Michael Bron

Prof. Dr. Michael Bron leads the Technical Chemistry of Renewable Energies research group at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg within the Faculty of Natural Sciences II. His work focuses on electrochemical energy conversion technologies critical to renewable energy systems.

His research expertise spans electrocatalytic CO2 reduction, redox flow batteries, fuel cells, and electrolysis. The group specializes in developing micro- and nanostructured materials for energy conversion, with particular emphasis on carbon-based electrodes, nickel oxides for oxygen evolution, and metallic nanoparticles. Their methodology combines advanced electrochemical techniques (cyclic voltammetry, impedance spectroscopy), materials synthesis (graphene, CNTs, metal nanoparticles), and characterization (Raman/IR spectroscopy, XRD).

Prof. Bron actively supervises doctoral candidates and Master's students while maintaining extensive experimental facilities. His group recently appeared in MDR Info (May 2023) discussing oxygen as a waste product in green hydrogen production, and in Deutschlandfunk Kultur (March 2023) covering digitalization in chemical laboratories.

The group offers Bachelor's and Master's theses in chemistry and Renewable Energies programs, focusing on physical and chemical principles of energy storage/conversion in solar cells, batteries, and photocatalysts. Current research projects include carbon electrodes for vanadium redox flow batteries and catalysts for CO2 reduction to valuable products.