Anke Weidenkaff

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Prof. Dr. Anke Weidenkaff (* December 27, 1966 in Hanover, Germany) is a German-Swiss chemist and materials scientist. Since 2018, she has been head of the Materials & Resources Group at the Faculty of Materials Science at Technical University Darmstadt and director of the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Materials Recycling and Resource Strategies (IWKS) in Hanau (Hesse) and Alzenau (Bavaria).

Life

Anke Weidenkaff studied chemistry at the University of Hamburg and received her PhD in 2000 from ETH Zurich in the Department of Chemistry. In 2006, she received the Venia Legendi for Solid State Chemistry and Materials Science from the University of Augsburg and became section head at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) and associated professor at the University of Bern. From 2013 to 2018, she was director of the Institute of Materials Science at the University of Stuttgart, where she chaired the Department of Chemical Materials Synthesis. Since October 1, 2018, Anke Weidenkaff has been director of Fraunhofer IWKS in Hanau and Alzenau. Anke Weidenkaff is also a professor at Technical University Darmstadt in the field of material science and resource management.

From 2016 to 2019, she was president of the European Thermoelectric Society (ETS), of which she had been a board member since 2007. She is an elected member of the European Materials Research Society's (E-MRS) Executive Committeehttps://www.european-mrs.com/about/scientific-council and was chair of the 2019 E-MRS Spring Meeting.

Since 2020, Anke Weidenkaff has been a member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU).

Research

Anke Weidenkaff's main areas of research and expertise are materials science and resource strategies, including the development, synthesis chemistry, and characterization of substitute materials for energy conversion and storage. Building on scientific knowledge of solid-state chemistry, her current work focuses on materials science and specifically the development of regenerative, sustainable materials and next-generation process technologies for fast and efficiently closed materials cycles. Anke Weidenkaff and her team are currently working on technologies for the production of (green) hydrogen including photoelectrochemical water splitting, the production of carbon nanotubes using microwave plasma synthesis for carbon storage, and sustainable perovskite materials. She is also involved in the development of thermoelectrics, electroceramics and ceramic membranes. Together with the Energy Materials Department of Fraunhofer IWKS, she conducts research on sustainable materials and recycling technologies for batteries and fuel cells. Another focus of her work is "Green ICT", the development of sustainable materials and processes for information and communication technology.

Some of her most important publications are:

• Maegli, Alexandra E.; Hisatomi, Takashi; Otal, Eugenio H.; Yoon, Songhak; Pokrant, Simone; Graetzel, Michael; Weidenkaff, Anke (2012). "Structural and photocatalytic properties of perovskite-type (La,Ca)Ti(O,N)₃ prepared from A-site deficient precursors". Journal of Materials Chemistry. 22 (34): 17906–17913. doi:10.1039/C2JM32718J.
• Maegli, Alexandra E.; Pokrant, Simone; Hisatomi, Takashi; Trottmann, Matthias; Dornen, Kazunari; Weidenkaff, Anke (2014). "Enhancement of Photocatalytic Water Oxidation by the Morphological Control of LaTiO₂N and Cobalt Oxide Catalysts". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 118 (30): 16344–16251. doi:10.1021/jp4084162.
• Bubeck, Cora; Widenmeyer, Marc; De Denko, Alexandra T. H.; Richter, Gunther; Coduri, Mauro; Salas Colera, Eduardo; Goering, Eberhard; Zhang, Hongbin; Yoon, Songhak; Osterloh, Frank E.; Weidenkaff, Anke (2020). "Bandgap-adjustment and enhanced surface photovoltage in Y-substituted LaTa^IVO₂N". Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8 (23): 11837–11848. doi:10.1039/D0TA02136A.
• Widenmeyer, Marc; Kohler, Tobias; Samolis, Margarita; De Denko, Alexandra T. H.; Xiao, Xingxing; Xie, Wenjie; Osterloh, Frank E.; Weidenkaff, Anke (2020). "Band Gap Adjustment in Perovskite-type Eu_1−xCa_xTiO₃ via Ammonolysis". Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie. 234 (5): 887–909. doi:10.1515/zpch-2019-1429.
• Sivula, Kevin; Zboril, Radek; Le Formal, Florian; Robert, Rosa; Weidenkaff, Anke; Tucek, Jiri; Frydrych, Jiri; Graetzel, Michael (2010). "Photoelectrochemical water splitting with mesoporous hematite prepared by a solution-based colloidal approach". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132 (21): 7436–7444. doi:10.1021/ja101564f.
• Bassen, Alexander; Drewes, Joerg; Fischer, Markus; Gabrysch, Sabine; Hornidge, Anna-Katharina; Pittel, Karen; Poertner, Hans-Otto; Schlacke, Sabine; Weidenkaff, Anke (2021). Beyond Climate Neutrality. 12. Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (WBGU). ISBN 978-3-946830-35-1.CS1 maint: Date and year (link) Search this book on
• Liu, Xingming; Liu, Heqiang; Xu, Hailong; Xie, Wenjie; Li, Minghang; Liu, Jiangxi; Liu, Guoquiang; Weidenkaff, Anke; Riedel, Ralf (2022). "Natural wood templated hierarchically cellular NbC/Pyrolytic carbon foams as Stiff, lightweight and High-Performance electromagnetic shielding materials". Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 606: 1543–1553. doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2021.08.110.

International recognition and activities

• 2008: Visiting professor, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and visiting scientist NASA Glenn Research Centre, Cleveland, USA
• 2011: Kavli Foundation Lectureship Award
• Since 2012: Member of the Executive Committee of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS)
• 2012 - 2013: Editor in Chief and Member of the Editorial Board of “Energy Quarterly”; Member of the Advisory Board of the MRS Book Series on Energy and Sustainability
• 2015 - 2017: Member of the Board of Directors, Materials Research Society (MRS)
• 2016 - 2019: President of the European Thermoelectric Society (ETS)
• Since 2020: Member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)
• Since 2020: Member of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM)
• 2022: Karl W. Böer Renewable Energy Mid-Career Award

External links

• https://www.iwks.fraunhofer.de
• https://www.iwks.fraunhofer.de/de/publications.html
• https://www.mawi.tu-darmstadt.de
• https://www.wbgu.de
• https://www.european-mrs.com
• Anke Weidenkaff publications indexed by Google Scholar

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