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Date: November 12, 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 16:30 - 17:30
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two, G/F Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
Speaker: Professor Nigel Brandon, Imperial College London

Abstract:
Electrochemical technology will play a key role in the transition to low carbon energy systems, offering both highly efficient conversion between molecules and electrons, and a means of storing electricity to balance renewable power generation.  The speaker will discuss his experience of taking electrochemical technology out of University labs into products, for this range of applications.  This will be done in the context of Ceres Power, a FTSE listed fuel cell and electrolyser company spun-out from Imperial College in 2000; RFC Power, a flow battery company spun-out in 2018; and M-SPIN, a recent spin-out manufacturing low cost high surface metals and oxides for electrochemical devices. 

About the speaker:
Professor Nigel Brandon OBE FREng FRS holds the Chair in Sustainable Development in Energy, and is Dean of Engineering, at Imperial College London.  His research interests lie in electrochemical science and engineering with a particular focus on fuel cells, electrolysers and flow batteries.  Professor Brandon received an OBE in 2011 for services to UK-China science and is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering. He was recognised as an International Member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2022.  He has been awarded the Castner Medal (2024); Christian Friedrich Schönbein Gold Medal (2024); Horizon Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (2023); Francis Bacon Medal, ASME (2014); Baker Medal, Institute of Civil Engineering (2011); and the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal (2007). Prior to joining Imperial he had a 14 year industrial research career with BP and Rolls-Royce, and is the founder of three start-up companies in the sector.

All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join. Seats for on-site participants are limited. Interested parties please register through the link below by 11 November 2024 0:00am: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=96552 

A confirmation email will be sent to participants who have successfully registered.

We look forward to seeing you in the lecture. Thank you.