Lab News

June 05, 2025

Adelė Rosinaite completed her MSc thesis in our group! Under the supervision of Moji. Adelė completed her MSc thesis entitled “Computational design of porous electrodes in redox flow batteries using triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS)”. Congratulations!

May 26-29, 2025

Moji and Davide attended the XI International Conference on Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering COUPLED PROBLEMS 2025 in Vilasimius, Italy. Davide gave an oral presentation entitled “From Cell to Stack: Understanding coupled phenomena in redox flow batteries with multiphysics simulations”. Moji gave an oral presentation entitled “Understanding the impact of the electrode fiber geometry on mass transfer rates with coupled finite element modeling”.

May 18-22, 2025

Our team attended the 247th ECS meeting in Montreal. Rémy, Baichen, Davide, Senan and Toni contributed with oral presentations. Davide contributed a presentation entitled “Foundational multiphysics investigation of loss effects in redox flow battery stacks”. Rémy contributed a talk entitled “Towards large-scale manufacturing of novel flow battery electrodes”. Baichen contributed a presentation entitled “Manufacturing multiscale porous electrodes with non-solvent induced phase separation for high performance redox flow battery electrodes” (presented by Rémy due to travel restrictions). Toni gave an invited talk entitled “Neutron radiography for visualizing reactive mass transport in redox flow cells”. Senan contributed a talk entitled “Exploring strategies to design advanced gas diffusion electrodes for high performance electrochemical CO2 reduction”.

May 12, 2025

Our team attended the 2nd Electrochemical National Symposium (ECNS) in Utrecht. Inma and Winnie contributed with oral presentations. Many members from the team contributed with poster presentations. Inma contributed a presentation entitled “All-iron redox flow batteries for large-scale energy storage: Visualization of reactions via polarized neutron radiography”. Winnie contributed a talk entitled “Understanding the role of nitrogen precursors in the composition and performance of platinum-free catalyst layers for polymer electrolyte fuel cells”. Mert won the runner-up position in the best poster award! He presented a poster titled “A custom electrochemical cell for studying pressure-dependent wetting of carbon-based gas diffusion media”. Congratulations!!

May 09, 2025

Ioanna Ntekouli completed her MSc thesis in our group! Under the supervision of Winnie. Ioanna completed her MSc thesis entitled “Engineering an iron-platinum hybrid electrocatalyst derived from a metal organic framework for efficient oxygen reduction”. Congratulations!

May 08, 2025

Toni has been awarded the Princesa di Girona Research Award 2025 KNAW in Badajoz, Spain. Congratulations!

April 07-08, 2025

Marina and Ameya participated in the Flow Battery Replicability Workshop at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. This was part of a collaborative effort to investigate replicability in flow battery testing protocols and performance across various research institutions, stay tuned to know more!

April 01, 2025

Emre published a paper entitled "Conductive polymer coatings control reaction selectivity in all-iron redox flow batteries" in Advanced Materials. Congratulations!!

March 31, 2025

Adrian left the group to begin the next chapter of his career as a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Groningen! We wish him good luck and success in his research work!!

March 28, 2025

Moji published a paper entitled "Topology optimization of porous electrodes for electrochemical flow reactors using the finite element method and triply periodic minimal surfaces" in Chemical Engineering Journal. Congratulations!!

March 28, 2025

Ralph van der Linde completed his MSc thesis in our group! Under the supervision of Rens. Ralph completed his MSc thesis entitled “Catalyst layer integration into hierarchical electrodes for polymer electrolyte fuel cells”. Congratulations!

March 17, 2025

Rafaël Vos joined our team as a postdoctoral researcher! Rafaël is an expert in electrocatalytic conversions, he applied his expertise to study the effect of temperature and pressure on the electrochemical CO2 reduction during his PhD at Leiden University. He will work on the development of novel porous transport layers for PEM electrolyzers. Welcome on board!

March 10, 2025

Mathy Kelleners joined our team to perform his PhD research! Mathy will work on developing new substrates with tailored microstructures to serve as gas diffusion layers for polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Welcome on board!

March 10-12, 2025

Our team attended the Netherlands' Catalysis and Chemistry Conference in Noordwijkerhout. Baichen gave an oral presentation entitled “Manufacturing multiscale porous electrodes with non-solvent induced phase separation for high performance redox flow battery electrodes”. Yağmur presented a poster entitled “Surface engineering to improve electrode performance in alkaline water electrolysis”. Hailan presented a poster entitled “Investigating the role of supporting electrolytes in all-iron redox flow batteries”.

January 27, 2025

Toni gave an invited talk during the UK Flow Battery Network Symposium at Queen Mary University, London.

December 20, 2024

Maxime left the group to begin the next chapter of her career as an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada! We wish her good luck and success in her research work. Congratulations!

December 16, 2024

Rik and Toni published a collaborative article with the Mustain group at the University of South Carolina. The paper is entitled “Electrode-level water management strategies for anion exchange membrane fuel cells” in Electrochimica Acta. Congratulations!

December 12, 2024

Moji, Davide, and Adelė attended the Advanced Computing User Day organized by SURF in Utrecht. Moji gave an oral presentation entitled “TopeSmash - Topology Optimization of Porous Electrodes in Redox Flow Batteries using Scalable Modelling Approaches”. Congratulations!

December 04, 2024

Toni gave an invited talk at NWO CHAINS 2024 in Veldhoven entitled “Electrode Material Design to Advance Redox Flow Batteries”.

December 03, 2024

Emre Burak Boz joined our team as a postdoctoral researcher! Emre is an expert in interfacial engineering which he applied to study reactivity, selectivity and stability of polymer coatings on porous carbon electrodes in redox flow cells. Emre will focus on improving the efficiency of iron-air batteries and selectivity of carbon dioxide electrolyzers through surface engineering approaches. Welcome on board!

November 26, 2024

Toni has been awarded the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) Early Career Award in Amsterdam. Congratulations!

November 06, 2024

Our group was highlighted by Matter in “35 challenges in materials science being tackled by PIs under35(ish) in 2024”. Congratulations!

November 05, 2024

Toni gave an invited talk with Dr. Hartmut Gross (Schunk group) at the 5th Future Battery Forum in Berlin entitled “Flow battery - solar energy at night: The way to global deployment”.

November 1, 2024

Toni, Maxime, and Ameya attended the AMCEL Symposium 2024 in Amsterdam! Ameya contributed a poster entitled “Advancing electrochemical reactors with flowable electrodes”. Maxime was awarded the Best PhD thesis award. Congratulations!

November 1, 2024

Davide Bordignon joined our team! He is a visiting PhD student from the University of Padua. Davide is performing research on multi-scale models for flow batteries. Welcome to the team!

October 27-31, 2024

Maxime attended the AIChE Annual Meeting 2024 in San Diego. Maxime contributed a poster entitled “A Versatile Optimization Framework for Porous Electrode Design: Coupling a Genetic Algorithm and a Pore Network Model”. Congratulations!

October 24, 2024

Toni has been awarded the Vidi grant by the Dutch Research Council, division of Applied & Engineering Sciences. Congratulations! Thanks to this award, we will work on a project entitled "Rethinking gas diffusion electrode architectures for low temperature fuel cells (GaDEture)". We are thankful to NWO and look forward to starting this exciting project!

October 23, 2024

Rens published his first paper entitled "Electrode engineering strategies to advance polymer electrolyte fuel cells — recent progress and opportunities" in Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering. Congratulations!!

October 17, 2024

Shane Konijnenberg completed his MSc thesis in our group! Under the supervision of Remy. Shane completed his MSc thesis entitled “Structural entanglement of carbon nanofibers into non-solvent induced phase separated porous carbon electrodes for redox flow battery”. Congratulations!

October 06-11, 2024

Our team attended the PRiME 2024 in Honolulu. Inma, Moji, and Toni contributed with three oral and one poster presentations. Inma contributed a talk entitled “Neutron Depolarization Under Electrochemical Polarization: Investigating Phase Change Reactions in All-Iron Redox Flow Batteries”. Moji contributed a presentation entitled “Inverse Design of Porous Electrodes in Redox Flow Batteries: A Computational Approach Integrating Topology Optimization and Multi-Physics Modeling” (presented by Toni due to travel restrictions). Toni gave an invited talk entitled “Rethinking Diffusion Media for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells: Replacing Fluoropolymers and Engineering Microstructures”. Inma also contributed a poster entitled “Exploring Iron-Containing Electrodes for Use as Negative Electrodes of All-Iron Redox Flow Batteries”.

October 03, 2024

Jacky Olinga completed her MSc thesis in our group! Under the supervision of Maxime. Jacky completed her MSc thesis entitled “Visualization of reactive mass transfer in redox flow batteries using fluorescence”. Congratulations!

September 12, 2024

Toni gave an invited talk at the 5th ELECTRA Symposium in Aachen.

September 09, 2024

Toni gave an invited talk at the 38th Topical Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry in Manchester entitled “Tailoring Morphology and Interfaces of Redox Flow Battery Electrodes to Enhance Mass Transport, Kinetics, and Reaction Selectivity”.

September 03, 2024

Rémy, Maxime, and Emre published a collaborative paper entitled “Quantifying Concentration Distributions in Redox Flow Batteries with Neutron Radiography” in Nature Communications. Congratulations!

August 30, 2024

Tess Jans completed her MSc thesis in our group! Under the supervision of Moji and Rémy. Tess completed her MSc thesis entitled “Computational modelling of non-solvent induced phase separation (NIPS) for designing porosity gradient and alternative electrode microstructures”. Congratulations!

August 27, 2024

Rob Hoffmann completed his MSc thesis in our group! Under the supervision of Moji. Rob completed his MSc thesis entitled “Microkinetic simulations on the reaction kinetics of vanadium and iron flow batteries”. Congratulations!

July 28-August 2, 2024

Our team attended the GRC Fuel Cells Conference 2024 in Smithfield, USA! Irene, Winnie, and Rens contributed with one oral and three poster presentations. Irene contributed both a talk and a poster entitled “Developing strategies to replace polytetrafluoroethylene in gas diffusion media for polymer electrolyte fuel cells”. Winnie contributed a poster entitled “Investigating the effect of secondary nitrogen precursors on Fe-N-C electrocatalysts for polymer electrolyte fuel cells”. Rens contributed a poster entitled “Grafting of ionomer thin-films for engineered ionic conductivity in polymer electrolyte fuel cells”. Irene won the runner-up prize for best oral presentation! Congratulations!!

July 7, 2024

Mathy Kellners completed his MSc thesis in our group! Under the supervision of Rens. Mathy completed his MSc thesis entitled “Tailored polymer electrolyte fuel cell electrode microstructures for enhanced reactant mass transport”. Congratulations!

July 3, 2024

Naufal Asyraf completed his MSc thesis in our group! Under the supervision of Senan and Mert. Naufal completed his MSc thesis entitled “Investigating the role of electrowetting in the flooding of copper gas diffusion electrodes for CO2 electrochemical reduction”. Congratulations!

June 20, 2024

Merlijn Schinkel completed his MSc thesis in our group! Under the supervision of Moji and Senan. Merlijn completed his MSc thesis entitled “Modelling multiphase transport and optimization of gas diffusion electrodes in CO2 electrolyzers”. Congratulations!

June 18, 2024

Martin de Waal and Pedro de Carvalho Ferreira completed their MSc thesis in our group! Both did it under the supervision of Moji. Martin completed his MSc thesis entitled “Computational design of porous electrodes topology in redox flow batteries using finite volume method”. Pedro completed his MSc thesis entitled “Computational design of porous electrodes topology in redox flow batteries using finite element method”. Congratulations!

June 18-21, 2024

Marina, Ameya, Fabio, Yağmur, Hailan, and Toni attended the Electrochemical Conversion and Materials (ECCM) graduate school in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. Marina contributed a poster entitled “Investigating the role of the iron electrode substrate microstructure for iron-air batteries”. Ameya contributed a poster entitled “Advancing electrochemical reactors with flowable electrodes”. Fabio contributed a poster entitled “Manufacturing 3D porous electrodes for alkaline water electrolysis”. Yağmur contributed a poster entitled “Surface engineering to improve electrode performance in alkaline water electrolysis”. Hailan contributed a poster entitled “Nano-electrochemical imaging to understand interfaces in all-iron redox flow batteries”. Toni delivered a lecture on redox flow batteries. Fabio won the second runner-up position in the best poster award! Congratulations!!

June 06, 2024

Emre published a paper entitled “Correlating Electrolyte Infiltration with Accessible Surface Area in Macroporous Electrodes using Neutron” in Journal of The Electrochemical Society. Congratulations!

June 01, 2024

Rik van Gorp continues in our team to perform his PhD research! Rik will work on the design and optimization of advanced alkaline water electrolysis to contribute to the deployment of cheap green hydrogen at scale. Welcome on board!

May 28, 2024

Inma published her first paper entitled “Elucidating the Influence of Electrolyte Additives on Iron Electroplating Performance” in Electrochimica Acta. Congratulations!!

May 26-30, 2024

Toni attended the 245th Electrochemical Society Meeting in San Francisco. Toni gave an invited talk entitled “Engineering Porous Electrodes for Redox Flow Batteries – Leveraging Computational and Synthetic Platforms”.

May 24, 2024

Meike Rijsdijk completed her MSc thesis in our group! Under the supervision of Irene and Rik. Meike completed her MSc thesis entitled “Fluor free gas diffusion layers for hydrogen fuel cells”. Congratulations!

May 21, 2024

Our team attended the National Symposium on Electrochemical Conversion (ECCNS 2024) in the Hague. Senan contributed a talk entitled “Engineering gas diffusion electrode microstructures for the electrochemical reduction of CO2”. Mert and Fabio contributed with poster presentations. Mert contributed a poster entitled “Towards defluorinated gas diffusion electrodes for CO2 electrolyzers: Exploring polydimethylsiloxane-based modifications” and Fabio contributed a poster entitled “Manufacturing 3D porous electrodes for alkaline water electrolysis”.

May 16, 2024

Emre successfully defended his PhD thesis! Emre worked on Interfacial engineering of porous electrodes for redox flow cells. Congratulations!

May 06, 2024

Emre and Toni published a collaborative article in Energy Advances. The paper is entitled “Understanding the role of nitrogen-doping and surface topology in the binding of Fe(III)/Fe(II) to biobased carbon electrodes”. Congratulations!

May 01-03, 2024

Our group went on a three-day trip around Delft and Amsterdam in the Netherlands! On the first day, we visited the Vermaas group at TU Delft and Battolyser Systems in Schiedam. On the second day, we visited the Noël group at UvA and Snellius, the Dutch supercomputer at Amsterdam Science Park.

April 25, 2024

Adrian published a paper entitled “Understanding the Role of Electrode Thickness on Redox Flow Battery Performance” in Advanced Materials Interfaces. Maxime published a paper entitled “Understanding the Role of Electrode Thickness on Redox Flow Battery Performance” in Digital Discovery. Congratulations!

April 09-10, 2024

Rémy and Maxime hosted the 4TU Flow4UBattery Workshop at TU/e. Baichen, Inma, Marina, and Ameya contributed with poster presentations. We also gave demonstrations on assembling redox flow batteries to the participants in our lab.

March 25, 2024

Yağmur Goçtu and Hailan Ni joined our team to perform their PhD research! Yağmur will employ surface engineering on metallic electrodes to improve cell performance in alkaline water electrolysis. Hailan will investigate the electrode-electrolyte interface in iron-based flow batteries using in-situ techniques such as EC-AFM, SECM, and SECCM. Welcome on board!

March 14, 2024

Moji attended the ModVal conference in Baden. He gave an oral presentation entitled “Topology optimization of porous electrodes for redox flow batteries using the finite element method”. Congratulations!

March 03, 2024

Winnie attended the Netherlands' Catalysis and Chemistry Conference in Noordwijkerhout. Winnie presented a poster entitled “Towards platinum-free catalyst layers for polymer electrolyte fuel cells”. Congratulations!!

February 26, 2024

Baichen Liu joined our team as a postdoctoral researcher! Baichen is an expert in electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, which he applied to study the relationship between electrode microstructure and performance in redox flow batteries. He will work on the development of novel porous electrodes for applications in metal-air redox flow batteries. Welcome on board!

January 26, 2024

Toni gave an invited talk at the EIRES Symposium in Eindhoven.

January 09, 2024

Fabio Scattareggia Marchese di Giovanni joined our team to perform his PhD research! Fabio will work on the design and synthesis of novel 3D porous electrodes for alkaline water electrolysis. Welcome on board!

December 1, 2021

We have been granted a new project by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy (RVO)! In SH2IPDRIVE, we will work together with several other universities, companies and stakeholders to investigate the use of polymer electrolyte fuel cells for the maritime sector.

October 29, 2021

Toni has been awarded the Hydrogen Europe Young Scientist Award at the Hydrogen week in Brussels. Congratulations!

October 28, 2021

Toni gave an invited lecture at the Amsterdam Center for Electrochemistry Symposium entitled “Advancing Redox Flow Batteries through Porous Electrode Engineering”.

November 9, 2021

Rémy and Toni attended the Brightlands Polymer Days conference in Veldhoven (The Netherlands). Rémy presented his work on the use of non-solvent induced phase separation to prepare bulk porous electrodes for high performance redox flow batteries at the in the energy division. Rémy was elected the Winner of the Oral Presentations in the Energy Division. Congratulations!

October 4, 2021

Dr. Adrian Mularczyk joins our team as postdoctoral researcher! Adrian is an expert on imaging and understanding multiphase flows in porous media relevant to electrochemical technologies such as fuel cells and electrolyzers. He recently obtained his PhD thesis at ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland . At TU/e, his work will focus on synthesis of novel porous electrode architectures for next-generation fuel cells. Welcome on board!

October 4, 2021

Marjolein Boom joins our team to perform her master's thesis research on the in-flow electrodeposition of conformal coatings for ion-selective porous electrodes. Welcome, Marjolein!

September 1, 2021

We are thrilled to announce that our team has received a grant from the European Space Agency! In this project, we will investigate, together with our collaborators from Twente (Dr. Davoud Jafari) the use of 3D printing to manufacture porous electrodes for fuel cells. We are thankful to ESA for the funding and excited about the science!

August 16 - 29, 2021

Members of our team - Remy, Maxime, Emre, and Toni - performed neutron experiments of redox flow batteries at the SINQ facility at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland! We studied reactive flows in electrochemical cells and quantified local concentrations as a function of reactor parameters and operating conditions. We are very excited about the results, stay tuned!

August 30, 2021

We have been granted an EU2020 grant for the collaborative project MORELife! In this exciting project, a team of industrial and academic researchers from several European countries will investigate and develop strategies to enhance the durability and performance of fuel cell stacks for heavy-duty transportation. We are thankful to the EU for funding and look forward to the exciting research!

July 16, 2021

Nard Schellekens successfully completed his internship! Nard explored the preparation of thin, microporous layers for use as electrodes in next-generation redox flow batteries. Congratulations and all the best in your masters in Amsterdam!

June 22, 2021

Rosa Geveling successfully defended her master's thesis, where she development rigorous and systematic characterization methods for ion exchange membranes in non-aqueous electrolytes. Congratulations! We wish you all the best in your future career!

May 31 - June 4, 2021

Our team attended Interpore 2021 and several team members presented their latest work. Maxime presented a poster entitled entitled "Towards bottom-up design of porous electrode microstructures for redox flow batteries". Remy gave an oral presentation entitled "Non-solvent Induced Phase Separation: A Synthetic Approach Towards High Performance Redox Flow Battery Electrodes". Furthermore, Maxime was awarded the MDPI Energies Student Poster Award! Congratulations!

May 18, 2021

Maxime presented her work "Towards bottom-up design of porous electrode microstructures for redox flow batteries" in session 20 of the Porous Media Tea Time Talks. The presentation can be found in Youtube Congratulations!

May 10, 2021 - May 12, 2021

Emre and Toni attended the 4th International Conference on Capacitive Deionization and Electrosorption. Emre presented a poster entitled "Towards low voltage electrosorption of heavy metal ions by electropolymerized PEDOT/PSS coatings”. Congratulations!

April 30, 2021

Gabor Szendrei successfully defended his master's thesis focused on optimization of porous electrode microstructures for redox flow batteries using pore network modelling. Congratulations and all the best!

April 28, 2021

Marit Kroese joins our team to perform her master's thesis focused on 3D-printing of porous electrode microstructures for redox flow batteries. Welcome on board!

April 20, 2021

Toni has been awarded an entrepreneurship grant by the TTT board! Congratulations!

April 16, 2021

Marcell Fritz successfully defended his master’s thesis on the development of functional electrode coatings for electrosorption of heavy metal ions. Congratulations and all the best!

April 6, 2021

Vanesa Munoz Perales joined our team! Vanesa is a visiting PhD student from the University Carlos III in Madrid. Vanesa is performing research on understanding the role of flow battery flow fields and interactions between flow fields and porous electrodes. Welcome to the team!

March 31, 2021

Toni gave in invited presentation at the Electrons to High Valuable Chemical Products (E2C) platform in the session on Material Advances in CO₂ Electrochemistry. Toni discussed opportunities and challenges in the field of CO₂ reduction and how knowledge from other electrochemical flow systems (e.g. fuel cells) can accelerate progress in the field. Congratulations!

March 15, 2021

We are very excited to have been awarded a 4TU grant! In this project, we aim to 3D print architected porous structures to be used as electrodes in redox flow batteries. We have acquired a stereolithography-based 3D printer for our lab. Congratulations!

March 02, 2021

Remy published his first paper in collaboration with Charles Tai-Chieh Wan entitled "Non-Solvent Induced Phase Separation Enables Designer Redox Flow Battery Electrodes" in Advanced Materials! The work was also selected as cover for the journal! Congratulations!

January 29, 2021

Toni gives an invited presentation at the 1st Meeting on Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Devices! The talk was entitled “Engineering porous electrode microstructures for redox flow batteries”. Congratulations!

January 27, 2021

Toni gave an invited lecture at the ARC-CBBC research platform where he discussed our work on engineering porous materials for electrochemical technologies!

January 15, 2021

Toni gave an invited lecture at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) where he discussed our work on engineering porous materials for redox flow batteries and polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Congratulations!

December 8 - 9, 2020

Our team attended Chains 2020 and several team members presented their latest work during the poster sessions. Maxime presented a poster entitled "Optimizing the 3D microstructure of redox flow battery electrodes", Emre on "Organic functional surfaces for redox flow battery electrodes", and Inma on “Toward Porous Alloy Electrodes for Alkaline Water Electrolyzers”. Toni designed and chaired a session on materials for next-generation electrochemical energy storage and conversion.

December 15, 2020

Toni gives an invited talk at the M2i Conference and Meeting Materials 2020, where he discussed our work on bottom-up design of redox flow battery electrodes. Congratulations!

November 16, 2020

Toni gives an invited seminar at Shell, where he discussed our work on understanding reactive flows in electrochemical systems for renewable energy conversion and storage. Congratulations!

October 29, 2020

Toni gives an invited talk at the Conferencia Iberoamericana de Electroquimica, where he discussed our work on electrode engineering for redox flow batteries. Congratulations!

October 23, 2020

Inmaculada Giménez García joins our team to perform her PhD research! Inma will work on novel polymeric coatings for polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Inma has been awarded a prestigious La Caixa grant to fund her PhD research. Congratulations and welcome on board!

August 31, 2020

Rik van Gorp successfully defended his master's thesis on the topic of artificial generation of porous electrodes for electrochemical reactors. Congratulations!

August 26, 2020

Petur Gislason successfully his master's thesis on the synthesis of novel porous electrodes for redox flow batteries using non-solvent induced phase separation. Congratulations!

August 24, 2020

Yvette van Beek joined our team to perform her master's thesis on the fabrication of metallic porous electrodes for redox flow batteries. Congratulations!

August 20, 2020

The Dutch Science Foundation awards a NWO Science XS Grant to Toni! We will work on developing membranes for non-aqueous redox flow barreries for large-scale energy storage. We are thankful to NWO for this opportunity and look forward to the exciting science!

April 18, 2020

Toni is awarded a LIFT NWO grant to develop fuel cell electrodes! We will recruit one PhD student to work on this project in close collaboration with Nedstack. We are thankful about opportunity and excited to get started!

April 9, 2020

New paper out in the Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion Storage! Congrats to Kevin Tenny for the great work! We investigated the role of electrode weave patterns on the performance of redox flow batteries --; Cloth (woven) electrodes are fascinating materials!

March 30, 2020

Our research on electrochemical materials has been highlighted in the TU/e website!

March 17, 2020

New preprint submitted to ChemRvix entitled “Flooded by Success: On the Role of Electrode Wettability in CO₂ Electrolyzers That Generate Liquid Products”! We might need to rethink what "hydrophobic" means for the CO₂ field. Congrats to McLain and all!

March 9, 2020

A new collaborative manuscript submitted the ChemRvix entitled “Integrated Numerical and Experimental Data-Driven Parameter Identification of Electrode Properties in All-Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries”! Congrats to Zinqiang, Kevin, Reza and all!

February 12, 2020

During the last FlowCamp meeting, an EU-funded research network on flow batteries, Toni gave an invited seminar entitled “How can imaging guide the design of electrochemical systems?”!

January 23, 2020

Toni gave an invited talk at the DIFFER (Dutch Institute of Fundamental Energy Research)!

January 22, 2020

Toni delivers an invited lecture at the University of Groningen, Department of Chemical Engineering!

December 10, 2019

New review paper by Toni and Fik in Current Opinions in Electrochemistry, entitled “Engineering porous electrodes for next-generation redox flow batteries: recent progress and opportunities”! We discuss remaining opportunities and recent innovations in the field of porous electrodes for redox flow batteries.

December 1, 2019

New collaborative publication in the Journal of Power Sources entitled “Understanding the role of the porous electrode microstructure in redox flow battery performance using an experimentally validated 3D pore-scale lattice Boltzmann model”! Congrats to all!

October 27, 2019

Toni gave a lecture on Mass Transfer and Membranes in Electrochemical Systems in the 1st ECCM Graduate School!

November 18, 2019

New publication online lead by McLain Leonard in Chemistry Sustainable Chemistry entitled “Investigating Electrode Flooding in a Flowing Electrolyte, Gas‐Fed Carbon Dioxide Electrolyzer”! We investigated flooding in CO₂ electrolyzer gas diffusion layers using electrochemical double layer capacitance. Congrats to all!

November 11, 2019

Toni was invited to deliver seminar in the School of Chemical Engineering & Analytical Chemistry at the University of Manchester, England. He discussed recent progress on the bottom - up design of porous materials for electrochemical energy conversion and storage!

October 14, 2019

Toni attended the 236 th Electrochemical Society Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. He chaired a session on Energy Storage and delivered two presentations, one on bottom - up design of porous electrodes for flow batteries and another one on the use of neutron imaging to quantify organic active species concentration in flow batteries.

October 4, 2019

The TU/e Membrane Materials and Processes group visited the group of Prof. Ivo Vankelecom at KU Leuven for a collaborative event on membrane materials , UMASS 2019 . Toni delivered an invited presentation where he discussed how engineered porous materials can help realize sustainable electrochemical technologies for energy storage and conversion.

September 1, 2019

EUROMAT 2019 was celebrated in Stockholm (Sweden). Toni attended the conference and contributed with two presentations on porous electrodes for redox flow batteries and use of pore network simulations of multiphase transport in fuel cells.

July 16, 2019

Toni is awarded the Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council, division of Applied & Engineering Sciences. Thanks to this award, we will work on a project entitled "Architected electrodes - from computer to battery", where we will design and synthesize highly-organized porous electrodes for redox flow batteries. We are thankful to NWO and look forward to start working on this exciting project!

July 11, 2019

Toni attended the International Flow Battery Forum 2019 and delivered a presentatation on mass transfer in porous electrodes for redox flow batteries.

June 26, 2019

Toni, Emily, Alexandra and Fik published a paper in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society entitled “Exploring the Role of Electrode Microstructure on the Performance of Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries”. Congratulations!

June 21, 2019

Remy and Toni attended the Netherlands Conference on Electrochemical Conversion & Materials. Toni presented on strategies to design porous electrodes for redox flow batteries.

June 18, 2019

Toni delivered an invited lecture at the FlowCamp meeting in Luxembourg, where he discussed strategies to synthesize gas difussion and liquid-phase porous electrodes.

May 17, 2019

Toni visited iMdea Energy in Madrid (SP) and gave a seminar on electrochemical materials for fuel cells and redox flow batteries.

May 15, 2019

Toni visited Tecnalia in San Sebastian (SP) and discussed about materials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion.

May 8, 2019

Toni attended InterPore 2019 in Valencia, Spain and discussed the role of electrodes in non-aqueous redox flow batteries.

March 19, 2019

Toni attended the NL GUTS - NMG (Netherlands Separation Process Network and Dutch Membrane Society) meeting at the Wageningen Food & Biobased Research center. Toni presented on strategies to synthesize porous membranes with patterned wettability.

March 12, 2019

Toni attended ModVal 2019 in Braunschweig, Germany, and contributed an oral presentation entitled: “Understanding the Impact of Electrode Microstructure on the Performance of Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries”.

February 11, 2019

Toni delivered an invited seminar at TU Delft, Department of Chemical Engineering. Toni discussed strategies to engineer porous materials for PEM fuel cells and redox flow batteries.

February 4, 2019

Toni starts his new appointment as Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology!! Within the Membrane Materials & Processes group in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Toni is excited to initiate his independent academic career.

February 2, 2019

Toni publishes a collaborative paper in the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer entitled ‘Topology optimization as a powerful tool to design advanced PEMFCs flow fields.’