MEET Newsportal

In recognition of his exceptional achievements in the continued development of innovative energy storage technologies, Prof. Dr Martin Winter was honored with the “Shep Wolsky Battery Innovator Award”. The committee of the International Battery Seminar presented him with the prize in Orlando on March 24, 2026. Winter was the first European scientist to receive the award. Read more

A team from MEET Battery Research Center, the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Münster, and Helmholtz Institute Münster of Forschungszentrum Jülich, has investigated in detail the influence of the boron-containing lithium salts lithium bis(oxalato)borate (LiBOB) and lithium difluoro(oxalato)borate (LiDFOB) in silicon-based lithium ion batteries. Read more

Processing positive electrodes aqueously is an important step towards a more sustainable battery cell production. A team from MEET Battery Research Center has compared the influence of four potential binders on the physical properties and electrochemical performance of aqueously processed lithium iron phosphate (LFP) electrodes. Read more

A team from MEET Battery Research Center has analyzed five different lithium iron phosphate (LFP) powders. The research focused on the questions of how suitable the materials are for dry-processing based on their intrinsic properties and their influence on cell performance. Read more