Artur Braun

Dr. Artur Braun Physicist, Group Leader, Marie Curie Fellow Principles & Fundamentals of Ceramic Energy Materials Abt. Hochleistungskeramik Empa Überlandstrasse 129 CH-8600 Dübendorf Switzerland Phone: +41 (0) 58 765 48 50 Phone2: +41 (0) 58 765 55 11 Fax: +41 (0) 58 765 41 50 E-mail: artur.braun(at)empa.ch URL Institution: https://www.empa.ch/web/s201 Personal URL: link Phone: +41 (0) 58 765 48 50 Phone2: +41 (0) 58 765 55 11 Fax: +41 (0) 58 765 41 50 E-mail: artur.braun(at)empa.ch URL Institution: https://www.empa.ch/web/s201 Personal URL: link

Additional functions:
Expert at IPCC scoping meeting on renewables in Lübeck (2008).

Editorial Board Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)

Founding Member of The Daylight Academy
https://daylight.academy/

Materials Research Society (MRS) Program Development Sub-Committee

MRS 2015 Spring Meeting Chair

Foreign Policy Leading Global Thinker of 2014


Key Publications of Artur Braun (up to ten) :
A Braun, F. Boudoire, D. K. Bora, G. Faccio, Y. Hu, A. Kroll, B. S. Mun, S. T. Wilson, Biological components and bio-electronic interfaces of water splitting photo-electrodes for solar hydrogen production, Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21(11), 4188-4199. (invited concept paper), http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.201405123/abstract

D. K. Bora, Y. Hu, S. Thiess, S. Erat, X. Feng, S. Mukherjee, G. Fortunato, N. Gaillard, R. Toth, K. Gajda-Schrantz, W. Drube, M. Grätzel, J. Guo, J. Zhu, E.C. Constable, D.D. Sarma, H. Wang, A. Braun, Between Photocatalysis and Photosynthesis: Synchrotron spectroscopy methods on molecules and materials for solar hydrogen generation, J. Electron Spectr. Rel. Phenom. 2013, 190 A, 93-105. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0368204812001600

D.K. Bora, A. Braun, E.C. Constable, “In rust we trust”. Hematite the prospective inorganic backbone for artificial photosynthesis, Energy Environ. Sci., 2013,6, 407-425.

A. Kocbach Bolling, A. I. Totlandsdal, G. Sallsten, A. Braun, R. Westerholm, C. Bergvall, J. Boman, H. J: Dahlman, M. Sehlstedt, F. Cassee, T. Sandstrom, P. E. Schwarze, J. I. Herseth, Wood smoke particles from different combustion phases induce similar pro-inflammatory effects in a co-culture of monocyte and pneumocyte cell lines. Particle and Fibre Toxicology 2012, 9:45 http://www.particleandfibretoxicology.com/content/9/1/45/abstract

F. Boudoire, R. Toth, J. Heier, A. Braun, E. C. Constable, Photonic light trapping in self-organized all-oxide microspheroids impacts photoelectrochemical water splitting, Energy Environ. Sci., 2014, 7, 2680-2688.
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/ee/c4ee00380b#!divAbstract

J. Ihssen, A. Braun, G. Faccio, K. Gajda-Schrantz, L. Thöny-Meyer; Light harvesting proteins for solar fuel generation in bioengineered photoelectrochemical cells; Current Protein and Peptide Science, 2014, 15 (4),374-384, DOI: 10.2174/1389203715666140327105530

A. Braun, Two-process model for the atmospheric weathering, oxidation and ageing of diesel soot; GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Volume: 36 Article Number: L07810, 2009.

A. Kocbach Bølling, A.I. Totlandsdal, G. Sallsten, A. Braun, R. Westerholm, C. Bergvall, J. Boman, H.J. Dahlman, M. Sehlstedt, F. Cassee, T. Sandstrom, P.E. Schwarze, J.I. Herseth, Wood smoke particles from different combustion phases induce similar
pro-inflammatory effects in a co-culture of monocyte and pneumocyte cell lines
Particle and Fibre Toxicology 2012, 9:45 doi:10.1186/1743-8977-9-45

Braun A. et al.; Toward distinguishing woodsmoke and diesel exhaust in ambient particulate matter, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 42(2)374-380, 2008.

Braun A.; Carbon speciation in airborne particulate matter with C (1s) NEXAFS spectroscopy, JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING 7(11)1059-1065, 2005.


Expertise of Artur Braun:

Expertise Category	Specific Expertise
Energy Working Group	Social Dimension
	Fundamental Research

Specialties of Artur Braun:
energy materials (batteries, fuel cells, capacitors, photoelectrochemical cells) basic science; fine particulate matter and air pollution, carbon.


NEWS: Artur Braun to speak on "Soot Effects on Climate - The Global Context" at University of Hawaii, East-West Center, January 19, 2011 (The Science of Climate Change in Hawai‘i;
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/iprc/meetings/workshops/11_01_SOESTSymposium_final.pdf

NEWS: Artur Braun invited as expert to SSAJRP
Green and Cleantech Workshop in Pretoria, South Africa
Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th February 2013
http://www.forschungssupport.ch/swiss-south-african-joint-research-programme-call-for-proposals/

NEWS: Artur Braun speaks on "Chemical speciation and molecular structure analyses of carbonaceous particulate matter with C1s NEXAFS spectroscopy" at the Conference on Aerosol Technology 2014, 16 - 18 June 2014, Karlsruhe, Germany

NEWS: Artur Braun and team members listed by Foreign Policy Magazine as Top 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2014: http://globalthinkers.foreignpolicy.com

Last update: 7/31/18
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