Dissertations and student thesis
Dissertations
Beschleunigung und Qualitätsverbesserung der Zellformierung durch datenreiche elektrochemische Protokolle
Leon Moritz Merker, 2025.
Autonomous Millimeter-Scale Electrochemistry for Battery Materials Research
Aleksei Sanin, 2025.
An Automated Setup for Battery Electrolyte Research in Distributed Materials Acceleration Platforms
Monika Vogler, 2024.
Design and Implementation of Enablers in Materials Acceleration Platforms for Battery Research
Fuzhan Rahmanian, 2024.
Publications since 2023
2026
Continuous Physics-Informed Learning Expedited Battery Mechanism Decoupling
Shanling Ji, Jun Yuan, Bojing Zhang, Aleksei Sanin, Leon Merker, Zhisheng Zhang, Jianxiong Zhu, Helge Sören Stein.
5 January 2026, Advanced Science, Volume 13, Issue 1, e06772. doi:10.1002/advs.202506772.
2025
Flexible health prognosis of battery nonlinear aging using temporal transfer learning
Shanling Ji, Zhisheng Zhang, Helge S Stein, Jianxiong Zhu.
1 January 2025, Applied Energy, Volume 377, Part D, 124766, ISSN 0306-2619, doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.124766.
Integrating Automated Electrochemistry and High‐Throughput Characterization with Machine Learning to Explore Si─ Ge─ Sn Thin‐Film Lithium Battery Anodes
Alexey Sanin, Jackson K Flowers, Tobias H Piotrowiak, Frederic Felsen, Leon Merker, Alfred Ludwig, Dominic Bresser, Helge S Stein.
26 January 2025, Advanced Energy Materials, Volume 15, Issue 11, 2404961, doi:10.1002/aenm.202404961.
Insight generation from information-dense formation protocols
Leon Merker, Bojing Zhang, Jun Yuan, Shanling Ji, Helge S Stein.
3 June 2025, Batteries & Supercaps, e202500153, doi:10.1002/batt.202500153.
Information dense and industry scalable accelerated formation
Leon Merker, Markus Blessing, Bojing Zhang, Helge S Stein.
27 June 2025, Advanced Intelligent Discovery, 202500025, doi:10.1002/aidi.202500025.
Continuous physics-informed learning expedites universal battery mechanism decoupling
Shanling Ji, Jun Yuan, Bojing Zhang, Aleksei Sanin, Leon Merker, Zhisheng Zhang, Jianxiong Zhu, Helge S Stein.
28 July 2025, ChemRxiv, doi:10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-14zsv.
Explainable Artificial Intelligence of Things for Health Prognosis of Lithium-Ion Batteries
Shanling Ji, Bojing Zhang, Helge S Stein, Zhisheng Zhang, Jianxiong Zhu.
20 August 2025, Energy & Fuels, Volume 39, Issue 36, 17584-17593, doi:10.1021/acs.energyfuels.5c02237
Finales-Developing a General Modular Data Infrastructure for Materials Acceleration Platforms to Facilitate Data-Driven Battery Research and Design
Simon Krarup Steensen, Monika Vogler, Helge S Stein, Ivano Eligio Castelli, Tejs Vegge.
15 October 2025.
2024
Nonlinear potentiodynamic battery charging protocols for fun, education, and application
Helge Sören Stein.
12 February 2024, ACS Engineering Au, Volume 4, Issue 3, 345-350, doi:10.1021/acsengineeringau.3c00047.
Microscopic and Spectroscopic Analysis of the Solid Electrolyte Interphase at Hard Carbon Composite Anodes in 1 M NaPF6/Diglyme
Krishnaveni Palanisamy, Sven Daboss, Jan Romer, David Schäfer, Marcus Rohnke, Jackson K Flowers, Stefan Fuchs, Helge S Stein, Maximilian Fichtner, Christine Kranz.
March 2024, Batteries & Supercaps, Volume 7, Issue 3, e202300482. doi:10.1002/batt.202300482.
Modification of al surface via acidic treatment and its impact on plating and stripping
Fatemehsadat Rahide, Krishnaveni Palanisamy, Jackson K Flowers, Junjie Hao, Helge S Stein, Christine Kranz, Helmut Ehrenberg, Sonia Dsoke.
8 March 2025, ChemSusChem, Volume 17, Issue 5, e202301142, doi:10.1002/cssc.202301142.
Autonomous millimeter scale high throughput battery research system
Fuzhan Rahmanian, Stefan Fuchs, Bojing Zhang, Maximilian Fichtner, Helge Sören Stein.
21 March 2024, Digital Discovery, Volume 3, Issue 5, 883-895, doi:10.1039/D3DD00257H.
Exploring Reproducible Nonaqueous Scanning Droplet Cell Electrochemistry in Model Battery Chemistries
Alexey Sanin, Helge S Stein.
9 April 2024, ACS Chemistry of Materials, Volume 36, Issue 8, 3536-3545, doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c01768.
Fast formation of anode-free Li–metal batteries by pulsed current
Katarina Cicvarić, Sebastian Pohlmann, Bojing Zhang, Fuzhan Rahmanian, Leon Merker, Miran Gaberšček, Helge Sören Stein.
17 April 2024, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Volume 26, Issue 20, 14713-14720, doi:10.1039/D4CP00775A.
Greener, Safer and Better Performing Aqueous Binder for Positive Electrode Manufacturing of Sodium Ion Batteries
Ruochen Xu, Venkat Pamidi, Yushu Tang, Stefan Fuchs, Helge S Stein, Bosubabu Dasari, Zhirong Zhao‐Karger, Santosh Behara, Yang Hu, Shivam Trivedi, M Anji Reddy, Prabeer Barpanda, Maximilian Fichtner.
22 April 2024, ChemSusChem, Volume 17, Issue 8, e202301154, doi:10.1002/cssc.202301154.
Single-Crystal P2–Na0.67Mn0.67Ni0.33O2 Cathode Material with Improved Cycling Stability for Sodium-Ion Batteries
Venkat Pamidi, Carlos Naranjo, Stefan Fuchs, Helge S Stein, Thomas Diemant, Yueliang Li, Johannes Biskupek, Ute Kaiser, Sirshendu Dinda, Adam Reupert, Santosh Behara, Yang Hu, Shivam Trivedi, Anji Reddy Munnangi, Prabeer Barpanda, Maximilian Fichtner.
8 May 2024, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Volume 16, Issue 20, 25953-25965, doi:10.1021/acsami.3c15348.
Attention towards chemistry agnostic and explainable battery lifetime prediction
Fuzhan Rahmanian, Robert M Lee, Dominik Linzner, Kathrin Michel, Leon Merker, Balazs B Berkes, Leah Nuss, Helge Sören Stein.
10 May 2024, Computational Materials, Volume 10, Issue 1, 100, doi: 10.1038/s41524-024-01286-7.
Autonomous battery optimisation by deploying distributed experiments and simulations
Monika Vogler, Simon Steensen, Francisco Ramirez, Leon Merker, Jonas Busk, Johan M Carlsson, Laura Rieger, Bojing Zhang, François Liot, Giovanni Pizzi, Felix Hanke, Eibar Flores, Hamidreza Hajiyani, Stefan Fuchs, Alexey Sanin, Miran Gaberscek, Ivano Castelli, Simon Clark, Tejs Vegge, Arghya Bhowmik, Helge Sören Stein.
14 May 2024, ChemRxiv, doi:10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-vfq1n.
Apples to apples: shift from mass ratio to additive molecules per electrode area to optimize Li-ion batteries
Bojing Zhang, Leon Merker, Monika Vogler, Fuzhan Rahmanian, Helge S Stein.
30 May 2024, Digital Discovery, Volume 3, Issue 7, 1342-1349, doi:10.1039/D4DD00002A.
Advancing energy materials through high throughput experiments and computation
Helge S Stein, Arghya Bhowmik, John M Gregoire.
2024, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Volume 12, Issue 35, 23122-23124, doi:10.1039/D4TA90112F.
Materials acceleration platforms (MAPs): accelerating materials research and development to meet urgent societal challenges
Simon P Stier, Christoph Kreisbeck, Holger Ihssen, Matthias Albert Popp, Jens Hauch, Kourosh Malek, Marine Reynaud, TPM Goumans, Johan Carlsson, Ilian Todorov, Lukas Gold, Andreas Räder, Wolfgang Wenzel, Shahbaz Tareq Bandesha, Philippe Jacques, Francisco Garcia‐Moreno, Oier Arcelus, Pascal Friederich, Simon Clark, Mario Maglione, Anssi Laukkanen, Ivano Eligio Castelli, Javier Carrasco, Montserrat Casas Cabanas, Helge Sören Stein, Ozlem Ozcan, David Elbert, Karsten Reuter, Christoph Scheurer, Masahiko Demura, Sang Soo Han, Tejs Vegge, Sawako Nakamae, Monica Fabrizio, Mark Kozdras.
November 2024, Advanced Materials, Volume 36, Issue 45, 2407791, doi:10.1002/adma.202407791.
Autonomous Battery Optimization by Deploying Distributed Experiments and Simulations
Monika Vogler, Simon Krarup Steensen, Francisco Fernando Ramírez, Leon Merker, Jonas Busk, Johan Martin Carlsson, Laura Hannemose Rieger, Bojing Zhang, François Liot, Giovanni Pizzi, Felix Hanke, Eibar Flores, Hamidreza Hajiyani, Stefan Fuchs, Alexey Sanin, Miran Gaberšček, Ivano Eligio Castelli, Simon Clark, Tejs Vegge, Arghya Bhowmik.
13 December 2024, Advanced Energy Materials, Volume 14, Issue 46, doi:10.1002/aenm.202470204.
Autonomous battery optimization by deploying distributed experiments and simulations
Monika Vogler, Simon Krarup Steensen, Francisco Fernando Ramírez, Leon Merker, Jonas Busk, Johan Martin Carlsson, Laura Hannemose Rieger, Bojing Zhang, François Liot, Giovanni Pizzi, Felix Hanke, Eibar Flores, Hamidreza Hajiyani, Stefan Fuchs, Alexey Sanin, Miran Gaberšček, Ivano Eligio Castelli, Simon Clark, Tejs Vegge, Arghya Bhowmik, Helge Sören Stein.
December 2024, Advanced Energy Materials, Volume 14, Issue 46, 2403263, doi:10.1002/aenm.202403263.
DataBatt-Integration horizontaler Datenstrukturen in der Batterieproduktion
W Fichtner, Helge S Stein, Leon Merker.
2024, Hannover: Technische Informationsbibliothek, doi:10.34657/23821.
2023
Conductivity experiments for electrolyte formulations and their automated analysis
Fuzhan Rahmanian, Monika Vogler, Christian Wölke, Peng Yan, Stefan Fuchs, Martin Winter, Isidora Cekic-Laskovic, Helge Sören Stein.
19 January 2023, Scientific Data, Volume 10, Issue 43, doi:10.1038/s41597-023-01936-3.
Ionic conductivity, viscosity, and self-diffusion coefficients of novel imidazole salts for lithium-ion battery electrolytes
Anna Szczęsna-Chrzan, Monika Vogler, Peng Yan, Grażyna Zofia Żukowska, Christian Wölke, Agnieszka Ostrowska, Sara Szymańska, Marek Marcinek, Martin Winter, Isidora Cekic-Laskovic, Władysław Wieczorek, Helge S Stein.
30 May 2023, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Volume 11, Issue 25, doi:10.1039/D3TA01217D.
Characterization of the solid/electrolyte interphase at hard carbon anodes via scanning (electrochemical) probe microscopy
S Daboss, T Philipp, K Palanisamy, J Flowers, Helge S Stein, Christine Kranz.
10 June 2023, Electrochimica Acta, Volume 453, 142345, doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2023.142345.
Fluorine-substituted halide solid electrolytes with enhanced stability toward the lithium metal
Priya Ganesan, Mervyn Soans, Musa Ali Cambaz, Ramon Zimmermanns, Ritambhara Gond, Stefan Fuchs, Yang Hu, Sebastian Baumgart, Mohsen Sotoudeh, Dominik Stepien, Helge Stein, Axel Groß, Dominic Bresser, Alberto Varzi, Maximilian Fichtner.
1 August 2023, ACS applied materials & interfaces, Volume 15, Issue 32, 38391-38402, doi:10.1021/acsami.3c03513.
Orchestrating nimble experiments across interconnected labs
Dan Guevarra, Kevin Kan, Yungchieh Lai, Ryan JR Jones, Lan Zhou, Phillip Donnelly, Matthias Richter, Helge S Stein, John M Gregoire.
3 October 2023, Digital Discovery, Volume 2, Issue 6, 1806-1812, doi:10.1039/D3DD00166K.
Data‐Driven Virtual Material Analysis and Synthesis for Solid Electrolyte Interphases
Deepalaxmi Rajagopal, Arnd Koeppe, Meysam Esmaeilpour, Michael Selzer, Wolfgang Wenzel, Helge Stein, Britta Nestler.
October 2023, Advanced Energy Materials, Volume 13, Issue 40, 2301985, doi:10.1002/aenm.202301985.
SiOx coated graphite with inorganic aqueous binders as high-performance anode for lithium-ion batteries
Shivam Trivedi, Sirshendu Dinda, Yushu Tang, Stefan Fuchs, Venkat Pamidi, Helge S Stein, Anji Reddy Munnangi, Maximilian Fichtner.
15 December 2023, Journal of Energy Storage, Volume 73, 109210, doi:10.1016/j.est.2023.109210.
Hindered Aluminum Plating and Stripping in Urea/NMA/Al (OTF) 3 as a Cl-Free Electrolyte for Aluminum Batteries
Fatemehsadat Rahide, Jackson K Flowers, Junjie Hao, Helge S Stein, Helmut Ehrenberg, Sonia Dsoke.
22 December 2023, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Volume 170, Issue 12, 120534, doi:10.1149/1945-7111/ad1553.
The Significance of Accelerated Discovery of Advanced Materials to address Societal Challenges
Simon Stier, Christoph Kreisbeck, Holger Ihssen, Matthias Albert Popp, Jens Hauch, Kourosh Malek, Marine Reynaud, Johan Carlsson, Lukas Gold, Fedor Goumans, Ilian Todorov, Andreas Räder, Shahbaz Tareq Bandesha, Wolfgang Wenzel, Philippe Jacques, Oier Arcelus, Francisco Garcia-Moreno, Pascal Friederich, Mario Maglione, Simon Clark, Anssi Laukkanen, Montserrat Casas Cabanas, Javier Carrasco, Ivano Eligio Castelli, Helge Sören Stein, Tejs Vegge, Sawako Nakamae, Monica Fabrizio, Mark Kozdras.
19 December 2023, doi:10.5281/zenodo.8012140.