Visualizing structural modifications in adaptive materials

4 October 2022

Photo: UHH / FB-Chemie / Mascotto

The surplus electric and solar power is well-known to be used for hydrogen production by so called power-to-X and solar-to-X techniques. Nowadays, a modern topic in materials science is to use these renewable energy approaches to manipulate matter for the development of devices (e.g. heterogeneous catalysts, sensors, actuators) that adapt their structure and function to changes in their environment.
Through a BMBF-funded project the team coordinated by Dr. Simone Mascotto (Fachbereich Chemie, Institut für Anorganische und Angewandte Chemie) with cooperation partners of TU Hamburg and DESY will work for the next three years to understand structural modifications of confined matter triggered by light, temperature, and electricity. To this purpose, a novel sample-environment setup for X-ray scattering studies will be developed and installed at the synchrotron PETRA III in Hamburg.