Aktuelle Nachrichten der AG Oschatz

Martin has been appointed as an Associate Editor of the newly founded open access journal Carbon Future (publisher: SciOpen).

Congrats Konstantin! The dissertation of our group leader Konstantin, titled „Electrochemical Sodium Storage in Non-Graphitizing Carbons – Insights into Mechanisms and Synthetic Approaches towards High-Energy Density Materials“ was awarded the PhD Award of the GDCh Division of Chemistry and Energy.

Our Master student Franz Jacobi has been selected for the Honours Programme of the FSU Jena! The Programme supports future researcher to conduct a more independent research project. He will be working together with Desiree and her Junior Research Group.

The Oschatz-group welcomes Merve Ayyildiz as a new PhD student. By investigating the special interactions between porous carbons and ionic liquids, Merve will contribute to an efficient electrochemical ammonia synthesis.

We are very proud of Johannes who investigated the influence of structural modifications of soft carbons on the alkali ion storage mechanism.

Last week the GDCh Ortsverband Jena and the JCF Jena handed over the GDCh Abiturientenpreis to Teodora Zaharinova, Annalena Schmidt and Aaron Grau from the Bergschule Apolda. Congratulations to all of them and we hope you stay excited for chemistry in the future.  

We can welcome a new Master of Science. Julia succesfully defended her master thesis in which she investigated the uptake of nitrogen in confined ionic liquids. This fundamental research is crucial to understand the phenomena occuring in porous electrodes during the nitrogen reduction reaction. Great work Julia!

We are glad to announce that our group will host the "Deutsche Zeolith Tagung 2024" here in Jena. Together with Prof. Lothar Wondraczek (FSU Jena) and Dr. Hannes Richter (IKTS), we will organize the conference in 2024. We are looking forward to meeting you all here in Jena!

This year, Martin and Konstantin were presenting the group's research on the Hannover Messe, one of the largest industry fairs worldwide. As a part of the Thuringia booth, topics like sodium-ion battery technology and electrochemical ammonia generation from sustainable resources were featured.

After almost 14 months, our highly regarded colleague Shengjun leaves the group and returns to China in order to take the last steps of his PhD journey. It was a pleasure to work with you Shengjun! All the best for your future!

We'll miss you Mingren! This week our dear Mingren, a talented cook and chemist, finished his research stay in our group and went back to finish his PhD in China. We hope to see you again soon.

In our new project "DeKarbon", we and other partners from FSU Jena (Balducci, Schubert, Turchanin) will investigate new polymeric hybrid materials to selectively capture and convert CO2 from flue gas or air.