Design of carbon-derived electrode materials towards rechargeable Al-N2 batteries

Focus:	Resource efficiency Talents
Type of funding:	Individual funding programmes
Programme:	CZS Nexus \| Changed application process
Funded institution:	Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Dr. Desirée Leistenschneider is a chemist and researches batteries. She studied and completed her doctorate at TU Dresden. After a postdoctoral phase at the University of Alberta (Canada), she now heads a junior research group at the University of Jena.

Goals

The world's population continues to develop technologically. As a result, its energy requirements are also constantly growing. The development of sustainable technologies for energy generation and storage is therefore necessary in order to avoid resource scarcity and poor access to energy.

Dr. Leistenschneider's project aims to develop a new type of battery - the Al-N2 battery based on carbon materials, whose advantage lies in the fact that aluminum (Al), carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) are among the most abundant elements on earth. The challenges are addressed from different perspectives - via material design, cell design and the fundamental understanding of the chemical processes using in-situ characterization techniques. The ultimate goal is to achieve a rechargeable battery system based only on abundant resources.