mastodon 4.4.3Das Helmholtz-Institut Erlangen-Nürnberg für Erneuerbare Energien (HI ERN) erforscht und entwickelt material- und prozessbasierte Lösungen für eine klimaneutrale, nachhaltige und kostengünstige Nutzbarmachung erneuerbarer Energien. Thematische Schwerpunkte des Instituts sind die Erforschung der elektrochemischen Energieumwandlung zur Entwicklung innovativer Wasserstofftechnologien sowie solare Technologien.
Das HI ERN ist ein Institutsbereich des Forschungszentrum Jülich (@fzj@social.fz-juelich.de).
🎉 Scientific excellence at @hi_ern@social.fz-juelich.de: All three directors of our institute have now achieved an h-index above 100 on Google Scholar – an exceptional mark of scientific productivity and global impact of their research!
📈 An h-index over 100 means: at least 100 publications, each cited more than 100 times!
👏 Congratulations to:
🔹Prof. Christoph Josef Brabec – h = 158
🔹Prof. Peter Wasserscheid – h = 110
🔹Prof. Karl Mayrhofer – h = 100
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👏 A major step toward understanding degradation mechanisms in proton exchange membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE): Researchers at Helmholtz-Institut Erlangen-Nürnberg für Erneuerbare Energien reveal degradation mechanisms in PEM water electrolysis by a correlative electrochemical and nanoanalysis approach. The results were recently published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science.
Read more: https://www.hi-ern.de/en/news/2025/understanding-degradation-pathways-in-pem-water-electrolysis
❄️ For the first time, researchers have been able to record the complex structures in ice that are formed during the freezing of liquid water. The results come from the first observations of the molecular structure of samples from thin samples of frozen water and were recently published in the journal Nature Communications.
➡️ Read more: https://www.hi-ern.de/en/news/2025/the-surprising-flexibility-of-ice-at-the-nanoscale
From a single fuel cell in the laboratory to a vehicle, what does it actually take?
Our HydroBot fuel cell model and hydrogen-powered model car provide the answers!👉 https://www.hi-ern.de/en/projects/hydrobot
Or visit us and experience HydroBot live:
Die Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025
⌚ 5 p.m. - midnight
📍 HI ERN site: Auf AEG, Fürther Straße 250, 90429 Nürnberg
👉 https://nacht-der-wissenschaften.de/
Copyright: HI ERN/Thomas Böhm
☀️ 🤖 Solar cell development with AI & robots - scientific revolution through automation and data: In our guided tour, we will show you what automated materials research looks like in our laboratories.
Visit us during "Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften Nürnberg.Fürth.Erlangen" 👇
📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025
⌚ 5 p.m. - midnight
📍 HI ERN site: Erlangen, Immerwahrstraße
👉 https://lnkd.in/e4QKXGsn
📸 Copyright: Kurt Fuchs/HI ERN
🖨️ Imagine that solar modules are not made from heavy silicon, but from light, flexible plastic! The team of the solar factory of the future will show you how modern printing techniques can be used to conjure up solar modules directly on glass or wafer-thin PET film.
Visit us during Die Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften Nürnberg.Fürth.Erlangen:
📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025
⌚ 5 p.m. - midnight
📍 HI ERN site: Nuremberg, Auf AEG
👉 https://www.hi-ern.de/en/events/long-night-of-the-sciences-2025
📸 Copyright: EnCN/Kurt Fuchs
☀️ 🤖 What materials are solar modules made of, and how can we analyze and recycle them more efficiently?
Visit us during "Die Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften Nürnberg.Fürth.Erlangen":
📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025
⌚ 5 p.m. - midnight
📍 HI ERN site: Nuremberg, Auf AEG (Fürther Straße 250, 90429 Nuremberg)
🎟️ More information: https://www.hi-ern.de/en/events/long-night-of-the-sciences-2025
📸 Copyright: Dr. Oleksandr Mashkov / Forschungszentrum Jülich / HI ERN
#JobAlert: "Elektroniker:in / Mechatroniker:in (w/m/d)"
▶️ Interested? https://www.hi-ern.de/de/karriere/stellenangebote/2025-287
🖥️ Have you ever wondered how computer simulations could help optimize material properties or manufacturing processes?
We will show you how this works using printing and coating processes for the production of modern printable solar cells or using transport processes in fuel cells and electrolyzers.
Curious? Visit us during the "Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften"!
📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025
⌚ 5 p.m. - midnight
📍 HI ERN site: Nuremberg, Auf AEG
🎟️ More information https://www.hi-ern.de/en/events/long-night-of-the-sciences-2025
#JobAlert: "Institutsassistent:in in Voll- oder Teilzeit (mind. 30h/Woche) (w/m/d)"
Have you ever seen scientists who can navigate the administrative jungle? 😵
We need you to help us keep everything running smoothly! As part of our 13-person administrative team, you will help support our approximately 200 scientific colleagues and work to continuously develop our internal processes.
Interested? Find out more about this open position (in german): https://lnkd.in/e29JierF
👨🎓 Congrats to Iosif Mangoufis-Giasin! He recently successfully defended his doctoral thesis, titled "Electrochemical 2-Propanol Oxidation for Fuel Cell Applications".
We wish you good luck in all upcoming challenges! 👏 🙌
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🤓 Curious visitors welcome! For the "Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften" we will open our doors: Lab tours, exhibits and the direct exchange with our scientists offer exciting insights into our institute´s research in the field of renewable energies.
Save the date in your calendar - we look forward to your visit!
📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025
⌚ 5 p.m. - midnight
📍 Our sites at Erlangen (Immerwahrstraße) and Nuremberg (Auf AEG)
🎟️ Tickets and more information: https://nacht-der-wissenschaften.de/
#JobAlert: 3x #phdPosition - Organic Electrosynthesis: monitoring of reaction transients with real-time techniques
🤝 The Electrocatalysis research department is looking for three PhD students, which research area is to investigate fundamental relationships between electrolyte-electrode interface structure and selectivity or efficiency of chemical outcome during the preparation of complex and value-added compounds directly from the readily available feedstock.
Congratulations to Professor Gabriel C. da Silva who has been awarded the coveted CAPES-Humboldt Research Fellowship! 👏
🔬 Currently a visiting professor at HI ERN, he focuses on catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), particularly those used in alkaline electrolysers. The goal is to identify stability and performance improvements relevant to real-world applications. He will begin the fellowship in September of this year.
Read more: https://www.hi-ern.de/en/news/2025/prof-gabriel-da-silva-receives-capes-humboldt-research-fellowship
#JobAlert: PhD Position - Filming nanocatalysts for renewable energies
The open position aims to understand catalyst stability at the nanoscale during electrochemical processes via operando liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy (LP-TEM).
👉 Read more and apply here: https://www.hi-ern.de/en/career/vacancies/2025D-089
What's next? An academic career, a move into industry, or starting your own business with a great idea?
The third HI ERN Career Day once again offered doctoral students and postdocs at HI ERN personal insights into the individual career paths of alumni, networking opportunities with companies in the region, and an overview of the wide range of support available at the institute.
📸 Copyright: M. Martini
For the first time, high-purity hydrogen has been isolated electrochemically from the municipal gas grid. Hydrogen is produced when excess wind power electricity is fed into the gas grid. Since the successful commissioning in May of this year, the recovery of pure, high-quality hydrogen has been demonstrated through reconversion into electricity in a fuel cell.
👉 https://www.hi-ern.de/en/news/2025/green-hydrogen-in-fuel-cell-quality-from-the-municipal-gas-grid
#JobAlert: PhD Position - Characterization of new catalyst layer structures and electrolytes for anion exchange membrane water electrolysis
➡️ Find out more and apply here: https://www.hi-ern.de/en/career/vacancies/2025D-079
Smartphones, electric cars, but also in photovoltaics - they are used in many everyday and industrial applications: Semiconductor materials. The @dfg_public will fund a new Collaborative Research Center (CRC) at @FAU@mastodon.social in order to be able to produce these materials in a more energy- and resource-efficient way in the future.
@hi_ern@social.fz-juelich.de is involved in the CRC "ChemPrint – Next-Generation Printed Semiconductors: Engineering at the Atomic Level Using Molecular Surface Chemistry" with three projects.
Researchers of HI ERN and @FAU@mastodon.social developed a new method for identifying side products in LOHC (liquid organic hydrogen carrier) systems.
Many repetitive storage cycles can lead to the formation of undesirable side products that remains on catalysts and impair their function, which makes reusing the systems difficult.
The results of this collaborative effort were recently published in the journal "Fuel".
➡️ Read more: https://www.hi-ern.de/en/news/2025/new-method-developed-for-identifying-side-products-in-lohc-systems
