In the coming decades, dwindling resources will lead to a change in the supply of raw materials that every developed society will have to face. It will become necessary to integrate carbon-containing building blocks from sustainable resources into material flows. This will require new chemical reactions, robust catalyst systems, highly efficient separation processes and new process control concepts. The material use of renewable raw materials must not be limited to breaking them down into small molecules in top-down processes in order to produce higher molecular weight products using established petrochemical methods. Molecular structures of renewable raw materials are ideally suited to be converted into valuable products with the help of coordinated chemical and biochemical transformations. The demands of sustainable value creation can only be met by closely interlinking chemistry and process engineering; they require special efforts in basic research and an interdisciplinary approach. In Rhineland-Palatinate, NanoKat is making a decisive contribution to the formation of structures in a research field of great social importance. Engineers and scientists have been working closely together in the NanoKat area of potential since 2008. 

Contact

Spokesperson

Prof. Dr. Roland Ulber 
FB MV, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau 
Gottlieb-Daimler-Str. 49 
D-67663 Kaiserslautern

Tel.: +49(0)631 205-4043 
Fax: +49(0)631 205-4312 
E-Mail: ulber(at)mv.uni-kl.de

Deputy Spokesperson

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kleist
FB Chemie, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau 
Erwin-Schrödinger-Str. 52/54 
D-67663 Kaiserslautern

Tel.: +49(0)631 205-3587 
Fax: +49(0)631 205-4193 
E-Mail: kleist(at)chemie.uni-kl.de