This symposium marks the opening of the Royce Battery Suite. This suite of equipment is available on open access for the manufacturing and processing of battery materials. It includes a glove box, planetary mixer, centrifuge, freeze dryer, shear mixer, reactor synthesis, digestion reactor and rotary evaporator.

The Royce Battery Suite will uniquely allow exploration of scalable manufacturing and processing of battery materials, for the translation of novel energy materials into application, bridging the gap between research and industry

This event will include talks from academic researchers across battery research and spinouts, with lab tours of the Battery Suite.

Please note that the event will start in the Maxwell Centre and include a visit to the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, on the West Cambridge campus.

https://roycecambridgebatterysuitelaunch.eventbrite.co.uk/

The Royce @ Cambridge Ambient Processing Tool is being used to support the latest research in energy and light. This symposium will bring together academic and commercial researchers to highlight their work.

https://EnergyandlightsymposiumIV.eventbrite.co.uk

Prof Joe Briscoe, Queen Mary University of London, UK.

Huge advances have been made in recent years in solar energy conversion from both established technologies such as silicon to emerging photovoltaics such as halide perovskites, and direct solar-to-fuel such as photoelectrochemical water splitting and CO₂ reduction. Many of these technologies are either approaching their fundamental efficiency limits, or require new approaches to accelerate efficiency improvements. Here, I will present our work developing new devices based on ferroelectric-photovoltaic and ferroelectric-photocatalyst nanocomposites. Ferroelectrics produce a bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) that does not require a semiconductor junction therefore can produce above bandgap photovoltages. However they generally are poor light absorbers with low charge carrier mobilities. Therefore we intend to couple the BPVE with efficient photoabsorbers by intimately combining these materials in nanocomposite films. As a proof-of-concept for this effect we have combined photocatalyst materials such as Fe₂O₃ with porous ferroelectrics to efficiently couple the two effects together, demonstrating enhanced photocatalytic activity driven by the ferroelectric polarisation. We have also demonstrated a strain dependence of the BPVE in epitaxial BaTiO₃ thin films, which has implications for optimisation of nanocomposite structures.

More information: http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/98965

The workshop will cover the complete suite of material property measurement systems offered by Quantum Design.  The first day will highlight the Magnetic Property Measurement System (MPMS3), Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS) family, and OptiCool. The second day will focus on the various material measurement techniques and techniques to improve accuracy. 

https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/events/material-property-measurement-workshop

The workshop will cover the complete suite of material property measurement systems offered by Quantum Design.  The first day will highlight the Magnetic Property Measurement System (MPMS3), Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS) family, and OptiCool. The second day will focus on the various material measurement techniques and techniques to improve accuracy. 

https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/events/material-property-measurement-workshop

Speaker: Professor Chris J. Pickard, Sir Alan Cottrell Professor of Materials Science, University of Cambridge.

Modern methods for computing the properties of realistic materials from first principles (starting from quantum mechanics) have resulted in robust, efficient, and easy to use computer codes.

With with the explosion of available computational resources, and increasingly, machine learning, it has become possible to search though the vast space of compositions and arrangements of atoms to “discover” new materials with extreme properties, or under extreme and experimentally difficult to access conditions.

Examples range from the computational prediction of superconductors with very high superconducting transition temperatures, which at least in some cases have been confirmed experimentally, to the prediction of the behaviour of matter in the centre of giant planets, or even white dwarf stars.

More information: Cambridge Philosophical Society

This event marks the launch of the Royce @ Cambridge Physical Deposition and Characterisation Facility - part of one of the UK-wide Henry Royce Institute open-access technology platforms. This facility includes equipment for device fabrication and characterisation which will be demonstrated during the event.

The talks, demonstrations and workshops will give an overview of the facility, based in the Department for Materials Science and Metallurgy, and its capabilities. It will also introduce the physical principles governing the diverse equipment and their applications. Attendees will be given the opportunity to see the the equipment in action and receive a handout covering the principles of each technique.

There will be also be information on the department's Centre for Materials Physics, recent industrial and academic work, open access and Royce @ Cambridge funding.

Book your free place via: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/royce-cambridge-physical-vapour-deposition-and-characterisation-facility-tickets-523560311987

This event marks the launch of the Royce @ Cambridge Physical Deposition and Characterisation Facility - part of one of the UK-wide Henry Royce Institute open-access technology platforms. This facility includes equipment for device fabrication and characterisation which will be demonstrated during the event.

The talks, demonstrations and workshops will give an overview of the facility, based in the Department for Materials Science and Metallurgy, and its capabilities. It will also introduce the physical principles governing the diverse equipment and their applications. Attendees will be given the opportunity to see the the equipment in action and receive a handout covering the principles of each technique.

There will be also be information on the department's Centre for Materials Physics, recent industrial and academic work, open access and Royce @ Cambridge funding.

Book your free place via: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/royce-cambridge-physical-vapour-deposition-and-characterisation-facility-tickets-523560311987

The 2023 ABC Forum will be held on Tuesday 20th June 2023. The afternoon programme includes talks, the award of the Armourers & Brasiers’ Materials Science Venture Prize, displays of current research, and the 24th Kelly Lecture will be given by Prof. Victoire de Margerie, Founder and Vice-Chairman, World Materials Forum.

Register in advance (there is no charge to attend): 

Eventbrite link to follow

Visit the Forum webpages for more information as it becomes available.

Prof. Nan Jian, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

For more information on attending this talk:  http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/98965