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The DFG Priority Program 2315 on Recycling Critical Elements enters its second funding period.

The five projects from Clausthal University of Technology (TU Clausthal) have convinced in the first period and will be further funded with a total of €2 million.

Contribution to the EXRS 2024 in Athens

From the 24.6.24 to the 28.6.2024 the European Conference on X-ray Spectrometry was held at the marvelous venue in Athens Greece. Frithjof Mähler and Ursula Fittschen presented their work in two poster presentations and an oral contribution. About 300 researchers and company representatives from all over the world discussed topic from X-ray spectrometry the entire week. Two new manufacturers of lab-XAFS instruments were present. Very interesting were also the new fluorescence XAFS developments at the University of Helsinki. Invited talks from the MEET on the usefulness of charge transfer multiplet calculations was given online, all other presenters made it to Athens in person. All in all we experienced a very vivid and fruitful meeting which got us back home with many new ideas and excitement to test them in our laboratories. The next EXRS 2026 will be held in Catania Italy.

DFG Priority Program inspection for slag recycling

On 6th of June 2024 the project which is focussed on the understanding of the chemistry in the melt of Li-ion batteryrecycling slags was presented the reviewers. The groups of Prof. Dr. Nina Merkert, Prof. Dr. Ursula Fittschen and Dr. Iyad Alabda Alhafez as well as Sven Hampel (not in picture) already were supported in a first funding period and have good chances to get support in another period.

 

 

 

Disputation of Mr. Sven Hampel

On 23.02.2024 Mr. Sven Hampel defended his doctoral thesis on the topic: "Study on 3D- and picoliter printed multi-elemental references and element species properties with respect to energy storage and recycling".