New paper published in EES Batteries on the electrochemical modeling of silicon in lithium-ion batteries. In cooperation with industry partners and modelling experts, we presents a new electrochemical modeling framework for silicon anodes in lithium-ion batteries, capturing key challenges such as voltage hysteresis, phase transformations, and long relaxation processes. By combining multi-species, multi-reaction modeling with atomistic insights into lithium-silicon phases, the work provides a more realistic basis for understanding silicon electrodes and improving future battery design and management.
Anna Seltmann and Nicolas Huth represent our team and outline our team’s profile at the TraWeBa event “Trendsetter Battery“.
Nikolaos Papadopolous gives an oral presentation at the 22nd Symposium on Modeling and Experimental Validation
of Electrochemical Energy Technologies (ModVal 2026) in Lausanne, Switzerland. The presentation has the title “Electrochemical Modeling of Silicon in Lithium-Ion Batteries Using a Multi-Species, Multi-Reaction Framework with Atomistic Insights”.
Congratulations to Stefanie to be admitted to the Young Academy (Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz)! Since 2016, The Young Academy | Mainz has been the Academy’s dedicated programme for supporting emerging talent. Membership gives selected scientists, writers, and musicians the chance to build an interdisciplinary network and engage across fields. A key principle is the full and equal involvement of Young Academy members in the Academy’s activities. Active participation in meetings and events – and regular exchange with members of the established scholarly society – are therefore central to the programme. Members are also encouraged to shape the agenda themselves by organising events and launching new initiatives, especially through interdisciplinary working groups that pursue timely research questions developed independently by the members.
Welcome to the team! Ayush Gadpayle will be working on the Ec=m² Research Training Group and will explore MXene and the world of inter-layer functionality.
We are grateful that our collaborative review paper (led by Amir Razmjou) obtained the Best Review Paper in Desalination 2023–2025 Award from the Elsevier Journal Desalination.
Our team competed this year again at the International Olympiad in Electrochemical Material Science, which starts to become a bit of a tradition. This year, Energetic People (Stefanie Arnold, Peter Burger, Anna Seltmann) won the 3rd place! 🏅A special thanks to Fyodor Malchik for organizing this amazing event!
Volker Presser has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher (2025 edition) by Clariate.
We are happy to announce Wensen Wang having received the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers to carry our research on ion separation! We are excited!
Delvina Tarimo gives an oral presentation on “Influence of Porous Structure, Sulfur Loading, and Cathode/Solid Electrolyte Interphase Formation Using Carbonate and Ether-Based Electrolyte for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries”
Two oral contributions to the DLE Symposium in Karlsruhe, Germany, from our team:
Cansu Kök: Tailored MXene electrodes for selective and stable electrochemical lithium recovery in aqueous solutions (oral)
Stefanie Arnold: Electrochemical perspectives for Li-ion battery recycling (oral)
Our team presents our energy research at the Citizen’s Festival in Saarbrücken, in celebration of the German Unification Day. From age 5 to 65, many participated in building own small water-electrolyte-based coin cell batteries – becoming honorary battery experts 🔋Thanks for the strong effort and hour-long dedication of Stefanie Arnold, Jean Gustavo Ruthes de Andrade, Asia Sarycheva, and Anna Seltmann 🌻
We have had the privilege to work with Anna Seltmann for quite some time – she re-joins now our team as our second technician and we are looking forward to the many exciting adventures and scientific discoveries ahead of us!
Welcome to our new Postdoc, Nicolas Huth! He will work with us on battery materials and technologies.
Welcome new group member Burak Ölmez! He will be working on high performance battery electrodes in his new role as a Ph.D. student in our team.
Saeed Borhani presents our collaborative work on “Iron-loaded carbon spherogels as sustainable electrode materials for high-performance lithium-ion batteries” at the Evonik meets Science 2025 in Heidelberg (Germany). The poster won also the best poster award. Congratulations!
Liying Xue presents a poster on our work on multi-component composition materials at the at the Faraday Discussion on “High-entropy alloy nanostructures: from theory to application” by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in London (UK). Thanks to our external collaborators Chaochao Dun and Oliver Janka!
Several contributions from our team at the 76th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) in Main, Germany.
Volker Presser: Electrochemical lithium-ion separation (oral)
Stefanie Arnold: Electrochemical perspectives for Li-ion battery recycling (oral)
Delvina J. Tarimo: Influence of porous structure, sulfur loading, and cathode/solid electrolyte interphase formation using carbonate and ether-based electrolyte for lithium-sulfur batteries (oral)
Mingren Liu: Electron-rich niobium oxide subnanoclusters boosting charge transfer for highly reversible Na-S Batteries (poster)
Welcome to our new Postdoc, Dr. Asia Sarycheva! She will support our research activities relating to MXene and material characterization capitalizing on her many skills and expertise. We are looking forward to the joint work and time ahead!
We are grateful for the Minister to take time to visit the science exhibition ship MS Wissenschaft, anchoring in Saarbrücken, Germany. We discussed climate change, scientific discoveries, basic and applied research – specifically as it pertains to our research on lithium-ion battery recycling.
