Chandrasekaran Sakthi Vigneshwaran is a Master student working on next-generation Prussian blue based electrode materials for advanced batteries. Congratulations on being awarded a three month fellowship by the StudienStiftungSaar!
New paper published in Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry on “Recent advances in wastewater treatment using semiconductor photocatalysts”. Can’t decide if you like water remediation or photocatalysis/semiconductors more? They both make a great match! Read about synergies and future possibilities in our latest review article in Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry. […]
Dr. Samantha Husmann will attend the prestigious 2022 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting this week. She is one of only 611 young scientists selected in a highly competitive process from across the globe. This year, the topic is chemistry, perfectly reflected by Samantha’s research on next generation electrochemical materials (including, but not limited to, Prussian blue and Prussian […]
Mohammad Torkamanzadeh gives an oral presentation entitled “MXene for Electrochemical Water Desalination” at the 15th International Ceramics Congress CIMTEC in Perugia, Italy. .
Immensely proud of my former Ph.D. student and now Dr. Yuan Zhang for being awarded the prestigious Feodor Lynen Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation! She will join the team of Yury Gogotsi and her work will relate to MXene. Looking forward to strengthening also trilateral opportunities between the US, China, and Germany!
New paper entitled “Spray-dried pneumococcal membrane vesicles are promising candidates for pulmonary immunization” published in the International Journal of Pharmaceutics. This collaborative work spearheaded by experts from the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) and Saarland University explores optimized vaccine microparticles with a mean particle size of 1–2 µm, corrugated surface, and nanocrystalline nature.
5.3 Million seconds. 87,660 hours. 10 years. But who is counting😅 Time flies by fast when you are busy. Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the Energy Materials Group, my work family, and home away from home. Starting after returning from Yury Gogotsi‘s team (where I served as Humboldt Fellow and Research Assistant Professor) on June […]
Stefanie Arnold gives an oral presentation entitled “Design of High-Performance Antimony / MXene Hybrid Electrodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries”. Her talk on June 1st, 3 PM local time, is part of the Symposium A01 on batteries. This work is the latest outcome of our collaboration with the group and team of Riccardo Ruffo (Università degli Studi […]
Welcome visiting Ph.D. student Soghra Ghorbanzadeh! Soghra comes from the Hakim Sabzevari University and will be working on electroactive interfaces of 2D materials in the context of sustainable water technologies.
Welcome new PhD student Cansu Kök! Cansu will be working on electrochemical desalination.
Congratulations to Dr. Emmanuel Pameté! He has received the prestigious ISE Travel Award 2022 by the International Society of Electrochemistry. This Award is in recognition to his excellent career so far and to enable him to participate in an upcoming conference to provide an oral presentation.
After 2 years Covid-hiatus, the open day of Saarland University and the INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials returned full swing on May 21st. Our team was all amped up to tell our visitors all about energy materials, water remediation, and why there is no cooler profession than being a material scientist / chemist / engineer. We discussed […]
Dr. Samantha Husmann gives an oral presentation entitled “Ionic Liquid-Based Synthesis of 2D MXenes Nanocarbides” at the 2022 MRS Spring Meeting in Hawaii, USA (May 9th, 9 AM local time). Her presentation is part of the Symposium NM03—2D MXenes—Synthesis, Properties and Applications, organized by Babak Anasori (Indiana University-Purdue University), Christina Birkel (Arizona State University), Chong […]
Yuan Zhang has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis titled “Permselective and ion-selective carbon nanopores and next-generation technologies for electrochemical water treatment”. Congratulations!
Welcome to our team, Amila Beganovic! Amila is a student at Saarland University and will support our research on next-generation battery materials.
New paper published in Advanced Sustainable Systems on the ion selectivity of MXene electrodes during electrochemical operation. The Tortoise and the Hare is a classic Aesop fable that we heard growing up. We learned that a clever strategy could win over physical advantages in any match of unequal rivals. In the day and age of […]
New paper published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Our work entitled “Design of high-performance antimony/MXene hybrid electrodes for sodium-ion batteries” explores the synergy of the 2D nanomaterial MXene (conductive, nanotextured) and antimony (large sodium-ion storage capacity via alloying). This work is the latest outcome of our collaboration with the group and team of […]
Dr. Samantha Husmann was selected to attend the prestigious 2022 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. She is one of only 611 young scientists selected in a highly competitive process from across the globe. This year, the topic is chemistry, perfectly reflected by Samantha’s research on next generation electrochemical materials (including, but not limited to, Prussian blue […]
New paper published in Nature Energy entitled “Continuous transition from double-layer to Faradaic charge storage in confined electrolytes”. Our paper explores the fascinating world from ion electrosorption transitioning towards Faradaic processes when electrolytes are nanoconfined. This work was a collaboration with several groups, espcially the team of Veronica Augustyn (NC State), Yury Gogotsi (Drexel), Patrice […]
New paper published in Chemical Engineering Journal. The work with the title “Electro-assisted removal of polar and ionic organic compounds from water using activated carbon felt” was done in collaboration with the Department of Environmental Engineering at the UFZ site in Leipzig.
