Date/Time: Tuesday 24 October 2023, 5.30pm

Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University

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Chaired by Dr Greg Mutch, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow

The supply of low carbon energy is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Major breakthroughs in green energy technologies require advances in new materials and underpinning science. With the aid of 3D glasses, this talk describes the materials science of lithium batteries for electric vehicles and novel compounds for next-generation solar cells, as well as highlighting the use of materials modelling to gain atomic-scale insights.

Biography

Saiful Islam is Professor of Materials Science at the University of Oxford. He grew up in north London and obtained his Chemistry degree and PhD from University College London, followed by a Research Fellowship at the Eastman Kodak Labs, New York. He joined Oxford in 2022 after 16 years at the University of Bath.

Saiful presented the 2016 BBC Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on the theme of energy, which included a lemon battery world record. He has received several awards including the 2022 Royal Society Hughes Medal and 2020 American Chemical Society Award in Energy Chemistry. He is a Patron of Humanists UK and when not exploring new materials, he enjoys family breaks (as a dad of two), films and indie music.

Research website: https://bit.ly/327BgQr

Twitter @SaifulChemistry