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The ERC project TUCAS started in 2017 and was initially part of our research group „Electrocatalysis at Surfaces“ at the Institute of Materials Chemistry at the Vienna University of Technology. In October 2022, we moved to Leoben, where we are now a part of the Chair for Physical Chemistry at the Montanuniversity Leoben. Specifically, TUCAS deals with perovskite materials, their surfaces, and ways to influence their properties (like stability and activity) by various measures: doping, pre-treatment (in different atmospheres), polarisation, exsolution of nanoparticles…
These perovskite materials are especially interesting, as they show great potential in processes relating to renewable energy production and chemical energy storage.
In 2022, TUCAS+CO2 was approved by the ERC (as Proof of Concept Grant). This extension of our fundamental research project TUCAS aims to extend the results towards industrial applications.
December 2024
Flo successfully defended his thesis and, thus, ascended to the ranks of TUCAS postdocs. He is the first PhD student to do so “fully” within TUCAS (i.e. without co-supervision).
Congratulations!!!
Tobi’s ASEA-UNINET project was granted—so he will leave us for Thailand next summer.
Congratulations!
November 2024
Flo’s beamtime proposal for the DESY was granted. Hamburg, we will see you in June.
October 2024
TUCAS Fact of the ... 404—Time range not found
Here, we will regularly present funny and/or interesting facts – on occasion maybe even a dad-joke-y quote (not to name names but probably by Florenz).
TUCAS Fact #34:
A lost painting by Hungarian avant-garde artist Róbert Berény was re-discovered because of the 1999 movie “Stuart Little”:
A set designer purchased the painting “Sleeping Lady with Black Vase” in an antique store in California and used it as decoration. In 2009, art historian Gergely Barki “discovered” the painting while watching the film and was able to track it down.
TUCAS is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement no. 755744.
