News and Events
Welcome to our News and Events section. The subcategories provide latest news, an overview of upcoming and past events and conferences, and articles published in the press about the Materials Chain network.
Latest News
Prof. Corina Andronescu awarded
Lecturer Award of the Chemical Industry Fund
She is considered an award-winning pioneer in electrochemical catalysis, and now she has received another award. This year's Lecturer Award of the Chemical Industry Fund goes to Materials Chain member Prof. Corina Andronescu as a particularly outstanding young scientist. Corina Andronescu, born in 1987, studied chemical engineering at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (UPB) in Romania, where... read more
Integrating electrochemical CO2 reduction with industrial processes
CARBON MANAGEMENT
Researchers from Fraunhofer UMSICHT and Ruhr University Bochum — including Prof. Dr. Ulf-Peter Apfel, head of the Electrosynthesis Department at Fraunhofer UMSICHT and the Inorganic Chemistry Research Group at Ruhr University Bochum — have developed a high-pressure zero-gap reactor for CO2 electrolysis, paving the way for integrating electrochemical CO2 reduction into industrial processes. This... read more
Two RUB Researchers Join the NRW Academy
AWARD
We are proud to share that two outstanding scientists from Ruhr University Bochum have been officially inducted into the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts (AWK). Prof. Dr. Alfred Ludwig (Chair holder of Materials Discovery and Interfaces at the Institute for Materials at Ruhr University) and Prof. Dr. Martin R. Hofmann (Chair holder of Photonics and Terahertz Technology... read more
Upcoming Events
- 22Sep
2025 7th Materials Chain International Conference: Future Energy Materials and Systems
Ruhr-Universität Bochum Convention Centre (VZ) - more