Group News and Activities

July 2026

A productive industry visit to Lotus Recycling. Great discussions on solar panel recycling, urban mining, and Peilin's PhD project, exploring opportunities for collaboration and sustainable resource recovery.

Lotus Visit

July 2026

A warm welcome to our new members, Ishika, Peilin, and Hiroaki, joining R2S!

June 2026

R2S welcomed Year 10 students from the Girl Power Program to explore our battery recycling research, inspiring the next generation of women in engineering and sustainable energy.

June 2026

Congratulations to Xuhui for winning the Chemical Engineering 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition with an outstanding presentation of her research on battery recycling and regeneration.

Feb 2026

Group celebration together for Lunar New Year, wishing everyone success in the Year of the Horse.❤️🐎

Dec 2025

Congratulations to Xuhui for being awarded Third Prize in the Energy Materials program at the MEI Symposium 2025 for her poster on rapid, selective recycling of spent LiFePO4 cathodes. [Publication Link]

Oct 2025

We were pleased to host Dr. Angga Hermawan from BRIN under the prestigious IEIF–ASEAN Research Collaboration Project, who delivered an insightful seminar on battery upcycling and electrocatalysis development.

Oct 2025

Xuhui has made us proud by being one of only two Australians/New Zealanders awarded a travel scholarship to the AOFSRR School 2025 in Tsukuba, Japan, where she and her XAFS team won First Prize in the student presentation competition.

XHZ

September 2025

Our partner Simon Adam (Metallium) gave a keynote at the Circular Economy Conference 2025 (Chaired by Prof. Stefano Freguia and Prof. Sandra Kentish) (Battery Recycling session) and visited our lab.

July 2025

We warmly welcome our two new PhD students, Xiuting and Thilini, to the group!

Group photo-202507

May 2025

Helena organised a site visit to the Cadbury Chocolate Factory (Mondelez International) for Master’s students in Chemical Engineering.

April 2025

Helena Wang was awarded the Nicklin Medal by IChemE. [See news here]

Nicklin Medal

March 2025

Helena Wang and Xuhui Zhu attended the 2025 Osaka–Melbourne Joint Research Workshop at Osaka University, Japan.

Osaka-UoM workshop

October 2024

Helena Wang was awarded the National Catalyst Award from the RACI. [See news here]

RACI Award