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2024
All the best, Molyon!
Molyon, a spin out company formed by Prof. Manish Chhowalla's team and LiSTAR, is focused on scaling-up an innovative cathode material for lithium-sulfur batteries - which has very high energy density and excellent cycling stability! Wishing them the best of luck!
18th April 2024
Prof. Manish Chhowalla is appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief
We are pleased to announce Prof. Manish Chhowalla's appointment as the new Editor-in-Chief of MRS Energy & Sustainability. The journal welcomes reviews, original research articles, commentaries and perspectives in an integrated context of scientific, technological and sociological complexities relating to environment and sustainability. https://www.mrs.org/about-mrs/press-room/press-release-details-page/2024...
15th April 2024
2DMD participates in Cambridge Science Festival
We are delighted to have showcased interactive demonstrations and science activities to school children as a part of the Cambridge Science Festival 2024 in the Materials Science and Metallurgy Department. Activities included a the demonstration of a fruit battery, seeing how the world's thinnest material is made, and a chance for kids to assemble their own battery!
16th March 2024
Professor Manish Chhowalla named Royal Academy of Engineering Chair
Congratulations to Professor Manish Chhowalla on being awarded one of four RAEng Chairs in Emerging Technologies, securing a 10-year long funding to support his work. The aim of Prof. Manish's work is to engineer ultra-low-power electronics based on wafer scale manufacture of atomically thin (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors. https://raeng.org.uk/news/10-million-awarded-to-four-engineers-developin...
14th March 2024
Seminar by Professor Miryana Hemadi
Prof. Hemadi held a Seminar about her work in the "Applications of functionalized nanoparticles to medical and environmental issues". She covered a range of topics from functionalization, to the different applications like cancer treatment and destroying bacteria.
23rd February 2024
Welcome Kamal
Kamal is the new post-doc in the group who will be working on solar cells
7th February 2024
MoSTLi has been shortlisted for the #21toWatch in Cambridge!
MoSTLi co-founded by Dr. Ismail Sami, Dr. Zhuangnan Li, and Prof. Manish Chhowalla has been shortlisted for the #21toWatch in Cambridge! Congratulations!
https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/business/amp/revealed-2024-shortl...
7th February 2024
Presentations at the LiSTAR Phase 2 Consortium
The Cambridge Battery team from Prof. Manish Chhowalla's group went down to London to attend the LiSTAR Phase 2 Consortium, which is phase 2 of 4 in a bid to bring Lithium-Sulfur Batteries to forefront of energy storage technology. Presentations were also given by our very own Dr. Jung-In Lee, and PhD students, Jeffrey Yang and Esther Gray.
5th February 2024
Congrats Ismail for the EPSRC and Research Fellowship!
Ismail Sami completed his PhD in Feb 2023 and was awarded an EPSRC IAA commercialisation grant and Research Fellow at the Faraday Institution, LiSTAR project. From Jan 2024 he has been appointed as a Research Associate at E-Lab King's College Cambridge.
21st January 2024
2023
Congats Esther!
Congragulations to Esther for passing her first-year viva!
7th December 2023
Welcome New Members to the Group!
Juveiriah and Andrew are our newly joined PhD students working on batteries and Shaoliang Guan is the instrumentation scientist for XPS.
1st December 2023
Congrats Ismail for winning first place at the Chris Abell Postdoc Business Plan Competition!
Chris Abell Business Plan winner 2023 - https://www.enterprise.cam.ac.uk/news/mostli-triumphs-at-the-chris-abell-postdoc-business-plan-competition-2023/ "MoSTLi, a next-generation battery startup pitched by Dr Ismail Sami, won first place in this year’s hotly contested Chris Abell Postdoc Business Plan Competition, beating battery tech peers and others to secure the £20,000 first prize provided by Cambridge Enterprise. MoSTLi is co-founded by Dr Ismail Sami, Dr Zhuangnan Li and Professor Manish Chhowalla.
10th November 2023
Opening of the Royce Battery Suite and XPS Facility
November saw the opening of the new Royce Battery Suite and the XPS instrument in the Materials Science and Metallurgy Department. The suite provides equipment for academic and commercial researchers to manufacture and process new safer, efficient and long-lasting battery materials. The NEXSA G2 Thermo Scientific Surface Analysis System, a high performance X-ray photoelectron spectrometer, was also installed.
1st November 2023
ERC Grant Awarded for Post-doc Ismail!
Researchers in Prof. Manish Chhowalla's group awarded ERC Proof of Concept Grant to demonstrate large-scale and high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries as a commercial potential. “This Proof of Concept will help us take the essential commercial and technical steps in bringing our innovation to market.” said Dr Ismail Sami a Research Fellow.
2nd August 2023
Congrats Soumya!
Young scientist award at ICLED Singapore 2023 for ‘Outstanding contributions in the domain of Atomically Thin 2D Materials for energy efficient electronics and photonics’.
1st July 2023
Congrats Ismail for winning the CSAR award!
CSAR award winner - https://www.csar.org.uk/student-awards/2023/ismailsami/ "Ismail’s PhD research in novel materials for next generation batteries has led to recognition by a CSAR PhD Students Award For Applied Research and £1000."
19th June 2023
2022
2DMD is joining the Centre for Materials Physics
We are pleased to announce that 2DMD is joining other research groups in the Centre for Materials Physics. This will be an exciting opportunity to collaborate with others to develop and characterise new materials and devices for advanced electronics.
11th October 2022
Well done Ismail :)
Ismail Sami won the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Award for his presentation at the Graphene CDT Conference 2022 held between the University of Cambridge, University of Manchester and Lancaster University. Congratulations Ismail!
27th June 2022
Yan won an award!!
This week Dr. Yan Wang won the Armourers & Brasiers' Company Postdoctoral Award 2022. Congratulations Yan!
21st June 2022
Congratulations to Jeffrey, Louise and James
Today Jeffrey Yang won a prize for his poster in the first year PhD poster presentation, Louise Dai won the Armourers and Brasiers' Project Prize for her MSci research project in the group and James Moloney won a departmental prize for demonstration in undergraduate practicals. Well done guys!
20th June 2022
Welcome to Wenshuo & Kyung Yeol and welcome back to Jieun
This week, we welcomed Wenshuo Xu who will work on catalysis, Kyung Yeol Ma who will work on batteries and we're delighted to welcome back Jieun Yang who's visiting us for 2 months from her group at Kyung Hee University.
18th June 2022
2021
Welcome Mark & Louise
This week we welcomed Mark Turner back to the group after he finished his research placement with us this summer. We also welcomed Louise Dai who will be investigating MoS2 in batteries. They'll be doing their Part III research projects with us.
10th October 2021
More Group Members
Maheera Abdul Ghani is our latest PhD student working on devices and Jeffrey Yang is our latest PhD student working on batteries.
4th October 2021
Prof. P. M. Ajayan Visits
This week, we were happy to host our first visitor in the post pandemic era - Prof. P.M. Ajayan from Rice University, USA, globally renowned for his pioneering contributions in the field of carbon nanotubes and 2D materials.
25th September 2021
Second Year Awaits
Both Jiahang and James have passed their 1st year vivas so they'll be saying with us for at least 2 more years
16th September 2021
Congratulations Yan!
Congratulations Yan for passing your viva!
23rd August 2021
Welcome Mark
Mark Turner has joined our group for 6 weeks for a summer project where he'll work with Hugh on scrolling MoS2.
3rd July 2021
The Group Keeps Growing
This week we welcomed 2 new group members - Javier Rubio will work on electrocatalysis and Jung-In Lee will work on Na-ion batteries.
17th April 2021
Awarded ERC Advanced Grant
Prof Chhowalla has been awarded the ERC Advanced Grant for his proposal on tunnel field effect transistors based on two dimensional semiconductors for high performance energy efficient electronics.
Title: Engineering low power tunnel transistors based on two-dimensional semiconductors (Acronym: 2D LOTTO). Funded to the tune of £2.3million by the Product & Engineering (PE8) Panel.
12th April 2021
New Group Members
Jungho Kim and Soumya Sarkar have joined our group!
11th March 2021
2020
Welcome James & Jiahang!
Jiahang has joined our group to work on electrocatalysis and James has joined to work on solid-state electrolytes in batteries.
9th October 2020
Welcome Zhuangnan!
Zhuangnan is a newest postdoc in the group. He'll be researching 2D materials in Li-S batteries.
20th February 2020
2019
A Lot More Group Members
We've had 5 new PhD students (Ismail, Yiru, Hugh, Han and Juhwan) and 1 new postdoc (Yang) join our group this month so there's going to be a lot more research coming.
16th October 2019
Materials for Information & Communication Technology Research in Cambridge
The development of new materials for ICT is fundamental to innovation and energy efficiency for applications in low‑power and high‑power facilities. This CAMatNet meeting on Materials for ICT brings together groups in Cambridge working on this theme with a series of invited talks by world-leading specialists, with the aim of inspiring new ideas and collaborations.
11th September 2019
Welcome to Zhen hui
Zhen Hui has joined our group. She is doing a one year MPhil course in our group. Her research project is on electrocatalysis using 2D materials.!
11th July 2019
Champion for Energy-Efficient ICT theme
Royce@Cambridge Champion. Prof. Chhowalla has been appointed as the Cambridge Royce Institute Champion. He will lead Cambridge University’s Materials for Energy Efficient ICT theme.
10th July 2019
The Armoures and Brasier' Cambridge Forum!
Prof. Chhowalla gave a talk at Armourers and Brasiers' Cambridge Forum on atom-thick compounds for catalytic production of fuels and energy-efficient electronics.
10th July 2019
Newton Fellowship
Dr. Jieun Yang was awarded the Royal Society International Newton Fellowship. Congratulations to Jieun!!
10th July 2019
Arrive in Cambridge
Jieun and Yan have moved from Rutgers to Cambridge!
10th July 2019
Goldsmith's Professor of Materials Science
Professor Chhowalla was elected as Goldsmith's Professor of Materials Science.
10th July 2019
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