Welcome to our new Postdoc Dr. Kaitlyn Prenger! Kaitlyn is a graduate of Tulane University from the esteemed team of Michael Naguib and will work on novel 2D (and other) materials for sustainable electrochemical applications.
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Welcome new Postdoc Dr. Delvina Japhet Tarimo! Delvina is from University of Pretoria, South Africa, and will be working on nanoporous materials and next-generation batteries.
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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!
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 blue analogues). Her positive energy and visionary research perspective will enrich the LINO22!
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Mohammad Torkamanzadeh gives an oral presentation entitled “MXene for Electrochemical Water Desalination” at the 15th International Ceramics Congress CIMTEC in Perugia, Italy.
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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!
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 1st, 2012, I had the privilege of creating my own group thanks to a 3.6 M€ starting grant from Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung at the INM-Leibniz Institute for New Materials. We quickly diversified in topics at the energy/water research nexus, ranging now from supercapacitors to batteries, from capacitive deionization to desalination fuel cells, from ionic charge storage to ion separation. A strong backbone of our team is the ability to go all the way from material synthesis and characterization to in situ testing and (small) device benchmarking. I am grateful to our teams many alumni and alumnae, the wonderful people in our current great team, and the amazing people I am yet to meet and work with. I am very grateful to our collaborators and partners in research and science. I will abstain from giving a complete list, but I would be amiss not to mention a few very special collaborators (in alphabetical order): Doron Aurbach, Veronica Augustyn, Guang Feng, Markus Gallei, Yury Gogotsi, Frank Mücklich, Michael Naguib, Christian Prehal, Patrice Simon, Matthew Suss.
What will we be working on over the course of the next 10 years? I always tell students: the topic you may become famous for may be on a material who you have not hear from yet 😉 So I will refrain from any specific speculation here since we all know “time makes fools out of us all”. We will continue to advance our research on sustainable materials, energy materials recycling, control over ion selectivity, and high performance beyond-lithium energy storage technologies. And to push forward with our industry collaborators to transfer our next-next-generation materials and processes into applications. I cannot wait for it!
Let me close with a few accomplishments of our team from the last 10 years:
220 Peer review publications 6 Nature publishing group publications 16,489 total citations (23,662 if you include <2012)
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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.
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.
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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 what an old factory ruin (of the “Blaufabrik”) in Sulzbach has to do with sodium-ion car batteries and why there is Lithium in Saarland mine water (and how to get it out). Naturally, most people were interested in our “build your own battery” station. This year, the age span from 4 to 70 and the CR2032 coin cells were equipped with Kynol activated carbon, 1 M aqueous potassium iodide solution, glass fiber separator, and a lot of positive energy. We charged them up to 1.2 V and powered a small fan to show to people: making batteries may be magical but is no mystery. I am very grateful to my wonderful team, especially Dr. Samantha Husmann, Dr. Emmanuel Pameté, Dr. Sarah Saleem, Stefanie Arnold, Behnoosh Bornamehr, Amir Haghipour, Mohammad Torkamanzadeh, and of course Christine Hartmann and Petra Lück for their support to make this day a resounding and wonderful success. And yes, our science Lego models were a big hit with many visitors (independent of their age). I am already excited about next year’s open day! Ready, set… go!
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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!
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 and Prussian blue analogues). Her positive energy and visionary research perspective will enrich the LINO22!
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It was an honor to meet and talk with Saarland Minister-President (prime minister) Tobias Hans during his visit to INM. We discussed our research on alternative batteries and energy-efficient lithium-ion-battery recycling. Read more about the visit online and on LinkedIn (our LinkedIn, the INM LinkedIn, and the PM’s LinkedIn). We are grateful that, the very next day, the state TV broadcasting station Saarländischer Rundfunk paid us also a visit and made a 2 min clip about our recycling project, kindly financially supported by the EU via European Regional Development Fund. The clip aired during the very popular segment “Aktueller Bericht“, and you can watch it via access to the SR Mediathek.
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We are very fortunate to welcome new group members to our team!
Bowen Dong is joining us as a Ph.D. student supported by the China Scholarship Council. Bowen has graduated from China University of Geosciences (China) and will be working on MXene batteries.
Jerome Baudin is joining us as a EEIGM student. Jerome is enrolled in the EEIGM program and his last host University in this international program was Université de Lorraine (Nancy, France). He will be working on layered metal oxide batteries.
Lexane Deligniere is joining us as a EEIGM student. Lexane is enrolled in the EEIGM program and her last host University in this international program was Université de Lorraine (Nancy, France). She will be working on water desalination with layered metal oxides.
Xiao Zhang is joining us as a EEIGM student and as a student intern. Xiao is enrolled in the EEIGM program and her last host University in this international program was Saarland University. She will be working on MXene desalination.
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