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A team featuring the UniSysCat groups of Walid Hetaba, Reinhard Schomäcker and Arne Thomas successfully synthesized multifunctional catalysts with a controllable distance between their active sites - a key goal of UniSysCat.

The Einstein Foundation's magazine "Albert No. 6 - Catalysis" introducing the work of several UniSysCat researchers has been awarded three publishing prices. Congratulations!

UniSysCat member Prof. Oestreich receives the WACKER silicone award in recognition of his pioneering work in the field of organic and organosilicon chemistry.

A research team around UniSysCat group leaders Prof. Matthias Driess and Prof. Robert Schlögl has found that direct seawater splitting for hydrogen production has substantial drawbacks compared to the conventional approach.

"The joint project CatLab shall revolutionize the world of catalysis." With these heavy words, CatLab, the new catalysis research center in Berlin, was inaugurated on June 21, 2021.

Prof. Dr. Holger Dobbek, vice chair of UniSyscat, has been elected as a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities appreciating his scientific achievements and personality.

Mit dieser Frage beschäftigt sich UniSysCat Gruppenleiter Prof. Dr. Joachim Heberle als Ombudsman der DFG zusammen mit Dr. Hjördis Czesnick in ihrem gemeinsamen Artikel im Bunsen-Magazin.

This friday, the 23rd of April 2020, at 1600 the Clara Immerwahr Award Ceremony will be livestreamed on Youtube.

Asthe proclamation letter from the society indicates, UniSysCat member Prof. Markus Antonietti from MPIKG Potsdam has been bestowed "the highest honor on the world's most distinguished chemists".

UniSysCat member Peter Strasser receives the Faraday Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) for his outstanding contributions in the field of electrochemistry.