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 31st 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 29th ISE Topical Meeting Energy and water: electrochemistry in securing the sustainable society development. On April 19th, Yuan Zhang is giving an oral presentation on “Sub-nanometer carbon confinement: pore size effect on ion permselectivity and selectivity”. On April 21st, 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:

https://chem.mst.edu/seminars/colloquium/

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”.

Samantha Husmann presents work at the 236th ECS Meeting in Atlanta, United States of America. Her talk is entitled “Sulfidation of electrospun vanadium oxide fiber mats for lithium-ion battery electrodes”

Yuan Zhang and Volker Presser present work at the German-Japanese Symposium on the Development and Technology of Carbon Materials of the German Ceramic Society in Würzburg, Germany. Volker Presser’s talk is entitled “Next-generation cell concepts for capacitive deionization using carbon electrodes” and Yuan Zhang’s talk is entitled “Electrochemical stability of sodium chloride in H2O and D2O in nanoporous carbon”.

Volker Presser gives a seminar talk at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, entitled “Nano design of electroactive materials to store energy and desalinate water”.

Volker Presser gives a seminar talk at University of Manchester, UK, entitled “Capacitive deionization unchained”.

Volker Presser gives a seminar talk at Lancaster University, UK, entitled “Nano design of electroactive materials to store energy and desalinate water”.

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”.

Volker Presser is giving a plenary lecture entitled ” A tale of two technologies: capacitive deionization and supercapacitors” at the ISEEcap conference in Nantes, France.

Our team has two active contributions at the 2019 MRS Spring Meeting in Phoenix, USA. On April 25th, Öznil Budak is giving an oral presentation entitled “Facile synthesis of vanadium (III) oxide/carbon core/shell hybrid particles as an anode for lithium-ion batteries”. On April 24th, Volker Presser is giving an invited oral presentation entitled “Perspectives on water desalination with ion intercalation compounds”.

Our PhD students Öznil Budak, Hwirim Shim, and Simon Fleischmann present their work as poster contributions on today’s PhD Day of Saarland University at 2 PM in the Aula.

There are several contributions of our team at the 69th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) in Bologna, Italy. On September 6th, Simon Fleischmann will give an oral presentation entitled “Asymmetric hybrid supercapacitors using molybdenum oxide / carbon nanotube hybrid anodes”, Volker Presser will give a keynote presentation entitled “Water desalination with ion intercalation electrode materials”, and Juhan Lee will give an oral presentation entitled “Faradaic desalination with carbon/metal oxide nanohybrid electrodes”. There will also be two poster presentations: on September 4th, Juhan Lee will present a poster entitled “Potential-dependent, switchable ion selectivity in aqueous media using titanium disulfide”, and on September 5th, Pattarachai Srimuk will present a poster entitled “Potential-dependent, switchable ion selectivity in aqueous media using titanium disulfide”.

The  International Nanoscience Student Conference (INASCON) is taking place this year in Trondheim, Norway. On August 8th, Simon Fleischmann gives an oral presentation entitled “Design of carbon/metal oxide hybrids for electrochemical energy storage”. On August 9th, Jaehoon Choi gives an oral presentation entitled “Synthesis and characterization of a nanostructured lamellar vanadium disulfide / carbon hybrid material”.

This year, we have to oral presentations at the Annual Spring Meeting of the Materials Research Society (MRS) in Phoenix, USA. Simon Fleischmann gives a talk entitled “Tailored Mesoporous Carbon/Vanadium Pentoxide Hybrid Materials for Pseudocapacitive Lithium and Sodium Intercalation” on April 3rd. This work was in collaboration with Lars Borchardt (TU Dresden). Aura Tolosa gives a talk entitled “Hybrid titanium-niobium oxide/carbon electrospun nanofibers as lithium-ion battery electrodes” on April 6th.