Professor Robert Schlögl, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, has received the Innovation Award 2015 from the Ministry for Innovation, Science, Research and Technology (MIWF) of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf, Germany.
The award has been presented at a ceremony in Düsseldorf on February 29, 2016. It honors Schlögl’s contributions to the use of renewable energies, for example his work on the storage of solar energy in high-energy molecules and on the generation of hydrogen from electric energy.
Robert Schlögl studied chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, where he received his Ph.D. in 1982. After post-doctoral research at the University of Cambridge, UK, the University of Basel, Switzerland, and the Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, Germany, he finished his habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, under the supervision of Gerhard Ertl in 1989. He then joined the University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, as Full Professor for Inorganic Chemistry. In 1994, he was appointed Director at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin. In 2011, Schlögl became Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.
Among other honors, Professor Schlögl received the BASF-DECHEMA Alwin Mittasch Prize 2015, the DECHEMA Plaque in 2010, and the Otto Bayer Prize by Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany, in 1994. He is a Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and honorary professor at the Technical University and Humboldt University, both Berlin, the University of Duisburg-Essen, and the Ruhr University Bochum, all in Germany. Professor Schlögl also is a Member of the Editorial Boards of ChemCatChem and Catalysis Letters.
In addition, the MIWF presented the Innovation Award for Young Scientists to Dr. Stephan Binder and Dr. Georg Schaumann, Research Center Jülich, Germany, for their work on improved screening methods for especially productive microorganisms in biotechnological processes. The winner in the category “Innovation” is Professor Jürgen Wolf, Center for Integrated Oncology, University of Cologne, Germany, for his initiative in founding the “Netzwerk Genomische Medizin (NGM)” (Network Genomic Medicine), which provides molecular diagnostics for patients with lung cancer and promotes the implementation of personalized medicine.
Selected Publications by Robert Schlögl
- Strong metal-support interaction and alloying in Pd/ZnO catalysts for CO oxidation,
Patrick Kast, Matthias Friedrich, Frank Girgsdies, Jutta Kröhnert, Detre Teschner, Thomas Lunkenbein, Malte Behrens, Robert Schlögl,
Catal. Today 2016, 260, 21–31.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2015.05.021 - Stabilization of Palladium Nanoparticles on Nanodiamond-Graphene Core-Shell Supports for CO Oxidation,
Liyun Zhang, Hongyang Liu, Xing Huang, Xueping Sun, Zheng Jiang, Robert Schlögl, Dangsheng Su,
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 15823–15826.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201507821 - Active Sites in Olefin Metathesis over Supported Molybdena Catalysts,
Kazuhiko Amakawa, Jutta Kröhnert, Sabine Wrabetz, Benjamin Frank, Felix Hemmann, Christian Jäger, Robert Schlögl, Annette Trunschke,
ChemCatChem 2015, 7, 4059–4065.
DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201500725 - Nanostructured Carbon and Carbon Nanocomposites for Electrochemical Energy Storage Applications,
Dang Sheng Su, Robert Schlögl,
ChemSusChem 2010, 3, 136–168.
DOI: 10.1002/cssc.200900182 - Graphitic carbon nitride materials: variation of structure and morphology and their use as metal-free catalysts,
Arne Thomas, Anna Fischer, Frederic Goettmann, Markus Antonietti, Jens-Oliver Müller, Robert Schlögl, Johan M. Carlsson,
J. Mater. Chem. 2008, 18, 4893–4908.
DOI: 10.1039/b800274f - Superior Storage Performance of a Si@SiOx/C Nanocomposite as Anode Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries,
Yong-Sheng Hu, Rezan Demir-Cakan, Maria-Magdalena Titirici, Jens-Oliver Müller, Robert Schlögl, Markus Antonietti, Joachim Maier,
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 1645–1649.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200704287 - Surface-Modified Carbon Nanotubes Catalyze Oxidative Dehydrogenation of n-Butane,
Jian Zhang, Xi Liu, Raoul Blume, Aihua Zhang, Robert Schlögl, Dang Sheng Su,
Science 2008, 322, 73–77.
DOI: 10.1126/science.1161916
Also of Interest
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ChemViews Mag. 2015.
Professor Robert Schlögl, Berlin, Germany, was awarded the BASF-DECHEMA Alwin Mittasch Prize 2015 - 60th Birthday: Robert Schlögl,
ChemViews Mag. 2014.
Professor Robert Schlögl, Berlin, Germany, celebrates his 60th birthday on 23 January, 2014 - Awarded: R. Schlögl and J. Lehmann,
ChemViews Mag. 2010.
DECHEMA Plaque awarded to Robert Schlögl, Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin, and Jürgen Lehmann, University of Bielefeld
