A. Jorge Sobrido´s Research Group
Advanced Energy Materials Group
The group was well represented at the MRS Seattle Spring 2024. Thanks to the organisation for inviting Ana to give a talk and the rest of the team: Hattie, Jesus, Carlos, Mauricio and Michael who also presented their work. We had time to explore Seattle which is such a wonderful city!
Thanks to Maria Crespo, Heather Au, Marina Freitag and team for such a fantastic tour of the battery landscape and next generation of more sustainable technologies. Plenty of hands on demos making batteries out of food! What a great way to spend a day of British summer weather!
Maria and Ana presented their approaches to sustainable energy storage at the Night of Science and Engineering, held at The Octagon, on the 29th February 2024.
We need batteries to store energy from renewables to be able to cope with their inherent intermittency and move away from fossil fuels.
However, those batteries should also be engineered with sustainable and abundant resources that do not rely on fossil fuels either.
At the Night of Science and Engineering, they showcased their approaches to sustainable batteries based on the use of recycled materials and biomass resources combined with innovative processing techniques.
Thanks Carlos, Hattie and Michael! It was such a great event. Feel very proud of you all! 🙂
Ana was invited to give a talk at the IIWPECE held at the Universidad La Laguna, in Tenerife. This is the institution where Ana did her degree in Chemistry, which she finished in 2004. 20 years later she was back to close the cycle as Professor. Time really flies!
The QMUL Flow Battery Symposium was held at The Colette Bowen room on the 25th January 2024 and counted with very engaging speakers, including Prof Fikile Brushett (MIT), Emma Latchem (Cambridge), Dr Michael Thielke (QMUL), Dr Qilei Song (Imperial), Prof Rob Dryfe (Manchester), Dr. Qing Dai (Cambridge), Alex Quinn (MIT) and Dr Hugh O’Connor (Belfast). Thanks to all the participants for a fantastic event!
The group had an amazing time celebrating Christmas 2023. Lots of pizzas, fun moments, and of course, Secret Santa! Thanks everyone for being such a great bunch! Let’s wish 2024 will bring new success, people and adventures!
Congratulations to Carlos on his first paper, also as first author! Carlos’ work on spin selective electron transport on chiral systems for oxygen evolution reaction has just been published in ACS Mater Au. This has been the result of a 4 year- collaborative project with Dr Bob Schroeder from UCL. More related work to be published soon….Well done, Carlos!
Ana Sobrido has been shortlisted for this year’s Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship Award for her work on solar flow batteries, a niche technology able to directly store solar energy and use it to photocharge a battery.
The Journal of Materials Chemistry annual lectureship honours researchers who have made a significant contribution to the field of materials chemistry.
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has put together a collection featuring some of the shortlisted candidates’ recent work published in their journals.
The group enjoyed a well deserved break from research to do some pumpkin carving. It was a lot of fun. The winner was Brittany with her Catrina-looking pumpkin, followed by Mauricio who carved a courgette very skillfully and Jesus with a pumpkin in honour of the Dia de Los Muertos.
