The Faraday Institution has awarded the department a second Industry Fellowship - this is an additional Fellowship to the previously announced 2020 Fellowship.
The Faraday fellowship enables academics and industrialists to undertake a mutually beneficial, electrochemical energy storage research project that aims to solve a critical industrial problem and that has the potential for near- and longer-term benefit to the wider UK battery industry.
The department will partner with Finden, leaders in local structural method development and application, to deepen the understanding of new cathode materials and mitigate deleterious behaviour. The aim is to fast track the best-performing high energy density cathodes to aid in their early adoption by UK industry and to inform future cathode protection strategies to prolong battery life.
The project will enable early career academics to gain valuable career development experience in industry. The personal and corporate links established by the fellows are likely to seed longer-term collaborations between the two sectors. This new fellowship will be led by Professor Serena Corr and a team of researchers.
It is imperative that academic research takes a lead role in boosting the circular economy alongside industry. This fellowship will be a key step in the development of the next generation of battery materials."
Professor Serena Corr
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Powering Britain’s battery revolution, the Faraday Institution is the UK’s independent institute for electrochemical energy storage science and technology, supporting research, training, and analysis. Bringing together expertise from universities and industry, the Faraday Institution endeavours to make the UK the go-to place for the research and development of new electrical storage technologies for both the automotive and wider relevant sectors.