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.

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.

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!

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

October 2024
Helena Wang was awarded the National Catalyst Award from the RACI. [See news here]
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