At a ceremony on 6 February, in the beautiful Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Prof. Daniel Otzen officially received the EliteForsk (Elite researcher) award from the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation. The award is a grant of 1.2 mio DKK where the 200.000 DKK is a personal gift.

Prof. Otzen receives his award for his major contributions…

Catalysts made of molybdenum sulphides have been used for the desulphurisation of oil since World War II. Now, Jakob Kibsgaard and Prof. Besenbacher, however, has revealed promising results to produce hydrogen from water by means of nanoparticles of Mo3S13 in a collaboration between iNANO and Stanford. What is so smart about Mo3S13 is that it can…