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Sustainability has become one of the greatest scientific challenges of our time. Redesigning the chemical value chain with sustainable reactions and non‐fossil feedstocks, closing cycles in energy storage and digitalization demand interdisciplinary scientific excellence. The summer school organized by the early career researchers groups of Germanys reaction engineering and catalysis community aimed to bring together young scientists from reaction engineering and catalysis with experts from industry and academia to work on sustainable chemistry, energy storage and digitalization. During three days of lectures, workshops and intensive group work, the hot topics of our time were discussed and seminal ideas to tackle current challenges were formed.

A comprehensive and reliable view on the influence of UV light and heat on optical properties of ZnO shall be outlined mainly based on research conducted by scientists from Warsaw Pact countries throughout the twentieth century. The problems of language barrier and loss of knowledge are being addressed. An insight into processes of photodesorption and photoadsorption of oxygen and other gas phase molecules leading to changes in charge carrier states is outlined. While desorption of surface adsorbates leads to increased number of conduction electrons and thus increased absorbance of infrared light, adsorption of electronegative gas phase molecules leads to quenching in fluorescence.

A comprehensive and reliable view on the influence of UV light and heat on optical properties of ZnO shall be outlined mainly based on research conducted by scientists from Warsaw Pact countries throughout the 20th century. The problems of language barrier and loss of knowledge are being addressed. An insight into processes of photodesorption and photoadsorption of oxygen and other gas phase molecules leading to changes in charge carrier states is outlined. While desorption of surface adsorbates leads to increased number of conduction electrons and thus increased absorbance of infrared light, adsorption of electronegative gas phase molecules leads to quenching in fluorescence.