Author: Ana Belen Jorge Sobrido

Eneith has just joined our group to conduct the second year of her MSc as part of a joint programme between QMUL and CIMAV, Mexico. Welcome Eneith!

Jesus has just joined the group to perform his PhD on biodegradable electrospun materials with antibacterial applications. His research is funded by CONACyT, Mexican National Council of Science and Technology. Welcome Jesus! Looking forward to getting started with this exciting PhD project.

Welcome Stiven! Stiven will be doing a short stay in our group (Nov 2021 – Feb 2022) to work on bacterial nanocellulose for energy storage in collaboration with Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, in Colombia, where he conducts his degree. We hope this collaboration within the framework of a Newton Fund -British Council funding will lead to great results. Hope Stiven has time to enjoy London, too!

This week has been Sustainability Week at QMUL and we have organised lab tours to show students and staff how we process lignin, a biomass waste product from the paper industry into advanced materials for energy storage, in particular for redox flow batteries. Thanks all the could make it! You were very engaging. And thanks Gengyu and Michael for helping make this event happen!

We finally got together to celebrate some recent success and enjoy probably the last bbq of the year! Thank you all. IT was great fun.

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Cheers to more things to celebrate soon!

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Finally managed to get all the team together to have our Group Photo! Thank you All.

Congratulations to Qian who has won a 2021 SEMS Postgraduate Research Excellence Award for her work on Hematite/Carbon dots photoanodes for water oxidation, published recently in Nanoscale. Well done Qian!

Welcome to Dr Michael Thielke who has joined the team as a postdoctoral researcher to develop sustainable fibres as electrodes for flow batteries using electrospinning as part of Ana’s UKRI FLF.

Welcome Michael! I hope you have a great time at QMUL and we look forward to doing lots of science together.