Fundamentals of Energy Conversion Processes
A DFG Cluster of Excellence
Remsen Award 2025 for Prof. Bettina Lotsch
American Chemical Society (Maryland Section) honors e-conversion researcher.
Nanophotonics: a more efficient way of coupling light and matter
LMU researchers are developing ultrathin optical components made of atomically layered systems, which capture light much better than previous materials.
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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Plasmonically Powered Processes
Gordon Research Conference in Ventura, California.

Escape from Carbonia - on tour
e-conversion and TUM on the road with Escape Room in Munich.

e-conversion Conference 2025
We are looking forward to our e-conversion conference in Tutzing in September 2025!
Recent Publications
Selective growth and characterization of GaN nanowires on SiC substrates Journal Article
In: Journal of Crystal Growth, vol. 665, pp. 128194, 2025, ISSN: 0022-0248.
Temperature-dependent thermal behavior of BTP-4F-12-based organic solar cells Journal Article
In: Nano Energy, vol. 140, pp. 111043, 2025, ISSN: 2211-2855.
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.