Job offer from INM - Leibniz-Institut für Neue Materialien GmbH

Doctoral Student (DC3)

Position Summary

The Innovative Electron Microscopy Department develops and applies electron microscopy methodologies for nanoscale and atomic-resolution characterization of functional materials and their interfaces, with specific focus on soft-hard interfaces. The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network "e-ChemIn: ElectroChemical Interfaces for energy conversion and storage: towards a carbon neutral society" is recruiting 15 Doctoral Candidates (DCs). The e-ChemIn network brings 12 academic and 6 industrial partners from 9 countries formed an international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral team. 15 Doctoral candidates will enjoy a multidisciplinary and international setting with plenty of training opportunities and exchange with all labs involved in the Network.

Responsibilities

- Develop operando scanning TEM (STEM)



and EELS approaches to characterize adsorption phenomena and the formation of the electric double layer with the highest spatial resolutions reported.
- Use room-temperature ionic liquids (ILs) as electrolytes and test their structuring in nanoconfined environments of different dimensionality (e.g., inside carbon nanotubes, 3D porous carbons).
- Test behavior under applied bias in confinement.
- Spatially resolved data from STEM and EELS will be correlated with volumetric measurements from NMR and operando XPS, enabling direct observation and quantification of charge storage mechanisms in electrode materials and processes of electrolyte degradation.
- In cooperation with DC5, who performs complementary atomistic simulations, work towards obtaining comprehensive insights in the structure and dynamics at solid-liquid interfaces at different states of charge.

Location

INM - Leibniz-Institut für Neue Materialien, Campus D2 2, 66123 Saarbruecken

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