Fundamentals of Energy Conversion Processes

A DFG Cluster of Excellence

About e-conversion

e-conversion is a Cluster of Excellence funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) with a focus on investigating fundamental mechanisms of energy conversion processes.

Today’s sustainable energy research gains momentum by targeting specific energy technologies and their related materials. The cluster e-conversion instead strives to establish a complementary paradigm that bridges major energy conversion strategies ranging from photovoltaics over (photo)electrocatalysis to batteries by focusing on the materials interfaces that underlie these functions. Critical bottlenecks like recombination and relaxation losses, overpotentials, and resistances presently arise due to insufficient control of microscopic excitation and energy conversion (e-conversion) processes at these interfaces. e-conversion therefore merges the powerful concepts of nanoscience and mechanistic energy research to create well-defined and tunable reference systems, and to establish fundamental understanding through their comprehensive (operando) characterization.
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Events

Multimodal Learning for Materials Science
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CVPR 2025 Workshop in Nashville, Tennessee.
e-conversion Conference 2025
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We are looking forward to our e-conversion conference in Tutzing in September 2025!
Day of Quantum Physics
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e-conversion takes part in the LMU Quantum Physics Day.

Recent Publications

R L Streng, T Steeger, A Senyshyn, S Abel, P Schneider, C Benning, B M Naranjo, D Gryc, M Z Hussain, O Lieleg, M Elsner, A S Bandarenka, K Cicvarić

A low-cost and high-energy aqueous potassium-ion battery Journal Article

In: Journal of Energy Chemistry, vol. 106, pp. 523-531, 2025, ISSN: 2095-4956.

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K Bertrang, T Hinke, S Kaiser, M Knechtges, F Loi, P Lacovig, M Jahangirzadeh Varjovi, F Esch, A Baraldi, S Tosoni, A Kartouzian, U Heiz

The Interaction of Sub-Monolayer Ta Adatoms and Clusters with Oxygen at the Pt(111) Interface Journal Article

In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 129, no. 13, pp. 6511-6523, 2025, ISSN: 1932-7447.

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Q Wang, T Luo, X Cao, Y Gong, Y Liu, Y Xiao, H Li, F Gröbmeyer, Y-R Lu, T-S Chan, C Ma, K Liu, J Fu, S Zhang, C Liu, Z Lin, L Chai, E Cortes, M Liu

Lanthanide single-atom catalysts for efficient CO2-to-CO electroreduction Journal Article

In: Nature Communications, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 2985, 2025, ISSN: 2041-1723.

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