Research Projects

The research conducted at the institute is mainly funded through public research projects and in bilateral cooperation with industry.

The listed projects appear in the order of their year of completion.

Current projects   |   Completed projects

2018

• LuZi: Bifunctional catalysts and gas diffusion electrodes for the electrical rechargeable zinc/air battery
  Period: 01.07.2015 – 30.06.2018 Partner: TU Clausthal, TU Ulm, WH Gelsenkirchen, FZ Jülich, ZSW Ulm & IoLiTec GmbH IMRE Singapore,...
• NIESEL – Niedrig schmelzende eutektische Solventien als Lösungsmittel für die Biokatalyse
  Period: 01.04.2015 - 31.03.2018     Partner: Autodisplay Biotech GmbH, Phytowelt Green Technologies GmbH,...

2019

• AlIon: A Low-Cost Aluminium-Ion Battery
  Period: 01.06.2015 – 31.05.2019 Partner: Acciona Infrastructure, Accurec Recycling GmbH, Albufera Energy Storage S.L., CEA -...
• P2X: Coking-resistant catalysts for high-temperature co-electrolysis of H2O and CO2 to syngas
  Period: 01.09.2016 – 31.08.2019 Partners: Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Fraunhofer...
• QuinoLight: Photocatalytic quinoline production from nitroaromatic compounds
  Period: 01.01.2016 – 30.09.2019 Partner: Universität Bayreuth, Chair of Physical Chemistry III, Research group Marschall...
• BioProMo - Biotechnological production of Monoterpenoid
  Period:  01.04.2016 - 31.03.2019 Partner: Universität Wageningen (Wageningen, NL) Centre de Recerca en AgriGenomica...
• Realization of AI/High Strength Steel: Joints by Ultrasound Supported Friction Stir Welding - Process and Robustness, Mechanical Properties using Destructive and Non-Destructive Testing Methods, Microstructure, Corrosion, and Joining Area Integrated Corro
  Period: 01.01.2013 - 30.06.2019 Partner: Prof. Dr.-Ing. G. Wagner, M. Thomä; TU Chemnitz, Lehrstuhl Verbundwerkstoffe Dr.-Ing. B....
• ElektroWirbel - Schließung industrieller Stoffkreisläufe durch neue elektrochemische Wirbelbettreaktoren
  Period: 01.09.2016 – 31.08.2019 Partner: Covestro Deutschland AG, Leverkusen, Deutschland Evonik Industries AG FuMA-Tech...
• Hydrogen peroxide dependent enzymes (peroxidases and lipases)
  Hydrogen peroxide is a mild and stable oxidant which can be regard as a "green" reactant. While it has been in use for traditional chemical syntheses for...
• MIKE – Methanation of CO₂ from biogas by microbial electrosynthesis
  Period: 01.09.2016 - 31.08.2019 Partner: Infraserv GmbH & Co. Höchst KG, Ifn FTZ GmbH, Provadis School of International Management and...
• Re-Salt - Recycling of industrial process water
  Period: 1.10.2016 ‑ 31.9.2019 Partner: Covestro Deutschalnd AG Donau Carbon GmbH Anwendungstechnik EnviroChemie GmbH...

2020

• BioFlow-Cell: Development of a bio-based electrolyte from anthocyanins for the positive half-cell of a redox-flow-battery
  Period: 01.02.2018 – 29.02.2020 Partner: PEUS-Testing GmbH Funder: Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)...
• GRA2KAT: Graded active layers based on graphenoid foam-supported alloy catalysts for MT-PEMFC
    Period: 01.10.2017 - 31.03.2020 Partner: Lehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie, Universität des Saarlandes Zentrum für...
• PhotoFlow - Photoelectrochemical Redox-Flow batteries
  Period: 01.08.2017 – 31.08.2020 Partner: JenaBatteries GmbH Prof. Dr. U. S. Schubert Volterion GmbH SGL Carbon SE...
• BioFlex Flexible Bioproduction with Cupriavidus necator
  Period: 01.08.2017 - 31.12.2020 Partner: Fraunhofer IFAM Dresden Phytowelt Funder:   BMBF Project...
• Development of an aluminum and vanadium-free titanium alloy based on technically pure titanium for use in osteosynthesis and implant technology
   Period:  01.01.2018 - 31.03.2021 Partner:   TU Braunschweig, Institut für Werkstoffe, Prof. Dr. J. Rösler...
• DegraBat - Degradation processes in All-Vanadium-Redox-Flow-Batteries
  Period: 1.6.2017 - 31.5.2020 Partner:                 ...
• Optimization of plasma-generated ceramic oxide layers on magnesium alloys through an improved interplay of the current-voltage regime and adapted inhibitors
  Period:  01.02.2020 - 31.07.2022 Partner: Fraunhofer IKTS Dresden Funder:   AiF Project Manager:...
• Methylobacterium extorquens – a microbial cell factory for production of chemicals from methanol
  Methanol represents an attractive, very flexible feedstock for industrial biotechnology. It is efficiently synthesized via syngas from cheap natural gas and...
• Development of thermal barrier coatings by plasma electrolytic oxidation
   Period:  01/10/2020 - 30/09/2022 Funder:   AiF Project Manager:  Dr. Stephan Lederer ...
• PhotoFlow - Photoelectrochemical Redox-Flow batteries
  Period: 01.08.2017 – 31.08.2020 Partner: JenaBateries GmbH Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Prof. Dr. U. S. Schubert...
• Radar - Wastewater Treatment with Radicals: Development of an Electrochemical Module for the production of oxidants for Wastewater Treatment
  Period: 01.04.2017 - 31.03.2020 Partner: Eisenhuth GmbH & Co. KG Evac GmbH Technische Universität Clausthal...
• ZellCoDia - A new combination of diamond and oxygen diffusion electrodes
  Period: 01.04.2017 – 31.03.2020 Partner:               ...

2021

• ALISS: Aluminium-ion batteries for stationary storage
    Period:  01.06.2020 -  31.05.2021 Partner: Physikalisch-chemisches Institut der Justus-Liebig-Universität...
• AliBatt: Preparation and characterization of novel electrode materials for the Al-ion battery
  Period: 01.01.2018 – 30.06.2021 Partner: IoLiTec GmbH, Fraunhofer ILSB, Fraunhofer IZM, TU Clausthal, RWTH Aachen Funder:...
• AlkaliBattery as world storage system
  Period: 2020-06-01 to 2021-05-31 Funder: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) Project Managers: Dr. Maren...
• Development of Environmental Barrier Coatings for SiC/SiC-Ceramic Matrix Composites via Pack Cementation
  Period: 2018-05-01 to 2021-02-28 Partner: MTU Aero Engines Funder: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)...
• Development of an Oxidation- and Wear-Resistant Coating for γ-based Titanium Aluminides
  Period: 2018-01-01 to 2021-04-30 Funder: Federal Ministry for Economics and Energy (BMWi, Germany) via AiF Project Manager:...
• Zinc Ion Battery: an economic and ecological alternative for large scale stationary storage
  Period:  01.01.2019 - 31.12.2021 Partner: Hoppecke Batterien GmbH & Co. KG, Universität Bremen, Fraunhofer IFAM, TU Clausthal,...
• Corrosion processes on cathodically protected pipelines with superimposed AC voltage (AC corrosion) and derivation of protective
  Period:  01.10.2018 - 31.03.2021 Funder:   AiF Project Manager:  M.Sc. Mario Markic Research Group:...
• AlkaliBattery as world storage system
  Period: 2020-06-01 to 2021-05-31 Funder: Federal Ministry of Education and Research Project Managers: Maren Lepple, Claudia...
• Aromatic and functional compounds by de novo biosynthesis and biotransformation with bacteria, yeasts and fungi in customized bioprocesses
    Period: 01.1.2018 - 31.12.2021 Partner: Hochschule Geisenheim University Justus-Liebig-University Giessen...
• ElektroDeHalo – Adsorption and electro-degradation of halogenated pollutants
  Period: 14.01.2019 – 30.06.2021 Partner: DWI – Leibniz-Institut für Interaktive Materialien Funder: Arbeitsgemeinschaft...
• Microbial Electrosyntheses - Research project evaluating the usage of electric energy for future microbial production processes
  Most industrial synthesis of fuels and chemicals are currently based on the use of fossil carbon sources such as oil, gas and coal. It has long been known...
• Microbial electrosynthesis
  Period: 01.03.2018 - 28.02.2021 Partner: Biochemical Engineering workgroup at DFI Funder: Bundesministerium für Bildung und...
• Development of photocatalytically active anodized layers for functional aluminum surfaces
  Period: 01.07.2019 - 31.12.2021 Partner: Christof Langer; fem Prof. Dr. Detlef Bahnemann, Technical Chemistry, University Hannover...
• Solid and Fluidized Bed Reactors for Electrobiotechnological Applications - Optimized Biofilm Formation and Scalable Reactor Concept
  Period: 01.05.2018 – 30.04.2021 Partner: Institute for Environmental Process Engineering - Bremen University Funder:...

2022

• Inhibitor Coatings against High Temperature Corrosion
  Period: 2019-02-01 to 2022-01-31 Funder: German Research Foundation (DFG) Project Manager: Christoph Grimme...
• Additive Manufacturing of Materials for C-rich High-Temperature Environments which suppress Coking and Metal Dusting by Catalytic Inhibition
  Period: 2019-11-01 to 2022-04-30 Partner: RWTH Aachen, Department of Ferrous Metallurgy (IEHK) Funder: Federal Ministry for...
• Investigation of the metal dusting resistance of high-alloyed materials and their weldings with and without onsite-aluminization
  Period: 2019-10-01 to 2022-03-31 Funder: Federal Ministry for Economics and Energy (BMWI, Germany) via AiF Project Manager:...
• Photoenzymatic cascade reactions: Photocatalytic in-situ hydrogen peroxide production for biocatalysis based on peroxidases
  Period: 01.11.2019-31.10.2022 Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Funding code: BL 1425/1-2 Project Manager:...
• Pt2Go2Pt: Sustainable use of platinum for electromobility
    Period: 01.05.2020 - 31.10.2022 Partner: Heraeus Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG Funder: HA Hessen Agentur...
• "Oxygen Diffusion Hardening (ODH)" of titanium group elements and their tribological properties
  Period: 2019-10-01 to 2022-09-30 Partner: Chair of Metals and Alloys, University Bayreuth Funder: German Research Foundation...
• Powering photoreactions with inductively coupled wireless light emitters (WLEs) located inside the reaction medium
  Period: 01.08.2019 – 31.07.2022 Funder: Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Förderkennzeichen: BL 1425/4-1 Project Managers:...
• MeGaPlan - Development of an electrochemically controllable sorption process with magnetic nanocomposite particles for the removal and recovery of Gd, Pt and their complex compounds
  Period: 01.11.2019 – 31.01.2022 Partner: Fraunhofer IWKS Funder:  Arbeitsgemeinschaft industrieller...
• SiCycle - Recycling of end-of-life photovoltaic modules
  Period: 01.03.2020 – 28.02.2022 Partner: TU Bergakademie Freiberg Funder: Arbeitsgemeinschaft industrieller...

2023

• CO2SimO: Photoelektrochemische CO2-Reduktion bei Simultaner Oxidativer Wertstoffgewinnung
  Laufzeit: 01.06.2020-31.05.2023 Partner: Universität Bayreuth, AG Marschall Leibniz Universität Hannover, AG Bahnemann...
• HTCoEl – Compact synthesis gas production by high-temperature co-electrolysis
  Period: 2020-3-1 to 2023-2-28 Partners: DLR , Sunfire , TU Dresden Funder: Federal Ministry of Education and Research...

2024

• COMPASsCO2: Components’ and Materials’ Performance for Advanced Solar Supercritical CO₂ Powerplants
  Sketch of the preliminary system configuration (Brayton cycle and temperature levels may change during the project development). Source: COMPASsCO2...
• Research Training Group MatCom – ComMat: High-temperature Stability in Harsh Environments – Hot Corrosion of Refractory Silicides
  Period: 2020-04-01 to 2024-09-30 Partners: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Technical University of Darmstadt Funder:...
• Research Training Group MatCom – ComMat: High-temperature oxidation behavior of ceramic coatings based on polymer-derived ceramic nanocomposites
  Period: 2020-04-01 to 2024-09-30 Partners: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Technical University of Darmstadt Funder:...

2025

• BMBF NanoMatFutur junior research group: multicomponent equiatomic oxides as high performance materials for future thermal barrier coatings
  Period: 2020-10-01 to 2025-09- 30 Funder: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) Project Manager: Patrick...