Materials for Energy Technologies

Advanced materials are at the heart of hydrogen and ammonia technologies for the energy transition. Within Materials for Energy Technology, high performance nanomaterials are developed for storage and conversion of renewable energy such as electrolysis, battery and fuel cell technologies. INP core expertise in vacuum deposition and atmospheric plasma synthesis from liquid and solid precursors are utilized to develop cost-efficient and scalable synthesis processes, electroceramic thin films and redoxactive 2D nanohybrids. Another important pillar of our work is the characterization of the crystal and nano- or microstructure of the materials by means of XRD, TEM/SEM, EDX, XPS, gas adsorption, thermal gravimetric analysis, UV/Vis, FT-IR and Raman spectroscopy as well as a screening of the electrochemical properties, e.g. by cyclic voltammetry and impedance measurements.