Prof. Dr. Birgit Esser

Projects within livMatS

• Correlating redox properties of organic materials with triboelectric charge-separation – from basic understanding to novel materials for efficient triboelectric energy harvesting
• Inorganic and Organic SolStore
• Interfaces, charge-transfer and non-adiabatic processes and their exploitation in a frequency-tunable tribogenerator
  
  

Graduated Doctoral Researchers (first supervisor)

• Dr. Robin Weßling

Postdoc Project (first supervisor)

• Dr. Rekha Sharma
  
  

Publications in livMatS

• Energy Harvesting and Storage with a High Voltage Organic Inorganic Photo-Battery for Internet of Things Applications
  Büttner, J., Delgado Andrés, R., Wessling, R., Wang, Y., Esser, B., Würfel, U. & Fischer, A. (2024). Energy Harvesting and Storage with a High Voltage Organic Inorganic Photo-Battery for Internet of Things Applications. Energy Technology. doi: 10.1002/ente.202301421
• Organic photo-battery with high operating voltage using a multi-junction organic solar cell and an organic redox-polymer-based battery
  Andrés, R. D., Wessling, R., Büttner, J., Pap, L., Fischer, A., Esser, B., & Würfel, U. (2023). Organic photo-battery with high operating voltage using a multi-junction organic solar cell and an organic redox-polymer-based battery. Energy & Environmental Science. doi: 10.1039/d3ee01822a
• On a high-capacity aluminium battery with a two-electron phenothiazine redox polymer as positive electrode
  Studer, G., Schmidt, A., Büttner, J., Schmidt, M., Fischer, A., Krossing, I., & Esser, B. (2023). On a high-capacity aluminium battery with a two-electron phenothiazine redox polymer as positive electrode. Energy & Environmental Science, doi: 10.1039/D3EE00235G
• Immobilizing Poly(vinylphenothiazine) in Ketjenblack-Based Electrodes to Access its Full Specific Capacity as Battery Electrode Material*
  Tengen, B., Winkelmann, T., Ortlieb, N., Perner, V., Studer, G., Winter, M., Esser, B., Fischer, A., & Bieker, P. (2023). Immobilizing Poly (vinylphenothiazine) in Ketjenblack‐Based Electrodes to Access its Full Specific Capacity as Battery Electrode Material. Advanced Functional Materials, 2210512. doi: 10.1002/adfm.202210512
• Phenothiazine-Based Donor-Acceptor Polymers as Multifunctional Materials for Charge Storage and Solar Energy Conversion*
  Wessling, R., Delgado Andres, R., Morhenn, I., Acker, P., Maftuhin, W., Walter, M., Würfel, U., Esser, B. (2022). Phenothiazine-Based Donor-Acceptor Polymers as Multifunctional Materials for Charge Storage and Solar Energy Conversion. Macro-Molecular Rapid Communications. doi: 10.1002/marc.202200699
• Is One of the Least Coordinating Anions Suitable to Serve as Electrolyte Salt for Magnesium-Ion Batteries?*
  Schmidt, A., Koger, H., Barthélemy, A., Studer, G., Esser, B., & Krossing, I. (2022) Is One of the Least Coordinating Anions Suitable to Serve as Electrolyte Salt for Magnesium-Ion Batteries?. Batteries & Supercaps. doi: 10.1002/batt.202200340
• Conjugated Copolymer Design in Phenothiazine-Based Battery Materials Enables High Mass Loading Electrodes*
  Acker, P., Wössner, J. S., Desmaizieres, G., and Esser, B. (2022). Conjugated Copolymer Design in Phenothiazine-Based Battery Materials Enables High Mass Loading Electrodes. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. doi: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c07564
• Thiocoumarin Caged Nucleotides: Synthetic Access and Their Photophysical Properties*
  Ma, J., Ripp, A., Wassy, D., Dürr, T.,Qiu, D., Häner, M., Haas, T., Popp, C., Bezold, D., Richert, S., Esser, B., Jessen, H. J. (2020). Thiocoumarin Caged Nucleotides: Synthetic Access and Their Photophysical Properties. Molecules, 25(22), 5325. doi: 10.3390/molecules25225325
• Redox Polymers as Electrode-Active Materials for Batteries*
  Esser, B. (2019). Redox Polymers as Electrode-Active Materials for Batteries. Organic Materials, 1(01), 063-070. doi: 10.1055/s-0039-3401016
  
  
  * Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC-2193/1 – 390951807