Plastic batteries - research project starts work

Last Monday (July 16, 2018) the kick-off meeting of the HALO research project took place. In cooperation with researchers from the University of Freiburg (under the direction of Prof. Dr. Birgit Esser) and the MEET Battery Research Center of the University of Münster (under the direction of Prof. Dr. Martin Winter), the research team is looking at organic electrode materials that are intended to enable the storage of energy in plastics. The three-year project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

From left to right: Verena Perner (WWU), Martin Kolek (WWU), Gauthier Studer (WWU/University of Freiburg), Fabian Otteny (University of Freiburg), Prof. Dr. Birgit Esser (University of Freiburg) and Gauthier Desmaizieres (University of Freiburg)
From left to right: Verena Perner (WWU), Martin Kolek (WWU), Gauthier Studer (WWU/University of Freiburg), Fabian Otteny (University of Freiburg), Prof. Dr. Birgit Esser (University of Freiburg) and Gauthier Desmaizieres (University of Freiburg)
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The research consortium is working in a relatively new field of science in which only a few studies can be built upon to date. Basic knowledge on the synthesis of the redox polymers under consideration and new methods for characterizing the mechanisms of these complex systems will be developed.

During her stay for the kick-off meeting at MEET, Prof. Esser gave an exciting lecture on "Organic Redox Polymers as Electrode-Active Materials for Batteries". By that she delighted not only the young researchers from MEET, but also from the Helmholtz Institute Münster (HI MS), and in particular from the Department of Organic Chemistry of the University of Münster.