Rob Weatherup

Rob Weatherup and new ERC grant for special operando project

Congratulations to Prof Rob Weatherup on the award of an ERC Consolidator grant for his OPERATE project. 

Read more on our website: https://materialsoutreach.web.ox.ac.uk/article/rob-weatherup-and-new-erc-grant-for-special-operando-project.

#Operando #ERCCoG

High-entropy alloy nanostructures: from theory to application - register now, early bird deadline is 11 August

Early bird registration for our Faraday Discussion #FD_Alloys closes on 11 August. Join us for a unique cross-disciplinary discussion to explore possible solutions to the challenges that remain in the field.

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🎉🎈Many congratulations🎉🎈 to Professor Mauro Pasta, who has been awarded the 2025 @rsc.org 2025 Corday-Morgan Prize and Medal, for innovative research on novel battery chemistries.

Read more on rsc.li/prizes.

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🎈🎉Many congratulations🎈🎉 to Professor Saiful Islam, who has been awarded the 2025 @rsc.org 2025 Environment Prize & Medal, for deepening understanding of atomistic processes for lithium batteries & hybrid photovoltaics.

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A Pressure Gap in Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis Revealed with Multi-bar Soft X-ray Spectroscopies Catalytic surfaces can dramatically restructure with reaction conditions, influencing activity and selectivity, as well as making it challenging to identify the active phase. Using graphene windows de...

Our latest work on extending XPS to 4 bar for the first time. Great work by Peixi, revealing how cobalt nanoparticles restructure: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Two days of excellent sciences and heartfelt memories (old and new). The Grey-hounds/friends coming together for this occasion is the direct testimonial of Clare’s unmatched guidance, contagious curiosity and dedication for the science. happy birthday Clare 🎉🎊🥳

A new D.Phil opportunity in our group in partnership with UKAEA: examining ceramic coatings to contain tritium in future fusion reactors. This will involve analysis of a range of ceramics developed at UKAEA, and is a chance to work at the frontier of fusion reactor development.

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🎓 Applications are open for fully funded 4-year doctoral studentships within the IMAT Centre for Doctoral Training @ox.ac.uk! If you're interested in #compchem & ML, check out collaborative projects we have available with the Hayward and Steier groups, respectively: imatcdt.chem.ox.ac.uk

Applying the Maxwell-Stefan Diffusion Framework to Multicomponent Battery Electrolytes

Authors: Conor Phelan, Jack Swallow, Robert Weatherup
DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-70tj6

It’s double beamtime for our group at Diamond Light Source. Battery NEXAFS @B07, and operando XANES of electrocatalysts @B18. Hopefully some nice results to come over the weekend.

Atomistic Interpretation of the Oxygen K-Edge X-ray Absorption Spectra of Layered Li-Ion Battery Cathode Materials Core loss spectroscopies can provide powerful element-specific insight into the redox processes occurring in Li-ion battery cathodes, but this requires an accurate interpretation of the spectral featu...

Namu’s latest paper out now, on modelling X-ray spectra of layered cathode materials for Li-ion batteries:

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