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Sept ’24
June ’24
May ’24
Jan ’24
2023
Dec ’23
Saiful received the 2023 IOM3 Robert Perrin Award for outstanding and sustained commitment to materials science outreach.
Nov ’23
Dr Andrey Poletayev was awarded the Faraday Institution’s Early Career Researcher Collaboration Award.
Nov ’22
Oct ’22
Sept ’22
Aug ’22
May ’22
Dr Arup Chakraborty joins group on a Royal Society Society Newton International Fellowship
Mar ’22
Feb ’22
Congratulations to Ben Goldmann. His first publication has come out in J Mater Chem A and we also got the cover image.
Jan ’22
Saiful presents the Hirsch Lecture at Oxford Materials.
Saiful joins the Department of Materials, University Of Oxford.
Dr Pezhman Zarabadi-Poor from the group has also moved to Oxford.
Nov ’21
Matt Clarke passes his PhD viva. Congratulations Dr Clarke!
RSC team and Saiful achieve a World Record lemon battery [Link]
Saiful was guest of honour and after dinner speaker at Goodenough College – an educational charity providing residence for UK & international postgraduates in London.
Sept ’21
Saiful interviewed for the Royal Society ‘Parent-Carer-Scientist’ Project [Link]
Fundraiser event at the Royal Institution celebrating 200 years of Michael Faraday’s electric motor [Link]
PhD student, Hollie Richards, wins a poster prize at the Bolland Symposium, Bath Chemistry. Congratulations Hollie!
Aug ’21
A research highlight item in the MRS Bulletin featured our disordered rocksalt study published in JACS [Link]
July ’21
Saiful is a new elected member of Academia Europaea [Link]
May ’21
Apr ’21
Virtual ceremony for the ACS 2020 National Awards including Saiful’s award in Energy Chemistry [Link] [Bath Uni news item]
Saiful Q&A interview for the Humanists UK newsletter [PDF]
Mar ’21
Saiful was one of the three chairs and judges of the Energy theme (#RSCEnergy) for the RSC Poster Twitter Conference [RSC news item]
Jan ’21
Saiful’s updated bio on the Royal Society website [Link]
Congrats Nourdine – new paper in Chemistry of Materials [Journal Link]
Welcome Dr Jon Cottom as new postdoc on the FI CATMAT project
Dec ’20
Saiful provides one of the ‘Science Stories’ of 2020 in The Guardian [Link]
Saiful appointed to RSC Board of Trustees [Link] [RSC News]
JACS paper out on disordered rocksalt cathodes. Congrats Ryan. [Link]
Sept ’20
Battery research mentioned in issue of Bath Alumni Magazine BA2 [Link]
Cosmic Science Shambles Network with Robin Ince, Helen Cserski, Andrea Sella and Saiful [Link]
Launch of new Twitter account for the CATMAT project @CATMAT_FI [Link]
Apr ’20
Welcome to new postdocs on the Faraday Institution CATMAT project: Dr Kit McColl, Dr Sam Coles, Dr Adam Symington & Dr Pezhman Zarabadi-Poor
Saiful’s ‘The Life Scientific’ radio interview on BBC World Service [Link]
Video of Saiful’s talk at Humanists UK convention now online [Link]
Feb ’20
Interview with Saiful for a #NotJustALabCoat CSCT blog [Link]
Jan ’20
Q&A blog about Saiful declining an OBE [Link]
2020 ACS National Award winners in C&EN [Link]
Dec ’19
Saiful provides one of the 2019 ‘Science Stories’ of 2019 in the Guardian [Link]
Nov ’19
Saiful quoted in RSC Chemistry World article on sodium batteries [Link]
Saiful’s RSC lecture at the Royal Institution to celebrate the International Year of the Periodic Table [Link]
Oct ’19
Sept ’19
2020 American Chemical Society Henry H. Storch Award in Energy Chemistry [Link]
Faraday Institution grant (£11.2M): Next-generation lithium-ion cathode materials (CATMAT) led by Saiful as PI [Bath news] [FI site]
Aug ’19
Review in Nature Materials on solid electrolytes for batteries [Link]
Jul ’19
Saiful as main Editor: themed issue on Energy Materials published in Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A [Link]
May ’19
Updated Wikipedia page [Link]
Podcast interview for Pint of Science Festival[Link]
Jan ’19
SI presenting Royal Institution Discourse [Link] [YouTube]
Saiful joins the Royal Society Public Engagement Committee [Link]
Dec ’18
Highlight piece on Nature Materials paper in Joule [PDF]
Sept ’18
June ’18
Saiful gives invited talk at 2018 Humanists UK convention [Bath news] [link]
Three group members (James Dawson, Piero Canepa and Theo Famprikis) presented posters at the International Meeting on Lithium Batteries (IMLB) in Kyoto, Japan.
Apr ’18
JACS paper on grain boundaries in solid electrolytes highlighted in MRS Bulletin [pdf] [link]
Feb ’18
Jan ’18
JACS paper on grain boundaries in solid electrolytes highlighted in C&EN news [pdf] [link]
New Faraday Institution on battery research for electric vehicles with a Multi-Scale Modelling project involving Bath Chemistry [Bath news item]
Nov ’17
Jenny Heath passes her PhD viva. Congratulations Dr. Heath!
Saiful gives Thomas Graham lecture & RSC Prize Talk at UCL Chemistry (Lab Dinner) [Link to photos]
C&EN list of 25 Chemists you should follow on Twitter includes @SaifulChemistry
Sept ’17
Jenny Heath wins Flash Poster Talk prize at 4th Energy Materials Symposium at Bath
RSC News Item on Energy Materials Symposium at Bath [News]
Lectures in Tokyo (based on Ri Xmas lectures) [Link] [newspaper piece]
Aug ’18
Saiful becomes a Patron of Humanists UK [link]
Lecture on Singapore TV (based on Ri xmas lectures) [link] [Bath news]
June ’17
Video of Bath Taps into Science talk with a few demos from Ri xmas lectures [link]
May ’17
Apr ’17
One of the first 100A1 Ambassadors of the Lloyds Register Foundation [link]
Impact report on Ri xmas lectures [link]
Mar ’17
Young children’s blog after Saiful’s Bath Taps into Science talk [link]
CSCT Blog on the Family Fun Day at the Royal Institution [link]
Feb ’17
RSC J Materials Chem Blog on Ri xmas lectures [link]
MSI contributed to piece on lithium batteries in Materials World [pdf]
Bath Uni Research Marketing Blog on Ri xmas lectures [link]
Three Christmas Lectures on Ri Channel [link]
Jan ’17
Dec ’16
Sept ’16
Aug ’16
June ’16
Jenny and Hungru present posters (and Saiful gives an invited talk) at the International Meeting on Lithium Batteries (IMLB), Chicago, USA
May ’16
Saiful gives public talk at Pint of Science Festival (at Bath Brew House)
Mar ’16
Feb ’16
Letter in C&EN on lack of diversity in 2016 ACS Awards [pdf]
Jan ’16
Dec ’15
Article in RSC Chemistry World on race issues in academia [pdf] [link]
Nov ’15
Stephen Wood passes viva (external: Prof R. Catlow FRS) and awarded PhD. Congratulations, Dr Wood.
Oct ’15
Saiful appears in the first Science Showoff event in Bath [link]
Sept ’15
Aug ’15
Nature Comm paper on perosvkite solar cells. News items [Bath: link ] [Phys.org: link ]
Jul ’15
JACS paper on lithium-ion solid electrolytes highlighted in C&E news [link]
June ’15
Saiful joins new Diversity Committee of the Royal Society [link]
Apr ’15
Jenny Heath’s submission for Images of Research [link]
Interview on BBC World Service Radio on new battery science [link]
Mar ’15
Jenny Heath wins poster prize at the STFC Early Career Researchers Conference, Abingdon [link]
Jan ’15
Short video by Pre-award grants team at Bath [link]
Recent JACS paper on MXenes mentioned in Chemistry and Engineering News [pdf]
Dec ’14
Nov ’14
Public talk at Ignite Cardiff using 3D specs [link]
Oct ’14
Sept ’14
Symposium on Energy Materials at Bath [link]
Jul ’14
June ’14
Royal Society and British Library: Diversity in British Science (video) and oral history .
Research team (John Clark, Chris Eames, Stephen Wood, Alex Whiteside) present posters at the big International Meeting on Lithium Batteries, Lake Como, Italy
May ’14
John Clark passes viva and awarded PhD. Congratulations, Dr Clark.
Apr ’14
Jan ’14
Dec ’13
Ignite talk at Bath. More info here .
Nov ’13
John Clark wins a best talk prize at the MGMS Young Modellers’ Forum, London. More info here .
Café Science talk at the Royal Society London. More info here .
Oct ’13
MSI is a new member of the Equality and Diversity Advisory Network (EDAN ) committee of the Royal Society.
Stephen Wood gives his first international conference talk (sodium battery symposium, Vitoria, Spain).
Sept ’13
Jesse Dufton passes viva and awarded PhD. Congratulations.
At the DTC Showcase conference, Stephen Wood is awarded the CSCT Whorrod Prize and presents his prize lecture.
Aug ’13
Stephen Wood’s first publication (in Energy & Environmental Science) and DTC news item .
June ’13
May ’13
MSI awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. More information… News item in Angewandte Chemie.
Apr ’13
Mar ’13
Chris Eames, David Tompsett and John Clark present posters at the International Battery Association (IBA) conference, Barcelona.
Dec ’12
John Clark’s first publication (in Angewandte Chemie).
Invited lecture at first JUAMI Materials Research School, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Sept ’12
Grahame Gardiner passes viva and awarded PhD. Congratulations.
Feb ’12
Jan ’12
Dec ’11
John Clark from the group wins a poster prize at the RSC Solid State Group xmas meeting at Liverpool.MSI Profile in RSC News.
Nov ’11
Invited RSC Materials Chemistry Schools lecture (at Burlington House, London). Bath news release.
Oct ’11
Highlighted paper in Angewandte Chemie (on apatite ion conductors for fuel cells).
Sept ’11
Clean energy research featured in article in InfoChem (the student supplement to RSC Education in Chemistry). More Information…
July ’11
June ’11
Guest Editor with Linda Nazar for Themed Issue “Advanced Materials for Lithium Batteries” in Journal of Materials Chemistry.
May ’11
Postrgraduate Research Symposium at Bath: John Clark from the group wins a ‘best poster’ prize.
Apr ’11
Mar ’11
Joint RSC/IOP public lecture in Bath. More information…
Nature Materials paper on oxide anodes for lithium batteries.
Dec ’10
Grahame Gardiner from the group wins a poster prize at the RSC Solid State Group 30th anniversary xmas meeting at UCL.
Nov ’10
Work on gallate oxide-ion conductors featured on the cover of Advanced Functional Materials.
Oct ’10
May ’10
Chemistry Postrgraduate Research Symposium at Bath: Paul Weaver from the group wins one of the ‘best talk’ prizes.
Apr ’10
Mar ’10
Dec ’09
Cover artwork (and invited review) for MRS Bulletin
May ’09
Chemistry Postgraduate Research Symposium at Bath: Steve Stokes wins one of the ‘best talk’ prizes and Grahame Gardiner wins one of the ‘best poster’ prizes.
Mar ’09
Sept ’08
Entry into the Nature journal blog ‘The Sceptical Chymist’
Energy showcase at Bath and launch of the Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment (I-SEE)
July ’08
Francis Bacon Medal – Fuel Cell Science & Technology Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
June ’08
Interview by students at the University of Bath now on YouTube, and can be viewed here .
Mar ’08
Nov ’07
Aug ’07
July ’07
Alison Jones awarded best poster prize for “Atomistic Modelling of Ion Transport and Defects in Apatite Silicate SOFC Materials” at the 16th International Conference on Solid State Ionics (SSI-16), Shanghai, China.
May ’07
Our work mentioned in an article on lithium ion battery research in May issue of Chemistry World .
Apr ’07
Jan ’07
