Aktuelle Nachrichten der AG Oschatz

Thuringia is well-known for their forests. At the Long Night of Sciences, our institute will show you, how wood components from our state can be used to develop new batteries. Visit us on Friday in the laboratories of the CEEC 2, Humboldtstrasse 12 from 6 - 11 pm and you will experience how a tree can store electric energy in the end.

We are very happy to welcome Tilmann Neubert as our new Postdoc in the AG Oschatz. Tilmann has a strong background in polymeric materials synthesis, analytics and their application. Here in Jena, he will work on Li-S batteries. We wish you a good start.

Akshay joins our group as a PhD student. Akshay will work on our BMBF-funded project on hydrogen storage in water clusters confined into carbon-nitrogen materials. Welcome to our group and in Jena!

Simone visits our group for the next 4 months. He will work together with Zehui on carbon materials for application in the so-called CO2Caps, a novel way to harvest energy from CO2 emissions that is currently being developed in Andrea Lambertis group at the Politecnico di Torino.

This week we welcomed our newest asset,an Autosorb 6200 for chemisorption and physisorption analysis. Understanding the interaction of gases with our nanomaterials is crucial for the further development of novel metal-gas battery systems. Thanks to the Nexus Programme by the Carl-Zeiss Foundation.

As our photocatalysis expert, Lingli attended the CataLysis Networking Conference 2024 with other colleagues from the CRC/TRR 234 CataLight. She presented her work on H2O2 production via photocatalytic approaches using Poly(heptazine imides).

Our group presented the recent work on carbon materials for selective CO2 capture and utilization at the AKK in Erlangen this week. Kai, Sofiia and Yongchao presented their posters, Martin Oschatz gave a talk summarizing the ongoing projects within HIPOLE and the DeKarbon project. Thanks to the organizers for a great time.

Members of our group joined the Electrochemistry 2024 in Braunschweig. We participated with 7 posters and 2 presentations. For more information, check out LinkedIn.

After the successfull defense of his master thesis, Franz Jacobi joins the team of Desiree as a PhD student. He will be working on new cathode and anode materials for the use in Al-N2 batteries within the project ReAlBatt. We are happy to have you in our team Franz and we wish you a great start.

It was a real pleasure to host Loïc Carrier over the last couple of months via the RISE programme of the DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst! Together with Lucas Nortmeyer he worked on the electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction. Loïc you did a great job! 

Building on the success of LNOS 2022, the Institute of Technical and Environmental Chemistry will provide insights on how their research on energy storage and conversion can help to achieve a sustainable future. Stay tuned for presentations, discussions, and lab tours! We are looking forward to your visit!

Zehui and Desirée attended the 8th International Symposium on Enhanced Electrochemical Capacitors in Vitoria-Gasteiz. Zehui gave a short oral presentation about possibilities to modify carbon/IL interfaces which is the topic of her PhD studies. Desiree presented a poster about her work on Electrified Interfaces of Poly(heptazine imides).