MEET Research Teams Wins Separations 2020 Highly Cited Paper Award

Award-winning Publication Provides an Overview of Chromatographic Methods in Lithium Ion Battery Research

MEET scientists Dr Yannick Stenzel, Dr Fabian Horsthemke, Prof. Dr Martin Winter and Dr Sascha Nowak were awarded the Separations 2020 Highly Cited Paper Award. The award-winning review article provides an overview of the current state of chromatographic methods in lithium ion battery research. The prize recognizes the most highly cited papers published in Separations in the past two years. Another prize was awarded for the publication “Recent Advances in Hydrophobic Deep Eutectic Solvents for Extraction” by Amos K. Dwamena from South Dakota State University, USA.

Detailed understanding of Ageing Mechanisms in Lithium Ion Batteries

The requirements relating to the lifetime of batteries are rising, especially as a result of their increasing use in electromobility or as stationary storage systems. It is therefore even more important to understand the ageing mechanisms of battery cells in detail. They have a significant influence on the storage capacity and the cycle lifetime of the cell during its operation and storage. A wide variety of methods is needed to analyse the different ageing effects and their interaction. In particular, chromatographic methods are frequently applied for the analysis of the typically used liquid non-aqueous battery electrolytes. Moreover, these methods are now used to investigate the composition of electrode materials. The progress of methodology suggests a clear progression of the analytical tool and related understanding, summarise the MEET scientists in their review article.

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Outstanding Methodological Competence at MEET

The MEET team “Analytics & Environment” of MEET Battery Research Center, to which the award-winning authors belong, has already demonstrated outstanding methodological competence several times. The scientists have developed specialised methods for a multifaceted analysis of various processes and battery-related questions. Ultramodern chromatographical, thermoanalytical, spectroscopic, spectrometric, electrochemical and imaging processes are used for their analytics.