Battery Technologies
Sustainable energy storage represents one of the great challenges in the twenty-first century. In response to the needs of modern society and emerging ecological concerns, improved energy storage is essential to enable the use of more renewable energy on the grid and shift from a petrol powered to a carbon neutral mobility. Therefore, new chemistries are vital that are inherently eco-efficient and environmentally friendly, in combination with feasible approaches to low-cost and recyclable materials.
My research is dedicated to address challenges and chances in novel, innovative concepts, chemistries and architectures for advanced energy storage systems. It is my aim to push the frontiers for advanced energy storage systems, that are low-cost and environmentally friendly.
Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Engelbert Portenkirchner
Members of the working groups "Materials- and Electrochemistry" and "Secondary Batteries" at the 74th ISE Annual Meeting in Lyon
Joint dinner together with the group of Prof. Dr. Helmut Baltruschat (Uni Bonn), Prof. Dr. Katrin Domke (Uni Duisburg-Essen) and Dr. Olaf Brummel (FAU Erlangen)
Institute hiking tour to the Neue Regensburger Hütte
Members of our group participated at the 7th GÖCh-Symposium for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry at the TU Vienna, which took place from the 28.-29.09.2023 (not in the photo: Chri)
Schematic summary of the theories under investigation on the mechanism of Li-ion storage in SiC: inactivity, intercalation, reversible conversion and irreversible conversion.
News
The FWF - Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research - is Austria's central institution for promoting basic research. It is committed to all sciences equally and its activities are guided by the standards of the international scientific community. In its board meeting on March 7, 2022, the FWF approved numerous projects by researchers from the University of Innsbruck, including Engelbert Portenkirchner's individual project on the topic of lithium migration and storage in silicon carbide.
Contact
Institut für Physikalische Chemie
Josef-Möller-Haus
Innrain 52c
A - 6020 Innsbruck
Österreich
Team Leader
Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn.
Engelbert Portenkirchner