Volker Presser listed as Highly Cited Researcher 2025 (Clarivate)
Volker Presser has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher (2025 edition) by Clariate.
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New paper published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering on lithium-ion recovery with aluminum layered double hydroxides
New paper published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. We present a mildly synthesized aluminum layered double hydroxide (Al-LDH) electrode that couples chemical adsorption with electrochemical release to recover lithium at neutral pH, eliminating harsh acids or bases and minimizing secondary pollution. It achieves an average Li+ uptake of 57.6 mg/g with strong Li+ over […]
Delvina Tarimo presents work at the ECS Fall meeting in Chicago
Delvina Tarimo gives an oral presentation on “Influence of Porous Structure, Sulfur Loading, and Cathode/Solid Electrolyte Interphase Formation Using Carbonate and Ether-Based Electrolyte for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries”
Stefanie Arnold and Cansu Kök present work on electrochemical lithium-ion recovery at the Direct Lithium-Extraction Symposium in Karlsruhe, Germany
Two oral contributions to the DLE Symposium in Karlsruhe, Germany, from our team: Cansu Kök: Tailored MXene electrodes for selective and stable electrochemical lithium recovery in aqueous solutions (oral) Stefanie Arnold: Electrochemical perspectives for Li-ion battery recycling (oral)
Our team presents at the enfosaar and INM science booths at Citizens’ Festival in Saarbrücken
Our team presents our energy research at the Citizen’s Festival in Saarbrücken, in celebration of the German Unification Day. From age 5 to 65, many participated in building own small water-electrolyte-based coin cell batteries – becoming honorary battery experts 🔋Thanks for the strong effort and hour-long dedication of Stefanie Arnold, Jean Gustavo Ruthes de Andrade, […]
Welcome new group member Burak Ölmez
Welcome new group member Burak Ölmez! He will be working on high performance battery electrodes in his new role as a Ph.D. student in our team.
Welcome new Postdoc Dr. Nicolas Huth
Welcome to our new Postdoc, Nicolas Huth! He will work with us on battery materials and technologies.
Welcome (back) Anna Seltmann
We have had the privilege to work with Anna Seltmann for quite some time – she re-joins now our team as our second technician and we are looking forward to the many exciting adventures and scientific discoveries ahead of us!
Saeed Borhani presents collaborative work at the Evonik meets Science 2025 in Heidelberg
Saeed Borhani presents our collaborative work on “Iron-loaded carbon spherogels as sustainable electrode materials for high-performance lithium-ion batteries” at the Evonik meets Science 2025 in Heidelberg (Germany). The poster won also the best poster award. Congratulations!
Liying Xue presents work on high performance oxalates for lithium ion batteries at the RSC Faraday Discussion on high-entropy alloy nanostrutures in London, UK
Liying Xue presents a poster on our work on multi-component composition materials at the at the Faraday Discussion on “High-entropy alloy nanostructures: from theory to application” by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in London (UK). Thanks to our external collaborators Chaochao Dun and Oliver Janka!
Work on electrochemical recycling of lithium ions from spent batteries featured on the front cover of Energy Advances
Our recent work on “Competing ion effects and electrolyte optimization for electrochemical lithium extraction from spent lithium iron phosphate battery cathodes” has been featured on the front cover of RSC Energy Advances.
Several contributions from our team at the ISE Annual Meeting in Mainz, Germany
Several contributions from our team at the 76th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) in Main, Germany. Volker Presser: Electrochemical lithium-ion separation (oral)Stefanie Arnold: Electrochemical perspectives for Li-ion battery recycling (oral)Delvina J. Tarimo: Influence of porous structure, sulfur loading, and cathode/solid electrolyte interphase formation using carbonate and ether-based electrolyte for lithium-sulfur batteries (oral)Mingren Liu: […]
Welcome new Postdoc, Dr. Asia Sarycheva!
Welcome to our new Postdoc, Dr. Asia Sarycheva! She will support our research activities relating to MXene and material characterization capitalizing on her many skills and expertise. We are looking forward to the joint work and time ahead!
Liying Xue presents work on high performance oxalates for lithium ion batteries at the ISE topical meeting in Changhun, China
Liying Xue presents our work on multi-component composition materials at the at the 40th topical conference of the International Society of Electrochemistry with the exciting topic of interfacial electrochemistry and related topics. Her poster has the title: “Multi-element synergy to enhance the cycling performance of oxalates as anode materials for lithium-ion batteries” and she will […]
New paper published in ACS Applied Energy Materials on nanoporous carbon electrodes for lithium-sulfur batteries
New paper published in ACS Applied Energy Materials on lithium-sulfur batteries. Our collaborative work explored microporous carbon cathodes with carefully tuned pore sizes, tested in both carbonate- and ether-based electrolytes. Our study shows how pore structure and cathode–electrolyte interphase formation impact cycling stability and sulfur utilization. With optimized microporosity, we achieved over 50 mass % […]
New paper published on electrochemical lithium-ion battery recycling in Energy Advances
New paper published on electrochemical lithium-ion battery recycling in Energy Advances. We demonstrate a sustainable, energy-efficient electrochemical route to recover Li⁺ from spent LFP using carbon-coated LFP electrodes, with NaOH-adjusted electrolytes giving the highest efficiency and an average removal capacity of 18 mg Li per 1 g of LFP over 50 cycles. Capacity fades with […]
Joint visit of the MS Wissenschaft together with Minister of Finance and Science in Saarland (Jakob von Weizsäcker)
We are grateful for the Minister to take time to visit the science exhibition ship MS Wissenschaft, anchoring in Saarbrücken, Germany. We discussed climate change, scientific discoveries, basic and applied research – specifically as it pertains to our research on lithium-ion battery recycling.
New paper published in Journal of Power Sources on free-standing rGO/NiHFC films for energy storage
New collaborative paper (Victor H. R. Souza) published in Journal of Power Sources. To support the energy transition, we developed freestanding electrodes combining reduced graphene oxide, polyaniline, and nickel hexacyanoferrate (NiHCF), which is a promising material for aqueous batteries due to its long cycle life and redox-active structure. These rGO/PAni/NiHCF films achieve high specific capacities […]
Minister for Economy, Innovation, Digitalisation and Energy and Deputy Prime Minister of Saarland (Jürgen Barke) visits our team
We are grateful for the Minister visiting our group to learn more about the EFRE-funded eLiFlow project to continuously harvest lithium-ions from aqueous solutions.
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 […]