2024
January (2024)
Dr Rhodri Jervis from UCL gave a talk on batteries to Harris Westminster school. Please see the write up of the lecture from a student newspaper: “Rhodri Jervis’ talk gave me a valuable insight into both history of batteries and electricity, prospects in energy development, as well as what working in academia entails more broadly. I received advise on how to choose an undergraduate course, heard of Dr Jervis’ own experience completing a PhD, leading research, and giving lectures at UCL. I’ve learnt of the mechanism involved in manufacture of batteries, such as safety testing involved in production of Li-ion batteries, deciding upon metals used for electrodes and energy densities associated with different choices of metal. Dr Jarvis also shared his predictions on the future of market for battery power, saying that Solid State batteries may become more widely used due to their relatively high energy density and low risk of catastrophic failure, which is associated with battery explosions. During the lab talk, Dr Jervis also introduced the Voltaic Pile – one of the first experiments studying potential difference, where zinc and copper sheets were layered on top of one another to induce PD – and suggested to attempt to recreate a Voltaic Pile, which is something I might follow up on in the near future.“
2023
December (2023)
Professor Saiful Islam and Beatrice Ricci (both University of Oxford) attended ALISTORE-ERI BI ANNUAL MEETING in Rome. Beatrice gave a talk during the conference. Presentation was titled: “Understanding Atomistic Processes in Blended Cathode Materials”.
October (2023)
Professor Saiful Islam gave a public lecture at the Newcastle University on 24-Oct, on green energy materials using 3D glasses. “Green energy materials in 3D: Crystal gazing on the atomic scale”.
August (2023)
Professor Peter Slater gave an invited talk at US-UK workshop NREL, Golden, US. His talk covered the CATMAT work and his talk title was: “Materials Synthesis and Optimisation: improving our understanding through characterisation”. Talk took place on 1st of August.
Professor Saiful Islam gave an invited talk at the DE-US lithium battery network meeting at the HOLM centre. His talk covered the CATMAT work. Event took place between 1 and 3rd August in Frankfurt (Germany). See more here: (link)
June (2023)
Professor Saiful Islam gave a talk at Uppsala University (Sweden). Talk title was “From Lithium Batteries to Perovskite Solar Cells: Exploring Energy Materials on the Atomic Scale”. Event took place on 13th of June. See more here: (link)
March (2023)
Professor Peter Slater gave a talk to teachers for a PTI event. Talk title was “The Importance of Electrochemistry in the future Green Economy”. Event took place on 4th of March at Pimlico Academy in London. See more here: (link)
January (2023)
Professor Sir Peter Bruce and Professor Saiful Islam gave invited talks during the 2023 International Battery Materials Association (IBA 2023) held in Austin at the University of Texas at Austin campus during March 5 – 10, 2023. Professor Bruce’s talk title was “O-Redox cathodes” and Professor Islam’s “Atomistic insights into complex cathode materials”.
2022
November (2022)
Professor Saiful Islam gave a talk on Li-ion battery materials at STFC Batteries Annual Meeting at Royal Institution in London on Nov 18th.
October (2022)
Dr Andrey Poletayev gave two talks: “Dynamically Disproportionating Structure of LiNiO2” poster at the IBA 2022 conference (Slovenia) and “Probing Ionic Transport with Terahertz Pump-Probe Spectroscopy” talk at the Linac Cohererent Light Source (SLAC National Accelerator Lab) user meeting (USA, remote).
July (2022)
US-UK BATTERY WORKSHOP took place in London. Professor Emma Kendrick, Professor Peter Slater and Dr Ben Morgan gave talks on CATMAT latest work. See more here (link)
June (2022)
Prof. Saiful Islam gave a talk at ALISTORE conference in Juelich, Germany: “From Li-rich cathodes to solid electrolytes – atomic-scale insights into battery materials”.
May (2022)
Dr. Andrey Poletayev, Oxford researcher, gave a talk at Materials Research Society Spring 2022 conferences which took place in Honolulu between 8-13th May (link) His talks titles were: Sub-Diffusive Transport in Fast-ion Conducting Solid Electrolytes, The Effect of Geometric Crowding by Defects on Fast Ionic Conductivity and Persistence of Memory in Ionic Transport Probed by Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy. He also presented a poster, titled: Vibrational Attempt Frequencies in Solid-State Ionic Conductivity.
Paul Shearing gave a talk at International Operando Battery Days, conference dedicated to the characterization of batteries by means of advanced operando techniques, both in-lab and at Large Scale Facilities (synchrotron, neutron and muons). Conference took place in Grenoble, France between 16-18 May 2022 (link)
March (2022)
Prof. Saiful Islam gave a talk at the Oxford Energy Conference 23/3 “Making a materials difference to batteries for electric vehicles” at the University of Oxford.
February (2022)
Prof. Saiful Islam gave a talk at US-UK Battery Technology Research & Innovation Online Summit “Next generation cathodes for Li-ion batteries”.
January (2022)
Prof. Paul shearing gave a talk at the conference “Towards Future Battery Design” at the University of Nottingham- Nottingham
Prof. Saiful Islam gave the Hirsch Lecture at Oxford Materials – Oxford.
2021
December (2021)
Prof. Saiful Islam gave two invited talks at the MRS Fall Exhibit – Boston
November (2021)
October (2021)
Dr. Farheen Sayed spoke at the ‘Energy and Light’ symposium organised by the Royce Ambient Cluster Tool. – Cambridge
Prof. Paul Shearing spoke at the Royal Institution. Talk title: ‘From Galvani to Gigafactories: how batteries have tamed electricity to power the modern world.‘ – London
Prof. Emma Kendrick gave a Faraday Masterclass. Talk title: ‘Career stories from the Battery Sector’ – Didcott
Prof. Emma Kendrick spoke at #EADebates by Euractiv – Brussels
Prof. Peter Bruce gave a talk at the 240th ECS meeting. Talk title: ‘O-Redox Cathodes the Role of Trapped O2‘ – New Jersey, USA
September (2021)
Prof. Saiful Islam and Pam Thomas (CEO, FI) were invited speakers an event at the Royal Institution celebrating 200 years of Michael Faraday’s electric motor
Prof. Paul Shearing spoke at Faraday Institution battery characterisation project event – Didcott
Prof. Emma Kendrick spoke at Irvine review Lectures. Talk title: ‘Making sustainable batteries’ – St. Andrews
Prof. Paul Shearing and Dr. Rhod Jervis spoke on a panel with James Cookson of Johnson Matthey – UCL
August (2021)
Dr. Weixin Song spoke at the Microscopy and Microanalysis (M&M) Meeting 2021. Talk title: ‘Direct Imaging of Oxygen Sub-lattice Deformation in Li-rich Cathode Material Using Electron Ptychography – Oxford
Lizzie Driscoll presented virtually at the IUCr25th conference in Prague, as part of ‘Social Media and New Frontiers for Spreading Crystallography’. – Prague
July (2021)
Prof. Emma Kendrick gave the keynote talk at Materials for Energy Technology by SCI. Talk Title: ‘Interfaces in battery manufacturing‘ – Birmingham (link)
June (2021)
Dr. Greg Rees gave a talk on Structural Elucidation of Anionic O-Redox Cathodes for Li-ion Batteries at the Oxford Instruments Symposium on Quantum Technology, Semiconductors, and Power Generation – Oxford
16th June – CATMAT Full Project Meeting – Virtual
May (2021)
A poster by Emma Hedley has been accepted for MMC conference titled ‘The Applications Fast Electron Detectors and 4D -STEM Imaging for Understanding Structural Changes in Li-ion Cathode Systems’. To be presented during the virtual conference 5-9th July.
Emma Hedley presented at the Atom 16 conference. Talk title: ‘Quantitative 4D-STEM of Li-ion battery materials.’ – University of Antwerp, Belgium
Weixin Song presented at the Atom 16 conference. Talk title: ‘Direct imaging of oxygen sub-lattice deformation in Li-rich cathode material using electron ptychography.’ – University of Antwerp, Belgium
April (2021)
Prof. Emma Kendrick spoke at the battery challenge cohort event, run by Innovate UK. Talk title: ‘Perspectives in battery recycling and reuse‘ – Swindon
Prof. Paul Shearing gave a talk at JCESR. Talk title: ‘The Role of Advanced X-ray Characterisation in Understanding Degradation and Failure in Li-ion Batteries’ – Argonne, Chicago, USA
Dr Pezhman Zarabadi-Poor gave a talk at the University of Bath. Talk title: ‘Automated, Reproducible, and Accelerated Discovery of Next-Generation Cathode Materials’ – Bath
March (2021)
Prof. Emma Kendrick gave a virtual Keynote for the Austrian Embassy for their ‘New Battery Materials’ workshop– London
Prof. Saiful Islam spoke at an Annual Joint Research + Equality/Diversity Seminar at the University of York – York
Dr Dorota Matras attended WMG Battery school – Warwick
Lizzie Driscoll was selected to represent the RSC at the Voices of the Future 2021 –Birmingham
Prof. Emma Kendrick gave a talk for International Women’s Day for the University of Birmingham. Talk title: ‘SHE Engineer’ – Birmingham
Lizzie Driscoll has been chosen to give the Parkin Prize lecture at this year’s BCA meeting. Talk title: ‘The Building Blocks of Battery Technology: Inspiring the next generation of battery researchers.‘ – Birmingham
Prof Peter Slater gave a talk titled ‘The Importance of Electrochemistry in the future Green Economy: a guide to fuel cells and Li ion batteries’ to Teachers as part of a REDOX and Electrochemistry New teacher subject day organised by the PTI – Birmingham
February (2021)
Prof. Emma Kendrick gave a Plenary talk at Silverstone Technology Cluster. Talk title: ‘state of play of batteries’ – Towcester
Prof. Emma Kendrick attended a battery materials symposium – Pavia
Prof. Paul Shearing gave a webinar at Georgia Tech – Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Lizzie Driscoll delivered a Teachers CPD session on electrochemistry, including Li ion batteries (41 teachers attended the session) – Birmingham
January (2021)
21st January – CATMAT Full Consortium Meeting- Virtual
2020
December (2020)
Emma Kendrick gave a talk at the CSCT (Centre for Sustainable & Circular Technologies) Winter showcase – Bath
Lizzie Driscoll participated in an accessible science online practical session for visually impaired students explaining Li ion batteries using jenga – Birmingham
Prof. Emma Kendrick moderated a panel discussion at Battery cells and Systems Expo – for ‘BCS: Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) for Li-ion alternatives’– Birmingham
Lizzie Driscoll gave an outreach talk on battery research at the Discover Materials winter event – Virtual
November (2020)
24th-26th November -The Faraday Institution Conference – Virtual
3rd November -The Faraday Institution Expert Panel Meeting – Virtual
October (2020)
Prof. Peter Bruce presented at PRiME 2020: ‘Superstructure Controls First Cycle Voltage Hysteresis in O-Redox Cathode‘ – Pennington, New Jersey, USA
Prof. Paul Shearing spoke at Colorado School of Mines – Golden, Colorado, USA
Dr Farheen Sayed presented her high voltage spinel work at a one day webinar on Thin film Solid State Batteries organised by IIT Kharagpur and University of Cambridge
Prof. Emma Kendrick gave an STFC talk: ‘From Pigments to Batteries’– UCL
September (2020)
Prof. Pete Nellist presented results on the imaging of battery materials at the ATOM 15 online conference
Birmingham PhD student Lizzie Driscoll gave an online talk on Li ion batteries and teaching resources to the West Midlands Chemistry Teachers Centre – Birmingham
Prof. Peter Bruce & Prof. Paul Shearing gave a webinar at the Israel Nation Research centre for Electrochemical Propulsion (INREP) conference – Ramat Gan, Israel
August (2020)
July (2020)
17th July – CATMAT Full Consortium Meeting- Virtual
9th July – The Faraday Institution Expert Panel Meeting – Virtual
June (2020)
May (2020)
Prof. Saiful Islam (PI) presented one of the FI Masterclass online talks with 190+ logged on. Talk title: ‘Size Matters – Atomic-Scale Insights into Battery Materials‘
March (2020)
3rd – 4th March – The Faraday Institution Review Meeting – De Vere Latimer Estate, Chesham
January (2020)
31st January – Kick off meeting – University of Bath
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