GROUP NEWS
November 2024
Maria is listed as a "Highly Cited Researcher 2024"for 4th year in a row.
Congratulations!
8th October 2024
The EES paper on cation-derived SEIs was selecte as "HOT" by EES editors and referees: link here
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Congratulations, Nathan, together with Manuel, Dario, and Katharina!
October 2024
Professor Lukatskaya joined ACS Nano editorial team as an Associate Editor!
She will be handling manuscripts in the area of electrochemical energy storage.
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Congratulation, Maria!
9th-13th September, 2024
Anna received a poster prize for 'Shedding light on CO2 capture: Solvation-tuned photoacids for light-driven pH-swing" at the Dream Reactions of CO2 conference, organized by the Novo Nordisk Foundation Science Cluster.
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Congratulation, Anna!
9th September, 2024
Matthias officially joins the group as a PhD student.
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Welcome, Matthias!
2nd September, 2024
Dennis officially joins the group as a PhD student.
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Welcome, Dennis!
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28th August, 2024
Congratulations, Dr. Wee, for successfully passing your PhD defense today!
1st PhD graduation in our Group!
August, 2024
Celebrating our 1st Lab Retreat!
15th August, 2024
Julita officially joins the group as a PhD student.
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Welcome, Julita!
Juli, 2024
Our work "Robust battery interphases from dilute fluorinated cation" is highlighted by numerous media outlets!
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ETH Website here
June, 2024
We are proud to congratulate our alumnus, Jimun, on his new role as Team Leader at Jülich Forschungszentrum!
Wishing him continued success in this exciting new chapter of his career.
June, 2024
Manuel Reiter received the "Avantama Commercialization Potential Award" for his cool work on the molecular additive design for batteries at last week's MaP graduate symposium! Congratulations, Manuel!
May, 2024
Our approach toward robust battery interphases with fluorinated cations was published in Energy&Environmental Science!
April, 2024
We are hiring! Two Postdoctoral positions in the Electrochemical Energy Systems Laboratory.
More information here
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April, 2024
Our "light driven CO2 capture project" was selected by CRC Booster!
April, 2024
In our recent work with Prof. Mathieu Salanne (Sorbonne Université & Institut Universitaire de France) , we present an unusual case of pseudocapacitance in which TM intercalant contributes to charge storage and tunes the properties of MXenes. Congratulations, Shianlin, who led this study!
Here the link to the article
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February, 2024
Our work on Stable Light-Driven pH Switch for CO2 Capture is highlighted by numerous media outlets!
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ETH Website here
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January, 2024
Our work on Photoacids for long-term use was published on the front cover of Chemistry of Materials: "Solvation-Tuned Photoacid as a Stable Light-Driven pH Switch for CO2 Capture and Release". An organic co-solvent enhances stability and solubility, unleashing prolonged applications like light-driven CO2 capture.
Link to paper here
Link to ETH media here
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November, 2023
Shianlin received the "best oral presentation award" for her talk at the MRS!
Congratulations!
November, 2023
Maria was awarded SNSF Starting Grants 2023!
"New approaches to robust solid-electrolyte interphases for Li metal batteries and beyond"
November, 2023
Maria is listed as "Highly Cited Researcher 2023", 3rd year in a row.
Congratulations!
October, 2023
Our Group was awarded SNSF Project Funding to study and design of interphases in Li metal batteries!
SNF Mint
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September 3-8, 2023
5 Member of our group attended the Annual ISE Meeting in Lyon!
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September 7, 2023
Katharina received the "ISE Best Poster Award" for her poster titled "Unterstanding the Role of Carboxylate Anions during CO2 Electroreduction via in situ surface enhanced FTIR Spectroscopy" - Congratulations!
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June 27, 2023
We had a visit from a group of students from the Kantonschule Solothurn - we really enjoyed it!
We are looking forward to welcoming a new generation of scientists.
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June 22, 2023
Anna's and Sonja's poster "Sunlight-driven CO2 Capture-Release Cycles by Photoacids with Enhanced Stability and Solubility in Binary Solvent Mixtures" won the BASF Sustainability Poster prize during the Materials & Processes (MaP) Graduate symposium at ETH Zurich. The symposium aims to connect researchers in Materials and Processes, especially at the graduate student level, in order to facilitate knowledge exchange and to enhance cross-disciplinary collaboration.
May 25, 2023
Anna won the innosuisse startup campus award and 2nd best pitch award during the innosuisse startup campus business concept course. The course was a 12-week accelaration program to learn how to turn an idea into a promising startup. After a pitch to a jury of investors, the best ideas are awarded with the startup campus award.
May 11, 2023
Professor Jon Beves from UNSW Sydney visited our lab! Thanks for the very interesting presentation!
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April 24, 2023
Our work on Zn metal batteries is highlighted on the ETH homepage and by multiple other media outlets! Read more here.
March 13, 2023
Our work on electrolytes for Zn batteries appears on the cover of Energy & Environmental Science. Congratulations, Dario and all co-authors!
March, 2023
Our review on "Metal–Organic Frameworks for Fast Electrochemical Energy Storage" published in Chem.
March 29-30, 2023
Maria delivers an invited talk in TU Munich.
+We had a wonderful time visiting Prof. Aliaksandr Bandrenka's Group at TU Munich!
Sonja Schreiner joins the group
March 1st, 2023
Sonja officially joins the group as a PhD student.
Welcome, Sonja!
MATSUS 2023 - Materials for Sustainable Development Conference
Valencia, 6th - 10th March 2023
Maria is co-organising the #SusBat - Enabling Beyond Classical Li-ion Batteries through materials development and sustainability Symposium - We look forward to it!
MRS Fall 2022 Best Poster award nominee
November 30th, 2022
Anna is selected as the Best Poster Award nominee during MRS Fall in Boston.
Congratulations, Anna!
Highly Cited Researcher 2022
November 22nd, 2022
Maria was listed as "Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Cross-Field - 2022" by Clarivate™ Analytics. Congratulations, Maria!
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Katharina Trapp joins the group
August 1st, 2022
Katharina officially joins the group as a PhD student.
Welcome, Katharina!
Manuel Reiter joins the group
April 11th, 2022
Manuel officially joins the group as a PhD student.
Welcome, Manuel!
Highly Cited Researcher 2021
November 16th, 2021
Maria was listed as "Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Cross-Field - 2021" by Clarivate™ Analytics. Congratulations, Maria!
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Maria receives 2021 Faraday Division Horizon Prize
June 8th, 2021
Maria's work on MXene electrochemistry is highlighted as a part of cluster award, together with co-authors she received 2021 Faraday Divion Horizon Prize. Read more
Jimun Yoo announced as one of the 2021 Schmidt Science Fellows
June 3rd, 2021
As a Schmidt Science Fellow, Jimun plans to pivot to work on sustainable and decentralized systems to provide clean water. Read more
Anna de Vries successfully defends her Masters' thesis
April 16th, 2021
Anna successfully defended her thesis and is on her way to start her PhD. Congratulations, Anna!
Jimun Yoo joins the group
March 22nd, 2021
Jimun officially joins the group as a Post-Doc Researcher.
Welcome, Jimun!
Prof. Maria Lukatskaya gives a talk as a part of the RSC Desktop seminar series
March 15th, 2021
On March 18th 2021, the 2019 EES Lectureship Winner Maria Lukatskaya (ETH Zurich) will talk about her latest research. More info here
Filippo received the Thesis Abroad Scholarship from Politecnico di Milano
December 5th, 2020
More about the Thesis Abroad Scholarship here
Nathan Hong joins the group
December 1st, 2020
Nathan officially joins the group as a PhD student.
Welcome, Nathan!
Our group joined ReMaP initiative
November 16th, 2020
Our group will be studying how supercapacitor modules can be effectively paired with batteries to increase and predict the operation lifetimes of energy storage modules under different usage scenarios that energy storage devices are expected to experience when incorporated into micro-grids. More information can be found here
Maria received ACS Nano iCANX Rising Star Lectureship award
October 16th, 2020
More about Rising Star Lectureship award here
Anna received funding from the EIT Climate-KIC Master School for her master thesis
October 5th, 2020
More about the EIT Climate-KIC Master School funding here
Shianlin Wee joins the group
August 1st, 2020
Shianlin officially joins the group as a PhD student.
Welcome, Shianlin!
Maria joins Editorial board of Energy Storage Materials
July 1st, 2020
More about Energy Storage Materials scope here
Dario Gomez and Evgeniya Vorobyeva are joining the group
February 1st, 2020
Our group triples the size: Dario Gomez joins as PhD student and Evgeniya Vorobyeva joins as postdoctoral researcher.
Welcome Dario and Evgeniya!
Maria awarded Environmental Energy and Science Lectureship award
December 5th, 2019
More about EES Lectureship award here