Imperial College London

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1 Imperial College London John A Kilner BCH Steele Chair in Energy Materials Dept. of Materials, Faculty of Engineering Imperial College, London, UK j.kilner@imperial.ac.uk Imperial College London

2 Imperial College Ranked 5 th in THES world rankings Faculty of Engineering 3 rd in Europe 1,300 Staff and Students from 158 countries 3 Faculties Engineering Natural Sciences Medicine (Business School) Page 2

3 36 Academics and Research Fellows (leading to Lectureships), 8 shared so 32 FTE. 1 Lectureship to fill in Biomaterials 3 EPSRC Platform Grants (in thin films, metals and fuel cells), joint awards of 2 Programme Grants in Plasmonics, Nanostructured Functional Energy Materials and 2 Doctoral Training Centres (Materials Theory and Plastic Electronics) and the Nuclear Eng Doc. Other large EPSRC grants including Structural Ceramics Centre, KNOO, TITAN, SIMS/LEIS. 7 Technicians, 6 Research Officers, 11 Dept. Support staff (Admin/PA s/secretarial/clerical). ~300 UGs, ~110 PhDs, ~50 PDRAs. ~15 Visiting Scientists, Professors and Emeritus Profs. 6 spinouts: Ceres Power, Novathera, BioCeramics Therapeutics, STS, IMPT and OSspray. Page 3 Imperial Materials

4 Imperial Materials Research Groups in Materials Department: Advanced Alloys Ceramics and Glasses Nanotechnology Thin Films and Coatings Materials Theory and Simulation Nanoscale Characterisation Biomaterials Major materials areas include: Energy (esp. nuclear and fuel cells) Biomaterials, Tissue Eng. & Regenerative Medicine Transport (aerospace, land vehicles) Novel Electronic Devices (thin films, sensors, photonic crystals) Environment (clean up, pollution control & prevention) Multi-departmental and multi-disciplinary research groups enabling world-leading research including: UK Structural Ceramics Centre London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) Centre for Nuclear Engineering (KNOO, Eng. Doc.) Institute for BioMedical Engineering (IBME) Thomas Young Centre for Materials Theory Energy Futures Lab Page 4

5 State of the Art Facilities Electron Microscopy FEGSEM FEGTEM FEI Titan with HREELS Surface Analysis SIMS FIBSIMS LEIS Page 5 X-Ray Thin Film Powder Ion Tof SIMS-LEIS

6 Research Interest J. A. Kilner Materials for Intermediate temperature Solid Oxide Fuel cells Perovskite, Fluorite, Perovskite -related Mixed Conductors for cathodes oxygen separation membranes Nanostructured Multilayer heterostructures e.g YSZ-STO Protonic conductors and mixed conductors Composite mixed conductors Oxygen isotopic exchange with ceramic materials Oxide surface structure and composition Surface analysis SIMS and LEIS Lattice Static Calculations and Molecular Dynamics Accelerated Materials Discovery (Simulation +High Throughput) General elucidation of oxygen transport in oxides 3-D Visualisation of oxygen density in La 2 NiO 4+δ by molecular dynamics D. Parfitt et al to be published Page 6 SSI 17 Toronto 2009

7 Change of personnel Prof Aldo Boccaccini Left Department Moved to Chair in Biomaterials University of Aachen Germany Prof. Eduardo Saiz Gutierrez Chair in Structural Ceramics Materials Department - UK Centre for Structural Ceramics Imperial College Ph.D. Applied Physics, Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain (1992) Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( ) Adjunct Professor at the University of California at San Francisco (2005-) Joined Imperial College Oct 1, 2009 Research Interests: Ceramic processing, biomaterials and tissue engineering, high temperature capillarity, thermodynamics and adhesion at metal/ceramic interfaces, hierarchical materials and composites Page 7

8 Expectations Collaboration with partners in Mercasur in novel materials and nanaostructures for; SOFC s SOEC s Gas separation membranes Collaboration with Prof Saiz to be determined Page 8

9 Oxygen Ion conductivity? Page 9 SSI 17 Toronto 2009

10 Compilation of the main data on multilayers Santiso et al p84 Page 10 SSI 17 Toronto 2009