Lab News
July 28, 2023
Maxime published a paper entitled “Investigating Mass Transfer Relationships in Stereolithography 3D Printed Electrodes for Redox Flow Batteries” in Advanced Materials Technologies. Congratulations!
July 24, 2023
Vanesa and Maxime published a paper entitled “Engineering Lung-inspired Flow Field Geometries for Redox Flow Batteries with Stereolithography 3D Printing” in ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering. Congratulations!
July 18, 2023
Adrian and Toni published a collaborative paper with the Zenyuk group at University of California, Irvine. The paper is entitled “A Viewpoint on X-ray Tomography Imaging in Electrocatalysis” in ACS Catalysis. Congratulations!
July 06 – 07, 2023
Senan, Mert, and Toni attended the Netherlands Process Technology Symposium in Enschede, the Netherlands. Senan contributed a talk entitled “Microstructural Engineering of Gas Diffusion Electrodes for CO2 Electrochemical Reduction” and Mert contributed a poster entitled “Designing Gas Diffusion Electrodes with Tailored Wettability for CO2 Reduction Electrolyzers”.
June 30, 2023
Victor de Haas completed his MSc thesis in our group! Under the supervision of Maxime van der Heijden, Victor completed his MSc thesis entitled “Topology optimization to co-design flow fields and porous electrodes for redox flow batteries”. Congratulations!
June 13 – June 16, 2023
Senan and Mert attended the Electrochemical Conversion and Materials (ECCM) graduate school in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. Senan contributed a poster entitled “Microstructural Engineering of Gas Diffusion Electrodes for CO2 Electrochemical Reduction” and Mert contributed a poster entitled “Designing Gas Diffusion Electrodes with Tailored Wettability for CO2 Reduction Electrolyzers”. Senan won the best poster award!
May 28 – June 2, 2023
Our team attended the 243rd Electrochemical Society Meeting in Boston! Rémy, Maxime, Emre, Vanesa, and Toni contributed with seven oral presentations. Rémy contributed two talks entitled “Microstructural Engineering of Flow Battery Electrodes with Non-Solvent Induced Phase Separation” and “Investigating Transport through Membranes in Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries with Neutron Radiography”. Maxime contributed two talks entitled “Starting from the bottom: Coupling a Genetic Algorithm and a Pore Network Model for Porous Electrode Design” and “Investigating Mass Transfer Relationships in Stereolithography-based 3D Printed Electrodes for Redox Flow Batteries”. Emre contributed two talks entitled “Correlating Electrolyte Infiltration with Accessible Surface Area in Porous Electrodes using Neutron Radiography” and “Electropolymerized Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) Coatings on Carbon Electrodes for Electrochemical Separation of Metals”. Vanesa contributed a talk entitled “Engineering Lung-Inspired Flow Field Geometries for Redox Flow Batteries with Stereolithography 3D Printing”. Emre won an ECS poster award!
May 22 – May 25, 2023
Maxime and Adrian attended InterPore2023 conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. Maxime contributed a talk entitled “Starting from the bottom: Coupling a Genetic Algorithm and a Pore Network Model for Porous Electrode Design” and a poster entitled “Investigating Mass Transfer Relationships in Stereolithography-based 3D Printed Electrodes for Redox Flow Batteries”. Adrian contributed a talk entitled “Towards Multiphase Transport Layers - Binary Pore Size Distributions with Hydrogen Bubble Assisted Electrodeposition”.
May 15, 2023
Marina Tabuyo Martinez joined our team to perform her PhD research! Marina will work on developing novel porous electrodes for low cost iron-air redox flow batteries. Welcome on board!
May 10, 2023
Adam Wijpkema completed his MSc thesis in our group! Under the supervision of Adrian Mularczyk, Adam completed his MSc thesis entitled “Determination of synthesis and material properties of foams from dynamic hydrogen bubble templating”.Congratulations on the great work!!
April 25, 2023
Rémy and Toni published a collaborative paper with the Brushett group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The paper is entitled “Engineering Redox Flow Battery Electrodes with Spatially Varying Porosity Using Non-Solvent-Induced Phase Separation” in Energy Technology. Congratulations!
April 24, 2023
Adrian and Toni published a collaborative paper with the Bodner group at Graz University of Technology. The paper is entitled “Surfactant Doped Polyaniline Coatings for Functionalized Gas Diffusion Layers in Low Temperature Fuel Cells” in Materials Advances. Congratulations!
March 22, 2023
Adrian, Maxime, Rens, Irene, and Toni attended the ModVal conference in Hohenkammer (Germany). Maxime gave an oral presentation entitled “Starting from the bottom: Coupling a genetic algorithm and a pore network model for redox flow battery porous electrode optimization”. Adrian presented a poster entitled “Development of multiphase transport layers with binary pore size distribution”. Irene presented a poster entitled “Towards uniform and fluorine-free coatings on carbon-fiber substrates for polymer electrolyte fuel cells”. Rens presented a poster entitled “Towards fluorine-free ionomer coatings for next-generation polymer electrolyte fuel cells”. Toni gave a keynote lecture entitled “Advancing redox flow batteries through porous electrode and reactor engineering”. Congratulations!
March 06, 2023
Emre and Winnie attended the Netherlands' Catalysis and Chemistry Conference in Noordwijkerhout. Emre gave an oral presentation entitled “Taurine electrografting onto porous electrodes improves redox flow batteries performance ”. Winnie presented a poster entitled “Towards platinum-free catalyst layers for polymer electrolyte fuel cells”. Congratulations!!
March 02, 2023
Emre published a second paper entitled “Electropolymerized poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) coatings on porous carbon electrodes for electrochemical separation of metals” in Advanced Materials Interfaces. Emre used electropolymerization method to coat porous electrodes with PEDOT/PSS with a controllable thickness down to 100 nm’s and used these coated electrodes to separate nickel from sodium in aqueous solutions. Congratulations!!
February 28, 2023
Kiran finished her postdoctoral research duration where she worked on the synthesis of metallic porous electrodes combining 3D printing and electroplating for reversible fuel cells! We wish you all the best in your future career!
February 21, 2023
Rémy successfully defended his PhD thesis! He worked on Development of membrane diagnostics and novel porous materials for next generation redox flow batteries. Congratulations! We are happy that Rémy is staying with the EMS group as a post-doctoral researcher where he will be assessing the upscaling possibilities and performance metrics of porous carbon electrodes prepared via Non-Solvent Induced Phase Separation.
February 02, 2023
Maxime and Rik published a collaborative paper entitled "Bottom-up design of porous electrodes by combining a genetic algorithm and a pore network model " in the Chemical Engineering Journal! Congratulations!!
January 15, 2023
Mojtaba Barzegari joins our team as postdoctoral researcher! Mojtaba is an expert in high-performance computational modeling which he applied to computational biomaterials and tissue engineering during his PhD in KU Leuven. Mojtaba aims to apply his expertise in computational engineering and high performance computing on electrochemical materials and systems. Welcome on board!
