July 26th, 2021
Former HIU researcher Dr. Christian Baur was honored with the Ulm Doctoral Prize on the anniversary of Ulm University on July 16, 2021. As the best graduate of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Baur attended the virtual event live from Copenhagen, where he recently started a new position.
Dr. Christian Baur, who worked for the HIU research group Solid-State Chemistry, completed his doctoral thesis on “Li-rich Disordered Rock Salt Transition Metal Oxyfluorides as Novel Cathode Materials in Lithium-Ion Batteries.” His work was already highly rated (“Mit Auszeichnung”) during his defense by an unanimous vote of the reviewers and examiners.
In his work, Baur carried out fundamental studies on the structure and understanding of the new and promising material class of disordered table salt structures and published his results in 10 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, including high-ranking journals such as Chem. Mater., J. Mater. Chem. A, ACS Materials & amp; Interfaces, The Journal of Phys. Chemistry C and Dalton Transactions.
What distinguished his work, among other things, was the consistent pursuit of demanding questions, for which he always purposefully, independently and creatively looked for the best possible solution. This led to the fact that he was able to inspire international cooperation partners in the field of theory and experiment for his questions and he was able to successfully familiarize himself with the difficult subject of X-ray structure analysis using “total scattering” on powders during a stay of several months at the DTU in Denmark.
His great care paid off, especially when analyzing a large amount of data. The data used by him reflect the changing disorder when loading and unloading the material and provide important information about the general lithium storage mechanism of oxyfluoride materials with disordered table salt structures. As a new class of compounds, these structures are particularly interesting because lithium can be stored in them in a very dense form, with it being surprisingly mobile in the structure, which also manages without the use of cobalt.
Weiterführende Informationen:
https://www.uni-ulm.de/jahrestag2021
https://www.uni-ulm.de/universitaet/hochschulkommunikation/veranstaltungen/jahrestag/54-jahrestag-2021/
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