Emma Kendrick (academic)

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Emma Kendrick
Alma mater University of Manchester
University of Aberdeen
Keele University
Known forEnergy materials
Scientific career
Institutions University of Birmingham
Warwick Manufacturing Group
Loughborough University

Emma Kendrick is Professor of Energy Materials at the University of Birmingham where her work is focused on new materials for batteries and fuel cells. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

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Early life and education

Kendrick studied chemistry at the University of Manchester, later moving to University of Aberdeen in Scotland where she earned a master's degree in solid state chemistry. For her doctoral thesis, Kendrick went to Keele University to study low temperature synthetic routes to inorganic pigments. She later did postdoctoral research with Sandra Dann at the Loughborough University, as well as Peter Slater and Saiful Islam at the University of Surrey. [1]

Research and career

Kendrick spent several years in industry, during which she worked at both Fife Batteries and Surion Energy Limited. [2] She joined Sharp Corporation in 2010 where she established a [3] [4] research and development program in sodium-ion batteries, a low cost alternative to lithium-ion batteries. Her focus at Sharp was on the development of high energy density devices using cathodes optimized for stable voltage and capacity. [5]

She notably demonstrated a sodium-ion battery pouch cell with high volumetric energy density that has applications in the automotive and portable electronics industries, resulting in a promotion to Chief Technologist of Energy Storage. [6] [7]

In 2016, Kendrick was appointed to Reader in Electrochemical Energy Materials at the Warwick Manufacturing Group. [8] [9]

In 2018, Kendrick joined the University of Birmingham as a member of the Materials Chemistry Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry as well as serving on the materials science self-assessment team at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. [9] [10] She has several patents in chemical synthesis of materials for batteries. [8] She holds an honorary position at University College London. [11] She is a member of the Energy Research Accelerator Research Council. [12]

In addition to her sodium-ion battery materials development work, Kendrick has also established herself in the area of lithium-ion battery manufacturing [13] and lithium-ion battery materials recycling, a new research program designed to reclaim and reuse material from end of life electric vehicle batteries. [14]

Kendrick is particularly concerned about the implications of supply chain issues associated the loss (or export) of rare and mined materials that are used in modern battery chemistries. [14] She has pioneered efforts to increase the safety of the recovery processes used to reclaim battery materials, through the use of a brine discharge method using neutral salts that minimizes the rate of corrosion making it possible to recover the separated cathode and anode materials. In support of her recycling efforts, Kendrick has called on battery manufacturers to make batteries that are easier to dismantle. [15] Her research is supported by the Faraday Battery Challenge, a four-year investment by the Government of the United Kingdom that looks to develop new lower cost materials, advance recycling processes, and identify battery degradation pathways. [16]

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References

  1. ↑ Slater, Peter R.; Islam, M. Saiful; Kendrick, Emma (2007-08-14). "Developing apatites for solid oxide fuel cells: insight into structural, transport and doping properties". Journal of Materials Chemistry. 17 (30): 3104–3111. doi:10.1039/B704426G. ISSN   1364-5501. S2CID   96242485.
  2. ↑ "Speaker details". era.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 20 February 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  3. ↑ "Solar Energy Harvesting and Storage (Energy Harvesting and Storage Europe 2012)". idtechex.com. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  4. ↑ "Energy Storage Materials Through to Intregration". southampton.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  5. ↑ Kendrick, Emma; Adamson, Paul; Ledwoch, Daniela; Treacher, Joshua; Smith, Katherine (2017-01-11). "Novel High Energy Density Sodium Layered Oxide Cathode Materials: from Material to Cells". ECS Transactions. 75 (22): 13–24. Bibcode:2017ECSTr..75v..13S. doi:10.1149/07522.0013ecst. ISSN   1938-6737.
  6. ↑ Roberts,Samuel Kendrick,Emma (2018-06-01). "The re-emergence of sodium ion batteries: testing, processing, and manufacturability". Nanotechnology, Science and Applications. Dove Press. 11: 23–33. doi: 10.2147/NSA.S146365 . OCLC   1042803725. PMC   5989704 . PMID   29910609.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ↑ "Nanotechnology Now - Battery Energy Storage - towards a new UK industry". www.nanotech-now.com. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  8. 1 2 "Fully booked : Sodium and lithium ion battery manufacturing". rsc.org. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  9. 1 2 "Materials Chemistry Division Council Member Biographies". rsc.org. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  10. ↑ "Emma Kendrick - EPSRC website". epsrc.ukri.org. Retrieved 11 September 2019.[ permanent dead link ]
  11. ↑ UCL (19 November 2018). "Honorary / Visiting Staff". UCL Department of Chemical Engineering. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  12. ↑ "ERA Research Committee". era.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 15 February 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  13. ↑ Kendrick, Emma (14 March 2019). "CHAPTER 11. Advancements in Manufacturing". CHAPTER 11:Advancements in Manufacturing. pp. 262–289. doi:10.1039/9781788016124-00262. ISBN   978-1-78801-418-2. S2CID   155707115 . Retrieved 11 September 2019.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  14. 1 2 "ICoNiChem: recycling rare materials in electric vehicles". GOV.UK. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  15. ↑ "SoS RARE | Blog | CrEAM Network- Critical Elements and Materials Network Launch Event – University of Birmingham". bgs.ac.uk. 13 November 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  16. ↑ "Race is on to develop new battery chemistries and manufacturing processes". newelectronics.co.uk. Archived from the original on 10 May 2019. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
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