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Dr. Nico Fleck, Merck Electronics Darmstadt: From academia to industrial research: high-throughput chemistry as a tool to develop catalytic processes The transition from academia to industry presents both opportunities and challenges for chemists. This talk explores key aspects of entering the chemical industry, including strategies for navigating the application process, understanding the skills most valued by employers, and recognizing the differences between academic research and industrial R&D. The second part of the talk focuses on high-throughput chemistry, a cutting-edge approach that is revolutionizing industrial research and development. High-throughput chemistry leverages automation, data-rich experimentation, and advanced analytical techniques to enhance the efficiency of chemical screenings and synthesis.

Prof. Dr. Jan Behrends, FU Berlin: Spins at Work in Energy Conversion and Storage Devices .......................

Metal-Free Molecules as Electrocatalysts and Co-electrocatalysts There is continuously expanding interest in developing new electrocatalytic processes as an approach to harness intermittent electricity from renewable sources. Molecular systems are useful to understand and develop fundamental principles of these reactions through mechanistic study, as well as offer the possibility for testing structure-function relationships through iterative synthetic design. Broadly, the fundamental understanding of molecular species as electrocatalysts has relevance to the interconversion of electricity and chemical energy, as well as commodity chemical production. However, in order for homogeneous systems to eventually be scalable, their activity and stability must be improved. In naturally occurring enzymes, redox equivalents (electrons, often in a concerted manner with protons) are delivered to enzyme active sites by small molecules known as redox mediators (RMs).

Prof. Dr. Douglas Philp, University of St Andrews, UK: Titel wird noch bekannt gegeben .................

Prof. Dr. Yang Yang, UC Santa Barbara, USA Titel wird noch bekannt gegeben ...................................

Prof. Dr. Giovanni Appendino, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy: The lab is a curious place. Things that shaped chemistry and you would not believe could have happened there