[Translate to Englisch:] Malte Behrens

Malte Behrens

Prof. Dr.

Professorship for Solid State Chemistry and Catalysis at CAU Kiel
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Contact:
Postal address
Max-Eyth-Str. 2, 24118 Kiel
Languages:
German English

Short description

Head of the Solid State Chemistry and Catalysis group at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at CAU Kiel with research interests in the field of materials chemistry of solid state catalysts for energy storage and conversion reactions, in particular for the generation and chemical storage of green hydrogen.

Research data

Academic degree
Professor
Department
Engineering
Research topic

Electrocatalysis of water splitting, catalysts for CO2 hydrogenations, catalysts for power-to-liquids, catalysts for power-to-gas, ammonia synthesis, ammonia decomposition, methanol synthesis, methanol steam reforming.

Research institute
Kiel University
Location of the research institute
Kiel
Department/Faculty
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Institution
Institute for Inorganic Chemistry
Chair
Solid state chemistry and catalysis

Career

Education
Dipl.-Chemist 2002 (CAU Kiel)
Dr. rer. nat. 2006 (CAU Kiel)
Dr. habil. 2013 (TU Berlin)
Experience
Group leader at the Fritz Haber Institute of the MPG in Berlin (2008 - 2014)
Professorship for Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen (2014 - 2020)
Professorship for Solid State Chemistry and Catalysis at CAU Kiel (since 2020)

Publications and projects

Selected publications
Benjamin Mockenhaupt, Philipp Schwiderowski, Jelena Jelic, Felix Studt, Martin Muhler, and Malte Behrens, 2023, High-Pressure Pulsing of Ammonia Results in Carbamate as Strongly Inhibiting Adsorbate of Methanol Synthesis over Cu/ZnO/Al2O3, J. Phys. Chem. C, 127, 7, 3497–3505, DOI10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c08823 (Link to publication)
Anna Rabe, Julia Büker, Soma Salamon, Adarsh Koul, Ulrich Hagemann, Joachim Landers, Klaus Friedel Ortega, Baoxiang Peng, Martin Muhler, Heiko Wende, Wolfgang Schuhmann, Malte Behrens, 2021, The Roles of Composition and Mesostructure of Cobalt-Based Spinel Catalysts in Oxygen Evolution Reactions, Chem. Eur. J., 27, 68, 17038-17048, DOI10.1002/chem.202102400 (Link to publication)
Kalapu Chakrapani, Georg Bendt, Hamidreza Hajiyani, Thomas Lunkenbein, Mark T. Greiner, Liudmyla Masliuk, Soma Salamon, Joachim Landers, Robert Schlögl Heiko Wende, Rossitza Pentcheva, Stephan Schulz, Malte Behrens, 2018, The Role of Composition of Uniform and Highly Dispersed Cobalt Vanadium Iron Spinel Nanocrystals for Oxygen Electrocatalysis, ACS Catal., 8, 2, 1259–1267, DOI10.1021/acscatal.7b03529 (Link to publication)
Selected sponsored projects
TransHyDE: hydrogen transport, BMBF (Link to project)
H2-Giga: mass production, BMBF (Link to project)
SPP 2080: Catalysts and reactors under dynamic operating conditions for energy storage and conversion (Link to project)

Committees and Awards

Selected awards
Jochen Block Award 2023
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