Gallery

Stellenbosch + Imperial research team :-) L to R: Craig McGregor, Anna Hankin, Arend Moelich, George Creasey and John Rodriguez Acosta

Photoelectrochemical reactor irradiated by an optical system of a coupled fresnel lens arrays with waveguides

Waveguide delivering light to a bismuth vanadate photoelectrode

View of light refracting through the fresnel lenses

Double-sided photoelectrochemical reactor irradiation using mirrors

View of light reflecting onto a bismuth vanadate photoanode

View of light reflecting onto an antimony selenide photocathode

Prof Craig McGregor showing us the rooftop solar cookers

We attended the inagural Hydrogen Symposium at Stellenbosch

Arend Moelich presenting his poster on Multiphysics modelling of the optical system

This is a different view from the office to what we are used to :-)

John and George visited the cheetah sanctuary in Somerset West

View during a hike up the Helderberg mountain

Arend, George, John and Anna visited the Aquila wildlife reserve

View across the Aquila wildlife reserve

Zebras in Aquila

Lion in Aquila

Rhinos in Aquila

View of Elizabeth Tower from an inner courtyard of the Houses of Parliament

Statue of Oliver Cromwell in front of the Houses of Parliament

Inside the House of Commons

View onto the river Thames from Terrace Pavillion at The House of Commons

Anna representing Imperial with Dr Jacqueline Edge and Pete Ford at the Geological Society

Beautiful facade of Fortnum & Mason in Christmas colours

Hanzhi Ye with her poster on biomass waste valorisation

Kloy Plub-in telling Franky Bedoya about glycerol oxidation

Dr John Rodriguez demonstrates the effects of doping on electrodeposited WO3/BiVO4 photoactive layers

Mengya with her poster, accompanied by George and Derek

Derek is in the middle of his talk on carbon nanotube synthesis

George is discussing issues with photoelectrochemical reactor scale-up

Stunning conference audotorium in the Wills Memorial Building

Awe inspiring staircase inside the entrace to the Wills Memorial Building in Clifton

SS Great Britain, the world’s first great ocean liner, where the conference reception was held

Xiaochu giving her talk

Anna delivering an invited speech

Tour of Toulouse with Prof Sudipta Roy

Taking an electric boat down the river Garonne

George is the captain!

Derek assumes a relaxed pose :-)

Derek with his poster

George next to his poster

Ariane 5 at Cite de l'espace

Moon Lander at Cite de l'espace

Xiaochu, George and Derek in front of the Moon Lander

Inside the MIR Space Station (life size model)

Derek Zhu, Liam O'Neill and Arend Moelich are keen to explain solar fuel production

John Rodriguez is busy explaining key photoelectrochemistry principles :-)

Yasmine Baghdadi operates the Hydrogen Canon! 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...bang!

Our research group (those who could come)

The magnificent Seven Sisters cliffs

With colleague Dr Qilei Song

Having a well-deserved rest with the research group of Qilei's research group

With Dr John Rodriguez Acosta

This marks the place where a long detour is required

Derek and George from the venue

View of Westminster Abbey

Dean's Yard

George Creasey presents his poster

Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

Solar2Chem Winter school crew

The South Jamaica Power Centre and it’s brand new CCGT plant

Anna gives a talk about photoelectrochemical reactors

Panel discussion about solar energy conversion

Dinner at the British High Commission in Kingston

Dinner at Usain Bolt's Tracks & Records

Frenchman Cove

Wise words at Winifred Beach

Pool at Reach Falls

Blue Mountains

In front of the CO2 capture Pilot Plant

Learning about graphene exfoliation from Dr Andrius Patapas

Observing infrared spectra of fibres with Prof Sergei Kazarian

Observing simulated solar hydrogen production with George Creasey

Mini demo of light-to-electricity-to-hydrogen-to-electricity conversion

The Group :-)

Decorating a gingerbread house

Playing a game of Cranium

The whole group is here!

Theme of the day

Beautiful view!

Inyoung presents her poster on 'Structural effects on performances of solid oxide electrochemical reactors with 3D printed Ni(O)-YSZ pillared negative electrodes'

Nahmkang presents his poster on 'Making Ni-based electrodes for alkaline H2O electrolysis via electrodeposition'

Exploring Edinburgh ahead of the conference

Having delicious Scottish food at Howie's

Catch of the day!

Some goodies from the Palace of Holyroodhouse gift shop

The UK electrochemist delegation

Some exceptional local honey

A beautiful venue in the sunshine

Science Communicator Dan Plane begins with a demo of water electrolysis

Dan and Anna talk about how hydrogen is made from water and what it is used for

Shall we explode some hydrogen in the palm of the hand?....

...BANG!!!

Our stall poster

Our stall on Solar Hydrogen

The hydrogen cannon!

Beautiful view from a seaside walk

Our whole research group

Sea view - lots of seagulls!

Sea view with flowers

Low tide

Upper and Lower College Hall for poster session an gala dinner

Women@Imperial Week

Magda Titirici

A very entertained audience

Cleo Kontoravdi

Francesca Ceroni

Panel discussion: Francesca, Cleo, Magda

Karen Polizzi

Anna Hankin

Our stall on solar to hydrogen conversion and solar coatings for buildings for breaking down pollution

Sze, Anna, Megan, Xiaochu and Nahmkang all set to go!

Getting the crowd excited with demos ahead of the talk on 'Sustainable Materials for Energy' by Professor Anna Korre

Solar concentrator (7 m diameter, 25 kW thermal power)

Setup in progress

EPFL campus at dusk in December

Lake Geneva

Isaac, Anna and Franky

Essentials

In front of the SwissTech Convention Center

Visiting a H2 refuelling facility in Martigny

In centre of Lausanne

Electrochemical Engineers from Imperial College London

Our 'Solar2H2' stall - with exhibits and gadgets about solar energy conversion to fuel

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....

Chatting to an interested audience

A hydrogen fuel cell vehicle

Fuel cell stack of UCell, an electrochemical energy outreach group based at UCL

All set to go!

Lots of learning about solar energy conversion :-)

Oxygen evolving on a hematite photoanode

Sachertorte (2018)

Птичье Молоко (Ptichye Moloko) cake (2019)

Ready, steady, go!

Perfect day for doing experiments on the rooftop of Blackett Laboratory

Jose and Franky measure the current in the external circuit - spontaneous water splitting!

Setting up the experiment: Franky, Isaac, Anna, pram + baby, reactor and potentiostat

After sunset a solar simulator was needed

Intitial tests required manual adjustment of the tilt table to follow the solar elevation

Cooling towers

It 'rains' at the base of a cooling tower

Arrays of transformers

Gypsum

Biomass storage domes

Some chemical engineers

Limoges

Limoges

Limoges

Limoges

Limoges

Hawaii Convention Center

Waikiki beach

Sunset in Honolulu

At Hawaii Hilton Village, after presenting

Hawaii Hilton Village

Near Haleiwa, North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii

Pilot plant reactor for electrochemical nickel recovery

Pilot reactor, operated at Gower Chemicals, Swansea

UROP student Tom Fryatt has things under control

Nickel was electrodeposited onto nickel mesh. Morphology is not crucial in the recovery process.

Side view of pilot reactor

Bench-scale nickel reactor