Group Leader at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces | Alumni @univkyoto @NAIST @Official_UPD | Solar fuel & catalysis | Sports & travel enthusiast

Potsdam, Germany
Joined February 2020
Honored to be recognized as a 2026 Rising Star in Materials Science by ACS Materials Au @ACSPublications . Grateful to the Editors for the invitation to contribute to the Rising Stars Special Issue, and to my collaborators and group for their support. @MpiciPotsdam
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🔥 Alex Eala knocks out No.14 seed Tauson 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (11) and becomes the first Filipina 🇵🇭 woman to record a singles win at a Grand Slam in the Open Era! VAMOOOOS‼️
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The first final of many finals, @AlexEala05! 👏🏻
Keep your head held high, Alex ❤️ Eala celebrates a historic run for the Philippines with her first tour-level final. 🇵🇭👏 #LexusEastbourneOpen
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PhD/Postdoc position in my group is open now 🚀 Are you interested in catalysis within MOFs/COFs? Want a brand-new environment? Apply or ask me anything by June 27, 2025! Repost appreciated 🤝 ipoc.uni-stuttgart.de/pcmc/p…
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😃 After winning and 😃☺️ after losing. ❤️ Alex Eala 🇵🇭❤️
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We can’t stop crying 🥹 Alex Eala 🇵🇭 stuns World No. 2 Swiatek 6-2, 7-5 to reach the @MiamiOpen semifinals!
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Congratulations Alex! What a great win for you and for 🇵🇭! 👏🏻
what a win! 🇵🇭 Alexandra Eala defeats Ostapenko 7-6(2), 7-5! #MiamiOpen
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Once again… THE BIGGEST WIN OF HER CAREER! 😍 Alex Eala defeats another Grand Slam Champion!! She defeats Keys in straight sets and is into the final 16 of the @MiamiOpen! Mabuhay 🇵🇭!
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At today's #FrontiersForum Deep Dive, Prof Kazunari Domen outlined water-splitting advances to create green hydrogen, a cheap & scalable alternative to fossil fuels. Thanks to our panel @CMPelicano, Jonas Moberg @gh2org & Diana Sannino. Video coming soon!
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Scaling photocatalytic hydrogen production requires improved efficiencies, investments in sustainable energy infrastructure, & stringent safety & environmental standards. -Markus Antonietti & @CMPelicano of @MpiciPotsdam in their viewpoint, published in Frontiers in Science ⬇️

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A hub of expert articles outlines next steps for deploying solar water splitting to produce H₂ and other green, renewable fuels. Authors include Kazunari Domen @ShinshuUni @UTokyo_News_en, Takashi Hisatomi of @JST_info, @ArdoShane of @UCIrvine & @CMPelicano of @MpiciPotsdam ⬇️
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Sharing our recently published viewpoint article (doi.org/10.3389/fsci.2024.15…), offering a critical analysis of Prof. Domen's @FrontScience Lead Article (doi.org/10.3389/fsci.2024.14…) on photocatalytic H2O splitting for large-scale solar energy conversion and storage. @MpiciPotsdam
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Proud of my postdoc, Jaya Bharti, for receiving the Best Poster Award at the Joint Chemical Science RSC-CSJ Symposium! Congratulations, Jaya, and thank you for your hard work and dedication!
Way to go, Jaya Bharti! She received a poster prize by the @posterRoySocChem at the #ChemSciSymposium for her "NH4Cl-Driven Nanocrystal Fragmentation Enhances Quantum Efficiency of Ionic Carbon #Nitrides in #Photocatalytic H2O2 Generation." More: ➡️ tinyurl.com/yfcf5zpy
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Excited to share our new Advanced Materials paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… We present a strategy to enhance the photocatalytic H2O2 activity of ionic carbon nitrides by inducing lattice distortion. Congrats Haijian and Joko! 👏 @MpiciPotsdam
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Our director, Prof. Markus Antonietti, received the @Arkema_group / @AcadSciences for his groundbreaking research in #carbon catalysis. He develops carbon-based materials to make chemical reactions faster, cost-effective, &more precisely tunable. tinyurl.com/2s3jjdnt
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Post-Doctoral Position in our research group #FOTOHET (1-2 years), @navalon_sergio, #depqim, @UPV, @ITQ_UPVCSIC, (Valencia , Spain) about Photo(electro)catalysis for Solar Fuels generation from CO2
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It was a pleasure to meet with a delegation from Singapore’s @ASTARsg to discuss promising opportunities for exchange & collaboration. Many thanks to Dr. Peter Nagler & Prof. Andy Hor for their visit & to @PotsdamScience for illustrating why our campus is ideal for research.
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Glad to share that my minireview on cocatalyst engineering for photocatalytic overall H2O splitting has been featured as the front cover in the June issue of @Appl_Research journal. Read the minireview here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @MpiciPotsdam
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Discover the potential of metal poly(heptazine imides) (a type of highly crystalline ionic carbon nitride) in generating solar fuels via photocatalysis in my latest minireview, now available in @angew_chem. @MpiciPotsdam doi.org/10.1002/anie.2024062…
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