Mission We strive to solve industry-relevant challenges for sustainable energy conversion and storage technologies through materials and device innovation.

Expertise Our laboratory possesses strong competencies in the synthesis and processing of functional electronic and ion conducting materials, the characterization of their structural, electronic, ionic and thermal transport properties, as well as their integration and performance assessment in operational devices.

Research Our research aims at developing fundamental knowledge through experiment and modeling enabling new materials and processes that improve device performance, stability, cost, and sustainability. We focus on the following application-driven topics: batteries for short-term energy storage and electrochemical fuels for long-term energy storage.

 

 

News
 

May 2021: Our lab on national TV in the infotainment show Einstein. Watch the podcast here.

May 2021: We welcome Aliki, Francesco and Gerrit as new members of our lab.

March 2021: We welcome Roman as new member of our lab.

February 2021: 3rd edition of the Swiss Battery Days in honor of Prof. Petr Novak coorganized online by PSI and our lab taking place from February 15-17 with a surprise talk by Noble laureate Prof. Stanley Wittingham. More information and registration here.

February 2021: We welcome Angelina as new member of our lab.

January 2021: Congratulations to Benjamin for completing his degree in electrical engineering at Höhere Fachschule Uster with the best grade of his class!

January 2021: We welcome Tu and Louis as new members of our lab.

December 2020: Congratulations to Daniel for winning the MRS Best Presentation Award at the virtual MRS Spring/Fall Meeting.

November 2020: Congratulations to Marie-Claude for being one of the winners of the Global Falling Walls Emerging Talents competition. More information here.

November 2020: Register here or click here to see Marie-Claude's talk in the finalist round of the Global Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year competition representing Switzerland among nominees from 111 countries. 

November 2020: We welcome Yuanye, Ke, and Enzo as new members of our lab.

October 2020: We welcome Enea as new member of our lab.

September 2020: Congratulations to Marie-Claude for winning the Swiss Falling Walls competition. More information here.

September 2020: Congratulations to Marie-Claude for winning a Bridge Proof-of-Concept grant. Welcome back to our lab! More information here.

September 2020: Official launch of the European large-scale research initiative Battery2030+. Our lab serves as the Swiss representative and contact point. More information here and on the consortium's website http://battery2030.eu.

September 2020: We welcome Emma, Jan and Jonas as new members of our lab.

August 2020: Congratulations to Ryo and Maximilian. They both won an ECS K. M. Abraham Battery Division Travel Award for the upcoming PRiME conference.

August 2020: We welcome Konstantin as new member of our lab.

July 2020: We welcome Viktor as new member of our lab.

June 2020 Congratulations to David for successfully defending his PhD at EPFL Lausanne.

June 2020 Congratulations to Marie-Claude for successfully defending her PhD at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

June 2020 Congratulations to Francesco for successfully defending his PhD at ETH Zurich.

May 2020: European perspectives on batteries of the future, a scientific web conference organized by Battery 2030+. The presentation of our lab head Corsin Battaglia can be found here.

March 2020: We welcome Hugo and Manuel as new members of our lab.

February 2020: Kick-off meeting for the H2020 project SeNSE on Gen3b lithium-ion batteries coordinated by our laboratory. More information here and on the project's website http://sense-battery.eu/.

January 2020: Kick-off meeting for H2020 project SOLiDIFY on all-solid-state batteries at IMEC in Belgium. More information here and on the project's website http://solidify-h2020.eu.

January 2020: Our lab in the movie theaters! The premiere of Sabine Boss' thriller "Jadgzeit" will take place on January 24 at the Solothurner Filmfesttage and will be available in Swiss movie theaters from February 20. Some scences were filmed at Empa. The trailer is available here.

January 2020: We welcome Wengao, Francesco, and Patrick as new members of our lab.

December 2020: Our lab on national TV in the infotainment show Einstein. Watch the podcast here.

December 2020: Congratulations to Rabeb for winning a  Horizon 2020 Marie Slodowska-Curie COFUND postdoc fellowship.

December 2020: Congratulations to Arndt for successfully definding his habilitation at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

November 2019: Congratulations to David for having been selected to represent Switzerland at the Global Young Scientist Summit in Singapore in January. More information here.

November 2019: We welcome Alessandro and Francesco as new members of our lab.

October 2019 Congratulations to Léo for winning the ECS Battery Division Student Research Award sponsored by Mercedes-Benz Research & Development. Léo will receive the award at the 236th ECS Meeting in Atlanta in October. More information here.

October 2019 Congratulations to Prof. John B. Goodenough, Prof. M. Stanley Whittingham, and Prof. Akira Yoshino for winning the 2019 Nobel prize in chemistry for their contributions to the development of the lithium-ion battery. More information here.

October 2019 We welcome Gustav and David as new members of our lab.

September 2019 Congratulations to Léo for winning an E-MRS 1st poster prize  at the E-MRS fall meeting in Warsaw.

September 2019 Congratulations to Léo for successfully defending his PhD thesis at the University of Geneva.

September 2019 Congratulations to Francesco for winning the 2nd Swiss & Surrounding Battery Days Outstanding Poster Award.

September 2019 We welcome Florian and Fabian as new members of our lab.

August 2019 Our lab is organzing the 2nd edition of the Swiss & Surrounding Battery Days taking place from August 26 to 28 at Empa Academy. More information and registration here.

June 2019 Congratulations to Léo for winning an E-MRS graduate student award at the E-MRS spring meeting in Nice.

June 2019 We welcome Lukas and David as new members of our lab.

May 2019 Congratulations to Ryo for winning  a "Travel Award" from the International Society of Solid State Ionics.

May 2019 Congratulations to all the runners that defended the colors of our lab at this year's SOLA Stafette! Impressions can be found here.

April 2019 Congratulations to Ryo and Léo for winning each a "Chemistry Travel Award 2019" from the Swiss Academy of Sciences and the Swiss Chemical Society.

April 2019 We welcome Isabel and Rabeb as new members of our lab.

March 2019 We welcome Chengyin and Christos as new members of our lab.

February 2019 We welcome Maximilian as new member of our lab.

January 2019 Kick-off to an exciting new project on all-solid-state batteries with project partner Fraunhofer ISC. Press release can be found here.

January 2019 Congratulations to Léo for winning the UniGe/UniTec Impact Award for the "Most Promising Invention 2018". Press release and video can be found here.