At the two-day biennial meeting with 120 participants, the researchers presented their research results of the last two years and discussed and decided on the direction for the future. The scientific exchange was tailored to the four HIU interdisciplinary topics – Metal Deposition and Interfaces, Insertion Materials and Electrode Structure, Lithium Based Conversion Materials and Alloys, Batteries Beyond Lithium. In each of the four topics, members of different research groups efficiently pool their competencies in this way.
Maximilian Fichtner and Stefano Passerini, Director and Deputy Director of the HIU, emphasized the numerous new international collaborations concluded in the last two years and the very good publication average with two publications per researcher per year. In addition, the up to now successful application for the federal government’s excellence strategy and the establishment of the battery research platform CELEST make optimistic for future research work.
