Phosphorene nanoribbons for next-generation energy devices

Abstract

Thomas J. Macdonald is an 1851 Research Fellow in the School of Engineering and Materials Science at Queen Mary University of London. He also holds an honorary visiting researcher position in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London. Prior to this, he was a fellow at Imperial studying the charge carrier dynamics of novel nanomaterials in optoelectronics. From 2017 to 2019, he was a Ramsay Memorial Fellow at University College London developing new nanomaterials for solar energy conversion. He has a strong interest in renewable energy and extensive experience in the synthesis of functional nanomaterials and the fabrication of third-generation photovoltaics. Adam J. Clancy is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and proleptic lecturer of inorganic chemistry at UCL Department of Chemistry, where he uses solution chemistry to tune the properties and ease processability of nanomaterials to facilitate their use in both energy devices and functional composites, in addition to using the solvated nanomaterials as models to probe fundamental nanoscale phenomena. He previously held a Ramsay Fellowship (UCL, Chemistry), which followed a Corpus Christi Visiting Fellowship (University of Cambridge, Physics) and EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship (Imperial College London, Chemistry), having previously undertaken his PhD under Professor Shaffer at Imperial College on high-strength nanocomposites. Rebecca R.C. Shutt earned her MChem at the University of Oxford. From 2016 to 2018, she worked as a battery scientist for UK-based battery company, Faradion Ltd. She is now completing her PhD under the supervision of Professor Chris A. Howard with the Advanced Characterisation of Materials Centre for Doctoral Training at University College London and Imperial College London. She has experience in electrode development for batteries, and her present research focusses on the implementation of novel nanomaterials in electrode design. Christopher A. Howard is professor of materials physics at University College London. His lab focuses on creating and investigating novel nanostructured and low-dimensional materials that have interesting and useful properties, with a focus on energy applications. He enjoys teaching across the undergraduate and postgraduate programs and is co-director of the UK ESPRC Centre for Doctoral Training in the Advanced Characterisation of Materials. He is passionate about improving the mechanisms for achieving real-world impact from scientific research, which he is believes is critically important for achieving carbon neutrality. To this end, he co-founded Prosemino, a clean-tech incubator that accelerates the growth of early stage ventures in this area. Thomas J. Macdonald is an 1851 Research Fellow in the School of Engineering and Materials Science at Queen Mary University of London. He also holds an honorary visiting researcher position in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London. Prior to this, he was a fellow at Imperial studying the charge carrier dynamics of novel nanomaterials in optoelectronics. From 2017 to 2019, he was a Ramsay Memorial Fellow at University College London developing new nanomaterials for solar energy conversion. He has a strong interest in renewable energy and extensive experience in the synthesis of functional nanomaterials and the fabrication of third-generation photovoltaics. Adam J. Clancy is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and proleptic lecturer of inorganic chemistry at UCL Department of Chemistry, where he uses solution chemistry to tune the properties and ease processability of nanomaterials to facilitate their use in both energy devices and functional composites, in addition to using the solvated nanomaterials as models to probe fundamental nanoscale phenomena. He previously held a Ramsay Fellowship (UCL, Chemistry), which followed a Corpus Christi Visiting Fellowship (University of Cambridge, Physics) and EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship (Imperial College London, Chemistry), having previously undertaken his PhD under Professor Shaffer at Imperial College on high-strength nanocomposites. Rebecca R.C. Shutt earned her MChem at the University of Oxford. From 2016 to 2018, she worked as a battery scientist for UK-based battery company, Faradion Ltd. She is now completing her PhD under the supervision of Professor Chris A. Howard with the Advanced Characterisation of Materials Centre for Doctoral Training at University College London and Imperial College London. She has experience in electrode development for batteries, and her present research focusses on the implementation of novel nanomaterials in electrode design. Christopher A. Howard is professor of materials physics at University College London. His lab focuses on creating and investigating novel nanostructured and low-dimensional materials that have interesting and useful properties, with a focus on energy applications. He enjoys teaching across the undergraduate and postgraduate programs and is co-director of the UK ESPRC Centre for Doctoral Training in the Advanced Characterisation of Materials. He is passionate about improving the mechanisms for achieving real-world impact from scientific research, which he is believes is critically important for achieving carbon neutrality. To this end, he co-founded Prosemino, a clean-tech incubator that accelerates the growth of early stage ventures in this area.