News

April 2024

  • Iongenics decided to participate in WIN EURASIA, Europe’s leading industry fair, in the Hydrogen Special Area, which will be held for the first time in Türkiye (Hall 2, F160). 

  • Can Erkey moderated the panel titled “Hydrogen in Transportation and Industry” at the 28th ICCI – International Energy and Environment Fair and Conference, which was held at the Istanbul Expo Center on 24-26 April 2024.

March 2024

  • Can Erkey was the keynote speaker on the first day of the 4th National Carbon Conference held at Sabancı University on 28-29 March 2024 and made a presentation explaining the functions and importance of carbon for catalysts used in electrolyzers.

December 2023

  • TÜPRAŞ R&D team visited Iongenics and consultations were held on various technical issues.

  • Can Erkey expressed his views on the critical role of hydrogen in the transformation of transportation and energy-intensive sectors at the “Hydrogen Technologies Panel” at the BIG event organized by Ford Otosan.

  • Can Erkey participated as a panelist in the Electrochemical and Chemical Energy Storage Technologies Symposium organized by TMMOB Chamber of Chemical Engineers.

November 2023

  • Can Erkey made a presentation titled “The New Name in Energy: Hydrogen” in a webinar organized by Inspecco Turkey.

  • Can Erkey made a presentation titled “Fueling the Future: Hydrogen’s Evolution and Practical Implementations” at the Plug and Play Türkiye Expo event.

  • Can Erkey made a presentation called “The New Name in Energy: Hydrogen” in the online meeting of Istanbul METU Alumni Association. You can watch the presentation by clicking on the photo below.

October 2023

  • Can Erkey received the Dr. Akın Çakmakcı Award from the Turkish Technology Development Foundation (TTGV) for his work on green hydrogen.

  • Erdal Uzunlar visited Thermal Separation Processes Institute (Institut für Thermische Verfahrenstechnik) at Hamburg Technical University (Technische Universität Hamburg), our partner in the IRA-SME project, and held consultations.

July 2023

  • TÜPRAŞ Ventures A.Ş. officials visited Iongenics. Consultations were held on various technical issues.

January 2023

  • Iongenics moved to its new office in Teknopark İzmir.

December 2022

  • Iongenics successfully closed its first investment round with TÜPRAŞ Ventures A.Ş.  At the same time, Iongenics became the first company in which TÜPRAŞ Ventures A.Ş. has invested.

November 2022

  • A project prepared by the consortium formed by Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and Diener Plasma GmbH & Co. KG from Germany and Koç University and iongenics from Turkey, was entitled to be funded. The project has a total budget of 522,000 Euro.

  • Can Erkey attended the “The Effect of Hydrogen on the Energy Crisis and the Solution Process of Problems in Hydrogen Production” panel as a panelist at the 7th Battery Technologies Workshop organized by Aspilsan Enerji A.Ş.

October 2022

  • Can Erkey gave a speech on hydrogen technologies at the Energy is Future (EIF) 15th World Energy Congress and Expo event.

August 2022

  • A research article on the development of innovative CO2 capture technologies has been published in the Turkish Journal of Chemistry.

July 2022

  • In a 2-day workshop organized by Prof. Dr. Can Erkey from Koç University and Dr. Deniz Şanlı from Ford-Otosan, Ford-Otosan R&D engineers gained fundamental theoretical and applied experience on PEM fuel cells.

  • Iongenics started to provide technical consultancy services to a 36-month defense industry project.

June 2022

  • Can Erkey gave a training titled “Hydrogen Production Methods” at the “Introduction to Hydrogen Technologies” training program organized within the scope of the BEST for Energy project carried out by İzmir Development Agency (İZKA) in partnership with the Energy Industrialists and Businessmen Association (ENSİA).

May 2022

  • Can Erkey gave a speech on green hydrogen technologies at the SustainAbility event organized by Koç University AIChE Student Chapter.
  • Can Erkey gave a speech on Hydrogen Production Technologies in the Chem Talk series organized by Boğaziçi University Science Club Chemistry Board.

April 2022

  • A research article has been published in the journal Catalysts, with contributions from researchers from South Africa, the United States, and Turkey, on the development of hydrogenation and dehydrogenation catalyst materials, which are important for liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC), by supercritical deposition (SCD) method.
  • A review article examining the supercritical fluid reactive deposition (SFRD) method for the synthesis of catalysts used in fuel cells and electrolyzers has been published in the journal Chemical Engineering and Processing – Process Intensification.

February 2022

  • Iongenics’ TÜBİTAK 1512 BiGG project has been successfully completed.

January 2022

  • Can Erkey gave a speech titled “Hydrogen Energy Production, Technology Development Processes” at the Energy 5.0 seminar held as part of the BEST For Energy project.

December 2021

  • Erdal Uzunlar attended the “Hydrogen and Fuel Cell as a Solution to Global Warming” panel as a panelist at the 6th Battery Technologies Workshop organized by Aspilsan Enerji A.Ş.
  • Can Erkey has been accepted as a full member of the Academy of Sciences.
  • The iongenics team provided a training on carbon dioxide capture, use and storage (CCUS) to an export-oriented company producing process chemicals in Turkey.

November 2021

  • Iongenics moved to its new address in Teknopark İzmir.
  • A book titled “Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials in Near and/or Supercritical Fluids: Methods, Fundamentals and Modeling”, co-authored by Can Erkey, about technologies that can be used in the synthesis of nanostructured catalyst materials in fuel cell and electrolyzer systems was published by Elsevier.

October 2021

  • Erdal Uzunlar mentored at BEST For Hydrogen Ideathon, which was organized as part of the BEST For Energy project.
  • The second project of Iongenics in Teknopark Izmir was accepted.

September 2021

  • Iongenics provided a training on carbon dioxide capture, use and storage (CCUS) to one of the chlor-alkali companies in Turkey.
  • Iongenics started to provide consultancy services to one of the process design and chemical plant manufacturing companies in Turkey.

June 2021

  • Can Erkey presented the study “Nanostructured Aerogels for Hydrogen Economy: PEM Electrolyzer and Fuel Cell Applications” at the International Energy Chemistry and Engineering Congress held in Chengdu, China.

May 2021

  • Dr. Gamze Eriş joined Iongenics as a Senior Research Engineer.
  • Iongenics gave an interview to journalist Didem Eryar Ünlü from Dünya Newspaper.

     

  • Can Erkey and Erdal Uzunlar from the iongenics team were panelists and moderators, respectively, in the “Hydrogen Technologies” panel at the AIChE Unity event, which was jointly prepared by Koç University, Istanbul Technical University (ITU) and Middle East Technical University (METU) AIChE Student Chapters.

April 2021

  • The registration of the iongenics brand was obtained.
  • Can Erkey made a presentation on “Hydrogen, the Fuel of the Future” at the Powertech event organized by the Çankaya University IEEE Student Branch Power and Energy Association.

  • Can Erkey made a presentation titled “Hydrogen for Sustainability” at the SustainAbility event organized by Koç University AIChE Club.

March 2021

  • Can Erkey gave a training on “Hydrogen Energy” at the Izmir Energy Summit. The training covered the importance of hydrogen, hydrogen production technologies, the use of hydrogen in energy storage, electricity generation from hydrogen and hydrogen safety.

February 2021

  • The iongenics website was launched.

January 2021

  • The iongenics team made a live broadcast on the Energy Analysis YouTube channel.

November 2020 

  • Iongenics’ TÜBİTAK 1512 BiGG project started.
  • Iongenics started to operate in the Teknopark İzmir Incubation Center.

October 2020

  • Iongenics appeared at KWORKS’20 Demo Day. 

  • The first investor meetings have started.

September 2020

  • Iongenics was established in Teknopark İzmir with the support of TÜBİTAK 1512 BiGG.