Group News and Activities

September 2026

A warm farewell to Kai Zhang, our CSC visiting PhD student! Thank you so much for spending the past year with us and for all your contributions, help, and friendship. We wish you all the very best for the rest of your PhD journey at Xi’an Jiaotong University. The wonderful memories we have shared will stay with us for many years to come. We will miss you, Kai, and hope to see you again soon!

September 2026

More news to share in September! Congratulations to Thilini on winning the Runner-Up Poster Award at the 1st Annual Meeting of the Australian Battery Society (ABS)!

September 2026

Helena has received the 2026 Young Tall Poppy Science Award (Victoria).

September 2026

Congratulations to Xuhui on receiving the 2026 Clive Pratt Scholarship, which will support her upcoming short overseas research visit! The photos show Xuhui presenting her research at the 1st Annual Meeting of the Australian Battery Society.

September 2026

Helena has received the Selby Award to support the battery recycling research.

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.