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For two days, Raphaële, Emily, Elizabeth, Allyson, and Kelly teach girls how to make lemon batteries. Emily gave a lecture on how batteries work, while Raphaële answered questions about what it's like to be a woman in science. This event was made possible by Girls Inc., and after-school program that allows middle school girls to explore science. Thank you for inviting us!

The Clément group goes to Captain Fatty's in Goleta to celebrate the new year and the addition of Vincent Wu and Alexis Manche to the group. Happy 2020!

Congratulations to Professor Clément for giving the Fall 2019 Dow Distinguished Lecture! She was nominated for the honor by the Graduate Students for Diversity in Science (GSDS) at UCSB. As the recipient of the title, she gave two talks on November 20, 2019, one about the Clément Group research and the other about diversity in STEM.

Our undergraduate Allyson was selected to present her research on Li-ion battery cathode microwave synthesis method for the SACNAS 2019 conference at the Honolulu Convention Center in Hawaii.

To celebrate the arrival of several new members, the entire group had a bbq, along with guest Dr. Tom Casey.

The solid-state materials community, along with Emily and Elio, gathered to share advances in the design, preparation and characterization of novel electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

Howie was selected to participate in the 2019 EPR summer school hosted by IES/SharedEPR from July 17-21.  There, EPR experts from different fields led practicals and lectured on the underlying principles of EPR. We will apply these lessons to the development of an electrochemical EPR probe for the study of battery materials. Here is a photo of lecturers and participants on a Rocky Mountain excursion following the school.

https://sharedepr.org/epr-summer-school-2019/

As the school year came to an end, the Clément group celebrated a productive year at the Lama Dog Tap Room in Downtown Santa Barbara. Among the recent highlights the group commemorated were: Elio's NSF fellowship, Allyson's Gorman scholarship, and Pete's arrival.

Great job everyone and enjoy your summer!

Elio was selected by the directors of the Center for Science and Education Partnerships (CSEP) as a research mentor for their Apprentice Researchers (AR) program. As a mentor, Elio will closely work with Dos Pueblos high school student Noor Guefroudj, teaching her fundamental research techniques.

Welcome, Noor!

http://ar-csep.cnsi.ucsb.edu/

Dr. Peter Richardson has recently joined the group to develop and characterize polymeric ionic liquids and other solid state electrolytes for use in battery applications. Previously a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of York in NMR hyperpolarization for industrial applications, he obtained his PhD at the University of Leeds, where his research focussed on using NMR to understand ion dynamics in polymer gel electrolytes.