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

• Contact Electrification via Redox-Active Molecules* early view
  Ranjan, N., Izadi, Z., Gaiser, P., Camarada, M.B., Sharma, R., Weber, A., Daub, M., Hu, Q., Fiederle, M., Mayrhofer, L., Moseler, M., Fischer, A., Walter, M., Esser, B., Balzer, B. (2025). Contact Electrification via Redox-Active Molecules. Angewandte Chemie, e10031. doi: 10.1002/anie.202510031
• Improving the Capacity Retention of Poly(vinylphenothiazine) as Battery Electrode Material by Pore Size Engineering of Porous N-Doped Carbon Nanospheres as Conductive Additive* early view
  Ortlieb, N., Tengen, B., Perner, V., Winter, M., Esser, B., Bieker, P., & Fischer, A. (2025). Improving the Capacity Retention of Poly(vinylphenothiazine) as Battery Electrode Material by Pore Size Engineering of Porous N-Doped Carbon Nanospheres as Conductive Additive. Advanced Functional Materials, 2422302. doi: 10.1002/adfm.202422302
• 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