Characterization and Quantification of Depletion and Accumulation Layers in Solid‐State Li+‐Conducting Electrolytes Using In Situ Spectroscopic Ellipsometry / Leon Katzenmeier, Leif Carstensen, Simon J. Schaper, Peter Müller-Buschbaum, and Aliaksandr S. Bandarenka / Advanced Materials (2021): 2100585 - DOI [read more]

Thorough validation of the ECD-3-nano dilatometry cell and reliable data on the expansion of graphite and NMCs with different nickel contents. Comparison of XRD data of crystral structure changes of NCMs and electrode expansion reveals limited correlation between the two. [read more]

The funding for the Geothermal Alliance Bavaria (GAB) collaborative research project, which is being carried out by the Technical University of Munich together with the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, the University of Bayreuth, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Munich University of Applied Sciences, will enter its second phase from 2021 to 2024. The existing… [read more]

The successful collaboration among the Chair of Technical Electrochemistry (TEC), the Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management (iwb), and the Institute for Electrical Energy Storage Technology (EES) within the projects ExZellTUM II (grant no.: 03XP0081) und ExZellTUM III (grant no.: 03XP0255) supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) resulted in the… [read more]

The publication "Thermal conductivity inside prismatic lithium-ion cells with dependencies on temperature and external compression pressure" by Marco Steinhardt and co-authors published in the Journal of Energy Storage deals with thermal conductivity measurements on a prismatic NMC graphite cell. In the study it could be shown that the thermal conductivity through the layers of the… [read more]

Dieterich, Vincent; Buttler, Alexander; Hanel, Andreas; Spliethoff, Hartmut ; Fendt, Sebastian: Power-to-liquid via synthesis of methanol, DME or Fischer–Tropsch-fuels: a review. Energy & Environmental Science, August 2020. [read more]

The newest volumes of Journal of The Electrochemical Society of May and June 2020 contain four new contributions about actual scientific work at the chair of Technical Electrochemistry of Prof. Gasteiger regarding cell diagnostic and in-operando-measurements: A Liquid Electrolyte-Based Lithium-Ion Battery Cell Design for Operando Neutron Depth Profiling / Linsenmann, F.; Trunk, M.; Rapp, P.;… [read more]

On The Impact of the Locality on Short-Circuit Characteristics: Experimental Analysis and Multiphysics Simulation of External and Local Short-Circuits Applied to Lithium-Ion Batteries / J. Sturm, A. Rheinfeld, D. Buzon and A. Jossen / Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 167, Number 9 (2020) - DOI Short circuits in lithium-ion batteries are sometimes the most safety-critical scenarios… [read more]

The TUM.PtX network will be officially presented at this year's MSE Colloquium. The presentation will focus on the current projects and future cooperations for the research of electricity-based process chains. [read more]