About the Electrochemical Technologies Group (ETG)
July 18, 2013
Since October 2003, the Electrochemical Technologies Group at Nottingham have seen more than 80 members with 8 academic visitors, 14 postdoctoral researchers, 20 PhD students and ca. 40 MSc/MEng students. The group has gained international reputation with over 100 invited lectures at conferences and special seminars around the world under the research theme of “Electrochemical …
Celebration of Chinese Horse New Year
January 30, 2014
In the evening of 28th January 2014, a group dinner was held in George’s house to celebrate the coming of Chinese Horse New Year and the harvest of ETG. Each of the group member prepared one or more dishes. The ETG members are not only good scientists, but also good cooks. You can’t imagine that …
ETG Workplacement Student Won Gold CREST Award
October 31, 2013
Congratulations to Amy Chen who has won the Gold CREST Award from the British Science Association. The award was for Amy’s “excellent report” entitled “An Investigation of Molten Salt Electrolysis to Capture and Convert Carbon Dioxide into Carbon for use in Supercapacitors”. Amy has carried out the research in the ETG during her summer work placement.
New way of making the negative electrode for Li-ion batteries
Xianbo in Wuhan University has led an investigation of direct electrochemical reduction of mixed tin oxide (SnO2) and antimony oxide (Sb2O3) in sulfuric acid to a porous alloy of Sn/SnSb which exhibited very promising dis-/charging capacity when applied directly as the negative electrode in a laboratory lithium ion battery. The work will soon be published. Zhang …
Two invited lectures from ETG at international Conferences
September 24, 2013
ETG research on supercapacitor materials and performances has been presented as invited letures at two international conferences in Beijing and Queretaro (Mexico) in September 2013. (Invited) Chen GZ, Interfacial Conjugation in Hybrids of Nano-Carbon and Pseudo-capacitive Materials, Symp. 4a: Novel Materials and Devices for Energy Storage and Conversion: Electrochemical Capacitors, 64th Annual Meeting of …
2013 Summer Project in ETG (2)
September 5, 2013
After Yaoyao’s experience sharing, the other two undergraduats, Miss Qingxin Zhang and Mr Feng Zheng, write down their story about the 2013 Summer Project in ETG. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- Qingxin ZHANG I was given the opportunity to do a voluntary placement at George’s supercapacitor group during the summer vacation. Throughout the project, the group completed many different tasks, …
Two new ETG PhD theses
August 29, 2013
Congratulations to Matthew and Richard for having defended their PhD theses successfully. Ziyan (Matthew) Li, A Photoelectrochemical Study of CNT/TiO2 Nanocomposites Synthesised by Surfactant-aided Sol-Gel Method, PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham, Jan. 2013. Richard Lawrence, Carbon from Carbon Dioxide via Molten Carbonate Electrolysis: Fundamental Investigations, PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham, Jun. 2013.
ETG Logo
We have now a group logo, thanks to the help from an A-Level working experience student, Amy Chen. In the logo, the two curves are the cyclic voltammograms of two carbon nanotubes composites: one with a rodox active and non-conducting polymer (red) and the other with polyaniline. The acronym, ETG, stands for Electrochemical Technologies …
2013 Summer Project in ETG (1)
August 19, 2013
My summer voluntary experience in Super-capacitor Group Yaoyao ZHENG In the summer of 2013, I experienced the whole process of making a super-capacitor in Super-capacitor group. This experience is quite valuable for me and I have leant a lot, not only how a super-capacitor is synthesized from raw materials to final product, …
Photos of some of group members — All about eating
July 25, 2013
The first dumplings championship was held at George Chen’s house on 13th Feb 2013. Jiao-Zi (dumplings) produced by the EchemTech Group in 2013. Copyright © 2013 EchemTech Group
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