Our research team has published an article in ChemSusChem on the promising use of stable and efficient SnO2 electrodes for degrading refractory organic pollutants in wastewater treatment. Our approach involved the preparation of Ti3+ self-doped urchin-like rutile TiO2 nanoclusters (TiO2-xNCs) on a Ti mesh substrate using hydrothermal and electroreduction methods, which served as an interlayer […]

New perspective paper published in Communications Materials. The high entropy concept is ideally suited for MXenes but also capable to be a unique tool to tailor and improve electrochemical properties in other materials. Multiple principal element or high-entropy materials have recently been studied in the two-dimensional (2D) materials phase space. These promising classes of materials […]

New paper published in ACS Applied Nano Materials. Rolling bearings need lubrication to operate smoothly, but when traditional methods fail, multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) can come to the rescue. To understand how MWCNTs lubricate highly loaded contacts, we combined experimentation and large-scale molecular dynamics simulations. We applied tribometry to iron plates coated with different types […]

New paper published in ChemSusChem in collaboration with the Kickelbick-Group at Saarland University. We have developed an exciting new class of inorganic-organic hybrid materials with redox-active components that have great potential for use in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). The materials were prepared using an aqueous precipitation reaction of ammonium heptamolybdate (AHM) with para-phenylenediamine (PPD), and a […]

After a lot of work by our Ph.D. students Stefanie Arnold and Lei Wang, our invited article in the Wiley journal SMALL on the dual-use of seawater batteries for energy storage and water desalination. Seawater batteries are a unique type of device that capitalizes, in the most common design, on a ceramic separator, an electrocatalytic reaction on one electrode […]