Fast-tracked access for battery researchers
Round 2 of the Henry Royce Institute’s Faraday Institution Rapid Access Scheme is now open for applications.
UK battery researchers can apply for fast-tracked access to national facilities.
The scheme, led by Royce at the University of Oxford, offers Faraday Institution researchers a streamlined route to use key characterisation techniques to quickly investigate electrode and electrolyte material.
Techniques available to researchers in this funding round are:
- XPS (Inert transfer)
- HAXPES (Inert transfer)
- XAFS (pouch sealed, element of interest must be heavier than Chromium)
- Transmission difractometry (pouch sealed)
- ICP-OES (acid digestion required for solid sample)
- Laser ablation ICP-MS
- Solution NMR (Ar Glovebox)
- SEM (Ar Glovebox)
- Viscometer (Ar Glovebox)
- BET – N2 or CO2
Early-career researchers (ECRs) are encouraged to access the scheme and seek support from a principal investigator or co-investigator of the Faraday Institution project they are associated with.
The scheme is intended to:
- effectively signpost Faraday Institution PhD researchers and Research Associates to techniques offered by Royce.
- be an access route to the future use of more sophisticated or specialist characterisation techniques on offer.
- assist ECRs in carrying out complementary chjaracterisation for publications, wrapping up projects and feasibility studies
