Best Lecture Video Award Goes to MEET PhD Student Tjark Ingber

For his lecture “Designing Surface Structured Substrates for Use as Negative Electrodes in Zero-Excess Lithium Metal Batteries”, MEET PhD student Tjark Ingber was awarded the Best Lecture Video Award at the conference “Kraftwerk Batterie – Advanced Battery Power”. Among about 50 lectures, he asserted himself with his substantial research findings as well as his precise and well-structured presentation. Co-authors are Dr Peter Bieker, Dr Marian Stan and Prof. Dr Martin Winter from MEET Battery Research Center of the University of Münster.

Tjark Ingber focused on the production of microstructured porous 3D current collectors for use in zero-excess lithium-metal batteries. Two promising approaches are selective brass dealloying and templated copper electrodeposition. Showing scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of successfully structured surfaces, Ingber demonstrated the progress that has already been achieved with both techniques. Now, the aim is to further improve the materials produced for use in zero-excess Li-metal cells. The best lecture video award, which was selected by the over 450 conference participants, is endowed with 500 euros.

Outstanding Cooperation Project

Also awarded at the conference “Kraftwerk Batterie - Advanced Battery Power” were the poster prizes elected by the Scientific Advisory Board and sponsored by the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE). Niloofar Hamzelui from the Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (ISEA) of the RWTH Aachen University was awarded second place in the poster prize. Co-authors of her poster entitled “Optimization of Silicon-Graphite Anode and Chitosan Binder Material for Lithium-ion Batteries” are Dr Gebrekidan Gebresilassie Eshetu and Prof. Dr Egbert Figgemeier from ISEA as well as Max Linhorst and Prof. Dr Bruno Moerschbacher from the Institute of Biology and Biotechnology of Plants of the University of Münster. The results are embedded in the research project "Green Electrochemical Energy Storage" (GrEEn), in which MEET Battery Research Center – in collaboration with the Department of Biology of the University of Münster and RWTH Aachen University – is engaged in a research programme to develop a more sustainable lifecycle for batteries. It is being funded by the Economics Ministry of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Successful Premiere as Online Conference

The conference "Kraftwerk Batterie - Advanced Battery Power" took place online for the first time this year. On 28 and 29 April 2021, more than 450 international participants discussed about the current state of research on lithium-ion batteries, novel battery systems and innovative materials, from fields of application to production, second life and recycling. The Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives of the RWTH Aachen University organised the international event together with MEET Battery Research Center of the University of Münster, Helmholtz Institute Münster of Forschungszentrum Jülich and Haus der Technik, Essen. In 2022, “Kraftwerk Batterie - Advanced Battery Power” will take place in Münster on 29 and 30 March.