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New Landmark Review Published in Nature Reviews Clean Energy more

Minerva Carbon aims to develop high-performance carbon materials for sustainable energy storage technologies. The deep-tech startup was founded by Dr. Abdu Bilican, Jonas Gram, Julius Kaiser, and Nguyen-Khang Tran.
Bilican developed the synthesis process as a doctoral student in Dr. Wolfgang Schmidt’s research group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung. It is expected to help make batteries more powerful in the future. more

The Max Planck Institute is participating in a DFG project, funded with 9.2 million euros, aimed at developing more efficient catalysts. As part of this project, Dr. Constanze Neumann and her team are researching metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) that convert homogeneous catalysts into heterogeneous ones and make them reusable multiple times. more

Researchers achieve first total synthesis of the nominal and actual natural product Benthol A more

Steffi Dehn is a technician and the new chair of the works council more

Innovative helium recovery system reduces consumption and enhances supply reliability in NMR spectroscopy. more

Committee once again gives the academic institution the highest marks more

Flóra Barasits works as a doctoral researcher at the MPI more

The visit was marked by an intensive academic exchange with the renowned theoretical chemist more

Great honor for a Group Leader of our Institute more