Volker Presser will be giving an invited oral presentation at the MaterialsWeek 2021 on “Ion mining: electrochemical extraction of ions from mine water and other aqueous media” on September 7^th.

Mohammad Torkamanzadeh is giving an oral presentation entitled “Electrochemical seawater desalination with Ti₃C₂T_z MXene” at the 31^st International Conference on Diamond and Carbon Materials (online due to COVID-19). Tune in on September 6^th at 4:40 PM.

Two contributions from our team at the GDCh Science Forum Chemistry 2021:

Mohammad Torkamanzadeh is giving an oral presentation entitled “MXene for electrochemical water treatment” on August 31^st at 2:50 PM.

Lei Wang is presenting a poster entitled “Evolution of electrochemical desalination technologies”.

Volker Presser is giving an invited oral presentation entitled “Electrochemical water desalination with MXene” at the 2021 ACS Fall Meeting in Atlanta, USA. Due to the pandemic situation, the contribution was made via video from Saarbrücken. His contribution was part of the special symposium honoring Yury Gogotsi for receiving the American Chemical Society (ACS) Chemistry of Materials Award.

Volker Presser presents on May 12th at the CDI&E 2021 conference work on desalination fuel cells with the title “Charge-transfer enabling of electrochemical interfaces: the third generation of capacitive deionization”.

Volker Presser is supporting the junior research academy of the German Research Foundation (DFG) “Keramische Werkstoffe: Von den Grundlagen zur Anwendung” with a talk on how to “Boldly go into the unknown”.

We have several contributions to the 29^th ISE Topical Meeting Energy and water: electrochemistry in securing the sustainable society development. On April 19^th, Yuan Zhang is giving an oral presentation on “Sub-nanometer carbon confinement: pore size effect on ion permselectivity and selectivity”. On April 21^st, Volker Presser is giving an oral presentation on “Beyond the double-layer: charge-transfer processes for high-performance desalination batteries”. Also, Stefanie Arnold is giving an oral poster presentation on “Antimony alloying electrode for high-performance sodium removal: how to use a battery material not stable in aqueous media for saline water remediation”.

Broadcasted online and free to join, Volker Presser is presenting work on electrochemical desalination at the Chemistry Colloquium of Missouri S&T; see online for more details:

Like every year, we have also in 2019 several contributions to Saarland University’s PhD day.

• Öznil Budak’s poster is entitled: “Carbide-derived Nb₂O₅ with an enhanced charge storage capacity for use as lithium-ion battery electrode”
• Mohammad Torkamanzadeh’s poster is entitled: “Electrochemical seawater desalination using nanolamellar metal carbides (Ti₃C₂ MXene)”
• Yuan Zhang’s poster is entitled: “Electrochemical stability of sodium chloride in H₂O and D₂O in nanoporous carbon electrodes”

Volker Presser present work at the Beilstein nanotechnology symposium (MXene at the frontier of the 2D materials world) in Mainz, Germany. His oral presentation is entitled “Electrochemical water desalination with transition metal carbides and dichalcogenides”.