CRC 1633 - Project details
Collaborative Research Center 1633: Pushing Electrons with Protons
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Pushing Electrons with Protons – Unifying Multi-Electron Redox Catalysis by Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer
The Collaborative Research Center 1633, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), aims to investigate the fundamental chemical processes essential for transitioning from fossil resources to a sustainable energy and material base. The focus lies on key reactions such as carbon dioxide and nitrogen fixation, water oxidation, and the selective conversion of renewable resources into valuable platform chemicals.
A central research topic of the CRC is the coupling of electron and proton transfer (Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer, PCET), a physical-chemical phenomenon that significantly influences these transformations.
The interdisciplinary consortium, comprising chemistry, physics, materials science, and biology, seeks to develop unified PCET models that encompass both enzymatic processes and surface reactions. The goal is to design new catalysts that enable the efficient control of these chemical processes and facilitate the use of alternative energy sources such as electricity and light.
Participating institutions include the University of Göttingen, the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, and the universities of Mainz, Frankfurt, Bochum, Saarland, and the Technical University of Darmstadt.
As part of CRC 1633, the team at SUB Göttingen is developing a user-friendly portal to export research data from eLabFTW into GRO.data in ELN format. eLabFTW is an electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) used for documenting, managing, and organizing research data. The data will be stored in GRO.data according to the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, re-usable) principles.