Welcome new postdoc Dr. Meenu Meenu!
Welcome to your new Postdoc Meenu! She will be working on Lithium-sulfur batteries and advanced electrode materials.
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Delvina Tarimo starts her Humboldt Fellowship with us
Delvina Tarimo (PhD) Tarimo has started her Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) Fellowship in our group. Delvina has a strong background in Materials Science. With a Ph.D. from the , her work was dedicated to electrochemical energy storage, with a focus on bio-sourced carbons and supercapacitors. Delvina’s fellowship project explores advanced lithium-sulfur batteries using MXene […]
New review paper on gel electrolytes for functional energy storage devices published in Chemistry of Materials
New review article “Functional gel-based electrochemical energy storage” published Chemistry of Materials. This paper reviews the research field of gel polymer electrolytes (GPEs), which combine the ionic conductivity of liquid electrolytes with the mechanical stability of solid materials. GPEs are versatile materials in various electrochemical applications, including sensors, actuators, and energy storage devices. These quasi-solid […]
Panyu Ren presents a poster on the role of conductive additives for CDI at the ISE topical meeting in Stresa, Italy
Panyu Ren gives a poster presentation on the topic “Carbon additives: friend or foe of capacitive deionization with activated carbon?” at the 37th Topical Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) in Stresa, Italy.
New team feature video
Thanks to the creativity of Uwe Bellhäuser and the patience and positive energy of our whole team, we are happy to launch now our new team feature video – to share our team’s excitement about research and to showcase the real heroes and heroines of science: the people of our group! Enjoy the video and […]
Collaborators Jonas Oehm presents poster at the Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, San Francisco, USA
Jonas Oehm presents a poster with the title “On the development of a digital data management platform for battery material and processing data?” at the 245th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society in San Francisco (USA).
New paper published in Energy & Environmental Materials on continuous lithium-ion extraction via fuel cell desalination
New paper published in Energy & Environmental Materials. A few years ago, then-PhD-student Zhang Yuan explored with us the adoption of a fuel cell for continuous water desalination. Basically, a fuel cell can be “fooled” to desalinate an inflowing water stream by replacing the common proton exchange membrane with a flow channel, contained within a […]
Several Ph.D. students present their work at the Saarland University PhD Day
It is a tradition at the Natural Science Faculty of Universität des Saarlandes to have the annual PhD Day in the Aula. This year, 60 PhD student presented their research, ranging from artificial muscles, to much real mucus, from 3D printed nanofluids to very solid metals, from quantum communication to quorum sensing inhibitors. From our […]
Welcome short-term Humboldt visiting Professor Dominik Barz
Welcome Prof. Dominik Barz from Queen’s University (Canada) for his 1-month research visit to our laboratory to work on supercapacitors with us. We thank the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for the funding of the visit.
Volker Presser presents work on electrochemical desalination with MXene at the RIC2D symposium in Dresden
Volker Presser attended the RIC2D symposium “unlocking the challenges of water scarcity: 2D materials in action” and gave an oral presentation on “Electrochemical Desalination with MXene”.
Nikolaos Papadopolous presents a poster at the Advanced Battery Power Conference on Modeling of Gr/Si Lithium-Ion Batteries
Nikolaos Papadopolous presents a poster at the Advanced Battery Power Conference in Münster, Germany with the title “Electrochemical Modeling of Gr/Si Lithium-Ion Batteries with prolonged Relaxation Times considering Kinetic, Mechanical, and Geometric Cell Characteristics”.
Paper “P2-type layered high-entropy oxides as sodium-ion cathode materials” wins Materials Futures 2023 Best Paper Award
The IOP Journal “Materials Futures” has included our paper led by alumnus Qingsong Wang in the collection of the “Materials Futures 2023 Best Paper Award”. J. Wang, S.L. Dreyer, K. Wang, Z. Ding, T. Diemant, G. Karkera, Y. Ma, A. Sarkar, B. Zhou, M.V. Gorbunov, A. Omar, D. Mikhailova, V. Presser, M. Fichtner, H. Hahn, […]
Welcome short-term visiting EEIGM student Bachir Tall
Welcome EEIGM student Bachir Tall, who will be working on supercapacitors during his 2-month internship.
Stefanie Arnold wins 2nd place in the RSC poster competition
Congratulations to Stefanie! Her poster “High-Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries with High Stability Derived from Titanium-Oxide- and Sulfur-Loaded Carbon”, a direct result from our collaboration within the FWF-DFG project SPHEROGELS, won 2nd place in the Energy Category at the 2024 RSC Poster competition! Link to the original publication: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.3c16851
Stefanie Arnold selected as a fellow to attend the 2024 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
Dr. Stefanie Arnold was selected to attend the 2024 edition of the prestigious Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. She is one of only 650 young scientists selected in a highly competitive process from across the globe. This year, the topic is physics and Stefanie’s positive energy and visionary research perspective will enrich the LINO24!
New paper published in Carbon on Hydrogen densification in carbon nanopore confinement
New paper in Carbon on hydrogen densification in carbon nanopore confinement: Insights from small-angle neutron scattering using a hierarchical contrast model from our long-term collaboration with Oskar Paris (Montanuniversität Leoben).
New review paper published in Langmuir on multi-channel membrane capacitive deionization
New paper published in Langmuir on emerging frontiers in multichannel membrane capacitive deionization. Spearheaded by our group alumni Choonsoo Kim, together with Hyunjin Kim, Seonghwan Kim, and Byeongho Lee from Kongju National University, our joint work dives deep into the advancements and future prospects of MC-MCDI technology. We explore how this innovative approach not only pushes the […]
Volker Presser gives seminar talk on electrochemical desalination at the École normale supérieure in Paris
Volker Presser gives a seminar talk with the title “Electrochemical desalination and Lithium-ion extraction” at the École normale supérieure on invitation of former group member Lucie Ries.
New battery published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces on sulfidized carbon spherogels for high performance lithium ion batteries
New battery published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces on hybridization of carbon spherogels with titanium oxide and sulfur enables high performance lithium-ion battery electrodes. As a result from our research project with Michael Elsaesser from the Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, we introduce a novel approach to enhancing lithium-ion battery electrodes. We have successfully combined […]
New review article published in Desalination about direct lithium extraction
New review paper published in Desalination. Our manuscript examines various Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) technologies, a response to increasing lithium demand driven by its extensive use in batteries for diverse applications. Traditional lithium extraction methods, including mining and evaporation ponds, pose significant environmental challenges and may not suffice to meet global demand. DLE offers a […]