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Had a lot of fun this year developing and running a primary school battery outreach programme.🔋We’ve gone to schools across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough discussing all things batteries and opportunities in STEM. We’ve also made some batteries!👨‍🔬👩‍🔬

A very hot and hilly race this morning at the Bear Creek Half Marathon. Great way to get rid of the jet lag though.✈️ Looking forward to presenting our battery electrolyte work at #ACSFall2023 tomorrow morning! 🔋

Come to Napa Valley for the wine, stay for the V8! 🍷🛻

Enjoyed attending and presenting at #ACSFall2023 in San Francisco last week. My first ACS meeting! 🇺🇸

Concise summary of outreach activities by Megan Penrod and Darren Ould. They also share their experience in planning and execution of fun experiments. These outreach activities are funded by Clare's 2021 Körber-Stiftung Science Prize. ch.cam.ac.uk/building-batte… Cambridge Chemistry

Enjoyed attending and presenting a poster at the Sodium-Ion STRIKE conference last week at Swansea University. An interesting mixture of academic and industry talks on the commercial realisation of these batteries.🔋Obligatory West Wales coast run as well. 🌊

Happy to share our latest work on electrolye synthesis for sodium-ion batteries.🔋We synthesise a sodium aluminate salt, that is a room-temperature ionic liquid, and investigate electrochemical properties. 👨‍🔬 …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Sodium Tetrakis(hexafluoroisopropyloxy)aluminates: Synthesis and Electrochemical Characterisation of a Room-Temperature Solvated #IonicLiquid (Dominic S. Wright and co-workers) Darren Ould @SvetlanaMenkin @V_riesgo Erlendur J. Grey Group #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ce…

Huge thank you to Dr Lizzie Driscoll for organising a successful outreach session after #Faraday2023👏 The event was set up to inspire the next generation of students age 16-18 & provide the opportunity to meet scientists & engineers working at the forefront of the #EnergyStorage sector

Sodium-ion batteries could have a big role to play in the electric vehicle market. While they won't have the same range as the best lithium-ion cells, they offer a way to reduce dependence on critical minerals and lower costs. Read more here: theconversation.com/how-sodium-ion…

Enjoyed participating in my first New Scientist Live event last weekend.🧪 🔭 I’ve been organising our Faraday Institution battery stand for most of this year, but seeing the hundred if not thousands of people interact with us over the three days made it all worth it. 🔋

Front cover for our latest work on a sodium aluminate ionic liquid electrolyte. Clearly I was in a beach mood when designing this! 🏖️

Enjoyed presenting in the first session of Sustainable Batteries yesterday at the #CSC2024. It was a great opportunity to showcase some new electrolyte results for sodium-ion batteries. Photo of obligatory evening run along the river in Winnipeg! 🏃‍♂️

Ready for the trivia! 🧪 👨‍🔬

Excited to be in Denver for #ACSFall2024! 🇺🇸 I’ll be speaking about electrolyte synthesis for lithium and sodium ion batteries on Wednesday 0945 in Ballroom 1F! 🔋

New paper alert! 🚨📝 Great to finally be able to share this. In this work we compare using weakly coordinating borate and aluminate anions for lithium batteries and find superior cycling performance for a lithium aluminate salt!🔋 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

A project we’re very excited about! Following on from my new batch synthesis of NaPF6, it’s now been developed as a continuous flow process. This makes the synthesis of NaPF6 cheaper and safer when scaling up! 👨‍🔬🔋

New Communication out now from Clare Grey & Dominic Wright at Cambridge Chemistry 'Borates vs. aluminates: comparing the anion for lithium-ion batteries' Now included in our ChemComm 60th Anniversary Collection #openaccess buff.ly/3ZXiXIS

New from Grey Group, first author Darren Ould and co. at Cambridge Chemistry 'Properties of NaPF6 electrolytes and effect of electrolyte concentration on performance in sodium-ion batteries' #OpenAccess 🔓 buff.ly/8Kyhu16