Breakthrough in hydrogen research: More efficient isotope separation in sight

An international research team has taken a big step towards to realising its dream of separating hydrogen isotopes at room temperature at low cost

23-Sep-2024 - The lightest of all elements, hydrogen, is in great demand due to its promising role as a sustainable resource in the energy transition. A team from Leipzig University and TU Dresden, as part of the Hydrogen Isotopes 1,2,3H Research Training Group, has made an important breakthrough in the ...

How to capture water from air

Researchers decipher the underlying adsorption mechanism of special microporous material

09-Jan-2024 - Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and Dresden University of Technology (TUD) have unraveled the water adsorption mechanism in certain microporous materials – so-called hierarchical metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) – while probing them on the atomic scale. Discovered ...

Flexible quantum sieve filters the fuel of Starship Enterprise

A novel separation mechanism for the hydrogen isotopes developed

20-Apr-2022 - Deuterium, the heavy brother of hydrogen, is considered a promising material of the future – because of its wide range of applications: in science, for energy generation, or in the production of pharmaceuticals. However, the extraction of deuterium from its natural isotope mixture has so far been ...

Humboldt-fellow Dr. Preeti Bhauriyal: Designing conductive MOFs for long life Lithium-Sulfur batteries

18-Aug-2021 - Humboldt-fellow Dr. Preeti Bhauriyal from India works at the group of Theoretical Chemistry at TU Dresden in order to research metal and covalent organic frameworks (MOFs and COFs) for various applications. Her overall aim is to design conductive metal organic frameworks based cathode hosts for ...

A highly porous material, more precious than diamonds

04-Oct-2018 - Porosity is the key to high-performance materials for energy storage systems, environmental technologies or catalysts: The more porous a solid state material is, the more liquids and gases it is able to store. However, a multitude of pores destabilizes the material. In search of the stability ...

Chemiker nutzen Supercomputer für die Simulation komplexer Nanostrukturen

An der TU Dresden werden neue Methoden der Wasserstoffspeicherung erforscht

10-Apr-2007 - Wissenschaftler in der Fachrichtung Chemie (Physikalische Chemie) der TU Dresden arbeiten deshalb schon seit einiger Zeit an der Entwicklung neuer Festkörperspeicher, in denen sich Wasserstoff in die Zwischenräume des Gerüstmaterials anlagert. Die Eigenschaften dieser neu zu entwickelnden ...