News & Media

Birmingham researchers ran a ‘meet the expert’ stand on Li ion batteries at the Thinktank Museum – Birmingham

Birmingham researchers took part in a joint collaboration with Faraday Institution projects ReliB and Nextrode, interviewing industry (Cornish Lithium, Echion Tech, JCB, Ilika) for an outreach video series highlighting roles in the battery industry

Vacancy for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Battery Science based at the University of Oxford – 7/10/21 applications close (link)

Comments by Prof. Saiful Islam were featured in an article on sustainable lithium ion batteries by Chemistry World (link)

PhD student Lizzie Driscoll was awarded The University of Birmingham EPS Societies’ award for Outreach – Congratulations Lizzie (link)

A research highlight item in the MRS Bulletin featured our disordered rocksalt study published in JACS (link)

PhD student Lizzie Driscoll appeared on BBC Radio Cambridge’s Naked Scientists talking about EVs (link)

Congratulations to Prof. Clare Grey for winning the Körber European Science Prize 2021 for her work on batteries – Hamburg (link)

PhD student Lizzie Driscoll was featured in the local newspaper (Express & Star) for her outreach work during Science Week- South Staffordshire (link)

Congratulations to Dr. Laura Driscoll who has been selected as the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion champion for CATMAT – Birmingham

Prof. Paul Shearing appeared on Fully Charged talking about cobalt in EV Batteries – UCL – (link)

Prof. Paul Shearing was featured in the Times. Article title: ‘A new breed of battery is ready to lead the charge‘ – UCL (link)

The CATMAT Twitter account (@CATMAT_FI) reached 1000 followers on June 22nd

Congratulations to Lizzie Driscoll, who received the ‘Inspirational Member Award’ from the Royal Society of Chemistry

Congratulations to Prof. Emma Kendrick, who received the ‘Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division Mid-Career Award’ from the Royal Society of Chemistry

Discover magazine feature an article on using Jenga to explain Li ion batteries in an issue over the summer, featuring work by PhD student Lizzie Driscoll – Birmingham (link)

The Faraday Undergraduate Summer Experience applications are now open (link)

Recruitment of 14 Faraday Institution PhD researchers for October 2021 start (link)

University of Oxford news release: ‘Oxford research given significant boost to develop lithium-rich battery cathodes’ -Oxford (link)

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)