Latest News of the Oschatz group

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!

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!

Our master student Merline has been accepted to join the Honours program of FSU Jena. It allows for conducting an own research project under the supervision of experienced scientists (Johannes Schenk in our group) to prepare young talents for a future academic career. 

We welcome a new PhD student from China. Mengyu just started recently with a prestigious CSC grant and will work on carbon/redox polymer hybrids for battery applications. Have a good start!

Big success for our group and a diverse team of co-workers! The Carl Zeiss Foundation decided to fund our project "LignUp" which will investigate how lignin, currently considered as waste, can be sustainably used for energy storage and water filtration.

Having deserved a break after his successful time as a Master student, Rashid now rejoins the group as a PhD student. He will work on sustainable lignin-based carbons and their application in sodium-ion batteries. Have a good start!

We now proudly own a versatile new diffractometer (Bruker D8 Advance) which is funded through the "Thüringer Aufbaubank" (TAB). It allows us to study materials and their structural changes under operando conditions (temperature, atmosphere, pressure, potential). We are excited to collect the first results.

We will investigate an innovative concept to store hydrogen in wetted carbons at moderate pressures/temperatures. The project which is funded with 2.13 m € combines experts from FSU Jena (von Domaros, Oschatz), Ruhr University Bochum (Borchardt) and Fraunhofer IKTS.

Welcome Caesar! After his first steps at FSU Jena working on organic synthesis, Caesar decided to join our group and will now investigate the electrochemical reduction of nitrogen with different reactor set-ups. Have a good start!

Congrats to Sofiia! In her publication, she could reveal the impact of macropores in hard carbons using a sacrificial template to deliberately alter the electrochemical performance in sodium-ion batteries. 

For the first time in its history, Jena was the heart of the porous material world! The German Zeolite Conference gathered experts from all different aspects of porous materials and brought together reknown scientists from all over the world. 

Our new binational project "OILSANDSBATT" synergistically combines the expertises of material science and battery research by exploring the potential of oil sand, an abundant Canadian ressource, as promising feedstock for the fabrication of battery electrode materials.