Aura Tolosa presents work at the 14th International conference on materials chemistry (MC14) in Birmingham, UK. Her talk is entitled “One-pot synthesis of electrospun hybrid fibers as binder-free electrodes for lithium-ion batteries”.
New paper published in Sustainable Energy & Fuels on titanium niobium oxide / carbon hybrids and composites. Our work demonstrates that well-designed metal oxide / carbon interfaces are of high importance as well as careful phase analysis; it is not suitable to generalize statements like “hybrids are always better than composites”.
New paper published in Carbon comparing pore structure models of nanoporous carbons obtained from small angle X-ray scattering and gas adsorption. This work was accomplished in collaboration with Montanuniversität Leoben (Oskar Paris & Christian Prehal).
Welcome new PhD student Mohammad Torkamanzadeh! Mohammad did his Master at University of Twente and will be working on electrochemical desalination via 2D materials.
New paper published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Energineering on the use of iodide redox electrolytes for high performance electrochemical desalination. Our work explores the use of ceramic cation exchange membranes to overcome the limited permselectivity of polymeric membranes.
Welcome new student intern Bixian Ying! A Master student from Saarland University, she will be working on battery technology.
New paper published in ACS Applied Energy Materials on the interlayer deprotonation of proton-substituted sodium titanate.
Welcome new master student Lorena Ramirez. She is enroled in the AMASE program of Saarland University at the Department of Materials Science and engineering.
Welcome our new student intern Yang Liu. Yan is a master student from Saarland University at the Department for Materials Science and Engineering.
Volker Presser is giving a plenary lecture entitled ” A tale of two technologies: capacitive deionization and supercapacitors” at the ISEEcap conference in Nantes, France.
New paper published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A on the use of sodium vanadyl phosphate as electrode material for sodium ion removal via electrochemical desalination.
New paper published in Batteries&Supercaps on vanadium oxide / carbon core/shell electrode materials for lithium-ion anodes. The work was done in collaboration with the Max-Planck Institute in Düsseldorf and present a simplified one-pot/two-step synthesis approach.
Welcome our two new student interns, Elijah Gonzalez and Declan Siewert. Both are from Oregon State University and enroled in the ATLANIS bachelor program.
Simon Fleischmann has successfully defended his thesis “Hybridization ofelectrochemical energy storage: nanohybrid materials and hybrid cellarchitectures for high energy, power, and stability”.
Benjamin Krüner has successfully defended his thesis “Polymer-derived carbides and carbons with andwithout nitrogen-doping for electrochemical energy applications”.
Aura Tolosa has successfully defended her thesis “Electrospun carbon hybridfibers as binder-free electrodes for electrochemical energy storage”.
New a paper published in Langmuir on the ability to track solvation / desolvation or other constitutional changes with eQCM for carbon or insertion/intercalation materials. This work was in collaboration with Guang Feng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) and Christian Prehal (Graz University of Technology).
Juhan Lee has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Redox electrolytes for non-flow electrochemical energy storage”.
Mathias Widmaier has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Improvement of hybrid supercapacitors by optimization of electrode design and material properties”.
New paper published in ACS Applied Energy Materials on the facile use of free-standing and binder-free hybrid fiber mats composed of vanadium oxide and carbon. The obained electrodes show promising performance for lithium-ion and sodium-ion battery applications.