Matthias Arenz

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Born March 4, 1973 in Aachen, Germany
Married to Gabriele Arenz

Selected academic experience and positions

1999 Diploma in Physics from the University of Bonn, Germany
2001 DAAD stipend for 6 month stay at LBNL Berkeley, USA
2002 PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Bonn, Germany
2002 Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral scholarship of Humboldt foundation for 2 years at LBNL Berkeley, USA
2006 Emmy Noether Research group leader at TU-Munich, Germany
2010 Associate Professor at the Chemistry Department, University of Copenhagen

Current research interests

Electrocatalysis for PEM fuel cells, Activity and Stability of Pt-alloy nanoparticles, Degredation mechanisms of fuel cell catalysts, Size-selected clusters as model catalysts.

Invited lectures

More than 30 invited lectures at international conferences, universities and other research institutions.

External funding covering the period from 2010 - now

> 20 M Dkk from Danish and European sources

External funding covering the period from 2004 - 2009

˜ 1.5 M€ and from German sources

Supervision of PhD and masters students

5 Post Doc, 9 PhD, 3 master student and 5 bachelor students are presently under Matthias Arenz supervision or have graduated with Matthias Arenz as main supervisor.

Primære forskningsområder

Electrocatalysis, Degradation mechanisms of PEM fuel cell catalysts, Properties of size-selected metal clusters.

Kort præsentation

Sapere Aude DFF-Forskningsleder project

The fundamental processes of fuel cell catalyst degradation

The work is funded with the grant# 10-081337 of The Danish Council for Independent Research | Technology and Production Sciences and The Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural Sciences

The aim of the project is to identify the main mechanism for fuel cell catalyst degradation, develop strategies for its mitigation, and to synthesize degradation resistant high surface area catalysts.

Group Web Site

http://nano.ku.dk/english/research/nanocatalysis

Publications

http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-7385-2009

Since 1999, more than 70 publications have been accepted for peer reviewed international journals including 8 contributions to Nature Materials, Angewandte Chemie and Journal of American Chemical Society. In addition about 9 papers have been published in conference proceedings and invited articles, 4 as book chapters. Science citation index indicates > 3700 citations  of the work since 1999 (H-index = 29).

Selected recent publications

M. Nesselberger, M. Roefzaad, F. Hamou, P.U. Biedermann, F.F. Schweinberger, S. Kunz, K. Schlögl, G.K.H. Wiberg, S. Ashton, U. Heiz, K.J.J. Mayrhofer, M. Arenz; Closing the Gap: Overlapping electrical double layer enhances the oxygen reduction reaction on Pt-nanoclusters; Nature Materials, DOI: 10.1038/nmat3712

K. Hartl, M. Hanzlik, M. Arenz; IL-TEM investigations on the degradation mechanism of Pt/C electrocatalysts with different carbon supports; Energy & Environmental Science 2011, 4, 234-238

M. Nesselberger; S.J. Ashton, J.C. Meier, I. Katsounaros, K.J.J. Mayrhofer, M. Arenz; The particle size effect on the oxygen reduction reaction activity of Pt catalysts: Influence of electrolyte and relation to single crystal models; Journal of American Chemical Society 2011, 133, 17428–17433

Mayrhofer K.J.J., Hartl K, Juhart V, Arenz M. 
Degradation of Carbon-Supported Pt Bimetallic Nanoparticles by Surface Segregation 
Journal of American Chemical Society, 131, 16348-16349 (2009)  

Mayrhofer K.J.J., Arenz M. 
Log on for new catalysts
Nature Chemistry, 1, 518-519 (2009)