Lab News
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.’December 5, 2018
Katharine and Toni published a paper in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces elucidating the influence of thermal treatments on porous electrodes for all-vanadium redox flow batteries.
November 25, 2018
Toni delivered an invited seminar at the Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky , in Lexington. He discussed strategies to optimize porous materials for energy conversion and storage.
November 20, 2018
Toni, Katharine and Jeff travel to the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen (Switzerland) to perform a neutron radiography experiment at the NEUTRA beamline (SINQ).
October 31, 2018
Toni attended the 2018 AIChE Annual Conference in Pittsburgh , PA. He gave presentations discussing the influence electrode microstructure and thermal treatments on redox flow batteries, and advanced water management in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells.