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)

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)

Liying Xue presents our work on multi-component composition materials at the at the 40th topical conference of the International Society of Electrochemistry with the exciting topic of interfacial electrochemistry and related topics. Her poster has the title: “Multi-element synergy to enhance the cycling performance of oxalates as anode materials for lithium-ion batteries” and she will present during the poster session in Changchun, China. Thanks to our collaborators: Chaochao Dun and Oliver Janka.

Volker Presser gives an invited keynote lecture on “Electrochemical lithium-ion separation” at the 7th Conference on Electrochemical and Membrane Separation Science and Technology in Wroclaw, Poland. Collaborator Pegah Fatehbasharzad presents a poster on “Electrosorption of diverse organic compounds: Mechanistic insights and applicability across molecular structures”.

An annual tradition: our team at the PhD students’ day of Universität des Saarlandes 🎓

Cansu Kök answered the question on how to design electrochemical tools for the direct lithium-ion separation from seawater (and Saarland mine water): “Continuous lithium-ion extraction via fuel cell desalination”; work in collaboration with Lei Wang, Jean Gustavo De Andrade Ruthes, Antje Quade, and Matthew Suss.

Nikolaos Papadopoulos presented his inspiring modelling + experimental work on “Physical modeling of silicon-containing Li-ion batteries through a multi-species multi-reaction model” to design high-performance Si-based lithium-ion batteries; work in collaboration with Oliver Queisser and Simon Schwunk.

Liying Xue presented the power of multi-phase material design on high-capacity lithium-ion batteries: “Multi-phase synergy enhances lithium storage performance of oxalate”; work in collaboration with Oliver Janka and Chaochao Dun.

Our Ph.D. student Nikolaos Papadopoulos presents joint work on “Physical Modeling of Silicon-Containing Li-Ion Batteries through a Multi-Species Multi-Reaction Model” as a poster at the Advanced Battery Power in Aachen, Germany.

Volker Presser gives two oral presentations at the MATSUS conference in Sevilla, Spain:

  • NEMX25 Symposium: MXene and hybrid electrodes for high performance energy storage (March, 3rd)
  • ELECTROWAT25 symposium: Electrochemical Lithium-ion separation (March, 5th)

Our PhD student Cansu Kök presents a poster at the 2024 Fall MRS with the title “Continuous Lithium-Ion Extraction via Fuel Cell Desalination”

Volker Presser gives an oral presentation titled “Electrochemical Lithium-Ion Separation” at the Symposium on Direct Lithium-Extraction (SDLE) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany).

Volker Presser delivers an invited (online) talk on “Electrode design of supercapacitors (and beyond)” at the 1st International Conference of Advanced Energy and Functional Materials Research (AEFM 2024) in Ilmenau, Germany.

Two contributions from our team at the 38th Topical Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (Nanomaterials in Electrochemistry): Volker Presser is giving an oral presentation with the title “MXene and hybrid electrodes for high performance energy storage” and Cansu Kök present a poster on “Continuous Lithium-Ion Extraction via Fuel Cell Desalination”.

Stefanie Arnold gives an oral presentation at the International Symposium on Beyond Li-Ion Batteries 2024 (BeLI24) in Padua, Italy. Her presentation has the title “Electrochemical perspectives for Lithium-ion battery recycling”

Panyu Ren gives a poster presentation on the topic “Carbon additives: friend or foe of capacitive deionization with activated carbon?” at the 37th Topical Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) in Stresa, Italy.

Jonas Oehm presents a poster with the title “On the development of a digital data management platform for battery material and processing data?” at the 245th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society in San Francisco (USA).

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.

Volker Presser attended the RIC2D symposium “unlocking the challenges of water scarcity: 2D materials in action” and gave an oral presentation on “Electrochemical Desalination with MXene”.

Nikolaos Papadopolous presents a poster at the Advanced Battery Power Conference in Münster, Germany with the title “Electrochemical Modeling of Gr/Si Lithium-Ion Batteries with prolonged Relaxation Times considering Kinetic, Mechanical, and Geometric Cell Characteristics”.

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