Gallery
nanoGe MAT-SUS in Torremolinos (2023)
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Hanzhi Ye with her poster on biomass waste valorisation
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Kloy Plub-in telling Franky Bedoya about glycerol oxidation
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Dr John Rodriguez demonstrates the effects of doping on electrodeposited WO3/BiVO4 photoactive layers
Electrochem2023 conference in Bristol (2023)
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Mengya with her poster, accompanied by George and Derek
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Derek is in the middle of his talk on carbon nanotube synthesis
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George is discussing issues with photoelectrochemical reactor scale-up
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Stunning conference audotorium in the Wills Memorial Building
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Awe inspiring staircase inside the entrace to the Wills Memorial Building in Clifton
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SS Great Britain, the world’s first great ocean liner, where the conference reception was held
13th European Symposium on Electrochemical Engineering, Toulouse (2023)
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Xiaochu giving her talk
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Anna delivering an invited speech
Tour of Toulouse with Prof Sudipta Roy
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Taking an electric boat down the river Garonne
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George is the captain!
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Derek assumes a relaxed pose :-)
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Derek with his poster
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George next to his poster
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Ariane 5 at Cite de l'espace
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Moon Lander at Cite de l'espace
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Xiaochu, George and Derek in front of the Moon Lander
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Inside the MIR Space Station (life size model)
Great Exhibition Road Festival (2023)
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Derek Zhu, Liam O'Neill and Arend Moelich are keen to explain solar fuel production
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John Rodriguez is busy explaining key photoelectrochemistry principles :-)
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Yasmine Baghdadi operates the Hydrogen Canon! 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...bang!
Joint Seven Sisters hike with Dr Qilei Song's research team (2023)
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Our research group (those who could come)
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The magnificent Seven Sisters cliffs
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With colleague Dr Qilei Song
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Having a well-deserved rest with the research group of Qilei's research group
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With Dr John Rodriguez Acosta
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This marks the place where a long detour is required
UK-HyRES regional roadshow, Westminster (2023)
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Derek and George from the venue
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View of Westminster Abbey
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Dean's Yard
Solar2Chem Winter School, Valencia (2023)
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George Creasey presents his poster
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Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
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Solar2Chem Winter school crew
Commonwealth Science Conference (CSC) - Caribbean edition - by the University of the West Indies with the Royal Society, Kingston (2023)
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The South Jamaica Power Centre and it’s brand new CCGT plant
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Anna gives a talk about photoelectrochemical reactors
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Panel discussion about solar energy conversion
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Dinner at the British High Commission in Kingston
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Dinner at Usain Bolt's Tracks & Records
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Frenchman Cove
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Wise words at Winifred Beach
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Pool at Reach Falls
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Blue Mountains
Visit from AZBUKA Foundation (2023)
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In front of the CO2 capture Pilot Plant
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Learning about graphene exfoliation from Dr Andrius Patapas
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Observing infrared spectra of fibres with Prof Sergei Kazarian
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Observing simulated solar hydrogen production with George Creasey
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Mini demo of light-to-electricity-to-hydrogen-to-electricity conversion
Group Christmas bash (2022)
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The Group :-)
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Decorating a gingerbread house
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Playing a game of Cranium
H2SUPERGEN Meeting at the Science Museum in London (2022)
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The whole group is here!
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Theme of the day
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Beautiful view!
Electrochem2022 conference in Edinburgh (2022)
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Inyoung presents her poster on 'Structural effects on performances of solid oxide electrochemical reactors with 3D printed Ni(O)-YSZ pillared negative electrodes'
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Nahmkang presents his poster on 'Making Ni-based electrodes for alkaline H2O electrolysis via electrodeposition'
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Exploring Edinburgh ahead of the conference
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Having delicious Scottish food at Howie's
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Catch of the day!
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Some goodies from the Palace of Holyroodhouse gift shop
Electrochemistry meeting at Gregynog, Wales (2022)
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The UK electrochemist delegation
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Some exceptional local honey
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A beautiful venue in the sunshine
Our activities at the Great Exhibition Road Festival (2022)
![Dan Plane carrying out hydrogen explosion demo with Nahmkang Banjong](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/images/non-standard-dimensions/resised---180622_gerf_great_exhibition_road_festival_angus_059.jpg)
Science Communicator Dan Plane begins with a demo of water electrolysis
![Dan Plane carrying out hydrogen explosion demo with Anna Hankin](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/images/non-standard-dimensions/resized---IMG_4352.jpg)
Dan and Anna talk about how hydrogen is made from water and what it is used for
![Hydrogen explosion demo during GERF festival with Jatuporn Banjong](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/images/non-standard-dimensions/resized---180622_gerf_great_exhibition_road_festival_angus_167.jpg)
Shall we explode some hydrogen in the palm of the hand?....
![Dan Plane carrying out hydrogen explosion demo](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/images/non-standard-dimensions/resized---180622_gerf_great_exhibition_road_festival_angus_168.jpg)
...BANG!!!
![Solar Hydrogen stall poster at GERF 2022](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/images/non-standard-dimensions/resized---L1000364.png)
Our stall poster
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Our stall on Solar Hydrogen
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The hydrogen cannon!
H2SUPERGEN Conference in St Andrews (2022)
Beautiful view from a seaside walk
Our whole research group
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Sea view - lots of seagulls!
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Sea view with flowers
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Low tide
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Upper and Lower College Hall for poster session an gala dinner
Women@Imperial Week (2020)
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Women@Imperial Week
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Magda Titirici
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A very entertained audience
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Cleo Kontoravdi
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Francesca Ceroni
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Panel discussion: Francesca, Cleo, Magda
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Karen Polizzi
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Anna Hankin
Outreach - EFL's Energy Showcase at Imperial College (2019)
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Our stall on solar to hydrogen conversion and solar coatings for buildings for breaking down pollution
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Sze, Anna, Megan, Xiaochu and Nahmkang all set to go!
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Getting the crowd excited with demos ahead of the talk on 'Sustainable Materials for Energy' by Professor Anna Korre
STFC-funded collaboration visit to LRESE at EPFL, Lausanne (2018)
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Solar concentrator (7 m diameter, 25 kW thermal power)
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Setup in progress
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EPFL campus at dusk in December
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Lake Geneva
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Isaac, Anna and Franky
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Essentials
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In front of the SwissTech Convention Center
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Visiting a H2 refuelling facility in Martigny
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In centre of Lausanne
Outreach - Hydrogen Festival at UCL (2017)
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Electrochemical Engineers from Imperial College London
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Our 'Solar2H2' stall - with exhibits and gadgets about solar energy conversion to fuel
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How can we explain the process of electron excitation in a semiconductor, followed by electrochemical reduction of water to hydrogen? We use a marble run....
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Chatting to an interested audience
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A hydrogen fuel cell vehicle
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Fuel cell stack of UCell, an electrochemical energy outreach group based at UCL
Outreach - Imperial College Festival (2017)
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All set to go!
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Lots of learning about solar energy conversion :-)
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Oxygen evolving on a hematite photoanode
Home bakes for the Macmillan Coffee Morning in Chem Eng (2018 - 2019)
![Photo of a home made Sachertorte](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/DoKPo6kXoAAawtg--tojpeg_1587593653357_x4.jpg)
Sachertorte (2018)
![Photo of a home made Russian souffle cake](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/EFbWfOFW4AAS5g8--tojpeg_1587594207786_x4.jpg)
Птичье Молоко (Ptichye Moloko) cake (2019)
Outdoor photo-electrochemical reactor testing (2016)
![Jose and Anna posing with their reactor with the royal albert hall in the background](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/Anna-and-Jose-with-reactor--tojpeg_1587592666368_x4.jpg)
Ready, steady, go!
![Photo of the experimental setup on the rooftop of the physics building on a beautiful sunny day](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/IMG_4203-JPG--tojpeg_1587590854149_x4.jpg)
Perfect day for doing experiments on the rooftop of Blackett Laboratory
![Jose and Franky excitedly registering a current generated by spontaneous water splitting](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/IMG_4155-JPG--tojpeg_1587590942154_x4.jpg)
Jose and Franky measure the current in the external circuit - spontaneous water splitting!
![A photo os us crammed in a lift with the experiment and a child in a buggy](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/IMG_4145-JPG--tojpeg_1587591106423_x4.jpg)
Setting up the experiment: Franky, Isaac, Anna, pram + baby, reactor and potentiostat
![Our photoelectrochemical reactor sitting under a solar silumator](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/Solar2H2---simulated-sunlight-JPG--tojpeg_1587591225659_x4.jpg)
After sunset a solar simulator was needed
![Jose moving our experiment around so that it faces the sun at the right angle](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/IMG_4023-JPG--tojpeg_1587591406806_x4.jpg)
Intitial tests required manual adjustment of the tilt table to follow the solar elevation
Educational visit to Drax power station (2016)
![Photo of 6 ccoling towers at Drax power station](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/IMG_4063--tojpeg_1587591934743_x4.jpg)
Cooling towers
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It 'rains' at the base of a cooling tower
![A photo of voltage transformers at Drax](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/IMG_4059--tojpeg_1587592106752_x4.jpg)
Arrays of transformers
![Anna Hankin photographed in front of mountains of gypsum](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/IMG_4072--tojpeg_1587592227996_x4.jpg)
Gypsum
![Photo of big domes at Drax where biomass is being stored](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/IMG_4062--tojpeg_1587592329307_x4.jpg)
Biomass storage domes
![Anna and Franky positing in front of a cooling tower](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/IMG_4081--tojpeg_1587592422841_x4.jpg)
Some chemical engineers
Cedardop 3D inkjet printer acquisition trip, Limoges (2013)
PRiME 2012, Honolulu, Hawaii (2012)
![Picture of the hawaii convention centre in Honolulu](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/Vid-iz-otelnogo-okna-na-odno-iz-conference-venues--tojpeg_1587506049204_x4.jpg)
Hawaii Convention Center
![Picture of waikiki beach in Honolulu](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/IMG_2811--tojpeg_1587509258310_x4.jpg)
Waikiki beach
![Picture of silhouetted palm trees during sunset in Honolulu](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/Sunset-in-Waikiki--tojpeg_1587509557100_x4.jpg)
Sunset in Honolulu
![Anna Hankin looking happy after finishing her presentation in honolulu](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/With-satchel-and-penguins--tojpeg_1587509635142_x4.jpg)
At Hawaii Hilton Village, after presenting
![Picture of palm trees and fountain at the hawaii hilton village in Honolulu](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/IMG_2828--tojpeg_1587509712513_x4.jpg)
Hawaii Hilton Village
![Picture of a jungle in the north of Oahu near Haleiwa](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/Gde-snimali-jurassic-park--tojpeg_1587509858384_x4.jpg)
Near Haleiwa, North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii
PhD - Nickel electrodeposition and recovery (2007 - 2011)
![Picture of our pilot plant reactor when its still nice and clean](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/IMG_3110--tojpeg_1587588796031_x4.jpg)
Pilot plant reactor for electrochemical nickel recovery
![Pilot plant reactor operating with nickel effluent in an industrial setting](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/Nickel-pilot-plant--tojpeg_1587589227671_x4.jpg)
Pilot reactor, operated at Gower Chemicals, Swansea
![Student Tom sitting operating the pilot plant reactor](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/IMGP4427--tojpeg_1587589343531_x4.jpg)
UROP student Tom Fryatt has things under control
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Nickel was electrodeposited onto nickel mesh. Morphology is not crucial in the recovery process.
![Side view of the pilot plant reactor](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/IMGP4434--tojpeg_1587589807830_x4.jpg)
Side view of pilot reactor
![Bench scale nickel recovery reactor in our lab](https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_2/media/migration/research-groups/IMG_2210--tojpeg_1587590379251_x4.jpg)
Bench-scale nickel reactor