Mon 27 Jan 16:15: The noradrenergic locus coeruleus, gatekeeper of the mammalian NREM-REM sleep cycle
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Anita Lüthi, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Monday 27 January 2025, 16:15-18:00
- Venue: Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.
- Series: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience; organiser: Ole Paulsen.
Wed 12 Mar 18:00: Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery technologies function
This talk will start by describing existing battery technologies, what some of the current and more long-term challenges are, and touch on strategies to address some of the issues. I will then focus on my own work – together with my research group and collaborators – to develop new characterisation (NMR, MRI , and X-ray diffraction and optical) methods that allow batteries to be studied while they are operating (i.e., operando). These techniques allow transformations of the various cell components to be followed under realistic conditions without having to disassemble and take apart the cell. We can detect key side reactions involving the various battery materials, in order to determine the processes that are responsible ultimately for battery failure. We can watch ions diffusing in, and moving in and out of, the active “electrode” materials that store the (lithium) ions and the electrons, to understand how the batteries function. Finally, I will discuss the challenges in designing batteries that can be rapidly charged and discharged.
- Speaker: Professor Clare P. Grey
- Wednesday 12 March 2025, 18:00-19:00
- Venue: Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.
- Series: Cambridge Philosophical Society; organiser: Beverley Larner.
Wed 12 Mar 18:00: Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery technologies function
This talk will start by describing existing battery technologies, what some of the current and more long-term challenges are, and touch on strategies to address some of the issues. I will then focus on my own work – together with my research group and collaborators – to develop new characterisation (NMR, MRI , and X-ray diffraction and optical) methods that allow batteries to be studied while they are operating (i.e., operando). These techniques allow transformations of the various cell components to be followed under realistic conditions without having to disassemble and take apart the cell. We can detect key side reactions involving the various battery materials, in order to determine the processes that are responsible ultimately for battery failure. We can watch ions diffusing in, and moving in and out of, the active “electrode” materials that store the (lithium) ions and the electrons, to understand how the batteries function. Finally, I will discuss the challenges in designing batteries that can be rapidly charged and discharged.
- Speaker: Professor Clare P. Grey
- Wednesday 12 March 2025, 18:00-19:00
- Venue: Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.
- Series: Cambridge Philosophical Society; organiser: Beverley Larner.
Thu 27 Feb 14:00: Vision: A Symphony of Physics and Intelligence
TBA
- Speaker: Lu Fang, Tsinghua University
- Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: SS03 - William Gates Building.
- Series: Rainbow Group Seminars; organiser: Rafal Mantiuk.
Thu 29 May 15:00: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Alberto Paganini (University of Leicester)
- Thursday 29 May 2025, 15:00-16:00
- Venue: Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.
- Series: Applied and Computational Analysis; organiser: Georg Maierhofer.