Gruppenbild mit Preisträgern des CENIDE Best Paper Award 2024: v.l.n.r. Thomas Lange, Adib Caidi, Amin S. Amin, Fatih Özcan

Award: ZBT researcher wins CENIDE Best Paper Award 2024

A paper on the key properties of carbon black materials for fuel cells and batteries, co-authored by ZBT researcher Adib Caidi, has been awarded the CENIDE Best Paper Award 2024.

ZBT scientists Adib Caidi and Amin S. Amin from the University of Duisburg-Essen were honoured at the CENIDE Best Paper Award 2024 in the category ‘Functional materials for energy applications’ for their publication ‘Key Control Characteristics of Carbon Black Materials for Fuel Cells and Batteries for a Standardised Characterisation of Surface Properties’.

Carbon blacks (CBs) are mainly used in electrocatalysis as carrier materials for nanoparticulate electrocatalysts. The interactions between the CB surface and the catalyst dispersion are complex. The surface properties of the particles affect the electrode layer and influence the performance and service life of fuel cells and batteries.

In their study, the research group investigated commercially available CBs, focusing on application-relevant key characteristics (KCCs), including electrical conductivity, surface chemistry and particle dispersibility. The proposed KCCs can serve as a starting point for characterising CBs and as a guide for product design in order to obtain meaningful structure-property relationships.

The paper is freely accessible (open access):
Particle & Particle Systems Characterization – ‘Key Control Characteristics of Carbon Black Materials for Fuel Cells and Batteries…’

CENIDE Best Paper Award

With the Best Paper Award, CENIDE – Centre for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen honours the best scientific publications by young researchers from 2023 and 2024. The six categories correspond to the six CENIDE research areas:
• Dynamic processes in solids
• Gas phase synthesis of nanomaterials
• Catalysis
• Magnetic materials
• Nanomaterials for health
• Functional materials for energy applications

CENIDE is a central research facility at the University of Duisburg-Essen that focuses on nanosciences.

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Further awards

2024

CENIDE Best Paper Award 2024

Adib Caidi, ZBT, and Amin S. Amin, University of Duisburg-Essen, received the CENIDE Best Paper Award 2024 in the category “Functional materials for energy applications” for their publication “Key Control Characteristics of Carbon Black Materials for Fuel Cells and Batteries for a Standardized Characterization of Surface Properties”.

2024

Award for Best Master's Thesis from the Deutschen Wasserstoff-Verband (DWV) e.V.

The master’s thesis of our research assistant Enado Pineti was honoured by the German Hydrogen Association as the best academic thesis of 2024. His Master’s thesis titled “Herstellung und Optimierung edelmetallfreier Katalysatorschichten für die Anionenaustauschmembran-Wasserelektrolyse (AEM-WE) mittels korrosiver Abscheidung” (title translation: Production and optimisation of precious metal-free catalyst layers for anion exchange membrane water electrolysis (AEM-WE) using corrosive deposition) was awarded in the Master’s category.

2023

GVT project of the year

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