We are honored to have received the Regiostars 2026 Award in the categorie “A Green Europe” from the European Union.
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Cansu Kök presents work at the Capacitive Deionization and Electrochemical Separation (CDI&E) in Seoul (Republic of Korea). She gives an oral presentation with the title: “Interalkyl-MXene electrodes for selective and stable Lithium-ion extraction from aqueous solutions”. Congratulations on winning the best oral presentation award, too! 🥳
Welcome new student intern Tamara Urig who will be working on next-generation battery technology.
Welcome Humboldt Fellow Dr. Tan Binh Nguyen, who will be working on next-generation sodium-ion batteries.
Welcome new student intern Hunter Alexander Elwell, who will be working on ion-selective technologies and materials.
Volker Presser has been recognized as a MINT Ambassador for his commitment to science and STEM education. The distinction was awarded by the national initiative “MINT Zukunft schaffen!” at a ceremony in Saarbrücken.
Photo credit: (c) Carsten Simon
Welcome EEIGM student Paul Claudel who will be doing his term project with us. He will be working on battery materials.
Saïd Mondahchouo gives an oral presentation at the Journées de Chimie Analytique conference in Yaoundé, Cameroon. His talk is titled “Capacitive Deionization vs. Desalination Battery: Chemistry, Performance Metrics, and Ion Immobilization Mechanisms”.
Welcome Sylwia Jopa, who is a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences at the University of Warsaw (Poland). She will be working with us on advanced electrochemical in situ methods under the guidance of Mingren Liu. Great to have you with us!
Welcome Firmin Parfait Tchoumi! Supported by the German Academic Exchange Organization (DAAD), he will be exploring MXene materials with us. Happy to have you with us!
Welcome Amina Boutahar! As a visiting Ph.D. student from Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (Marocco), she will be working on electrochemical desalination.
Welcome Maximilian Müller! He will be working on MXene materials for energy storage.
Prof. Dr. Volker Presser has been elected Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE). This distinction recognizes his scientific contributions to electrochemical materials and technologies. The ISE Fellowship is awarded to a small group of active researchers for continuing scientific and technical achievements in electrochemistry. Within ISE, Fellows represent only a small fraction of the active membership, and typically only a few new Fellows are elected each year.
Congratulation to Delvina Tarimo for being recognized as an outstanding reviewer for the RSC Journal Energy Advances in 2025!
Welcome new student intern Louisa Schöndorf, who will be working on next generation battery materials and technologies 🔋
As tradition over the last almos 15 years, our team presents our work at the Ph.D. day of Saarland University. This year, we had the following presenters:
Peter Burger: Electrochemical lithium-ion recovery from battery recycling process water
Jean Gustavo de Andrade Ruthes: Electrochemical Behavior of metal and covalent organic frameworks – toward tunable redox-active materials
Cansu Kök: Composite membrane-based lithium-ion extraction from brines and seawater
Liying Xue: Hierarchical MoO2/Mo2C nanoflowers for lithium-ion batteries anodes
Anna Seltmann and Stefanie Arnold presented work at the 13th EEIGM International Conference on Advanced Materials Research (AMR) in Nancy, France. Anna Seltmann presented a poster with the title “Ionic Liquids as Electrolytes in Supercapacitors” and Stefanie Arnold gave a talk on “Hybrids for Electrochemical Technologies: From Batteries to Desalination and Closed-Loop Recycling”.
Welcome new student intern Matthew Lowesome, who will be working on next-generation battery materials and technology 🔋
Anna Seltmann, Nicolas Huth, and Volker Presser were involved with the 116th MNU Federal Congress of the German Association for the Promotion of Mathematics and Science Education in Saarbrücken, Germany.
Volker Presser gave a seminar talk with the title “Quo vadis BatterienMythen, Fakten und Entwicklung”.
Anna and Nicolas provided a hands-on workshop to build your own battery (BYOB) to create (and test) functional coin cells.
