ReLiB Project

5 years ago today, but still number 1!

Delighted to welcome 16 talented individuals to @FaradayInst #PhD Training Programme🔋 Stay tuned for updates on their PhD journeys with #FaradayTraining #BatteryCareers Take a look at the 2024/25 PhD Programme Course Guide➡️ lnkd.in/ek4Vv_EP

The #FUSE2024 internship programme was a huge success! 🎉 🔋55 interns 🔋1,100+ applicants 🔋71% would now pursue #EnergyStorage careers 🔋4 poster winners Read more: lnkd.in/e-kmX42W #FUSE2025 applications open spring 2025!

Congratulations to @UoBChemistry @PRSlaterChem and Echion Technologies for winning the 2024 Faraday Institution Community Award for Collaboration. faraday.ac.uk/birmingham-ech… An amazing achievement 👏

Kudos to @UniBirmingham & @EchionT for winning the 2024 @FaradayInst Collaboration Award! 🏆 Read more about how this long-standing partnership has made significant advances in the development of new anode materials for high power Li-ion batteries. ➡️lnkd.in/eqHHbirS

📢 2024 update published to our study "UK EV and Battery Production Potential to 2040" Learn more about the economic potential of the electric vehicle and battery ecosystem 👇 Download report for key insights faraday.ac.uk/get/ev-battery…⚡🧵

Also, a special thank you to Claire Hansell @HansellThe, the editor at @Nature who worked with us and supported us through the process.

The team who wrote the paper were: @gavindjharper @RSommerville,@Emjewls, @lauraldriscoll, @prslaterchem, @rustam_stolkin, Allan Walton, Paul Christensen, @OliverHeid82032 , @drsmlambert Andrew Abbott, Karl Ryder, Linda Gaines & Paul Anderson.

At the @FaradayInst @ReLIBProject, we are proud of our team's impactful work: According to the recently released @Google #Scholar 2024 Metrics, our 2019 #Nature150 paper, is ranked #27 of all articles in @Nature, published 2019-2024, which is Google Scholar's #1 ranked journal.

What % (pack by weight) of materials from EV batteries are recovered and reused? 60%? 50%? Less? Where does the rest go? Incineration? Landfill? The Pacific? Should we include energy-from-waste with its associated CO2 footprint as recovery?

Important issue this, and interesting to see the 5% recycling rate (mis)quoted again theguardian.com/technology/art…

A few questions to think about: If 5% is wrong, what is the correct value? What does it mean to say a battery is recycled? Is it Ok to base recycling rates only on the recovery of critical metals?

@prslaterchem @ACSPublications Special relationship?🤔

You should be ashamed of yourselves @ACSPublications. I thought the ACS was interested in furthering science but clearly I am naive. At least it reduces my workload as I will refuse to referee papers submitted to your journals ever again.

Great to see three ReLiB investigations presenting!

@KatusaResearch @RobertJRElliott Without a more diverse portfolio of technologies instead of an all eggs in one basket approach there is no green revolution !

Without these metals, there is no green revolution. Lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite are on the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARMs list

@Haggis_UK #Gigafactory for NI?

Rishi Sunak - "Northern Ireland is in the unbelievably special position... in the entire world... in having privileged access to the UK home market... but also the European Union single market... nobody else has that... only you guys" in Northern Ireland. 🤦

Engineering Biology in Recycling Li-Ion batteries dlvr.it/T6Kg3W