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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 get inspired… to join us. 🚀 Explore! Create! Apply!

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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 team:

Nikolaos Papadopoulos shared his insights into electrochemical modelling.
薛丽颖 introduced us to the concept of high-entropy battery electrodes.
Jean Gustavo De Andrade Ruthes demonstrated the exciting field of gel electrolytes.
Panyu Ren taught us the value of electrochemical ion separation.
And Le Thao presented the latest results from our collaboration with the spherogel team of Michael Elsaesser on hybrid carbon spherogels for battery applications.

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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.

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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, T. Brezesinski, B. Breitung, Q. Wang, P2-type layered high-entropy oxides as sodium-ion cathode materials, Materials Futures 1(3) (2022) 035104.

https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2752-5724/page/news-and-editorial

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Welcome short-term visiting EEIGM student Bachir Tall

Welcome EEIGM student Bachir Tall, who will be working on supercapacitors during his 2-month internship.

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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

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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!

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Behnoosh Bornamehr successfully defended her thesis

Behnoosh Bornamehr has successfully defended her thesis with the title “Derivatization and design of transition metal oxides and sulfides for advanced and sustainable battery technology”.

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Welcome new Ph.D. student Chiraz Layouni

Welcome to our new Ph.D. student Chiraz Layouni! She will be working on electrospinning of next-generation electrode materials.

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Welcome new Postdoc Mingren Liu

Welcome new Postdoc Mingren Liu! He will be working on nanoporous materials and advanced supercapacitors. Welcome to the team!

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Welcome visiting CSC scholars Bin Wang and Yun Liao

Welcome visiting CSC scholars Bin Wang and Yun Liao! Both will be working on advanced electrochemical desalination technologies along the water/energy research nexus. Welcome aboard!

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Jean Gustavo Ruthes de Andrade assumes position as Deputy Group Leader

Very happy to announce that Jean Gustavo takes up the mantle of responsibility and will support the continued growth of our team in the role as Deputy Group Leader! We are looking forward to working with him in his new role to push forward our research at the energy / water / sustainability nexus.

Light bulb from water splash
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Dr. Delvina Tarimo has been awarded a research fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

We are very happy that Delvina Tarimo (PhD) has been awarded a research fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation! Delvina will be carrying out work on nanoconfinement and lithium-sulfur batteries. Congratulations, Delvina, and thanks for choosing the INM-Leibniz Institute for New Materials and our team for your research!

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Stefanie Arnold successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis

Stefanie Arnold has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis “Next generation (hybrid) battery materials at the water/energy/recycling nexus”. Congratulations, Dr. Arnold!

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Welcome new Postdoc Jian Zhou!

Welcome new Postdoc Jian Zhou, who will be working on electrochemical desalination with us.

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Lei Wang successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis

Lei Wang has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis “Faradaic materials and processes for the electrochemical separation of alkali and alkaline earth metal ions”. Congratulations, Dr. Wang!

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Welcome new group member Dr. Gracita Tomboc!

Welcome new postdoc Dr. Gracita Tomboc! With past experience at Myongji University, Korea University, and Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, we are excited about our upcoming joint work on energy and electrochemistry.

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Welcome new AMASE Master students Peter Burger and Maria Holmström!

Welcome new AMASE Students Peter Burger and Maria Holmström! AMASE is an international Master’s program and an amazing opportunity to study not just materials science but to do so in multiple European cities! Both will be working on novel materials and methods for electrochemical desalination. Welcome to the team!

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Welcome new Ph.D. student Liying Xue

Welcome new Ph.D. student Liying Xue! Liying is from Guangxi University, China, and will be working on high entropy materials

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Welcome visiting Humboldt Fellow Syed Tauqir Ali Sherazi

Welcome to our team, Prof. Dr. Syed Tauqir Ali Sherazi! Having been awarded the prestigious Georg Forster Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he will be working on next-generation water remediation technologies. Our visiting Fellow is Professor at COMSATS University Islamabad Abbottabad Campus in Pakistan.

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