus. They are collecting specific information regarding structure and interaction of…

The collaboration of three UniSysCat group of Petra Wendler and of Silke Leimkühler (University of Potsdam) and Christian Teutloff from the Bittl group located at FU Berlin obtained detailed insight into the structure and…

The recent research work of the UniSysCat group from Martin Oestreich was distinguished as very important paper in Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), in which they present the synthesis of a supercharged…

In a collaborative study, chosen as hot paper, the UniSysCat team of L. Lauterbach, coupled together with the groups of U.-P. Apfel, and B. M. Nestl bio- with chemocatalysts for the electro-driven synthesis of methylated…

Researchers from four institutions in UniSysCat have developed a noble-metal free electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER).

The Clara Immerwahr Award ceremony took place in the TU Berlin's gorgeous atrium in the main building. The ceremony begain with opening remarks by the President of the TU Berlin, Prof. Dr. Christian Thomsen, followed by a…

More than 150 UniSysCat scientists met on the dates of 10. – 12. February 2020 in the central building of the Max Planck Campus in Potsdam-Golm to discuss recent research achievements within the five research fields of the…

A research team around the UniSysCat scientists Oliver Lenz and Martin Oestreich uncovered the reaction mechanism of a novel biocatalyst involved in the synthesis of carbon monoxide.

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"Making the world better with chemistry" - John Warner

Consortium

Unifying Systems in Catalysis (UniSysCat) is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany´s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2008– 390540038