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Faraday Conference – September 2024
Most of the group participated and presented at the Faraday Institution conference held at the University of Newcastle.
LIBD – June 2023
Yingling, Chuxin, Joel and Alexis participated and presented at the Lithium Battery Discussions conference held in Arcachon, France.
MEDPore – May 2023
Joel presented a poster at the 1st Mediterranean conference on porous materials held in Crete, Greece.
NEXGENNA Internal Review Meeting – February 2023
The group attended the NEXGENNA internal review meeting held in Abingdon. This meeting included talks by Prof. Peter Slater from the ReLIB project, Dr. Chris Wright from Faradion and Dr. Peter Curran from Deregallera.
Faraday Institution ECR Conference 2022
The group participated in the Faraday Institution ECR Conference & training event held at Coventry.
Participation at IBA 2022
Joel and Alexis presented posters at the International Battery Association (IBA) conference held in Bled, Slovenia.
Participation at MOF 2022
Joel and Aamod presented their work at the 8th international conference on MOFs and open frameworks held in Dresden.
Rob joins the editorial board of Batteries
Rob Armstrong has been invited to join the editoral board of the open access journal “Batteries”.
NEXGENNA Internal Review Meeting at the University of Cambridge
The group participated in NEXGENNA’s internal review meeting hosted by the University of Cambridge. This meeting included guest talks by Prof. Magda Titirici (Imperial College London) and Dr. Robert Weatherup (University of Oxford).
P3 structure Sodium Manganese Oxides for Sodium-ion Batteries
Rob Armstrong gave an invited lecture at the International workshop on Sodium-ion battery hosted by CIC energiGUNE on “P3 structure Sodium Manganese Oxides for Sodium-ion Batteries”.
Research feature in Chemistry World
Work on simple and sustainable routes to making anode materials for sodium-ion batteries, carried out by Armstrong and his group has been featured in Chemistry World. You can read more about this work here.
Faraday Institution conference early career day
Phil Maughan gave a talk “Development of high energy density low cost Li/Ni/Co free sodium layered oxides as positive electrodes for Na-ion batteries”.
Faraday Institution conference early career day
Aamod Desai presented a poster and flash talk “Microwave-assisted rapid synthesis of organic materials”.
Sustainability in Modern Batteries
Rob Armstrong gave a keynote Lecture at Global Sustainable Technology & Innovation Community (G-STIC) conference on “Sustainability in Modern Batteries”.
Congratulations to Dr. Eun Jeong Kim who successfully defended her PhD viva!
Congratulations to Eun Jeong who defended her PhD thesis “Positive electrode materials for high energy rechargeable batteries”!