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UK-HyRES regional roadshow, Westminster (2023)

Derek and George from the venue

View of Westminster Abbey

Dean's Yard

Solar2Chem Winter School, Valencia (2023)

George Creasey presents his poster

Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

Solar2Chem Winter school crew

Commonwealth Science Conference (CSC) - Caribbean edition - by the University of the West Indies with the Royal Society, Kingston (2023)

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

Visit from AZBUKA Foundation (2023)

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

Group Christmas bash (2022)

The Group :-)

Decorating a gingerbread house

Playing a game of Cranium

H2SUPERGEN Meeting at the Science Museum in London (2022)

The whole group is here!

Theme of the day

Beautiful view!

Electrochem2022 conference in Edinburgh (2022)

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

Electrochemistry meeting at Gregynog, Wales (2022)

Electrochemistry academic meeting at Gregynog, Wales

The UK electrochemist delegation

Some honey from Gregynog, Wales

Some exceptional local honey

A beautiful venue in the sunshine

Our activities at the Great Exhibition Road Festival (2022)

Dan Plane carrying out hydrogen explosion demo with Nahmkang Banjong

Science Communicator Dan Plane begins with a demo of water electrolysis

Dan Plane carrying out hydrogen explosion demo with Anna Hankin

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

Hydrogen explosion demo during GERF festival with Jatuporn Banjong

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

Dan Plane carrying out hydrogen explosion demo

...BANG!!!

Solar Hydrogen stall poster at GERF 2022

Our stall poster

Solar Hydrogen stall at GERF 2022 with hydrogen cannon and marble run simulator of electron transport

Our stall on Solar Hydrogen

Explaining how the hydrogen cannon works

The hydrogen cannon!

H2SUPERGEN Conference in St Andrews (2022)

St Andrews - old building in distance

Beautiful view from a seaside walk

Hankin electrochemistry group in St Andrews

Our whole research group

Sea view in St Andrews

Sea view - lots of seagulls!

Sea view in St Andrews

Sea view with flowers

Sea view in St Andrews

Low tide

Upper and Lower College Hall, St Andrews

Upper and Lower College Hall for poster session an gala dinner

Women@Imperial Week (2020)

Women@Imperial Week

Photo of Magda Titirici giving her talk

Magda Titirici

Photo of the audience laughing at entertaining comments of Magda Titirici

A very entertained audience

Photo of Cleo Kontoravdi giving her talk

Cleo Kontoravdi

Photo of Francesca Ceroni giving her talk

Francesca Ceroni

Panel discussion: Francesca, Cleo, Magda

Photo of Karen Polizzi giving her talk

Karen Polizzi

Photo of Anna Hankin giving her talk

Anna Hankin

Outreach - EFL's Energy Showcase at Imperial College (2019)

Stall with photoelectrochemical equipment and gadgets

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

Researchers proudly presenting their stall with photoelectrochemical equipment and gadgets

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

A photo looking down at the outreach interactions between visitors and researchers at their stalls

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

STFC-funded collaboration visit to LRESE at EPFL, Lausanne (2018)

Sophia Hausseners solar concentrator dish at EPFL

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

Some installations being carried out on the solar concentrator dish at EPFL

Setup in progress

EPFL campus at dusk

EPFL campus at dusk in December

Lake Geneva near EPFL

Lake Geneva

Isaac, Anna and Franky

A big pile of Swiss Chocolate

Essentials

In front of the SwissTech Convention Center

Visiting a H2 refuelling facility in Martigny

Beautifully illuminated town hall in lausanne

In centre of Lausanne

Outreach - Hydrogen Festival at UCL (2017)

Photo showing members of the electrochemical engineering research group behind their outreach stall

Electrochemical Engineers from Imperial College London

Our stall positioned in the beautiful UCL forecourt

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 powered car attended the festival and attracted a lot of attention

A hydrogen fuel cell vehicle

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

Outreach - Imperial College Festival (2017)

An all girl team all set to go with outreach on solar energy conversion

All set to go!

A very busy stall

Lots of learning about solar energy conversion :-)

Bright light shining on a hematite photoelectrodein a reactor

Oxygen evolving on a hematite photoanode

Home bakes for the Macmillan Coffee Morning in Chem Eng (2018 - 2019)

Photo of a home made Sachertorte

Sachertorte (2018)

Photo of a home made Russian souffle cake

Птичье Молоко (Ptichye Moloko) cake (2019)

Outdoor photo-electrochemical reactor testing (2016)

Jose and Anna posing with their reactor with the royal albert hall in the background

Ready, steady, go!

Photo of the experimental setup on the rooftop of the physics building on a beautiful sunny day

Perfect day for doing experiments on the rooftop of Blackett Laboratory

Jose and Franky excitedly registering a current generated by spontaneous water splitting

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

A photo os us crammed in a lift with the experiment and a child in a buggy

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

Our photoelectrochemical reactor sitting under a solar silumator

After sunset a solar simulator was needed

Jose moving our experiment around so that it faces the sun at the right angle

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

Educational visit to Drax power station (2016)

Photo of 6 ccoling towers at Drax power station

Cooling towers

It 'rains' at the base of a cooling tower

A photo of voltage transformers at Drax

Arrays of transformers

Anna Hankin photographed in front of mountains of gypsum

Gypsum

Photo of big domes at Drax where biomass is being stored

Biomass storage domes

Anna and Franky positing in front of a cooling tower

Some chemical engineers

Cedardop 3D inkjet printer acquisition trip, Limoges (2013)

Photo of the 3 D printer at the ceradrop headquarters in limoges in france

Ceradrop X-Serie 3D inkjet printer, now at Imperial
Picture of a bridge in limoges

Limoges

Picture of a church in limoges

Limoges

Picture of a fountain in limoges

Limoges

Picture of a cathedral in limoges

Limoges

Another picture of a bridge in limoges

Limoges

PRiME 2012, Honolulu, Hawaii (2012)

Picture of the hawaii convention centre in Honolulu

Hawaii Convention Center

Picture of waikiki beach in Honolulu

Waikiki beach

Picture of silhouetted palm trees during sunset in Honolulu

Sunset in Honolulu

Anna Hankin looking happy after finishing her presentation in honolulu

At Hawaii Hilton Village, after presenting

Picture of palm trees and fountain at the hawaii hilton village in Honolulu

Hawaii Hilton Village

Picture of a jungle in the north of Oahu near Haleiwa

Near Haleiwa, North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii

PhD - Nickel electrodeposition and recovery (2007 - 2011)

Picture of our pilot plant reactor when its still nice and clean

Pilot plant reactor for electrochemical nickel recovery

Pilot plant reactor operating with nickel effluent in an industrial setting

Pilot reactor, operated at Gower Chemicals, Swansea

Student Tom sitting operating the pilot plant reactor

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 the pilot plant reactor

Side view of pilot reactor

Bench scale nickel recovery reactor in our lab

Bench-scale nickel reactor