Doctoral candidate Julie Hessevik at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis “Oxides for Platinum and Rhodium Capture in the Ammonia Oxidation Process” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor 7th of November 2025.
Erlend has been in Titan to discuss the work behind the article "X-ray Beam Damage Effects in a Lithium-Ion Battery Probed by Spatially Resolved X-ray Diffraction" by Erlend T. North, Casper Skautvedt, Abilash K. Thiagarajan, Marco Di Michiel, Stefano Checchia, Alexey Y. Koposov, and David S. Wragg, in ACS Energy Letters, September 2025 – his first paper as first author!
Lisa Gross Maurer and Anja Olafsen Sjåstad have been featured on the UiO website to promote the bachelor program "Fornybar energi og nanoteknologi" (Renewable Energy and Nanotechnology) and to highlight the interdisciplinary possibilities available.
Amalie was in Forskning.no recently to comment on this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for developing MOFs.
What started out as a surprising observation without any obvious explanation for Amalie, turned out to be an intriguing puzzle with an exciting and potentially world-changing solution!
Doctoral candidate Amalie Ådlandsvik Skurtveit at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, defended her thesis "Operando Characterization of Anode Materials for Li/Na-ion Batteries" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor 4th of September 2025.
After being with us as an associate professor since 2019, he has now become a full professor as of 2025.
His thesis “Cu/TiO2 Core-shell Nanoparticles as Anode Material for Lithium-ion Capacitors” was successfully presented and defended 30th of June 2025.
With Anja becoming the leader of SMN, Ola was appointed by Department of Chemistry head Stian Svelle to take over the reins of NAFUMA.
Anja Olafsen Sjåstad is appointed the new leader for Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology (SMN).
The third physical consortium of Henrik's EU funded project CONCEPT just took place in Groningen in Netherlands, 10th and 11th of June.
The yearly ESRF summer beamtime of battery researchers has just wrapped up from 3rd to 9th of June.
His thesis “Explorative inorganic chemistry with mixed anions” was successfully presented and defended 13th of June 2025.
The offical group photo of 2025 is here!
His thesis "Synthesis and Characterization of monometallic Cu Nanoparticles and Zirconium and Cerium UiO-66" was successfully presented and defended 23rd of April 2025.
Her thesis “Oxides as Pt Capture Materials - Combining Experiments and Theory”was successfully presented and defended 19th of February 2025.
Viktor Bilstad's poster "Powering Mars: Foldable Cu_xZn_1-xO Thin Film Tandem Solar Cells" won the poster competition for master students at the SMN Winter seminar 2025!
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