NEXT BIG THING
When I was doing my PhD, there was no such thing as a lithium-ion battery. The first was commercialised in 1992, and for the next two decades or so, it was all about lithium.
My work was always parallel to that. For the last 30 years I've been investigating how we can improve the chemistry of all sorts of batteries, capacitors, fuel cells and solar cells. These are hugely important for the transition to clean energy, but we've
