Ulrike I. Kramm is a German chemistry professor at Technische Universität Darmstadt. Her research considers the development and characterisation of metal catalysts for fuel cells, CO2 conversion and solar fuels.

Ulrike Kramm
Alma materTU Berlin
Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau
Scientific career
InstitutionsTU Darmstadt
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
Brandenburg University of Technology
INRS-EMT
ThesisDie strukturelle Einbindung des Eisens in pyrolysierten Eisenporphyrin-Elektrokatalysatoren eine 57Fe mößbauerspektroskopische Studie (2009)

Early life and education edit

Kramm was a student at Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau.[1] Her undergraduate thesis involved nitrogen doped titania for photoelectrocatalytic water splitting, and she performed her experiments at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute. She joined Technical University of Berlin for doctoral research, where she started to research pyrolysed iron-porphyrin electrocatalysts. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, BTU Cottbus and INRS-EMT.[2][3]

Research and career edit

Kramm leads a research group at Technische Universität Darmstadt that focuses on catalysis.[4] She works to design new catalytic materials that can improve the energy efficiency of preparation processes. She has focussed on M-N-C catalysts, specifically, Fe-N-C.[5][6] Fe-N-C catalysts are almost as active as platinum catalysts, but the iron-based catalysts are not stable enough to use in the automotive industry.[7]

Kramm also works on Mössbauer spectroscopy,[8] providing detailed elemental information about materials, including the chemical environment of certain nuclei.

Awards and honours edit

Selected publications edit

  • Frédéric Jaouen; Juan Herranz; Michel Lefèvre; et al. (1 August 2009). "Cross-laboratory experimental study of non-noble-metal electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction". ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 1 (8): 1623–1639. doi:10.1021/AM900219G. ISSN 1944-8244. PMID 20355776. Wikidata Q57715363.
  • Ulrike I Kramm; Juan Herranz; Nicholas Larouche; et al. (24 July 2012). "Structure of the catalytic sites in Fe/N/C-catalysts for O2-reduction in PEM fuel cells". Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 14 (33): 11673–11688. doi:10.1039/C2CP41957B. ISSN 1463-9076. PMC 3429934. PMID 22824866. Wikidata Q36196126.
  • Nastaran Ranjbar Sahraie; Ulrike I Kramm; Julian Steinberg; Yuanjian Zhang; Arne Thomas; Tobias Reier; Jens-Peter Paraknowitsch; Peter Strasser (21 October 2015). "Quantifying the density and utilization of active sites in non-precious metal oxygen electroreduction catalysts". Nature Communications. 6 (1): 8618. Bibcode:2015NatCo...6.8618S. doi:10.1038/NCOMMS9618. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 4639811. PMID 26486465. Wikidata Q42616047.

References edit

  1. ^ "Physikalische Technik (Bachelor) auf Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau". www.fh-zwickau.de. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
  2. ^ "Ulrike Kramm". Women in Green Hydrogen. 2020-11-26. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
  3. ^ "Ulrike Kramm | Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V." www.gdch.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-09-24.
  4. ^ Electrocatalysts, Catalysts and. "homepage". Catalysts and Electrocatalysts – TU Darmstadt. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
  5. ^ Electrocatalysts, Catalysts and. "research projects". Catalysts and Electrocatalysts – TU Darmstadt. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
  6. ^ "Prof. Ulrike Kramm". www.mpie.de. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
  7. ^ "Dr. Ulrike I. Kramm: StRedO | werkstofftechnologien.de". www.werkstofftechnologien.de. Retrieved 2022-09-24.
  8. ^ "Professor Dr Ulrike Kramm - ProLOEWE faces / ProLOEWE / ProLoewe". proloewe.de. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
  9. ^ Innovation, Materials to Product (2019-10-30). "Young Talent Award "Curious Mind" for Prof. Ulrike Kramm". From Materials to Product Innovation – TU Darmstadt. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
  10. ^ Innovation, Materials to Product (2020-02-01). "Junior Professor Ulrike Kramm receives the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the DFG". From Materials to Product Innovation – TU Darmstadt. Retrieved 2022-09-23.