QUT has joined forces with Germany’s Max Planck Institute, one of the world’s foremost scientific institutions, to establish the QUT/MPI joint laboratory.
The joint laboratory will merge research to target issues of national and global significance by developing greener catalytic systems for more sustainable manufacturing processes in Australia and Germany.
Led by co-directors QUT’s Professor Jingsan Xu, a Centre for Materials Science investigator, and Professor Markus Antonietti, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, the laboratory will bring together researchers from across disciplines with complementary expertise and provide a platform for researchers to build on their careers.
Research projects will include re-purposing materials from batteries so they can be used for water electrolysis to produce green hydrogen when powered by renewable energy sources, led by Professor Anthony O’Mullane and Dr Monireh Khosravi.
Professor Hongxia Wang will work on discovering cost-effective materials for CO2 reduction, addressing the important global issue of climate change and greenhouse emissions.
Professor Dmitri Golberg and Dr Konstantin Firestein will work on heterogeneous catalysts while Professor Jingsan Xu and Professor Dongchen Qi will work on research titled: Carbon Nitride as Substrates for New Catalysts.