Simon Fleischmann and Marco Zeiger are participating at this years installment of the CARBON conference in Melbournce, Australia. Both our PhD students received also a travel fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Organization (DAAD) to cover the conference trip costs. On July 26th, Marco Zeiger is giving a talk called “Designing the carbon/vanadia interface for hybrid […]
New paper published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces on the complementary use of in situ small angle X-ray scattering and electrochemical dilatometry to track the expansion of nanoporous carbon based on hierarchic pore architectures. Our data underline the importance of micropores for the volume changes occuring during electrochemical cycling. This work was in collaboration […]
Our team has several contributions to the 5th International Symposium on Enhanced Electrochemical Capacitors (ISEEcap’17) in Jena. Collaborator Bastian Etzold (TU Darmstadt) is presenting on July, 11th, at 10:00 AM the following talk: “Core-shell carbide-derived carbons as platform for high-performance electrochemical energy storage and electrocatalysis” Volker Presser is presenting on July, 11th, at 10:40 AM the following […]
New paper published in Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry on the mechanochemistry-assisted synthesis of nanoporous carbons for use in carbon supercapacitors. The paper is the latest outcome of our collaboration with the junior investigator team of Lars Borchardt at TU Dresden.
Welcome visiting PhD student Rafael Linzmeyer Zornitta! Our guest scientist is visiting from the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil, more precisley, from the Laboratory of Environmental Technologies. He will be working with us in the coming year on capactive deionization.
Volker Presser was selected to give the Materials Today ‘Materials in Society’ Lecture at the 28th International Conference on Diamond and Carbon Materials (DCM’2017) in Gothenberg, Sweden. Click here for the coverage of the Materials Today Webfeature online.
New paper published in Carbon on the use of activated carbon cloth for capacitive deionization. Our work dissects the influence of cell voltage and carbon pore structure on the performance during capacitive deionization operation using commercially available carbon cloth (trademark name Kynol).
Nicolas Jäckel is not only selected Fellow to participate at this year’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (impressive considering the tough competition internationally), but is also partaking in a TV show with the title “emotions instead of facts: do we mistrust science?”. The podium discussion includes also German Federal Minister for Education and Research Prof. Johanna […]
New paper published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A on the promising features of the ZnI2 redox energy storage system. Using activated carbon cloth electrode and a Zn electrode, we achieve a high energy storage performance of 226 Wh/kg and a higher power of 20 kW/kg. The unique strength of iodide adsorption allows stable […]
New paper published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) on extracting a 3D pore model of nanoporous carbons used for double-layer applications (esp. supercapacitors). This work was the latest outcome from our collaboration with Oskar Paris at Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria.
New paper published in ChemSusChem on using mechanochemical solvent-free synthesis of nitrogen doped nanoporous carbon for supercapacitor electrodes. This work stems from our collaboration with the Junior Investigator Group of Lars Borchardt (TU Dresden) and is being featured on the back cover of the current issue of ChemSusChem.
Today, Volker Presser has his 5-year anniversary as Group Leader at INM.
Mathias Widmaier is presenting work on carbon reference electrodes at the 231st ECS Meeting (The Electrochemical Society) in New Orleans, USA. His talk is entitled: “Activated carbon based quasi-reference electrodes for unconventional lithium-salt containing organic electrolytes”.
Collaborator Bastian Etzold from the TU Darmstadt is presenting joint work with us at the meeting for reaction engineering (Reaktionstechnik 2017) in Würzburg. His talk is entitled: “Reaction engineering as basis for the synthesis of carbonaceous core-shell materials for energy storage applications”.
New paper published in Journal of Power Sources. Our team has investigated novolac derived nanoporous carbon as conductive support for lithium sulfur batteries. This work was in cooperation with the Group of Oskar Paris (Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria) and Lars Borchardt (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany).
Welcome our new postdoctoral research fellow Dr. Eunho Lim. Having graduated Pohang University of Science and Technology, he will be working on metal oxide / carbon nanomaterials.
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