Alexey Cherevan, Dr. rer. nat., Privatdozent · Asst. Prof., Institute of Materials Chemistry, TU Wien · PI, FWF Cluster of Excellence MECS · 2H₂O + hν → 2H₂ + O₂
Sunlight,
into fuel.
The Cherevan Lab designs photoactive materials — from atomically precise clusters to hybrid photosystems — that use nothing but light and abundant feedstock to generate green hydrogen and other solar fuels.
Research
All seven topics →Photoreforming of biomass & plastic waste
Converting PET microplastics and lignin into hydrogen, methane and high-value liquid products — replacing the hardest half of water splitting with chemistry that makes economic sense.
Bridging homogeneous & heterogeneous photocatalysis
Merging the stability of solid-state supports with the tunability of molecular catalysts into well-defined hybrid photosystems that can be benchmarked in both worlds.
Metalate clusters & single-site catalysis
Wiring all-inorganic {Mo₃S₁₃} and polyoxometalate clusters onto light-active surfaces — model systems with catalytic sites we can actually count, study and design.
Selected publications
Full list →Latest from the lab
Lab notebook →Is it linear or is it exponential 🦥🚀 — the yearly publication-count ritual returns.
Long Night of Research: support and skepticism in the same crowd — the only right way for us is to keep talking and keep being open.
Our invited review on molecular oxide, sulfide and metallic clusters as tunable active sites is out in ACS Nano.