News & Media

Short report on the IOM3 event on Nano4EVs & Battery Technologies with Saiful Islam as keynote speaker (link)

Prof. Peter Bruce discussed batteries on BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science (link)

Prof. Peter Nellist was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Microscopical Society

The two winners for the talks given during the Early Career Researcher Day of the Faraday Institution conference are both from the CATMAT project: Miguel Perez Osorio (PDRA, Oxford) and Elizabeth Driscoll (PhD, Birmingham).

The Faraday Institution gave FUSE Intern Rebecca Daly‘s poster a highly commended recognition and one of four additional awards for ‘visual appeal’ after judging all FUSE poster submissions. Congratulations Rebecca!

Prof. Peter Bruce appeared on ITV Tonight: “Electric Cars: Are We Ready?” (link)

New Twitter account for the project: @CATMAT_FI (link)

New PhD Students have started : Hollie Richards (Bath), Rory Powell (Liverpool), Lizzie Driscoll (Birmingham), Ethan Williams (Birmingham), Jamie-Marie Price (Birmingham), Ben Goldmann (Bath), Emma Hedley (Oxford) and Jae Evans (Liverpool)(link)

Two professors, a PhD student and two interns overcame the challenges of remote working to produce a series of teaching resources on battery science (link)

Clare Grey – awarded 2020 Hughes Medal of the Royal Society. Congratulations Clare!

Catmat team develop outreach experiment boxes for the virtual CoCoMAD20 festival

The Building Blocks of Battery Technology: Using Modified Tower Block Game Sets to Explain and Aid the Understanding of Rechargeable Li-Ion Batteries (link)

Faraday Undergraduate Summer Experience – projects start

Peter Nellist –  elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). Congratulations Pete!

CATMAT Liverpool PhD Application – Vapour deposited coatings for long cycle-life Li-ion positive electrodes (position filled)

CATMAT Bath PhD Application – High Energy Density Li-ion Cathodes: Computational Insights and Discovery of New Mixed-Anion Materials (position filled)

NEW PDRAS (link)

Saiful Islam Invited by the Guardian to provide a science story that shaped 2019: Lithium Ion Batteries Nobel Prize (link)

Saiful Islam on BBC Radio 4 – The Life Scientific (link)

11.2 million Grant to Improve Battery Technology for EVs (link)

2018/2019 Annual Report – The Faraday Institution (link)

Report: Faraday Battery Challenge – Funded Projects to Date (link)