Professor Markus Antonietti, Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung, Potsdam, Germany, has received the Hermann Staudinger Prize from the GDCh for his research at the interfaces between polymer synthesis, materials research, and interdisciplinary applications of functional materials.

We talked about his research, Staudinger, Faust, the Kitchen Lab of the Max Planck Institute, and his faszination for the Noodle catalyst*.

*Francesco Brandi, Marius Bäumel, Valerio Molinari, Irina Shekova, Iver Lauermann, Tobias Heil, Markus Antonietti, Majd Al-Naji, Nickel on nitrogen-doped carbon pellets for continuous-flow hydrogenation of biomass-derived compounds in water, Green Chem. 2020, 22, 2755. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9gc03826d