Welcoming Professor Peter Slater, University of Birmingham to Echion Technologies Ltd as Faraday Institution Industry Fellow
Echion Technologies Ltd (“Echion”) are proud to announce that Professor Peter Slater from the University of Birmingham will be joining Echion for the next two-years on a part-time basis, as part of a successful Faraday Institution Industry Fellowship application.
Professor Slater
(https://www.prslaterchem.com/) is Professor in Materials Chemistry at the University of Birmingham and Co-Director of the Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage. He has more than 25-years research experience in solid-state/materials chemistry, ranging from battery materials to solid oxide fuel cells and is a renowned inorganic materials expert.
Under the Fellowship, Professor Slater will work closely with Echion to identify new mixed metal niobium oxide phases for possible use as anode materials, jointly assess them for performance and commercial applicability to improve lithium-ion battery energy densities and charge times.
Prof. Slater: “I am really excited to get back into the lab to develop new high power anode materials for future Li ion batteries through this Faraday Industrial Fellowship with Echion Technologies.”
About Echion Technologies Ltd
Spun-out from The University of Cambridge in 2017, Echion is a world-leading developer of advanced lithium-ion battery materials, whose products enable cell manufacturers to deliver cost-effective, fast-charging, high-energy density and long-life power cells for a wide range of markets including automotive, premium consumer electronics, and grid-storage applications.
Echion provides materials and battery cell manufacturers with packages of protected intellectual property, customisation options, materials synthesis and cell integration know-how and for different end-user markets.
About the Faraday Institution Industry Fellowship
The Faraday Institution Industry Fellowship is an innovative programme that strengthens ties between battery researchers working in industry and academia. Each fellowship enables academics and industrialists to undertake a mutually beneficial, electrochemical energy storage research project that aims to solve a critical industrial problem and that has the potential for near- and longer-term benefit to the wider UK battery industry.