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Annual group retreat

We enjoyed our annual group retreat – due to a booking issue, reduced to one day, but no less fun! We enjoyed our group dinner, as won by popular vote, in the Vietnamese restaurant Yoko in Saarbrücken. For the scientific talks, we mixed things up: rather than all Ph.D. students and Postdocs presenting theirworks… each one was assigned a partner with a topic as different as can be within our group – and each person needed to present his/her partner’s research. 🚀

As another highlight, we had Hanna Sänger from Arenus Akademie (Tatjana Heidemann) to give a seminar on mental health. Mental health is as important as physical health – yet, it is met by stigma and taboo, as the mind reminds an opaque mystery and people rather accept what they can “see” over what they feel. Nonetheless, how we feel about ourselves and work is of highest importance and the foundation for a sustainable, productive, and healthy work life. Thanks for giving us an introductoin in this important topic (in excellent English that put myself to shame).

Thanks for our Humboldt-visitor, long-term collaborator, and true friend Michael Naguib for joining us! 💡We also got our traditional group picture done, once more, by the one and only Uwe Bellhäuser 🌼 and thank Elke Bubel for helping us so much for securing the photoshooting spot in front of the NTNM library! 📚

Looking forward to our next retreat already! And we will make sure to find a replacement appointment for some well-overdue minigolf ⛳

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Panyu Ren successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis

Panyu has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on “Electrochemical water desalination for ion separation toward ion-selectivity and sustainable materials”. All the best to you and your continued career!

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New paper published in Desalination on polyelecrolyte metallopolymer based PFAS capture and release

New paper published in Desalination, led by the Gallei Group, on the capture and release of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances by use of polyelectrolyte metallopolymers.

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Open Day at Saarland University and the INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials

Our team was, as is tradition, part of the Open Campus and presented our work on next-generation batteries, sustainable water remediation, elemental recovery, battery recycling and interactive elements, such as a vegetable/fruit battery challenge and a build-your-own-battery challenge.

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Volker Presser presents work on lithium-ion recovery at the EMS in Poland

Volker Presser gives an invited keynote lecture on “Electrochemical lithium-ion separation” at the 7th Conference on Electrochemical and Membrane Separation Science and Technology in Wroclaw, Poland. Collaborator Pegah Fatehbasharzad presents a poster on “Electrosorption of diverse organic compounds: Mechanistic insights and applicability across molecular structures”.

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Poster presentations at the PhD Students’ Day of Saarland University

An annual tradition: our team at the PhD students’ day of Universität des Saarlandes 🎓

Cansu Kök answered the question on how to design electrochemical tools for the direct lithium-ion separation from seawater (and Saarland mine water): “Continuous lithium-ion extraction via fuel cell desalination”; work in collaboration with Lei Wang, Jean Gustavo De Andrade Ruthes, Antje Quade, and Matthew Suss.

Nikolaos Papadopoulos presented his inspiring modelling + experimental work on “Physical modeling of silicon-containing Li-ion batteries through a multi-species multi-reaction model” to design high-performance Si-based lithium-ion batteries; work in collaboration with Oliver Queisser and Simon Schwunk.

Liying Xue presented the power of multi-phase material design on high-capacity lithium-ion batteries: “Multi-phase synergy enhances lithium storage performance of oxalate”; work in collaboration with Oliver Janka and Chaochao Dun.

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Welcome visiting Ph.D. student Yassine Seffar

Welcome our visiting Ph.D. student Yassine Seffar from UM6P – University Mohammed VI Polytechnic. Yassine will be working with our team on ion-selective and advanced electrochemical desalination.

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