Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion
| Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion |
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| Category: | research Institute |
| Carrier: | Max Planck Society |
| Legal form of the carrier: | society |
| Facility location: | Mülheim an der Ruhr |
| Type of research: | Basic research |
| Subjects: | Natural sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | Heterogeneous Reactions , Inorganic Chemistry and Molecular Catalysis . |
| Homepage: | cec.mpg.de |
The Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion ( MPI CEC for short ) is based in Mülheim an der Ruhr .
research
The MPI for Chemical Energy Conversion deals with fundamental chemical processes that play a role in the storage and conversion of energy. The aim is to store energy from renewable resources such as sun and wind in such a way that it can be used regardless of time and location.
Departments
- Inorganic Spectroscopy (Director: Serena DeBeer )
- Molecular Catalysis (Director: Walter Leitner )
- Heterogeneous reactions (Director: Robert Schlögl )
history
The institute emerged from an independent department for radiation chemistry at the MPI for Coal Research created in 1958 . The founding director of this department was the chemist Günther Otto Schenck , who came from the University of Göttingen and was an academic student of the then director of the institute, Karl Ziegler . In 1973 the department was renamed “Institute for Radiation Chemistry at the MPI for Coal Research”; In 1981 the department received the status of an independent Max Planck Institute (Max Planck Institute for Radiation Chemistry). After the appointment of the Bochum chemist Karl Wieghardt , the realignment of research began. From 2003 to 2012 the institute was called the Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry. In 2012 it was renamed, restructured and now bears the name Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion.
Emeritus director at the institute is:
- Wolfgang Lubitz, Department of Biophysical Chemistry
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 4 ″ N , 6 ° 53 ′ 13 ″ E