Special lecture to mark the opening of the Colin Vincent Centre for Battery Technology Professor Sir Peter Bruce (University of Oxford)

Please note the change of venue for this event to Lecture Theatre 3 in The Gateway.

To mark the opening of the Colin Vincent Centre for Battery Technology, Professor Sir Peter Bruce, University of Oxford, will deliver a special lecture entitled ‘Oxygen in solids and liquids: high capacity Li-ion batteries and the Li-air battery'.

Professor Sir Peter Bruce is a founder and Chief Scientist of the Faraday Institution, and is Wolfson Professor of Materials at the University of Oxford. Sir Peter took up the position of Physical Secretary and Vice-President of the Royal Society in November 2018. He was a Professor of Chemistry at St Andrews from 1990 to 2013 and Head of the School of Chemistry between 1997 and 2003.

His research interests embrace materials chemistry and electrochemistry, with a particular emphasis on energy storage, especially lithium and sodium batteries. Recent efforts have focused on the synthesis and understanding of new materials for lithium and sodium-ion batteries, on understanding anomalous oxygen redox processes in transition metal oxides used as high capacity Li-ion cathodes, the challenges of the lithium-air battery and the influence of order on the ionic conductivity of polymer electrolytes.