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📣 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 #FaradayBatteryDay!🔋   Calling all #science and #engineering #undergraduates! 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭: https://lnkd.in/erGp3e9J 🗓️ Tuesday, 18th February, 12-1 pm.   𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫: 🎙️ Engaging Talks from Researchers & Interactive Q&A Session   𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬: ⚡Jessica McConnell McConell (host) – Year 2 Faraday Institution PhD researcher at University of Cambridge ⚡Bhavini Patel - Year 1 Faraday Institution PhD researcher at Imperial College London and former FUSE intern ⚡Nicholas Price - Battery Modelling Developer at Electra Vehicles, Inc. and former FUSE intern ⚡Sean Scott - Research Associate at ReLiB Project and former Faraday Institution PhD researcher Help us raise awareness about the 🔋 sector on #BatteryDay! Ideas and customisable flyers on our website https://lnkd.in/ehADM_a2 If you are running an event, let us know so we can advertise it! #FaradayTraining #STEMCareers #Undergraduates Dominic Grantley-Smith, STEM Women, STEM Ambassadors, Formula Student, Institute of Physics, Royal Society of Chemistry, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), Royal Academy of Engineering, Birmingham Energy Materials Group, Phoebe Allan, Sebastian Altus, Ferran Brosa Planella, Alex Kersting CChem, Elinor Noble, Melanie Loveridge, Daniel Reed, Peter Slater, Darren Walsh, Juliane Fiates, Pooja Kumari, Adam Lovett, James Robinson, Yige Sun, Zoë Wright

📢 Calling The Faraday Institution community and beyond.... Do you know about the Battery Manufacturing Facility at Royce Cambridge? 👀Watch the video as Molyon's Ismail Sami describes how it can help accelerate the process from lab discovery to industry scale up 📈

🔋 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 #FaradayBatteryDay 𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰! 🔋 Join our FREE online careers event: https://lnkd.in/erGp3e9J 𝐋𝐞𝐭’𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞 Siddhi Barhanpurkar’𝐬 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐲 2023 𝐭𝐨 𝐅𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐡𝐃! 📍Materials Science student, University of Cambridge 📍Attended a Battery Day event in 2023 👆Inspired by a talk by Kieran O'Regan, CEO of About:Energy 📍Faraday Undergraduate Student Experience (FUSE) internship at About:Energy 👆Won the FUSE poster prize for visual appeal 📍Aspiring PhD researcher Read more about Siddhi’s #FaradayPathway 👉 https://lnkd.in/ex9ZVbXq Check out her poster 👉https://lnkd.in/ers8xRFw Be inspired by Siddhi’s journey and dive into career possibilities with speakers across the🔋community Nicholas Price, Sean Scott, Bhavini Patel, hosted by Jessica McConnell. 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐰 https://lnkd.in/erGp3e9J ⚡ #STEMCareers #Undergraduate #BatteryCareers #STEMOutreach Imperial College London, University of Birmingham, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Newcastle University, UCL Careers, Careers Service, University of Cambridge, Careers Service, University of Oxford, University of St Andrews, The Royal Institution, STEM Learning UK, STEM Women, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society of Chemistry, Institute of Physics, IMechE Formula Student

🙌 We are delighted to be sponsoring this event! 🔋 Registration and call for abstracts now open: https://lnkd.in/eEshBtkJ Hope to see many from our community there 🥳

🌎 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗮 🌎 Earlier this week we convened our Visiting Research Fellows from lithium triangle countries, along with colleagues from their UK host institutions, for a one-day symposium in Birmingham. A big thank you to our fellows who presented their research and what they have been working on since starting the fellowship in September 2024 – take a look at their projects below. It was also a great opportunity for the fellows to meet each other, network and explore potential future engagement activities! 🤝 👏 Celso Fernando Baspineiro, CIDMEJu ( Instituto del Litio en Jujuy), Argentina (Hosted by jacqueline edge, Imperial College London). Part of ReLiB Project. 🔋Project: Investigation into the application of Direct Lithium Extraction technologies for recycling batteries 👏 Macarena Kroff Cortez, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile (Hosted by Rhodri Jervis, UCL). Part of #CATMAT project. 🔋Project: Cracking of Next Generation Advanced Lithium Ion Battery Cathodes – CONGA-LIB 👏 Nicolás Flores-González, Universidad de Concepción, Chile (Hosted by Phoebe Allan, University of Birmingham). Part of #CATMAT project. 🔋Project: Driving the design of next-generation cathode materials by local structure characterisation 👏 Lucía Isabel Barbosa, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina (Hosted by Peter Slater, University of Birmingham). Part of ReLiB Project. 🔋Project: LAW: Lithium from Anode Waste 👏 Lautaro Nicolás Acosta, CIDMEJu ( Instituto del Litio en Jujuy), Argentina (Hosted by Clare Grey, University of Cambridge). Part of #Degradation project. 🔋 Project: Characterisation of Degradation Effects on Intercalation Kinetics in the Cathode Electrode-Electrolyte Interface 👏 José J. Arroyo-Gómez, CONICET, Argentina (Hosted by Louis Piper, WMG, University of Warwick). Part of FutureCat project. 🔋 Project: Recovering kinetically limited capacity loss in single-crystalline Ni[1]rich NMC-Graphite pouch cells for second life 👏 Nicolas Palma, Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile (Hosted by Louis Piper, WMG, University of Warwick). Part of #Degradation project. 🔋 Project: Optimisation of phosphate-based cylindrical cell manufacture Thank you to everyone who attended the symposium and to the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office for supporting this prestigious scheme! #Collaboration #BatteryResearch #LithiumTriangle William Richardson, Martin Freer, Gerard Bree, Ashok S. Menon, Laura Driscoll, Huw Parks, Yuhan Liu, Stefan Oswald, Nathalie MADOC, Javier Castells-Gil

Korean Study ranks University of Birmingham third globally for collaboration on Lithium Ion Battery Recycling, and says Birmingham-paper most influential in the field An independent bibliometric analysis, by three Korean Scholars, has found a paper led by the University of Birmingham's Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements and Critical Materials to be the most influential piece of literature in the field of Lithium Ion Battery Recycling, and note that of all the literature surveyed, the Birmingham paper ranks top in the field of Lithium Ion Battery Recycling for influence.   In the paper "Past trends and future directions for circular economy in electric vehicle waste battery reuse and recycling: A bibliometric analysis" by authors from the Strategic Technology Policy Centre, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), South Korea evaluates the field of lithium ion battery recycling, through bibliometric analysis, identifying which papers and organisations have shaped the landscape of Lithium Ion Battery Recycling.   https://lnkd.in/eVqpxjJ6   They identify, that the 2019 Nature paper "Recycling lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles" which Dr. Gavin Harper, Dr. Rob Sommerville, Prof. Emma Kendrick, Prof. Rustam Stolkin and Prof. Allan Walton, Dr. Laura Driscoll, Prof. Peter Slater and Prof. Paul Anderson from the University of Birmingham published with other collaborators, to be the most influential piece of literature in this domain from their bibliometric analysis. The paper, published in 2019 has already recieved 2823 citations on Google Scholar.  https://lnkd.in/e5pYBRa   They note "The paper by Harper et al. (2019) was the most cited, with 37 co-citations, followed by Chen et al. (2019) with 32 citations, and Fan et al. (2020) with 26 citations." adding "In the co-citation analysis, the literature formed two clusters. Cluster 2 (green), centered around the paper by Harper et al. (2019), discussed the concepts and main challenges of reusing and recycling EV waste batteries. This marks the starting point of the study field on the reuse and recycling of EV waste batteries. "   The paper also provides recognition of the University of Birmingham's extensive international collaboration on Lithium Ion Batteries, ranking the institution in the top three globally from the analysis conducted: "The collaboration on papers concerning the reuse and recycling of EV waste batteries was conducted across 234 organizations. The top three organizations in terms of the number of collaborative papers were Central South University (12 papers), the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) (8 papers), and the University of Birmingham (8 papers)."  University of Birmingham | Business Engagement ReLiB Project The Faraday Institution Critical Minerals Association (UK) Department for Business and Trade

📢𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 📢 James Robinson of UCL will work with UK start-up Redoxion Ltd.accelerate the characterisation and scaling of novel synthesis methods for LFP active materials.  𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝:   🔋Characterise Redoxion’s materials generated through various synthetic routes, assessing their electrochemical performance, physical composition, stability and durability. 📈Demonstrate the performance of Redoxion's LFP materials in pouch cells of at least 2 Ah using a commercially available material as a reference.     𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭: Accelerate Redoxion's activities, increasing confidence in the materials, and demonstrating to investors the benefits of their materials and synthetic approaches. 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬: https://lnkd.in/dYcQhsGq Jerry Barker, Gyen Ming Angel, Samia Said, Paul Shearing, Prosemino, Will Dawson, UCL Chemical Engineering, Chris Howard, 24M Technologies 

📢𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 📢 1.      High Frequency Ripple Charging/Discharging WMG, University of Warwick & their industry partner will collaborate to provide insights into the effects of high frequency ripple charge/discharge on the performance and lifetime of commercial prismatic lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cells. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝: Bespoke battery cyclers will be deployed at WMG to facilitate continuous charge/discharge cycling of cells under pulsing conditions, in combination with periodical reference performance tests. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐢𝐦: Contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of an innovative technology (which offers potential benefits such as higher system efficiency, and reduced cost and footprint) and its broader implementation across diverse applications. 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬: https://lnkd.in/dYcQhsGq #BatteryTech #Degradation Louis Piper, WMG Business, Eleni Fiamegkou

Our next webinar on Wednesday 5th March at 11:00 GMT dives into our module and pack assembly line, explaining how it is an essential part of our facility. ⚡ Hear from our Business Development Manager, Andrew Britton, about how our line works, what equipment is available, and what types of companies we work with. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/eFS-djz9 #Module #Pack #Assembly #Batteries #EV #Electrification #BatteryManufacturing #BatteryTechnology | Faraday Battery Challenge

🌟 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞🌟    We are pleased to share some #FaradayPathways about inspiring women in The Faraday Institution community, written by Rebecca Dawes, our Science Communications Intern. 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐨𝐮𝐭 👉 https://lnkd.in/eCGvq83g  ⚡Gwen Chimonides  Gwen discusses how she’s transferred her skills from cell biology to battery research, and explores her Faraday Institution Industry Sprint project. She reflects on the challenges she has faced by being both a researcher and a mother, advising early career researchers to balance career goals with personal aspirations. https://lnkd.in/eXSGGTG5     ⚡Elizabeth Olisa  Lizzy’s participated in the IMechE Formula Student competition during her Mechanical Engineering degree at the University of Sussex, which led her to pursue a PhD at Imperial College London as part of the LiSTAR project. She reflects on her experiences in male-dominated spaces, and emphasises the importance of pursuing your passion, regardless of others’ opinions. https://lnkd.in/eTYAQfmd  ⚡Ivana Hasa  Ivana’s journey to being an Associate Professor at WMG, University of Warwick, showcases her curiosity, perseverance and dedication to science. From her pioneering research into sustainable sodium-ion batteries, collaboration with world-renowned institutions to commitment to supporting the next generation of scientists. https://lnkd.in/eDhEf-PQ     ⚡Alexandra Morscher  Alexandra explores her remarkable international career journey and inspiring drive for scientific discovery. After completing her PhD at the University of Liverpool as part of the SOLBAT project she has continued her research on solid-state batteries as a post-doctoral research assistant at the University of Münster. https://lnkd.in/eRTwtWSK     ⚡Chantal Baer  From participating in chemistry competitions in high school to her current role as a PhD researcher in battery system modelling at the University of Warwick, Chantal’s path to becoming a battery scientist has been one of exploration, curiosity and determination. https://lnkd.in/ePtMP9YE     📣 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 #FaradayPathway! Explore resources to help you tell your story ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dTQkafaN and those of your colleagues ➡️https://lnkd.in/eCGvq83g! #WomenInScience #GirlsLeadSTEM #WiSTEM