A. Jorge Sobrido´s Research Group

Some of us visited the group of Prof Milana Trifkovic at University of Calgary as part of a Royal Society International Exchanges Grant. The university and landscape in Calgary were amazing and we were able to enjoy a bit of nature over the weekend! Milana’s group were very welcoming and fantastic hosts! Hattie, Jesus and Michael presented their work to Milana’s group and found a few opportunities for collaboration that we will follow up and hopefully lead to more interactions and interesting outcomes! We are looking forward to hosting Milana and her group back in London soon!

Ana presented her group’s work on alternative electrodes for flow batteries in the Symposium organised by UCL, Imperial ad Wiley. It was great to share the group’s work and listen to all the great talks. Thanks so much for the invitation!

Maadri was awarded runner up prize in the Wiley Advanced Portfolio’s One-day Symposium on Energy Storage Conversion, held in collaboration with UCL and Imperial College London at UCL East (12 September 2025). Congratulations Maadri!

In September, Maadri and Ana went to Cambridge to participate in the SLB/ Academia collaboration week (1-2 September 2025). Maadri presented a poster summarising her PhD project on textile-waste as electrodes for flow batteries, and main results to date. Maadri’s PhD is supported by an ICASE PhD studentship with SLB (industrial supervisor: Dr Adam Colbourne). Ana gave an invited talk on sustainable electrodes for flow batteries.

Michael Thielke has officially started his EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship ElectroBioLiS, a project that will develop freestanding spinnable sulfur-rich copolymers in combination with conductive carbon particles which can be directly used as a cathode in a lithium sulfur battery without the need to making an ink to deposit onto a current collector. This project will have a positive impact in the battery community and beyond. Sulfur co-polymers have shown to exhibit outstanding capabilities in domains such as mercury capture from aqueous solutions, application for which freestanding fibre mats with large surface area would be highly beneficial. Congratulations, Michael – this is an exciting project!

Making the most of the weather, we decided to head to Victoria Park for another relaxing picnic with the group – also to celebrate Michael’s birthday, happy birthday, Michael! 🙂

After three fruitful years as postdoc in our group at QMUL, Mauricio is leaving to pursue a new adventure with his company Eutechtics, a dynamic startup tackling climate change by developing modern, sustainable chemical processes that decarbonise key parts of global supply chains! You have been a fantastic member of the group and will be greatly missed. Wishing you the best in this new stage of your career!

Great afternoon enjoying the amazing London weather in Victoria Park!

Ana shared her group’s latest work on electrodes for flow batteries at the First Annual Energy, Materials and Environment International Symposia held at London Southbank University. It was great to hear the research by the rest of participants on sustainable energy approaches and materials.

June 10-13, 2025

The conference was organised in partnership with the ScotCHEM (the consortium of Scottish Chemistry Departments), and the University of St. Andrews, with the goal of bringing together researchers working on the theme of Molecules for Net Zero and Materials for Net Zero to join forces in developing solutions to the challenges of Net Zero. It was also the first meeting of the National Network of Sustainable Chemistry for Net Zero https://flfnetzeronetwork.co.uk/