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Profile
| Academic position | Post Doc |
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| Research fields | Electrochemistry |
| Keywords | 2D-Energy Materials, MXenes, Lithium-sulfur batteries, Interlayer distance, Shuttle effect |
| Honours and awards | 2023: Humboldt Research Fellowship 2022: Award of University of Pretoria Vice Chancellor Congress Funding 2022: University of Pretoria Co-Funded Postdoctoral Award 2021: NRF-SARChI Chair Grant holder linked Postdoctoral Funding Award 2020: Award of NRF-SARChI Chair Grant holder linked Doctoral Bursary 2020: Special International Research Award and University of Pretoria Postgraduate Research Support 2019: Award of AGNES-PAWS Mobility Grant 2018: Best postgraduate research project 2017/2018 (2nd Prize winner), University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es salaam, Tanzania 2013: Best third year student, Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences, St. John’s University of Tanzania, Dodoma, Tanzania 2012: Best second year student, Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences, St. John’s University of Tanzania, Dodoma, Tanzania |
Current contact address
| Country | South Africa |
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| City | Pretoria |
| Institution | University of Pretoria |
| Institute | Department of Physics |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Volker Presser | Energie-Materialien, Leibniz-Institut für Neue Materialien gGmbH (INM), Saarbrücken |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/07/2024 |
Programme(s)
| 2023 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2026 | Delvina Tarimo, Francisco J Garía-Soriano, Alen Vizintin, Christian Prehal, Elena Tchernychova, Volker Presser: Microporous carbon enhanced by structural modifications to suppress polysulfide shuttling and reducing capacity fading in lithium-sulfur batteries. In: Energy Advances, 2026, |
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| 2025 | Delvina Japhet Tarimo, Francisco J García-Soriano, Alen Vizintin, Christian Prehal, Volker Presser: Performance of Microporous Carbon Cathodes and Impact of Cathode/Solid Electrolyte Interphase Formation Using Carbonate and Ether-Based Electrolytes in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries. In: ACS Applied Energy Materials, 8, 2025, 12139-12156 |
| 2025 | Francisco J García-Soriano, Jan Jerovsek, Santiago A Maldonado-Ochoa, Fabian Vaca Chávez, Delvina Japhet Tarimo, Volker Presser, Bostjan Genorio, Marc Florent, Teresa J Bandosz, Robert Dominko, Christian Prehal, Alen Vizintin: Revealing the hidden electrochemical pathway for cathode electrolyte interface formation in lithium–sulfur batteries with carbonate-based electrolytes. In: ACS Applied Energy Materials, 9, 2025, 211-221 |