Round 2 of the Henry Royce Institute’s Faraday Institution Rapid Access Scheme will open to applications on Monday 02 September 2024.
UK battery researchers will have the opportunity to apply for fast-tracked access to leading national facilities available across the Royce partnership.
The scheme, which is led by Royce at the University of Oxford, will offer Faraday Institution researchers a streamlined route to use key characterisation techniques for the quick investigation of electrode and electrolyte materials.
Techniques available to researchers in this round of funding are:
- XPS (Inert transfer) – more details
- HAXPES (Inert transfer) – more details
- XAFS (pouch sealed, element of interest must be heavier than Chromium)
- Transmission difractometry (pouch sealed) – more details
- ICP-OES (acid digestion required for solid sample)
- Laser ablation ICP-MS – more details
- Solution NMR (Ar Glovebox) – more details
- SEM (Ar Glovebox) – more details
- Viscometer (Ar Glovebox) – more details
- BET – N2 or CO2
Early career researchers (ECRs) are encouraged to access the scheme and should seek support from a principal investigator or co-investigator of the Faraday Institution project they are associated with.
The scheme is intended to:
- be an effective signposting route for Faraday Institution PhD researchers and Research Associates to techniques offered by Royce, helping those researchers establish contact.
- act as an access route to the future use of more sophisticated or specialist characterisation techniques offered by Royce to ECRs.
- assist ECRs in carrying out complementary characterisation for publications, wrapping up projects, and feasibility studies for new projects.
Please note: Royce’s SME, student and research access schemes remain open to support projects with more complex requirements. More information about Royce’s other access schemes can be found here. ECRs who already access Royce facilities at their home institution should continue to do so via established routes.
Applications close on Friday 01 November 2024
Click here to apply to the scheme
For further information about the Faraday Institution Rapid Access Scheme, please email: royce.access@materials.ox.ac.uk
