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From Batteries to Solar Cells: Exploring Energy Materials on the Atomic Scale

Further breakthroughs in materials for low carbon energy applications require advances in new compositions and underpinning materials science.

Indeed, a greater fundamental understanding into new materials for lithium batteries and solar cells require atomic-scale characterization of their structural, electronic and transport behaviour. In this context, a combination of materials modelling and experimental work is now a powerful approach for investigating these properties on the atomic scale.

This presentation will describe such studies in two principal areas: (i) redox chemistry of lithium-rich cathodes for lithium-ion batteries; and (ii) ion migration and molecular passivation effects in metal-halide perovskites for solar cells.

Bio:

Saiful Islam is Professor of Materials Science at the University of Oxford, UK. He grew up in London and obtained his Chemistry degree and PhD from University College London followed by positions at the Eastman Kodak Labs, New York, USA, and the Universities of Surrey and Bath.

His research encompasses atomic- and nano-scale processes in new materials for lithium- and sodium-ion batteries, and for perovskite solar cells. He leads the Faraday Institution CATMAT project on lithium cathode materials and has received awards from the Royal Society, American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry.

Saiful presented the 2016 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures for BBC TV on the theme of energy, which included a lemon battery world record. He is a Patron of Humanists UK and when not exploring energy materials, he enjoys family breaks (as a dad of two), films and indie music.

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