Sep 26, 2025
76th ISE Annual Meeting in Mainz
The International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) held its 76th annual meeting from 7 - 12 September 2025. Prof. Stefan Kaskel's group, Chair of Inorganic Chemistry I at TU Dresden, was represented in the poster session of the symposium on "Hydrogen production and conversion: advances in water electrocatalysis and fuel cells" by RTG fellow Lairana Lima Duarte (project G1). She was accompanied by Ahmed Bahrawi and Nick Niese, also from Prof. Kaskel's group, who presented their work on supercaps and ionological systems with a talk and poster respectively at the symposium for high-performance devices.
Alumni of TU Dresden and their current working groups were also present. Desirée Leistenschneider, former Nanogroup member during her doctorate in Prof. Kaskel's working group and currently group leader at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, presented her current work on the carbon/electrolyte interface in electrical double-layer capacitors in carbon/carbon nitride hybrid materials. Janine Richter, a former member of Prof. Michael Ruck's group and currently a post-doc at McGill University (Canada), presented her work on the high-throughput characterization of battery materials.
Experts in the field of electrochemical oxygen reduction and their research groups also gave presentations, including Plasmen Atanasov (University of California, Irvine), founder of Pajarito Powder LLC, which markets non-platinum fuel cell catalysts, and students of Ulrike Kramm (TU Darmstadt) on the characterization of iron catalysts by Mößbauer spectroscopy. Marco Mazzucato from the group of Christian Durante (University of Padua, Italy) and Sang Hoon Joo (Seoul National University, Korea) gave interesting talks on the bioelectrochemical synthesis of small molecule products using phenanthroline-based complexes in carbon catalysts - a similar complex is used by Lairana Lima Duarte for the work on her research project G1.
Lairana Lima Duarte represented the RTG with a poster about her research work.
The annual conference comprised a total of 16 symposia over six days. The packed agenda included presentations, poster sessions, plenary lectures and forums to showcase the latest advances in electrochemical science.
The event now attracts such a high number of participants that it can only take place in larger venues. In Mainz, with over 2300 participants, the Rheingoldhalle was available for the event.
The thematically diverse program and international orientation of ISE provided Ms. Lima Duarte with excellent connecting points for her own research work.