Susan Montes

• Dr. rer. nat.
• Jr. Scientist at Austrian Institute of Technology

In this work, a battery layup consisting of a poorly flammable ionic liquid electrolyte and a poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) (PVdF-HFP) thermoplastic has been developed along with composite anode and cathode electrodes. The developed gel electrolyte exhibits feasible ionic conductivity of about 1 mS/cm at 30 °C. State-of-the-art a...

Promoting safer and more cost‐effective lithium‐ion battery manufacturing practices, while also advancing recycling initiatives, is intrinsically tied to reducing reliance on fluorinated polymers like polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) as binders and minimizing the use of hazardous and expensive solvents such as N‐methyl pyrrolidone (NMP). In pursuit...

PVDF is commonly a binder used for cathode materials in generation 3 Li ion batteries due to the good binding ability to active material and the current collector with reasonable electrochemical stability and maintaining facile lithium transport. However, organic solvent N-methyl pyrrolidone (NMP) is required for the preparation of slurry in order...

Due to the synergic feature of individual components in hybrid (nano)biomaterials, their application in regenerative medicine has drawn a significant attention. Aiming to address all the current challenges of aerogel as a potent scaffold in bone tissue engineering application, we adopted a novel synthesis approach to synergistically improve the por...

Thanks to the exceptional materials properties of silica aerogels, this fascinating highly porous material has found high performance and real-life applications in various modern industries. However, a requirement for a broadening of these applications is based on the further improvement of their properties especially with regard to mechanical stre...