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]

Synthesis, Structure, Solid State NMR Spectroscopy, and Electronic Structures of the Phosphidotrielates Li3AlP2 and Li3GaP2 / T. M. F. Restle, J. V. Dums, G. Raudaschl-Sieber, T. F. Fässler / Chemistry - A European Journal 10.1002 (2020), DOI In this publication Li3AlP2 and Li3GaP2 are introduced as two new representatives of lithium phosphidotrielates and characterized structurally. These… [read more]

Applying reaction kinetics to pseudo-homogenous methanation modeling in fixed-bed reactors / V. Scharl, F. Fischer, S. Fendt, S. Herrmann, H. Spliethoff / Chemical Engineering and Technology 43 (2020), DOI In this publication a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model for the simulation of fixed bed methanation is presented and validated by experimental data. Novel reactor concepts and the… [read more]

On March, the 1th 2020 started the new ProZell II project „E-Qual“. The scientific consortium of research centers from Ulm, Ulm, Karlsruhe, Braunschweig and Munich  focuses on the data-based development of flexible machines, sustainable production processes and innovative quality management methods for Li-ion battery cell production. The homepage of the project „E-Qual“ launched recently could… [read more]

The following publications of the Chair for Theoretical Chemistry are relevant in the field of battery research: Implications of Occupational Disorder on Ion Mobility in Li4Ti5O12 Battery Materials H.H. Heenen, C. Scheurer, and K. Reuter, Nano Lett. 17, 3884 (2017).MORE / DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01400Chemical Shift Reference Scale for Li Solid State NMR Derived by First-Principles DFT… [read more]

According to a recent ranking, the article Oxygen Release and Its Effect on the Cycling Stability of LiNixMnyCozO2 (NMC) Cathode Materials for Li-Ion Batteries published at the TEC chair, belongs to the most downloaded articles of the JES (Journal the Electrochemical Society) in the fourth quarter of 2018 in the area of batteries and energy storage. The article was published in 2017, you can… [read more]