Materials for the energy transition

The conversion and storage of renewable energies has become a crucial societal challenge for containing climate change. The development of these processes relies on innovative science for the development and shaping of materials to increase their efficiency and enable large-scale deployment of renewable energies. In the Department of Chemistry, several teams are experts in the synthesis of materials for energy, in various forms ranging from nanoparticles to atomically flat thin films.

1. Amorphous carbon for Li-ion batteries

2. Mechanochemical coupling in Si anodes of Li-ion batteries

3. Passivation of Li-ion battery anodes using MOF layers

4. Transition metal-based thin films for water splitting

5. Nanocrystals and thin films of plasmonic oxides for infrared solar control

6. New thin film phases for electrocatalysis

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