News & Media

Hiring: Research Associate in Computational Materials Chemistry – University of Bath (link)

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)

Logo competition winner announced

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)