Sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Professor Saiful Islam FRSC, FIMMM. Professor of Materials Science, University of Oxford
The supply of low carbon energy is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Major breakthroughs in clean energy technologies require advances in new materials and underpinning science. With the aid of 3D glasses, this talk describes the materials science of lithium batteries in electric vehicles and the novel compounds for next-generation solar cells, as well as highlighting the use of materials modelling methods to gain atomic-scale insights.
Saiful Islam has been Professor of Materials Science at the University of Oxford since 2022, before which he was Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of Bath for 16 years. He grew up in London and obtained his Chemistry degree and PhD from University College London followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Eastman Kodak Labs, New York, USA.
His research encompasses new materials for lithium and sodium batteries, and for perovskite solar cells. He has received several awards including the 2022 Royal Society Hughes Medal and the 2020 American Chemical Society Storch Award in Energy 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 new materials, he enjoys family breaks (as a dad of two), films and indie music.
Research website: https://bit.ly/327BgQr and Twitter @SaifulChemistry
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