Person responsible in the Centre

Jerzy Garbarczyk

Objectives:

• The main goal of this package is to establish a wider experimental basis for development of novel electrochemical cells for rechargeable batteries, fuel cells and gas sensors.
• Organisation of study visits between the Centre and partner laboratories.
• Presentation of lectures on current topics in the field of solid state ionics.

Description of the contents, the work-plan, the steps, the approach or the methodology:

The Centre in the Faculty of Physics is well equipped with setups for characterisation of superionic and electronic-ionic conductors. Among these materials are: crystalline (single crystals and ceramics), amorphous (glasses, polymers, gels) as well as nanomaterials (glass-ceramics) ones.

The large experimental and human potential of the Centre can be used more efficiently if complementary methods and techniques (like IR spectroscopy, microwave spectroscopy, cyclic voltammetry on microsamples, EXAFS or XANES) will be used to characterise the materials under study. These methods are available at our partners’ laboratories (see section Partners involved).

Therefore we aim to intensify our existing contacts in order to increase efficiency of preparation of these materials and their characterisation. Closer collaboration with our European partners should result in improving the research quality of the Centre.

Long- and short-term visits to/from the Centre are planned.

Partners involved:

1. Institut für Chemische Technologien und Analytik, Technische Universität Wien , Austria - (cyclic voltammetry on microsamples of gel and amorphous solids)
2. Universite P. et M.Curie, Laboratoire des Milieux Desordonnes et Heterogenes, Paris, France - (IR spectroscopy of superionic and electronic-ionic conductors)
3. Universite de Montpellier II, Laboratoire de Physico-chimie de la Matiere Condensee, Montpellier, France - (electronic-ionic glasses)
4. Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece - (IR spectroscopy of superionic conductors)
5. Vilnius University, Chair of Radiophysics, Vilnius, Lithuania - (impedance spectroscopy in microwave range)
6. National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia - (impedance spectroscopy of electronic-ionic glasses)
7. Max Planck Institut fuer Festokoerperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany - (versatile methods of characterisation of mixed electronic-ionic conducting solids)
8. Universita di Trento, Dipartimento di Fisica, Trento, Italy - (expertises on EXAFS and XANES studies of superionic and electronic-ionic glasses)