Rob Weatherup
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Rob Weatherup
@roberando.bsky.social
Professor of Energy Materials at University of Oxford. UKRI FLF and ERC StG. Royce Research Area Lead for Electrochemical Systems.
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Early bird registration for our Faraday Discussion #FD_Alloys closes on 11 August. Join us for a unique cross-disciplinary discussion to explore possible solutions to the challenges that remain in the field.

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#ChemSky
July 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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🎉🎈Many congratulations🎉🎈 to Professor Mauro Pasta, who has been awarded the 2025 @rsc.org 2025 Corday-Morgan Prize and Medal, for innovative research on novel battery chemistries.

Read more on rsc.li/prizes.

@mplsoxford.bsky.social #RSCPrizes #batteries #sustainability
June 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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🎈🎉Many congratulations🎈🎉 to Professor Saiful Islam, who has been awarded the 2025 @rsc.org 2025 Environment Prize & Medal, for deepening understanding of atomistic processes for lithium batteries & hybrid photovoltaics.

Read more on rsc.li/prizes.

@mplsoxford.bsky.social #RSCPrizxes #batteries
June 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Our latest work on extending XPS to 4 bar for the first time. Great work by Peixi, revealing how cobalt nanoparticles restructure: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
A Pressure Gap in Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis Revealed with Multi-bar Soft X-ray Spectroscopies
Catalytic surfaces can dramatically restructure with reaction conditions, influencing activity and selectivity, as well as making it challenging to identify the active phase. Using graphene windows de...
chemrxiv.org
June 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Two days of excellent sciences and heartfelt memories (old and new). The Grey-hounds/friends coming together for this occasion is the direct testimonial of Clare’s unmatched guidance, contagious curiosity and dedication for the science. happy birthday Clare 🎉🎊🥳
March 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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A new D.Phil opportunity in our group in partnership with UKAEA: examining ceramic coatings to contain tritium in future fusion reactors. This will involve analysis of a range of ceramics developed at UKAEA, and is a chance to work at the frontier of fusion reactor development.

tinyurl.com/47mkywnz
Spatial Mapping of Hydrogen in Coatings for Fusion using Atom Probe Tomography to Inform Modelling of Tritium Trapping (Materials Strand project) - Fusion CDT
Doctoral Training in fusion-relevant disciplines: materials science, plasma physics, nuclear physics, technology, laser physics, instrumentation and related topics
fusion-cdt.ac.uk
January 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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🎓 Applications are open for fully funded 4-year doctoral studentships within the IMAT Centre for Doctoral Training @ox.ac.uk! If you're interested in #compchem & ML, check out collaborative projects we have available with the Hayward and Steier groups, respectively: imatcdt.chem.ox.ac.uk
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imatcdt.chem.ox.ac.uk
January 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Applying the Maxwell-Stefan Diffusion Framework to Multicomponent Battery Electrolytes

Authors: Conor Phelan, Jack Swallow, Robert Weatherup
DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-70tj6
December 16, 2024 at 9:51 AM
It’s double beamtime for our group at Diamond Light Source. Battery NEXAFS @B07, and operando XANES of electrocatalysts @B18. Hopefully some nice results to come over the weekend.
November 22, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Namu’s latest paper out now, on modelling X-ray spectra of layered cathode materials for Li-ion batteries:

pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Atomistic Interpretation of the Oxygen K-Edge X-ray Absorption Spectra of Layered Li-Ion Battery Cathode Materials
Core loss spectroscopies can provide powerful element-specific insight into the redox processes occurring in Li-ion battery cathodes, but this requires an accurate interpretation of the spectral featu...
pubs.acs.org
November 16, 2024 at 10:39 AM