iNANO employees, Professors Jeppe Vang Lauritsen and Duncan Sutherland, and iNANO member, Professor Mogens Christensen, receive fundings from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The researchers will study electrocatalytic hydrogen production, materials for building solar-thermal management, and compaction of Magnets, respectively.

The use of solid-state NMR spectroscopy is pivotal in enabling the characterisation of structure and dynamics at the atomic-level. These methods rely on access to sophisticated and costly solid-state NMR equipment that is only available in few national facilities. The Danish Center for Ultrahigh Field NMR Spectroscopy at Aarhus University, with Professor Thomas Vosegaard in the front, is part of an EU funded 4-year and €5 million project. The project partners aim to bring together and integrate seven national infrastructures across Europe and to incorporate one infrastructure in the United States. The goal is to open them to all European researchers, from both academia and industry, and providing effective and convenient access to the best research infrastructures in solid-state NMR available worldwide.

In a collaborative effort with Professor Birgit Schiøtt (iNANO member) and her research group, the researchers also used state-of-the-art Molecular Dynamics simulations to support the notion of proton binding employing multiple independent approaches.

Polyurethane (PU) is a widely used material in a countless number of everyday products as well as more sophisticated objects like aircrafts. Unfortunately, there are very few methods to reuse or recycle PU and when recycled, the product often loses its original properties. Researchers at Aarhus University are working tirelessly on establishing a circular plastic economy for PU, and have now developed a method to deconstruct PU using a catalyst based on earth-abundant metal.