Natural Cellulose: A Green Alternative Binder for High Voltage Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors (Supercapacitors Europe 2014)

Alberto Varzi is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Münster, Germany. He earned a Bachelor's degree in chemistry at the University of Perugia, Italy, in 2006, and a Master's in Chemistry of Materials at the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2008. In 2009, he moved to Germany where he carried out his doctoral studies at the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) in Ulm. Dr. Varzi's research interests are focused on the development of innovative composite electrodes for advanced Li-ion batteries and Supercapacitors as well as on the investigation of electrochemical properties of ionic liquids.

The University of Münster (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With 40,800 students and over 130 fields of study in 15 departments, it is Germany's third largest university and one of the foremost centers of German intellectual life. Among a variety of research areas, scientists working at the Institute of Physical Chemistry are particularly devoted to the development of innovative materials for energy storage devices as well as the understanding of the related fundamental processes.