Climate action
Research
- Materials for CO₂ reduction or utilisation
- Efficient use of resources in research operations
- Life cycle analyses of new polymer materials
- Photocatalysis (Johannes Hunger, Katharina Landfester, Tanja Weil)
- Gabor Csanyi research: efficiency gains of > x1M for accurate molecular dynamics, leading to significant savings of electricity for a given task.
- Perovskite solar cells
- Efficiency of solar modules
- Batteries for energy storage
- Make easy to clean transparent surfaces. The aim is to fabricate easy to clean transparent surfaces for e.g. solar cells or difficult to access windows. The amount of water to clean them should be reduced. There are thousands of paper on superhydrophobic surfaces, but superhydrophobicity will not work in practice. Doris Vollmer is trying a different approach using silanes.
- Hydrogen storage in porous media (Maja Rücker)
Institutional contribution:
- Raising awareness of sustainability in everyday scientific work
- Energy saving in institute operations
- Energy commission work
- Monitoring of enery consumption
- Awareness raising in everyday research
- Organic solar cells
- Solar foils for windows
- CO2 compensation for air travel
- Charging stations for electric cars
- Support for the lecture series Voices for Climate, University of Mainz
- Support for the Escape Game for Climate and Energy, University of Mainz
- Lectures on climate change and development of information material, together with Scientists for Future
- Climate Protection Advisory Board of the City of Mainz (Doris Vollmer as deputy chairperson) She also sits on the Committee for Environment, Green Spaces and Energy of the City of Mainz.
Impact: Scientifically sound solutions for climate protection.