Saïd Mondahchouo gives an oral presentation at the Journées de Chimie Analytique conference in Yaoundé, Cameroon. His talk is titled “Capacitive Deionization vs. Desalination Battery: Chemistry, Performance Metrics, and Ion Immobilization Mechanisms”.
Two contributions to the 16th International Symposium on Electrokinetics (ELKIN) in The Hague, NL from our team.
As tradition over the last almos 15 years, our team presents our work at the Ph.D. day of Saarland University. This year, we had the following presenters:
Peter Burger: Electrochemical lithium-ion recovery from battery recycling process water
Jean Gustavo de Andrade Ruthes: Electrochemical Behavior of metal and covalent organic frameworks – toward tunable redox-active materials
Cansu Kök: Composite membrane-based lithium-ion extraction from brines and seawater
Liying Xue: Hierarchical MoO2/Mo2C nanoflowers for lithium-ion batteries anodes
Anna Seltmann and Stefanie Arnold presented work at the 13th EEIGM International Conference on Advanced Materials Research (AMR) in Nancy, France. Anna Seltmann presented a poster with the title “Ionic Liquids as Electrolytes in Supercapacitors” and Stefanie Arnold gave a talk on “Hybrids for Electrochemical Technologies: From Batteries to Desalination and Closed-Loop Recycling”.
Anna Seltmann, Nicolas Huth, and Volker Presser were involved with the 116th MNU Federal Congress of the German Association for the Promotion of Mathematics and Science Education in Saarbrücken, Germany.
Volker Presser gave a seminar talk with the title “Quo vadis BatterienMythen, Fakten und Entwicklung”.
Anna and Nicolas provided a hands-on workshop to build your own battery (BYOB) to create (and test) functional coin cells.
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”.
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)
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:
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.
