New paper published on new cell concept for capacitive deionization
New paper published in ChemSusChem on a new multi-channel system to significantly boost the desalination capacity for capacitive deionization.
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Two papers published in Sustainable Energy & Fuels on SiOC for lithium-ion batteries and carbon onions for lithium-sulfur batteries
New paper published on the use of electrospun SiOC with tin nanoparticles as lithium ion battery electrodes in Sustainable Energy & Fuels. Also, new paper published on inverse vulcanization with carbon onions for lithium sulfur batteries in Sustainable Energy & Fuels.
New paper published in Chemistry of Materials
New paper published in Chemistry of Materials on the use of titanium disulfide as sodium intercalation material in aqueous media. In our quest to establish ion intercalation materials for water desalination, we demonstrate titanium disulfide as a battery-like electrode material highly suited to remove sodium ions from saline solutions. Pairing with nanoporous carbon to accomplish […]
Marco Zeiger successfully defends his thesis
Marco Zeiger has successfully defended his thesis entitled “Next generation electrochemical energy storage with nanocarbons and carbon nanohybrid materials”. Congratulations!
Several contributions at the 2017 PhD student symposium of Saarland University
Like all years before, our team is again making a major contribution to the PhD student poster symposium of Saarland University. The event is being held in the Aula from 2-4 PM. Simon Fleischmann: Carbon onion / metal oxide: hybridization or nanocomposite? What system can deliver a better performance for electrochemical energy storage? Nicolas Jäckel: Performance evaluation […]
Volker Presser is giving a seminar talk at the ZAE Bayern
Volker Presser is giving a seminar talk at the Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research (ZAE Bayern) with the title “Electrochemical dilatometry for energy storage materials”.
New paper published in Journal of Power Sources on in situ characterization of battery binders
New paper published in Journal of Power Sources on the use of in situ electrochemical methods to characterize the mechanical response of lithium ion battery binders . This work was conducted in collaboration with the Aurbach Group at Bar Ilan University, Israel.
Welcome visiting PhD student Jemma Rowlandson
Welcome new visiting PhD student Jemma Rowlandson from Valeska Ting‘s team at the University of Bristol, UK! Jemma will be working on bio-derived nanoporous carbons for electrochemical applications in the next 3 months. See also Jemma’s fantastic YouTube science videos (video 1 / video 2 / video 3).
New paper published in Chemistry of Materials on tailored carbons as substrate for metal oxides
New paper published in Chemistry of Materials on the use of atomic layer deposition (ALD) to synthesize hybrid electrode materials of tailored mesoporous carbon and vanadium oxide. Using optimized carbon pore structures, pore blocking can be avoided and promising energy storage capacities are enabled for lithium and sodium ion electrolytes.
New paper published in Desalination on semi-continuous capacitive deionization
New paper published in Desalination on the use of a novel multi-channel membrane capacitive deionization unit (using carbon cloth electrodes) for semi-continuous desalination.
Nicolas Jäckel is presenting work at the ECS meeting in National Harbor, USA
Nicolas Jäckel is presenting an invited oral presentation at the 232nd ECS Meeting in National Harbor near Washington D.C. in the USA. His presentation is titled “In situ monitoring of mechanical properties via multi-length scale approach”.
Welcome new student intern Jaehoon Choi
Welcome to our new student intern Jaehoon Choi. Coming from the Korea University of Technology and Education (Koreatech), he is part of the exchange program and is already the fourth student we have in our team.
Volker Presser is giving a talk at the Edgar-Lüscher-Seminar
Volker Presser is giving a 90 min lecture at the Edgar Lüscher Seminar in Dillingen with the title “Carbon nanomaterials”.
New paper published in ChemSusChem on pseudocapacitive desalination of seawater and brackish water
New paper published in ChemSusChem on the use of vanadium pentoxide decorated multiwall carbon nanotubes for energy efficient desalination of brackish water and sea water. This work was in collaboration with the Chair of Functional Materials of Saarland University.
Welcome new EEIGM students Sidonie Carpier and Rose Zwingelstein
Welcome our new EEIGM Master students Sidonie Carpier and Rose Zwingelstein! Both students will be working on electrochemical materials and will be with us for the next half-year.
New paper published in Journal of Physical Chemistry C on in situ electrochemistry of ionic liquids in carbon nanopores
New paper published in Journal of Physical Chemistry C on ion electrosorption of ionic liquids. Using the synergy of electrochemical dilatometry and electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance methodology, important information can be derived. We found that the charging mechanism at low charge is characterized by the exchange of more smaller ions by fewer larger ions. At higher charges, […]
Volker Presser is giving the “Materials in Society’ Lecture” at the DCM conference in Gothenburg
Volker Presser is giving the “Materials in Society’ Lecture” at the International Conference on Diamond and Carbon Materials (DCM) in Gothenburg, Sweden. The title of the oral presentation on September, 6th, is: “Carbon and carbon hybrid materials for electrochemical desalination”.
Two contributions at the ISE conference in Providence
There are two contributions with our work at this year’s Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry. On August 29th, Juhan Lee is giving an invited oral presentation wiht the title “Redox-enabling nanoporous carbons for high-performance energy storage” and collaborator Bastian Etzold (TU Darmstadt) is giving an oral talk on “Core-shell carbide-derived carbons as […]
Benjamin Krüner is presenting work at the ACS in Washington DC
Benjamin Krüner is presenting work at the 254th ACS National Meeting & Exposition in Washington DC, USA. His oral presentation has the title “Sub-micrometer novolac-derived carbon beads as electrodes for supercapacitors, redox electrolyte hybrids, and Li-S batteries.”.
Collaborator Christian Kozwara presents joint work at the SPS/ÖPG meeting in Geneva
Collaborator Christian Kozwara presents joint work at the Joint Annual Meeting of Swiss and Austrian Physical Society (SPS/ÖPG) meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. His presentation is entitled “Electrode swelling during ion electrosorption in carbon based supercapacitors”.