News archive

• 05/12/2024 Another nice contribution by our group on "Multinuclear Solid-State NMR Study of the Aqueous Solid-Electrolyte Interphase Formation in NaTi2(PO4)3" is out in ACS Applied Energy Materials doi:10.1021/acsaem.4c02224

• 25/11/2024 Dr. Gintarė Gečė wins the best PhD thesis award in the field of Natural, Technological, Medical and Health, and Agricultural Sciences from the Lithuanian Society of Young Researchers. - https://www.ljms.lt/post/paskelbti-2023-m-geriausiu-disertaciju-konkurso-laureatai  

• 30/10/2024 We have received another grant on Sustainable Electrochemical Recovery of Zn-Mn-O Materials from spent alkaline non-rechargeable batteries for rechargeable applications (SusEReMat) from the Polish National Science Centre and Lithuanian Research Council DAINA 3 call.  This joint project is a collaboration with Dr. Jędrzej Piątek at Łukasiewicz Research Network - Krakow Institute of Technology. 

• 26/09/2024 Group activities and recent research results were presented by the invited talk of Dr. Jurgis Pilipavičius at the NordBatt 2024 Conference (Investigation of degradation effects in NASICON Materials for Aqueous Sodium Batteries) in Oslo, Norway.

• 20/09/2024 Congratulations to Dr. Davit Tediashvili for successfully defending his PhD Thesis Understanding of the Electrochemical Interfaces in Aqueous Na-ion Batteries: From Degradation Mechanisms to Mitigation Strategies.  - https://www.chgf.vu.lt/apie-fakulteta/naujienos/3333-sveikiname-vu-chemijos-ir-geomokslu-fakulteto-doktoranta-davit-tediashvili-sekmingai-apsigynus-daktaro-disertacija

• 18/09/2024 Our Group receives a grant from the Lithuanian Research Council Toward the Autonomous Materials Research using Large Open Data and Generative Models (AMROG) to further develop autonomous materials research capabilities at the FTMC.

• 06/09/2024 Electrochemical Materials Science Seminar - Eibar Flores (SINTEF Industry, Trondheim, Norway), "A Linked Data Primer"

• 18/07/2024 The Notice of Publication of our first patent application (US 2024-0243353 A1) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office was received. 

• 16/04/2024 Group activities and recent research results were presented at the 8th Baltic Electrochemistry Conference: Finding New Inspiration 2 (BEChem 2024) in Tartu, Estonia (Phosphate Framework Materials for Ion Insertion Batteries: Understanding, Performance, Degradation)

• 15/12/2023 The first PhD minted in our group. Congratulations to Dr. Gintarė Gečė for successfully defending her PhD Thesis "Search, Synthesis, and Investigation of New Framework Electrode Materials for Aqueous Na-ion Batteries": https://www.ftmc.lt/news/1586/138/Chemist-G-Gece-who-developes-the-next-generation-batteries-gets-a-PhD-in-Natural-Sciences

• 11/12/2023 A nice contribution by our PhD Student Davit Tediashvili and the Team "On the Degradation of Vanadium-Based Phosphate Framework Electrode Materials in Aqueous Environments" is out in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society:  https://doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/ad13fa

• 04/12/2023 Another nice contribution by our PhD student Gintarė Gečė  "A Comparative Study of Mixed Phosphate-Pyrophosphate Materials for Aqueous and Non-Aqueous Na-ion Batteries" is out in ChemSelect https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.202302577

• 10/10/2023 Group activities and recent research results were presented at the 244th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society in  Göteborg, Sweden (A04-0578  Aqueous Electrochemical Degradation of Phosphate Framework Materials: Mechanisms and Mitigation Strategies). https://ecs.confex.com/ecs/244/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/175685

• 29/09/2023 New pre-print on "On the degradation of vanadium-based phosphate framework electrode materials in aqueous environments" is out in ECSarXiv: https://doi.org/10.1149/osf.io/5fk83

• 07/08/2023 Another small step toward the understanding of aqueous ion battery materials by our Group just published in Electrochmica Acta: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2023.142993 

• 24/05/2023 New paper on application of ALD coatings on NTP is out in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society:  https://dx.doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/acd4ee 

• 04/04/2023 Our PhD student Gintarė Gečė receives a scholarship award from the Theodor von Grotthuss Foundation (press release).

• 23/02/2023 New paper by our PhD student Gintarė Gečė on NTP nanomorphology is out in ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c06732

• 25/10/2022 Group activities were presented at the Battery 2030+ Nordic/Baltic regional meeting at Chalmers University in Göteborg, Sweden.

• 21/09/2022 Electrochemical Materials Science Seminar

Richard G. Compton (University of Oxford).

"Single Entity Electrochemistry:  Evaluating Carbon Nanotubes as Electrocatalysts"