Award

 March, 2023

Ali along with Dr Timur Ashirov has received the highly prestigious 2023 ACS Global Outstanding Graduate Student and Mentor Award in Polymer Science and Engineering. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to polymer research from anywhere in the world. Congratulations!

 December 1, 2022

Ali has received the Swiss Green and Sustainable Chemistry Award 2023. Thanks to all the past and present group members for making this possible!



 June 7, 2022

Our latest publication entitled "Porous Polyisothiocyanurates for Selective Palladium Recovery and Heterogeneous Catalysis" is just accepted for publication in Chem, Cell Press. 

In this study, we reported porous polyisothiocyanurates bearing in situ-generated thiourea binding sites as sorbents for Pd(II) combining high uptake capacity, fast kinetics, and stability under acidic conditions with high selectivity and as ideal hosts for Pd nanoparticles to form highly efficient heterogeneous catalysts for the Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction. This research has been funded by NCCR Catalysis

Congratulations to Kyung Seob for his excellent work!




 January 2022


New members!

We are excited to welcome Ms Leonie Braks and Mr. Alexander Forster to the group as PhD students as a part of our Sinergia project entitled "Pushing All Solid-State Batteries to Their Full Potential - Interface Engineering Guided by Advanced Diagnostics for High Performance Scalable Batteries,". Welcome to the group!

Alexander Forster
Leonie Braks
 

 July 2021


Sinergia Funding!

We are pleased to announced that our Sinergia grant application on the development of all solid state batteries is approved, and will involve strong collaboration with all the research partners from PSI, EPFL and Seoul National University. The project will be focused on the stabilization of Li metal anode surface and fundamental understanding of electrode/electrolyte interface. Looking forward to exciting results!



 July 11, 2021

Our latest publication entitled "Ultrahigh Permeance Metal Coated Porous Graphene Membranes with Tunable Gas Selectivities" is just accepted for publication in Chem, Cell Press. 

In this study, we demonstrated highly efficient adsorptive separation of He/H2 and steady-state separation of H2/CO2 with the highest H2/CO2 separation factor of 26 within the ultrahigh permeance range by depositing microislands of Pd and Ni to target H2 and CO2, respectively, thus offering promising alternatives for energy-efficient, cost-effective gas separation.


Congratulations to Timur for this excellent work!

 July 10, 2021

Immediate opening for a PhD position. The position will be part of our Sinergia grant on the development of all solid state batteries, and will involve strong collaboration with all the research partners from PSI, EPFL and Seoul National University. The project will be focused on the stabilization of Li metal anode surface and fundamental understanding of Electrode/electrolyte interface. The candidates with an experience in all solid-state batteries or Li ion batteries in general are preferred. Please visit our website to learn more about our current research directions. In order to apply for the position, please send your current CV with a cover letter to ali.coskun@unifr.ch.