In 2012, he was appointed full professor at RWTH Aachen University and took on the position of scientific director of IEK-9 at Forschungszentrum Jülich, which was transferred to IET-1 in 2024. . Eichel is also the founding director of the NRW Competence Center for Sustainable Electrochemical Process Engineering (ELECTRA). Eichel received his doctorate from the Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule (ETH) in Zurich and completed his habilitation in physical chemistry at the Technical. . Electrochemical Energy Storage focuses on fundamental aspects of novel battery concepts like sulfur cathodes and lithiated silicon anodes. In 2018, the Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage Ulm & Karlsruhe (CELEST), one of the most ambitious research platforms in this area worldwide, has started operation. It combines application-oriented basic research with. . On August 21, the 2025 Annual Management Committee Meeting of the Tsinghua University (State Key Laboratory of Power Systems) – Beijing HyperStrong Technology Co. Joint Research Center for Key Technologies of Grid-Forming Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems was successfully held in the. . Building upon 80 years as a top electrochemistry university, Case Western Reserve University and its faculty are applying their expertise to chemical energy storage and the development of new and better batteries.
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