Dr. Christopher Penschke

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsTheoretical Chemistry: Electron Structure, Dynamics, Simulation,Physical Chemistry at Surfaces
Keywordsheterogeneous catalysis, excited states, density functional theory, electric double layer, solid - liquid interfaces

Current contact address

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Angelos MichaelidesDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University College London (UCL), London
Prof. Dr. Peter SaalfrankInstitut für Chemie, Universität Potsdam, Golm
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2018

Programme(s)

2017Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2025Weber, Irene and Penschke, Christopher and Michaelides, Angelos and Morgenstern, Karina: Importance of {Ion} {Size} on the {Dominance} of {Water}–{Ion} {Versus} {Water}–{Water} {Interactions} in {Au}-{Supported} {Solvatomers}. In: Nano Lett., 25, 2025, 2188--2194
2024Nadeem, Immad M. and Penschke, Christopher and Chen, Ji and Torrelles, Xavier and Wilson, Axel and Hussain, Hadeel and Cabailh, Gregory and Bikondoa, Oier and Imran, Jameel and Nicklin, Christopher and Lindsay, Robert and Zegenhagen, Jörg and Blunt, Matthew O. and Michaelides, Angelos and Thornton, Geoff: Ultracompact {Electrical} {Double} {Layers} at {TiO}$_{\textrm{2}}$ (110) {Electrified} {Interfaces}. In: J. Am. Chem. Soc., 146, 2024, 33443--33451
2023Penschke, Christopher and Thomas, John and Bertram, Cord and Michaelides, Angelos and Morgenstern, Karina and Saalfrank, Peter and Bovensiepen, Uwe: Hydration at {Highly} {Crowded} {Interfaces}. In: Phys. Rev. Lett., 130, 2023, 106202
2022Yang, Jin and Ghosh, Samrat and Roeser, Jérôme and Acharjya, Amitava and Penschke, Christopher and Tsutsui, Yusuke and Rabeah, Jabor and Wang, Tianyi and Djoko Tameu, Simon Yves and Ye, Meng-Yang and Grüneberg, Julia and Li, Shuang and Li, Changxia and Schomäcker, Reinhard and Van De Krol, Roel and Seki, Shu and Saalfrank, Peter and Thomas, Arne: Constitutional isomerism of the linkages in donor–acceptor covalent organic frameworks and its impact on photocatalysis. In: Nat Commun, 13, 2022, 6317
2022Penschke, Christopher and Von Zander, Robert Edler and Beqiraj, Alkit and Zehle, Anna and Jahn, Nicolas and Neumann, Rainer and Saalfrank, Peter: Water on porous, nitrogen-containing layered carbon materials: the performance of computational model chemistries. In: Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 24, 2022, 14709--14726
2021Yang, Jin and Acharjya, Amitava and Ye, Meng‐Yang and Rabeah, Jabor and Li, Shuang and Kochovski, Zdravko and Youk, Sol and Roeser, Jérôme and Grüneberg, Julia and Penschke, Christopher and Schwarze, Michael and Wang, Tianyi and Lu, Yan and Krol, Roel and Oschatz, Martin and Schomäcker, Reinhard and Saalfrank, Peter and Thomas, Arne: Protonated {Imine}‐{Linked} {Covalent} {Organic} {Frameworks} for {Photocatalytic} {Hydrogen} {Evolution}. In: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 60, 2021, 19797--19803
2020Chen, Ji and Penschke, Christopher and Alavi, Ali and Michaelides, Angelos: Small polarons and the {Janus} nature of {TiO} 2 (110). In: Phys. Rev. B, 101, 2020, 115402