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 …