Cindy Tseng from Imperial College attends 245th Electrochemical Society Conference in the USA with help from a SCN Travel Award

I attended the 245th Electrochemical Society Conference, which was held at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco. At the conference, I presented my research on the effects of mixed titanium-iridium oxides on the oxygen evolution reaction, highlighting how this can help reduce iridium loading in industrial electrolyzers and lower the cost of hydrogen production. In addition to delivering an oral presentation, I also got the change to chair my own session, which was a great opportunity to meet other people doing research very relevant to my field. I connected with over a dozen scientists and spoke with a few groups interested in collaborating on measuring the stability of my samples. I also attended symposium A01: New Approaches and Advances in Electrochemical Energy Systems, held in memory of Sri Narayan. Professor Narayan was my Electrochemistry instructor during my PhD at the University of Southern California, and it was an honor to attend the symposium and celebrate his influential work on fuel cells. The room was filled with his students, many of whom were my former colleagues and friends, and it was wonderful to catch up. Thanks to this travel grant, I was able to make this trip, leading to significant scientific insights and cherished personal memories for which I am deeply grateful.

SCN Outreach Funding: The Solar Suitcase

With the help of the Solar Chemicals Network funding 'Outreach Award', The Solar Suitcase led by Dr Sprick has visited several schools in Glasgow and the Central Belt in Scotland teaching students about climate change and how we can produce essential fuels and chemicals using sunlight-driven processes. The suitcase contains a mixture of hands-on and demonstration activities as well as the Solar Card Game developed specifically for this, which shows how sunlight-driven processes can be used to replace fossil fuels.

SCN Travel Award helps fund attendance at the 245th Electrochemical Society Meeting in San Francisco

With help from the SCN Travel Award scheme Romaine Tort, from Imperial College London, attended the 245th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society in San Francisco, USA. This conference is the largest meeting fully dedicated to electrochemistry on the American continent, with over a thousand attendees each year.  Romain attended to present his work on electrochemical nitrogen reduction to ammonia and his search for catalysts beyond Lithium.

Presenting this work at the 245th ECS meeting was a unique opportunity for him to meet and network with colleagues across the Atlantic. Several discussions followed his presentation, including one with the aim of establishing a new collaboration across research groups in different countries, to explore said chemistries beyond lithium. In addition, he got the chance to attend many talks from researchers directly or closely related to his research field, ask questions directly and get inspired by their research. All this feeds into Romain’s research endeavours toward progressing the sustainable synthesis of fertiliser and carbon neutral fuels.