Past Events

Delivered by Clare Grey FRS, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, this year's Energy Materials Group Annual Lecture will provide a overview of the challenges associated with making increasingly cheaper, high energy density and faster charging batteries for transport and grid storage.

Theme: New Energy Landscape-Opportunities and Challenges

Theme: New Energy Landscape-Opportunities and Challenges 

Theme: New Energy Landscape-Opportunities and Challenges

PROGRAMME (15 min talks + 15 min discussion)

There is no need to register; the workshop is open to anyone who has the Zoom links, and attendees are welcome to drop into whichever talks are of interest. 

9.45am to 12pm - MORNING SESSION

Africans in STEM is a platform for Africans involved in STEM and STEM-related disciplines to connect, share ideas and create collaborations. This platform is open to people who identify as African or of African descent, and people who work on or are interested in African issues.

The UK has promised to reduce its net emissions to zero by 2050. While this is a necessary and ambitious goal, the path to achieving this goal is unclear. Utilising sunlight is a bright solution, as the Sun provides Earth with more power than we use.

We use simple batteries all the time, but very few of us really understand how they work. The working of batteries was actually a subject of real contention in 19th century science and engineering.

Plastic has become a malevolent symbol of our wasteful society. It’s also fundamental to almost every aspect of our lives. How do we shift our ‘take, make, throw-away’ plastic world towards ‘recycle, recover, re-use’?

Halide perovskites are generating enormous excitement as next-generation solar cells and lighting technologies that can be produced at extremely low cost on flexible spools. Dr Sam Stranks, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, discusses their future as a groundbreaking technology and the challenges to get there.