During his PhD studies, Anders Koldby Vestergaard worked on creating better catalysts for energy technologies like fuel cells and electrolyzers. These technologies are crucial for achieving CO₂ neutrality and storing energy from renewable sources like wind and solar. Anders Koldby Vestergaard studied materials based on carbon and nitrogen doped with small amounts of metal, focusing on the how different metals and different carbon-nitrogen compositions affected the catalytic activity and stability of the materials.

The catalysts showed promising properties both in terms of stability and catalytic activity and this PhD study contributes to the development of more efficient catalysts for a cleaner energy future.

The PhD study was completed at Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Faculty of Natural Sciences, Aarhus University.

This summary was prepared by the PhD student.

Time: Friday 6 December 2024 at 13.00

Place: Building 1593, room 012, iNANO Auditorium, iNANO, Gustav Wieds Vej, 8000 Aarhus

Title of dissertation: Synthesis and Characterization of Transition Metal Doped Carbon-Nitride Planar Model Systems for Electrocatalysis

Contact information: Anders Koldby Vestergaard, e-mail: av@inano.au.dk, tel.: +45 2226 1785

Members of the assessment committee:

Professor Martin Sterrer, Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Austria

Professor Edvin Lundgren, Department of Physics, Lund University, Sweden

Professor Torben René Jensen (chair), Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) and Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University

Main supervisor:

Professor Jeppe Vang Lauritsen, iNANO, Aarhus University

Language: The PhD dissertation will be defended in English

The defence is public.

The PhD thesis is available for reading at the Graduate School of Natural Sciences/GSNS, Ny Munkegade 120, building 1521, 8000 Aarhus C.