Sustainability at CeNS

Current research for energy conversion and renewable energy within CeNS

11/03/2025 Nanomaterials: The Power of Absence
An international research team explores how tiny metal vacancies improve solar hydrogen technologies.
17/06/2024 Watching energy materials as they form
Eyes glued to a live transmission from inside a reaction vessel, CeNS researchers watch chemical reactions at work. Their results will improve the manufacture of the next generation of energy materials.

Research for energy conversion / renewable energy

Numerous members of CeNS are actively involved in the excellence cluster e-conversion, investigating the fundamental processes for converting renewable energy into those forms that cover our energy needs.

"Solar Technologies go Hybrid“ - SolTech - is an interdisciplinary project initiated by the government of Bavaria to explore innovative concepts for converting solar energy into electricity and non-fossil fuels. SolTech complements research by chemists and physicists at five different Bavarian Universities, among them ten members of CeNS.

Greener labs

CeNS actively supports CeNS labs on their way to becoming more sustainable. For this, we are developing a concept for defining and implementing sustainability goals and a green lab certification process with external partners. In addition, we encourage exchange between labs on best practice examples for greener labs.

Greener events

At all CeNS events, we consider sustainability in terms of travel, catering, recycling, energy and materials, e.g.:

train travel where possible and CO2 compensation for all business trips
avoiding single-use materials as well as printed conference and workshop materials
local caterers, reduction of waste, promotion of vegetarian/vegan catering options

Teaching

Our training initiatives are designed to equip the next generation of scientists with the knowledge and skills needed to address global sustainability challenges.