2021

Junggou's work about nanoparticle-based titania aerogels for the generation of hydrogen under visible light was featured on the ETH News. Congratulations!

Madeleine's work on europium-doped lutetia microplatelets for high-energy radiation detection appeared in Crystals.

We are happy to welcome Henrik as a new member of our team! During his PhD Henrik will be working on catalytic nanoclusters at Empa's Electron Microscopy Center in Dübendorf.

We are happy to welcome Prof. Dr. Yuanzhi Chen as a new guest of our group!

Our former member Laura and our colleagues from the Photonics Laboratory published their findings on the mass and light transport in nanoparticle-based aerogels in the J. Mater. Chem. A.

Xavier presents his work on luminescent europium-doped hafnia nanocrystals in Crystals.

Neeru's recent achievements on degradable and biocompatible lithium-ion batteries appeared in Advanced Functional Materials.

Tian published her work about a transparent and stretchable prototype of a zinc ion battery in ACS Applied Energy Materials.

Neeru and Alazne published their review article about transient batteries in Advanced Science.

Neeru wins Best Oral Presentation Award in the session of Chemistry and Environment at the Swiss Chemical Society Fall Meeting 2021. Congratulations!

For the first time after a long break, our team set out together to enjoy a hike from Niederurner-Morgenholz to Hirzli.

We are pleased to welcome Francesco as our newest group member! During his PhD study, Francesco will work on the electrocatalytic reduction of CO_2.

Congratulations to Xavier and Fangwei for winning the People's Choice Poster Prize and the Avantama Most Significant Commercialization Potential Award at this year's MaP Symposium!

Prof. Markus Niederberger has been highlighted as Outstanding Reviewer of 2020 by Materials Horizons. Congratulations!

Fabian, together with Florian and Markus, published their review article about the use of colloidal nanocrystals in designing new materials in Chimia.

Our former guest Ana Clara published her recent findings on immobilized titanium nanoparticles used for the solar-driven purification of wastewater in Global Challenges.

Alazne's work on water-degradable separators for sodium ion batteries appeared in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces.

Nemanja and our former guest Camilla have published a review article on multivesicular vesicles, which is featured on the front cover of ChemSystemsChem!

Neeru wins the best poster prize at the this year's Global Renewable Energy Researchers Meet. Congratulations!

Tian successfully defended her PhD thesis on designing transparent, stretchable and flexible energy storage devices, congratulations!

Congratulations to Trond for the successful defense of his PhD work about clusters and nucleation experiments in ionic liquids!

Congratulations to Christian who successfully defended his dissertation on the "Understanding, Optimization and Development of All-Solid-State Lithium and Sodium Metal Batteries"!

We are pleased to welcome David as a new member of our team. During his PhD, David will work on nanoparticle-based aerogels.

Prof. Markus Niederberger has been appointed as an International Advisory Board Member of Advanced Materials. With an impact factor of 27.398, Advanced Materials is one of the top journals in the field of materials science, covering multidisciplinary topics from chemistry to physics.

Flexible, degradable and transparent, Linda, Neeru and Tian publish their review article on multifunctional batteries in ACS Central Science.

Christian and our former group member Dipan published their work on mechanical and chemically induced failure mechanisms in sulfide-based alkali metal solid-state batteries in Chemistry of Materials.

Xavier and our colleagues from Forschungszentrum Jülich present their results on a microwave-assisted coating process to improve the performance of a common cathode material in lithium-ion batteries in Nano Select.

Tian's work on transparent and flexible energy storage devices fabricated by micromolding techniques recently appeared in Advanced Functional Materials.

Our former member Long publishes his work on highly porous copper oxide nanosheets for the use in lithium-ion batteries in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A.