In the context of the GDCh Science Forum Chemistry, which took place online from 29 August to 1 September 2021.

Chemistry Enabling Energy Transition - Session I
Chair: Manfred Waidhas

• The long way to steady state fusion plasmas - the superconducting stellarator device Wendelstein 7-X (T. Klingler, Greifswald)
• MXene for Electrochemical Water Desalination (M. Torkamanzadeh, Saarbrücken)
• Detailed Investigation of biofuel aging on the molecular level (D. Hamacher, Mülheim/Ruhr)

Chemistry Enabling Energy Transition - Session II
Chair: Philipp Adelhelm

• Ru-Polyphosphines as Catalysts for CO₂ Activation (J.C. Baums, Aachen)
• Advancing Performance of Biohybrid Photovoltaics Based on Indium Tin Oxide (S. Morlock, Wildau/)
• On the (photo)chemistry of 4H-imidazolato-Cu(I) complxes (J. H. Tran, Jena)
• Thermochemical Energy Storage - A High Potential Technology (F. Winter, Vienna/AT)

The best storage is chemistry (together with the GDCh Division Electrochemistry)
Chairs: Claudia Weidlich, Wolfgang Schrader

• The future of batteries for a climate neutral energy system (D. U. Sauer, Aachen)
• Hydrogen: From chemistry to energy (M. Hölzle, Ulm)
• Hydrogen-based energy sources (A. Schaadt, Freiburg/DE, C. Hank, Freiburg)
• tba (K. Westphal)

Report

Presentation T. Gelhaar
Presentation H. Utikal
Presentation H. Pütter