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Approval BMBF-Young-Research-Group for Dr. Marcus Einert
March 12, 2024
Under the lead of Dr. Marcus Einert, a new young research group is developing at Surface Science Laboratory. A positive grant was given by the BMBF for research on hydrogen production with photoelectrolysis employing tandem absorbers.
Publication on the voltage-dependent charge compensation mechanism and cathode electrolyte interface stability of the lithium-ion battery cathode materials LCO and NMC333 studied by XPS
February 08, 2024
Now online
Mellin et. al used In-vacuo scratching combined with carbon- and binder-free preparation of battery cathode material, leading to well-defined XPS core-level spectra.
New DFG Project 'NSERC-DFG SUSTAIN' granted
August 14, 2023
As part of a German-Canadian call on sustainability, we will soon be launching the consortium project 'NSERC-DFG SUSTAIN: Carbon materials from oil sands-based asphaltenes for future sodium batteries – from mechanistic studies to life cycle analysis'. We are working together with the group of Prof. Martin Oschatz from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the groups of Prof. Weixing Chen and Prof. Amit Kumar from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, on novel anode materials for sodium ion batteries. The Surface Science Lab will deal with fundamental aspects of materials characterization and the investigation of sodium storage mechanisms.