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Since March 2022 we are part of the Institute of Organic Chemistry II and Advanced Materials at Ulm University. You can find us in M25 in rooms 3401 to 3410 and at the POLiS Cluster of Excellence building, Lise-Meitner-Straße 16.

After finishing his master thesis in the group Tobias Wasserrab rejoined us for his PhD. Welcome back!

Eva Bräutigam and Nico Kokott recently started their master thesis. Welcome to the group!

Alexander Tombrink just started his PhD and Sarah Rieger started her bachelor thesis in the group. Good luck!

Levin Göttinger and Moritz Podiebrad startet their bachelor thesis in the group. Good luck!

Birgit receives an ERC Consolidator grant. Excited to embark on project NanOBatt! PhD and postdoc positions will be available soon. Check out the press release here.

Daniel Baumgarten (PhD student) and Lars Hinrichs (Master Thesis) recently joined our group. Welcome and good luck!

Gauthier's paper on an high capacity aluminum battery featuring a two-electron redox phenothiazine polymer cathode was accepted in Energy & Environmental Science! Check it out here.

Álvaro Martínez (visiting scientist), Michael Keis (Master Thesis) and Bernd Schulz (Bachelor Thesis) recently joined our group. Welcome and good luck!

Tobias Wasserrab just started his Master Thesis in the group. Good luck!

Mathias's work on perfluorophenyl-substituted thioether-dibenzopentalenes, which lead to a tighter solid-state packing, with theoretical calculations performed by David.

Find it here, published in Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry.

Collaborative work with Oliver Dumele's group on antiaromatic dibenzopentalene-based COF: First example of DBPs as battery electrode materials, measurements done by Manik, published in J. Am. Chem. Soc..

Find it here.

Immobilizing poly(vinylphenothiazine) in Ketjenblack is a great strategy to boost its cycling stability: Check it out in Advanced Functional Materials.

Find it here.

How does a vinylene versus styrene backbone perform in anisylphenothiazine-functionalized redox polymers? Gauthier's paper has been accepted in Batteries & Supercaps. Congratulations!

Find it here.

Can organic redox polymers function well in batteries and solar cells? Robin's paper has been accepted in Macromolecular Rapid Communications. Congratulations!

Find it here.

Somayeh Ahadi just started her Postdoc in the group. She will develop organic electrode materials for post-lithium batteries. Good luck!

Md Adil just started his Postdoc in the group. He will be working on organic post-lithium ion batteries. Good luck!

Florin Adler just started his PhD in the group. Good luck!

Pascals paper about high mass loadings in phenothiazine based organic batteries has been accepted in ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. !

Find it here.

Gauthier Desmaizieres successfully defended his PhD thesis with the title "Synthese und Untersuchung von redoxaktiven Polymeren für die Anwendung als Elektrodenmaterialien in organischen Batterien".

Congratulations!

Two Papers by Jan and Mathias about Dibenzopentalene containing nanohoops were accepted in Organic Letters and Synlett !

Find more information here.

If you are interested in joining our group for a Bachelor or Master Thesis feel free to contact Prof. Esser or one of our group members! You can find an overview over possible topics here.

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You are interested in joining our group? Find more information here.