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Joint Chemical Science RSC-CSJ symposium 2024: Materials for energy storage and conversion

31 October - 1 November 2024, London, United Kingdom


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Registration is open until 21 October. Register now to attend this exciting event.
Introduction

Welcome

Under the banner of our flagship diamond open access journal, Chemical Science, we’ll be shining a spotlight on cutting-edge chemistry research and giving it the sort of attention that drives scientific progress and makes a difference.

This meeting is the next iteration in the Chemical Science symposia series hosted by the Royal Society of Chemistry.  This year we are excited to join together with the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) to make this a joint event. The Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) and Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) have collaborated on many successful joint activities in the past. This symposium will be the eleventh time our two societies have come together to create a unique event for scientists to share ideas and experiences, this time in the field of energy materials.

We’re excited to welcome delegates to the home of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and look forward to a conversation enriched by the online participation of our international community.

We warmly invite you to join us in London, or online, in October 2024, for the Joint RSC-CSJ Chemical Science symposium 2024, and look forward to welcoming you to the discussion.

About the symposium

Leading researchers and emerging investigators from a broad range of backgrounds will come together to explore and celebrate the theme of the 2024 symposium: Materials for energy storage and conversion

The scientific programme of invited talks will be added shortly. The invited speakers will also be complemented by flash talks and poster sessions to provide further networking opportunities and discussion for all attendees.

The invited speakers for this symposium will discuss research over a range of topics, including:
  • Batteries
  • Fuel cells
  • Gas capture, separation and storage
  • Solar fuels
  • Artificial photosynthesis
  • Carbon dioxide conversion and reduction
  • Water oxidation
  • Photocatalysis and photovoltaics
Speakers
Veronica Augustyn, North Carolina State University, United States

Veronica Augustyn is the Jake and Jennifer Hooks Distinguished Scholar in Materials Science and Engineering and Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University. Her research focuses on the electrochemistry of materials for energy and environmental applications, including interfacial reactivity, ion-insertion coupled electron transfer mechanisms, and confinement phenomena. She is also the founder and faculty advisor of an award-winning international project, SciBridge, which develops renewable energy research and education collaborations between universities in Africa and the U.S.


Jillian L. Dempsey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

Jillian L. Dempsey is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and currently holds the Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professorship. She is the Deputy Director of the Center for Hybrid Approaches in Solar Energy to Liquid Fuels (CHASE). Her research group explores charge transfer processes associated with solar fuel production, including proton-coupled electron transfer reactions and electron transfer across interfaces. Her research bridges molecular and materials chemistry and relies heavily on methods of physical inorganic chemistry, including transient absorption spectroscopy and electrochemistry. She also dedicates time to advancing electrochemistry education for all chemists.


Marina Freitag, Newcastle University, United Kingdom

Prof. Marina Freitag, a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Professor of Energy at Newcastle University, is a pioneering researcher in sustainable energy materials. Her innovative approach combines chemistry, engineering, and artificial intelligence to develop highly efficient and robust photovoltaic technologies. With her invention of the "zombie" solar cell and her ground-breaking work on self-powered IoT devices, Prof. Freitag is driving the transition towards a sustainable and intelligent energy future. Her contributions to the field have been recognized with prestigious awards, including the Göran Gustafsson Young Researcher Award and the Royal Society of Chemistry Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize.


Elizabeth Gibson, Newcastle University, United Kingdom

Libby is a Professor of Energy Materials at Newcastle University. Research in her group focuses on developing materials and devices for sustainable power, fuel and feedstocks. This involves materials development, device assembly and characterization of the underpinning photophysics and electrochemistry. Her current roles include being the academic lead for the Northern Net Zero Accelerator PB-IAA, the EPSRC Northeast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy & Microscopy Facility, Institution Director of the EPSRC CDT Renewable Energy at Northeast Universities (ReNU), and she is the engagement lead for the UKRI Interdisciplinary Centre for Circular Chemical Economy.


Alexis Grimaud , Boston College, United States

Dr. Alexis Grimaud received his PhD from the University of Bordeaux in 2011 and is currently an associate professor in the chemistry department at Boston College. Prior to that position, he served as CNRS Researcher from 2014 to 2022 at the Collège de France, Paris, France. Dr. His research efforts focus on understanding complex interfacial processes at the heart of electrochemical systems, including water electrolyzers and Li-ion batteries, for which he is developing and studying novel liquid electrolytes with tailored reactivity that he is using to allow intercalation into novel classes of materials. Dr. Grimaud’s achievements were recognized by the French Young Researcher award as well as the Young Researcher award from the Energy Division of the French Chemical Society.


Laurence Hardwick, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

Professor Laurence Hardwick is the Director of the Stephenson Institute of Renewable Energy within the Department of Chemistry at the University of Liverpool, UK. Since 2011 he has led a group of 12-15 researchers that have focused on understanding real-time interface processes in batteries and electrochemical capacitors, a crucial step in improving energy materials to meet net-zero targets. His work has focused on developing cutting-edge technologies such advanced operando Raman and infrared spectroscopic techniques that can probe the functionality of electrode interfaces at the nanoscale. He presently targets integration of automation into electrochemical methods for accelerating interface design and characterisation.


Laura Herz, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Laura Herz is a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and an EPSRC Open Fellow. She received her PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge in 2002 and was a Research Fellow at St John's College Cambridge from 2001 - 2003. Her current research interests lie in the area of organic, inorganic and hybrid semiconductors, with a strong current focus on advanced materials for solar energy conversion. Her work has been recognized by several awards, including the Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division Mid-Career Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Nevill Mott Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics and the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Bessel Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She has been listed by Clarivate Analytics as a Highly Cited Researcher since 2018. Laura is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Materials Research Society, and the Institute of Physics. 


Emilio Palomares, Institut Català d'Investigació Química (ICIQ-CERCA), Spain

Emilio Palomares, born in Valencia in 1974, earned his Biology degree from UVEG in 1997, followed by a PhD at UPV/ITQ-CSIC in 2001. He received a Marie Slowdowska-Curie Fellowship at ICL, London, in 2001, delving into molecular devices for energy conversion. Joining ICMol-UVEG in 2004, he later moved to ICIQ-CERCA in 2006. Notable accolades include an ERC starting grant (2009), ERC PoC (2015), and ICREA Professorship (2009). Palomares received the Young Chemist Award (2006), INNOVA 2010 Award, and the E2S International Chair (2019). Elected ICIQ Director in 2020, he secured an ERC Advanced Grant in 2023. Palomares has co-authored 280+ peer-reviewed papers, focusing on materials for energy devices. His group specializes in interfacial charge transfer reactions, particularly in solar cells for electrochemical fuel cell applications.


Sebastian C. Peter, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India

Prof. Sebastian C. Peter received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Münster, Germany (2006) and was post-doctoral fellow at Max Plank Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany (2006-07) and Northwestern University, USA (2007-10). Dr. Peter joined as a faculty at New Chemistry Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore in 2010. His broad research interests include the development of solid-state inorganic materials for fuel cell, CO2reduction and hydrogen production. He is the founder and director of the start-up “Breathe Applied Sciences Pvt Ltd” to translate the fundamental works on CO2 utilization. He is featured in the “75 under 50: Scientists Shaping Today's India” by the DST and the convenor of the first ever CoE on CCU in India. He is commissioning first ever CO2 to methanol plant in India. He received the National Technology Award, National Prize and National Start-up Award for his technology transition.


Atsushi Wakamiya, Kyoto University, Japan

Atsushi Wakamiya is a full professor of Kyoto University. He received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 2003. He began his academic career at Nagoya University as Assistant Professor in 2003. In 2010, he moved to Kyoto University and was promoted to Professor in 2018. He received many awards: The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work (2020), Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT Japan: Award for Science and Technology Research Category (2022), etc. He is a project leader of the Green Innovation Program (NEDO) and JST-Mirai Project. He is a co-founder and a director (as Chief Scientific Officer, CSO) of “EneCoat Technologies, Co. Ltd.”, a startup company for perovskite solar modules.


Yuki Yamada, SANKEN, Osaka University, Japan

Yuki Yamada is currently a full professor at SANKEN, Osaka University in Japan. He majored electrochemistry and received his PhD from Kyoto University in 2010. In the same year, he moved to the University of Tokyo as an assistant professor and was promoted to a lecturer in 2018 and an associate professor in 2020. In 2021, he moved to SANKEN, Osaka University as a full professor. His current research interests focus on the development of liquid electrolyte (concentrated electrolytes, hydrate-melt electrolytes, new solvents, etc.) and its underlying design principles for various electrochemical applications such as batteries and conversion reactions.


Miho Yamauchi, Kyushu University, Japan

Miho Yamauchi received her Ph. D degree from University of Tsukuba, Japan, and joined Kyushu University as an assistant professor and CRC (ICAT, now) Hokkaido University as an associate professor. She became a PI and a professor at WPI-I2CNER and moved to IMCE at Kyushu University and is currently a cross-appointed professor at Tohoku University. Her research interests include nanomaterials science with respect to hydrogen science, catalysis and efficient energy conversion. Recently, she is a group leader of GteX project for water electrolysis (JST) and a unit leader for CO2 electrolysis for Moonshoot project (NEDO) and is focusing on the construction of CO2 conversion systems using CO2 captured directly from the air.


Yan Yu, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China

Yan Yu is a full professor of material science at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). She received her Ph.D. at USTC in 2006. From 2007 to 2008, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Florida International University. After that she received a Humboldt Research Fellowship and the Sofja Kovalevskaja award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and worked at the Max Planck Institute for Solid-State Research in Stuttgart, Germany. Her current research interests mainly include the design of novel nanomaterials for clean energy, especially for batteries and the fundamental science of energy-storage systems. She was selected as a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Materials Science. She also received several awards and honors, such as the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, The 16th China Youth Science and Technology Award, Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry, etc.


  • Francesca Brunetti University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  • Akari Hayashi Kyushu University, Japan

Abstract submission

Poster abstracts - in-person only

Abstract submission is now closed.
Posters are displayed throughout the meeting and there will be a dedicated poster session.

Poster presenters who are attending the symposium will need to print and display their poster physically. Presenters will be provided with a poster board on-site - posters should be printed portrait.

Additional information

All poster abstracts will be reviewed and authors will be notified of the outcome of the review process within about 4 weeks of the submission deadline. The abstracts should be no longer than one A4 page in portrait layout. Please ensure you provide the details of the presenting author. 
Registration

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In-person registration includes:
  • Attendance at all scientific sessions
  • Attendance at the poster session
  • Refreshments throughout the meeting
  • Access to recordings of all scientific sessions post-event
Please note accommodation is not included in the in-person registration fee.
 
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RSC Member £200+VAT £220+VAT
Non-member £230+VAT £250+VAT
Student RSC member £120+VAT £140+VAT
Student non-member £140+VAT £160+VAT


Virtual registration includes:​
  • ​Live access to all scientific sessions
  • Access to recordings of all scientific sessions post-event
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RSC member £40+VAT
Non-member £50+VAT
Student RSC member £20+VAT
Student non-member £30+VAT

RSC members and student RSC members

If you are a Royal Society of Chemistry member and wish to register for this meeting, please select the member option on the online registration page. You will need to enter your membership number.

Non-member and student non-members

For non-member registrants, affiliate membership of the Royal Society of Chemistry until July 2025 is available, the affiliate membership application will be processed and commence once the registrant has attended the event. 

Student delegates

In order to encourage undergraduate or postgraduate students to attend the Discussion, a reduced conference fee is available for students. This fee applies to those undertaking a full-time course for a recognised degree or a diploma at a university or equivalent institution

Accompanying person

If you would like to bring a guest to the conference, this can be done during the registration process. There will be an additional charge, which will include all lunches, refreshments and the conference dinner. The fee does not include attendance at any scientific sessions, journal paper pre-prints or the journal volume.

Accessibility

The Royal Society of Chemistry is keen to encourage and enable as many people as possible to attend our events, to benefit from the networking opportunities and the chance to hear talks from leaders in the field. If you would like to discuss accessibility, or have childcare, caring responsibilities or other care needs, please contact us to discuss your requirements so that we can enable your attendance. Please refer also to our Grants for carers fund; for more information please see the ‘bursaries’ section on this page.
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Bursaries

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If you are an RSC member and you are one of the following:a PhD student actively undertaking a PhD course in the chemical sciences;
a researcher in the chemical sciences (including post docs, research technicians and research assistants), working in academia, industry or any sector, within 10 years of leaving full time education (at the time of the application deadline).You can apply for up to £500 to support your participation in this event.

Please note it is not necessary to have confirmation of abstract acceptance before applying for a Researcher Development and Travel Grant and we encourage you to apply as early as possible.
 
Please see the website for up-to-date information on eligibility, how to apply and submission deadlines.
 
Researcher Development and Travel Grants can be applied for in addition to Grants for Carers and Assistance Grants.
Sponsorship & supporting organisations
A selection of sponsorship opportunities are available for companies who would like to promote their activities at the 2024 Chemical Science symposium.

A sponsorship menu document is available to download from this page with more details and prices.

Please note that exhibition spaces are limited, spaces will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

If you would like more information about sponsoring the 2024 Chemical Science symposium, please contact the Commercial Sales Department at the Royal Society of Chemistry on advertising@rsc.org Sponsorship Menu
Venue
The Royal Society of Chemistry

The Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BA, United Kingdom


The Burlington House (Royal Academy) courtyard is located on the north side of Piccadilly, directly across the street from Fortnum and Mason. The Royal Society of Chemistry is located on the right hand side of the Burlington House courtyard.

Travel

By underground: The nearest stations are Green Park or Piccadilly Circus; both are a 5-minute walk to the venue. If you use Green Park please leave via Piccadilly Northside and look for the Royal Academy entrance, turn left out of the station, you will see the red flags of Burlington House ahead of you.

By train: London Kings Cross, London Liverpool Street or London Victoria train stations are the most accessible and then require a short tube journey to the venue You can take either the Piccadilly or Victoria line to Green Park or Piccadilly tube stations and only the Victoria line to Green Park from Victoria station

By coach: National Express operates a comprehensive coach service to most parts of the country from Victoria Coach Station, 164 Buckingham Palace Road, Sw1W 9TP
National Express coaches: www.nationalexpress.com
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