News & Media

Faraday Institution news release: ‘Scientists based at the University of Oxford have made a significant advance in understanding oxygen-redox processes involved in lithium-rich cathode materials’  – Oxford (link)

Prof. Peter Slater was awarded a Faraday Industrial Fellowship to work with Echion Technologies – Cambridge

2019/2020 Annual Report – The Faraday Institution (link)

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

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

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

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?” – London (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 – Birmingham (link)

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

CATMAT team develop outreach experiment boxes for the virtual CoCoMAD20 festival – Birmingham (link)

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

Faraday Undergraduate Summer Experience – projects start

Prof. 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)

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

Prof. Saiful Islam on BBC Radio 4 – The Life Scientific – London (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)