Master Thesis - Advanced electrolytes for lithium metal battery applications

Your Job:

Join the consortium research project LILLINT II, financed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), of American and German academic partners, aiming to introduce and understand the new functionalities into an existing lithium‑metal battery technology to achieve high‑performance, sustainable and safe batteries.”

Your tasks in detail:

• Identification of novel electrolyte components (conductive salts, solvents/co solvents and functional additives) and their optimal compositions for the development of advanced non aqueous aprotic lithium metal battery electrolytes
  
• Physicochemical, electrochemical and safety related characterization of various liquid electrolyte formulations for lithium metal electrochemical storage
  
• Investigation of safety aspects at electrolyte and lab cell level and their influence on the overall performance of lithium metal cell chemistry
  
• Documenting and visualizing the achieved results in presentations

Your Profile:

• Ongoing Master’s studies in Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, or a similar field
  
• Interest in the research area of battery development
  
• Willingness to become familiar with various electrochemical methods
  
• Prior knowledge in electrochemistry is desirable
  
• High degree of independence, motivation, and reliability
  
• Very good command of English, both spoken and written
  

Our Offer:

We work on the very latest issues that impact our society and are offering you the chance to actively help in shaping the change! We support you in your work with:

• Your thesis deals with a future-oriented, socially relevant topic with direct practical relevance in an international environment
  
• Qualified supervision by scientific colleagues
  
• Independent preparation and execution of the assigned tasks
  
• Ideal conditions for practical experience alongside your studies
  
• Interdisciplinary collaboration on projects in an international, committed and collegial team
  
• Excellent scientific equipment and the latest technology
  
• Outstanding scientific development opportunities at the Helmholtz-Institute Münster as well as cooperation opportunities with our other research locations in Aachen and Jülich
  
• The position is limited to 7 months and is appropriately remunerated.
  

Place of employment: Münster

We welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds, e.g. in terms of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation / identity, and social, ethnic and religious origin. A diverse and inclusive working environment with equal opportunities in which everyone can realize their potential is important to us.

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