Dr. Rob Armstrong

Research Fellow


Rob is EaStChem fellow in Energy Materials and has been involved in battery research since he moved to St Andrews in 1994. Among over 110 publications he has published several landmark papers in Li-ion and Na-ion battery research (h-index 46). These have included the first report of layered LiMnO2 (published in Nature and with >1200 citations), several publications on the highly promising TiO2(B) nanomaterials as anode materials and the first observation of oxygen evolution in Li-rich layered cathode materials. More recently work on iron oxalates has revealed the possibility of anion redox behaviour in polyanionic systems for the first time.
His group is currently working to develop high performance cathode materials for sodium-ion batteries. Since 2019 he has been joint project lead on the Faraday Institution project NEXGENNA, developing next generation sodium-ion batteries, and leads the work package devoted to cathode materials.
He is a member of the Alistore European Research Institute devoted to lithium-ion batteries and is the joint leader of the thematic group on electrode materials. As a result, he has active collaborations with a number of leading European laboratories. He is the St Andrews representative on the Alistore scientific council.
He has been Visiting Professor at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
His research is concerned with the synthesis and characterisation of novel electrode materials for lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. There is particular emphasis in correlating structure and properties using powder X-ray and neutron diffraction combined with electrochemical studies.

Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
+44 (0)1334 46 3623
Publications:
A complete list of Rob’s publications can be found here.