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MCG Ph.D. candidate Minfei was awarded the Best Poster Award by Professor Andy Xueliang Sun at the International Battery Materials Association IBA 2021 Annual Meeting (IBA 2021), at Xiamen, China, October 24 - 29, 2021. Minfei's presentation on Li metal anode protection is a collabrative project between the University of Cambridge and Nankai Univer…

The MCG is happy and excited to have Francisco on board! Francisco recently joins the group as PDRA, working on industrial implementation of sustainable synthesis methods for the production of high-performance inorganic material for different applications. He obatined his PhD from Imperial College London, before that, earned a BSc (Eng) degree in c…

MCG Ph.D. candidate Minfei recently gave a poster along with a recorded 12 min talk at the 240th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting. Minfei's presentation titled "Stabilizing Lithium Anode Via Separator Engineering and in-Situ Electrolyte Additive Tuned SEI" was a collabrative work between the University of Cambridge and Nankai University. His p…

MCG Ph.D. candidate Minfei recently gave a talk at the Varsity Sci 2021 Symposium, representing Cambridge against Oxford. The title of his talk was "High performance anode strategy in Li based batteries: Li metal anode and Si-based anode". Minfei briefly introduced the current portable device market energy supply situation, as well as touched a bit…

MCG Ph.D. student Emma presented at the ISMAR-APNMR-NMRSJ-SEST 2021 last week.The title of her poster was "Investigating Separator Membranes Used In Organic Redox Flow Battery Systems Using NMR Spectroscopy". In the poster, she presented some results showing that crossover and sorption of model quinone electrolytes can be detected using in situ sol…

Dr Wei (Alex) Wang, a joint PhD student at MCG during 2015-2016, is now a professor at the School of Space and Environment, Beihang University (BUAA). He received a PhD from University of Science and Technology Beijing’s State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallurgy in 2016. Subsequently followed by a Boya Postdoctoral position at Peking University (…

MCG Ph.D. candidate Minfei recently took a field trip co-organized by Nanjing University and Chinese Academy of Sciences, to Xinjiang Tianshan Glacier & Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, this late June. The research team was hosted by Cryosphere Research Station on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, & Tianshan Glaciological Station, Chinese Academy of Sciences. On-si…

MCG Ph.D. candidate Eleonore is again hitting the news headline. There were some media sources, including Le Temps, ma RTS, SWI swissinfo, and Canal9, showcasing her recent 8-day analogue space mission with some other analogue astronauts at Grimselpass, Switzerland, in July.In 2019, Eleonore was selected as an analogue astronaut and commander for t…

Sarah recently passed her MPhil viva on aqueous zinc ion batteries last month, and is earger to start her next chapter as a Knowledge Analyst for Energy, Power and Oil and Gas at McKinsey & Company Jakarta office in August 2021. The MCG group had a relaxed farewell gatherings at the Plough in Coton.Here's Sarah's story with her viva, as well as her…

Porotech, co-founded by Dr. Yingjun Liu, along with Dr. Tongtong Zhu and Prof. Rachel Oliver, recently secures £3 million Seed investment led by Speedinvest alongside IQ Capital, Cambridge Enterprise, Martlet Capital and Cambridge Angels. This adds to £1.5m seed funding in 2020.Porotech has created a new class of porous gallium nitride (GaN) semico…

MCG Ph.D. candidates Eleonore and Minfei both gave presentations on their recent progress at the departmental Postgraduate Seminars Day.Eleonore's title is: Crack Initiation and Propagation Mechanisms in Coatings for Gas Turbines in Hot Corrosion and Fatigue Conditions.Minfei's title is: A More Stable Lithium Anode via Separator Engineering and In-…

Prof. Vasant Kumar, joined by Prof. Katerina Aifantis (U. of Florida, USA), Dr. Claudio Capiglia (Talga Technologies Limited, UK) and Dr. Athan Fox (Ever Resource Ltd, UK), is going to chair the 7th International Symposium on Sustainable Secondary Battery Manufacturing and Recycling, at Phuket, Thailand, from November 28 to December 2, 2021.This sy…

MCG Ph.D. candidate Eleonore was recently interviewed by journalist Daniel Dubouloz for the Swiss aerospace magazine Cockpit Magazin. The interview was titled “Eleonore Poli: auf dem weg ins all” (Eng: Eleonore Poli: journey to the aerospace).Eleonore shared with Minfei her first-hand feedback and excitement for the astronaut career after the inter…

Our fellow lab mate Paul recently finished his project after eight years at MCG. Paul is an experienced researcher with a world-class record across materials, metallurgy and sustainable energy. As one of the UK's leading scientists in the field, he has steered and managed the development of major projects in solar energy, batteries and powder metal…

Bright just left MCG after spending around 14 months with us on a Commonwealth Split-Site Scholarship.Bright is a PhD student visiting us from the University of Ghana. He was a member of St. Edmunds College. During his time with us, Bright focused on the synthesis, characterisation and application of metal-oxide photo-catalyst materials that are ca…