MEET PhD student Adjmal Ghaur wins Poster Video Award
For his presentation on “Dual Lithium Salts Mediated Lithium Transfer in Viscous Cellulose Acetate Gel-Polymer Electrolyte” MEET PhD student Adjmal Ghaur was awarded the Poster Video Award at the conference “Kraftwerk Batterie - Advanced Battery Power”. Ghaur's award-winning video was selected from over 130 video submissions. Co-authors are former MEET Master Student Mika Hellkuhl, Dr Tobias Placke, MEET Battery Research Center at the University of Münster, and Prof. Martin Winter, MEET Battery Research Center as well as Helmholtz Institute Münster of Forschungszentrum Jülich.
Environmentally Friendly Co-Additive Shows Advantages
Adjmal Ghaur convinced the jury with a dynamic and captivating video and with his topic, the sustainable battery: The team around the MEET doctoral student dealt with the question of whether cellulose acetate, which is obtained from natural cellulose, can be used as a sustainable and resource-saving chemical compound in battery cells. For this purpose, cellulose acetate was first chemically processed to test it as an electrolyte additive for lithium-ion battery cells (LIB). The researchers showed that cellulose acetate can be successfully used as a co-additive in certain electrolyte compositions to help form the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI). This approach improved cell stability and battery cell performance. Ghaur's research is part of the Green Electrochemical Energy Storage (GrEEn) research project, in which MEET Battery Research Center is working with the Department of Biology at the University of Münster and RWTH Aachen University on a more sustainable battery life cycle. It is funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Adjmal Ghaur Donates Prize Money to Aid Organization
The Poster Video Award is endowed with 500 euros. MEET PhD student Ghaur will donate half of his winning to the globally active aid organisation Care Deutschland e.V., which supports women and children in crisis areas, as well as victims of the climate crisis. “Our actions in Germany and Europe have massive effects worldwide, we have to take responsibility for this and I hope that this donation will make its contribution,” the award winner explains his intention.
Around 200 Poster Contributions Showed Broad Range of Topics
With around 200 poster contributions, the exhibition at this year's conference “Kraftwerk Batterie - Advanced Battery Power” generated a high level of participation and attracted lively interest both on site and online. In addition to the Poster Video Award, poster prizes sponsored by the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) were awarded. Third place went to Christina Schmidt of Helmholtz Institute Münster for her poster titled “Combined Polarization-KPFM Method to Determine Changes of the Surface Potential of Ceria-Spinel-Based Dual Phase Composites.” Co-authors of the poster are Liudmila Fischer and Dr Stefan Baumann, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Prof. Joachim Mayer and Dr Ke Ran, RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich as well as Kerstin Neuhaus, Helmholtz Institute Münster.
Over 450 Participants at “Kraftwerk Batterie - Advanced Battery Power”
After two years in online format, “Kraftwerk Batterie - Advanced Battery Power” took place in Münster this year as a hybrid event. On March 29 and 30 2022, more than 450 international participants learned 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 international event was organised by MEET Battery Research Center together with the Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (ISEA) of RWTH Aachen University, the Helmholtz Institute Münster and Haus der Technik, Essen. Next year “Kraftwerk Batterie - Advanced Battery Power” will take place in Aachen on April 27 and 28, 2023.