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Please find a list of some of the research presentations from SusHy CDT students at a wide range of national and international conferences and events.

SusHy student

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Adedayo Dada

Tom Liddy

Isabelle Marriott

Sam Balmer

Rafael Sanchez

University of Nottingham School of Chemistry's annual Postgraduate Research Symposium, 15 – 17 July 2026 (Nottingham, UK)

Pyridyl-phosphonate functionalised polyoxometalates as molecular scaffolds for hydrogen-evolution catalysis (oral presentation)

Ru/GNF - a self-improving catalyst for ammonia decomposition (oral presentation)

The 7 Degrees of Reflux: A Mechanistic Insight into the Effects of Reflux induced Equilibrium shift on Catalytic Alcohol Dehydrogenation (oral presentation)

Supported bimetallic photocatalysts for enhanced and stable photocatalytic transfer hydrogenations (poster presentation)

Synthesis and Electrochemical Studies of Cobalt-based Heteroleptic Polypyridyl Pincer Complexes (poster presentation)

Bakhtawar Ahmed

18th International Summer School on Green Chemistry, 6 – 10 July 2026 (Venice, Italy)

Developing and Understanding How Mixed Group I & II Metal Amide/Imide Catalysts Aid the Ammonia Decomposition Process (poster presentation)

Adedayo Dada

Polyoxometalates (POM) Frontiers Conference and Summer School, 5 – 9 July 2026 (Versaille, France)

Cobalt–polyoxometalate (Co–POM) hybrids for the hydrogen evolution reaction (poster presentation)

Adedayo Dada

46th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC 2026), 28 June – 3 July 2026 (Odense, Denmark)

Pyridyl-Phosphonate Functionalised polyoxometalates as Modular Scaffolds for Hybrid Catalytic Systems (oral and poster presentations)

Synthesis and Electrochemical Studies of Cobalt-based Heteroleptic Polypyridyl Pincer Complexes (oral and poster presentations)

Atish Gawale

17th International Conference on Thermal Engineering: Theory and Applications (ICTEA), 22 – 24 June 2026 (Valletta, Malta)

A Coupled CFD–FEM Simulations: Blast Wave Dynamics and Structural Response of Protective Barrier Following Hydrogen Tank Rupture in Fire (oral presentation)

Gagan Gopakumar Suja

MariNH3 conference, 17 June 2026 (Nottingham, UK)

Achieving Near Zero tail pipe pollutant emissions in Lean Burn Ammonia - Hydrogen co fuelled Spark Ignition Engines via Selective Catalytic Reduction (poster presentation)

Propelling Growth: The role of green ammonia as a clean, sustainable maritime fuel (poster presentation)

Kate O’Neill

ERA Doctoral Showcase as part of the ERA UK Energy Innovation Expo’26, 16 June 2026 (Derby, UK)

The Cost of Water Scarcity on Nuclear-Hydrogen Integrated Hubs (oral presentation

Adedayo Dada

Black PhD Collective (BPC) Across All Ideas Conference, 12 June 2026 (London, UK)

Building Modular Catalysts for Sustainable Hydrogen Production (oral presentation

Esther Mgbemeje

Joe Walton

H2science 2026, 4 – 6 June 2026 (Trondheim, Norway)

Numerical validation of integrated biomass combustion and steam methane reforming: a full-scale multi-physics investigation in ANSYS Fluent (oral presentation)

Potential effect of green hydrogen transitions on fuel poverty based on the United Kingdom (oral presentation)

Alexandra Brochoire

Shiqi Cui

Esther Mgbemeje

Joe Walton

William Baker

European PhD Hydrogen Conference (EPHyC), 1 – 3 June 2026 (Trondheim, Norway)

Hydrothermal synthesis of iridium nanostructures for proton exchange membrane water electrolysers (oral presentation)

CFD model for blending gases in a pipe T-junction (oral presentation)

Simulation of Green Hydrogen Production from Biomass Using Microwave Plasma Gasification (oral presentation)

How would the use of green hydrogen impact fuel poverty in the United Kingdom? (oral presentation)

Sustainable Hydrogen for Rural and Agricultural Environments (oral presentation)

Joe Parkinson

Canadian Societies for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Conference, 24 – 18 May 2026 (Toronto, Canada)

Investigating a sustainable mechanochemical synthesis of Molybdenum Dichalcogenides for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (oral presentation)

Joe Walton

Resilient Decarbonised Fuel Energy Systems CDT Spring School, 20 – 22 April 2026 (Sheffield, UK)

When can green hydrogen production be cost-competitive? (poster presentation)

Alexandra Brochoire

Niko Hilmi

Vinay Patel

Joe Parkinson

ChemEngDayUK&I 2026, 16 – 17 April 2026 (Birmingham, UK)

Enhanced catalytic effect of chloride ions for iridium catalysts in proton exchange membrane water electrolysers (oral presentation)

ZIF-7/Polyetherimide Mixed Matrix Membranes for Hydrogen Purification (oral presentation)

Studying The Viability of Termite Hydrogen Production for Renewable Energy (oral presentation)

Developing a sustainable mechanochemical synthesis of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides and their hybrids for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (poster presentation)

Mayank Kamboj

6th ELVHYS (Enhancing Safety of Liquid and Vaporised Hydrogen Transfer Technologies in Public Areas for Mobile Applications) Project Workshop, 5 December 2025 (Belfast, Northern Ireland)

CFD Model of Pressure and Temperature Dynamics in LH2 Storage Tanks Due to Heat Ingress

Amelia-Rose Edgley

Midlands Energy Conference, 3 December 2025 (Matlock, UK)

Metal Hydride Buffering of Offshore Generated Hydrogen

Gagan Gopakumar Suja

4th Symposium on Ammonia Energy, 28 September – 2 October 2025 (Minnesota, USA)

Validation of Lean Burn Operation Strategy in an Ammonia / Hydrogen Dual Fuel Engine Using Selective Catalytic Reduction (poster presentation)

Mayank Kamboj

Atish Gawale

11th International Conference on Hydrogen Safety, 22 – 26 September 2025 (Seoul, South Korea)

Modelling radiative heat transfer to closed LH2 storage

Simulations of Blast Wave After Hydrogen Tank Rupture in Fire Using LS-DYNA

Tom Liddy

16th European Congress on Catalysis, 31 August to 5 September 2025 (Trondheim, Norway)

Catalysts for ammonia decomposition (oral presentation)

Joe Parkinson

Joint UK Resonant Acoustic Mixing Workshop and Birmingham Symposium on Mechanochemistry and Sustainability, 30 July – 1 August 2025 (Birmingham, UK)

Developing a sustainable mechanochemical synthesis of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides and their hybrids for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (poster presentation)

Paddy Powell

28th International Workshop on Rare Earth and Future Permanent Magnets and Their Applications, 27 – 31 July 2025 (Tsukuba, Japan)

Influence of the Nd-rich phase when processing Nd-Fe-B through the Hydrogen Ductilisation Process (HyDP) (poster presentation)

Adedayo Dada

Frontiers in Metal Oxide Cluster Science VIII Conference, 21 – 26 July 2025 (Mainz, Germany)

Design and Synthesis of pyridyl phosphonate-functionalised polyoxometalates

(oral and poster presentations)

Adedayo Dada Isabelle Marriott Thomas Liddy

Postgraduate Research Symposium, 16 – 18 July 2025 (Nottingham,UK)

Design and synthesis of symmetrical pyridyl phosphonate-functionalised polyoxometalates

Activated from Within: In-Situ Nitridation of Ru/GNF enhances hydrogen production from ammonia cracking

Acceptorless alcohol dehydrogenation using a sulfur-based manganese catalyst (poster presentations)

Mossen Randeree

Academy of Marketing Doctoral Colloquium, 7 – 10 July 2025 (Cork, Ireland)

Market Shaping in a Global Green Hydrogen Economy Context (oral presentation)

Niko Hilmi

8th Annual UK Porous Materials Conferences, 3 – 4 June 2025 (Birmingham, UK)

Metal-organic Framework (MOF)/Polymer Mixed Matrix Membranes (MMMs) for Hydrogen Purification (oral presentation)

Yassin Ziar

ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, 8 – 10 July 2025 (Colorado, USA)

Optimised Heat Transfer Architecture (HTA) for Enhanced Solid-State Hydrogen Storage (poster presentation)

Sam Lines

The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Hydrogen-Metal Systems, 22 – 27 June 2025 (Les Diablerets, Switzerland)

Ab Initio Modelling of the Kinetics of Hydrogen Absorption in TiCr2 and TiMn2 Surfaces and the Effect of Surface Substitutions (poster presentation)

Emily Blackett

International Meeting on Chemical Sensor, 22 – 26 June 2025 (Freiburg, Germany)

Advanced hydrogen sensing platform based on optimised semiconductor composites (poster presentation)

Gagan Gopakumar Suja

MariNH3 Conference, 17 June 2025 (Nottingham, UK)

Crack, Burn, Compare: Evaluating Electric and Thermal Recuperated Ammonia Crackers in Spark Ignition Engines (oral presentation)

Salim Ubale William Baker

35th European Safety and Reliability and 33rd Society for Risk Analysis Europe Conference, 15 – 19 June 2025 (Stavanger, Norway)

Modelling of polymer electrolyte membrane electrolyzer degradation and reliability (oral presentation)

Sustainable Hydrogen for Agricultural and Rural Environments: Risks of Energy System Change (poster presentation

Niko Hilmi

8th Annual UK Porous Materials Conferences, 3 – 4 June 2025 (Birmingham, UK)

Metal-organic Framework (MOF)/Polymer Mixed Matrix Membranes (MMMs) for Hydrogen Purification (oral presentation)

William Baker

Joe Walton

The European Hydrogen Conference, 9 – 11 April 2025 (Trieste, Italy)

Discovering the key social values for hydrogen acceptance in rural farming communities

Competitive green hydrogen production and the potential impact on energy poverty (oral presentations)

Rafael Sanchez, Isabelle Marriott Adedayo Dada

RSC Dalton Conference, 1-3 April 2025 (Warwick, UK)

Synthesis and characterisation of polypyridyl pincer complexes of first-row transition metals

Acceptorless alcohol dehydrogenation using a sulfur-based manganese catalyst

Design and synthesis of pyridyl phosphonate-functionalised polyoxometalates (poster presentations)

Joe Walton

Hydrogen Days, 19 – 21 March 2025 (Prague, Czechia)

How can green hydrogen be made economically competitive? (poster presentation)

Luke Thomson and Lukas Paulsson-Habegger

Electronic Materials and Applications (EMA) conference, 26 – 28 February 2025 (Colorado, USA)

High electrical conductivity of 0.1 - 0.01 S/cm at room temperature in yttria stabilised zirconia (oral presentation)

Salim Ubale

71st Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 27-30 January 2025 (Florida, USA)

Reliability Analysis of PEM Electrolyser Balance of Plant (oral presentation)

Alexandra Brochoire

5th Annual International Conference in Advances in Materials Science, 27 – 28 November 2024 (Lahore, Pakistan)

Towards a straight-forward synthesis for high-performing iridium OER catalysts (oral presentation)

Alexandra Brochoire

Pacific Rim International Meeting of The Electrochemical Society, The Electrochemical Society of Japan, and The Korean Electrochemical Society, 6 – 11 October 2024. (Hawaii, USA)

Towards a straight-forward synthesis for high-performing iridium OER catalysts (poster presentation)

Samir Soares

Net Zero Futures Conference, 18 September 2024 (Cranfield, UK)

The challenges of decarbonising rural remote domestic heating in the UK (poster presentation)

Niko Hilmi

EuroMembrane 2024 Conference, 8-12 Sept 2024 (Prague, Czech Republic)

Metal-organic framework mixed matrix membranes for hydrogen purification (poster presentation)

Samir Soares

STFC Early Career Researchers Conference, 3-4 Sept 2024 (Abingdon, UK)

The challenges of decarbonising rural remote domestic heating in the UK (oral presentation)

Digital twin of a lab metal hydrogen system simulated in a rural UK home (poster presentation)

Antonia Dase

Dalton Northern Regional Meeting, 14 August 2024 (Manchester, UK)

Ligand synthesis and transition metal complexes (poster presentation)

Antonia Dase

45th International Conference of Coordination Chemistry (ICCC), 28 Jul - 3 Aug 2024 (Colorado, USA)

Design and Synthesis of the Bulky [(SiiPr3)2P]− Ligand Precursor and its Low-Coordinate Group 12 and Transition Metal Complexes (oral presentation)

Mina Kazemi

5th International Symposium on Hazards, Prevention and Mitigation of Industrial Explosions, 10-14 June 2024 (Naples, Italy)

Stability of non-premixed methane flames: dependence on storage pressure and leak diameter (oral presentation)

Amelia-Rose Edgley

Celebrating Engineering Research showcase at University of Nottingham, 12 Jun 2024 (Nottingham, UK)

Nanostructured hydrogen storage materials for offshore green hydrogen (poster presentation)

Niko Hilmi

7th Annual UK Porous Materials (UKPorMat) Conference, 4 - 5 Jun 2024 (Liverpool, UK)

Metal-organic Framework Mixed Matrix Membranes for Hydrogen Purification (poster presentation)

Alex McGrath

18th International Symposium on Metal-Hydrogen Systems, 26-31 May 2024 (Saint-Malo, France)

Stoichiometry and annealing condition on hydrogen capacity of TiCr2-x AB2 alloys (poster presentation)

Samir Soares

18th International Symposium on Metal-Hydrogen Systems, 26-31 May 2024 (Saint-Malo, France)

Developing a combined electrolyser and metal hydride storage system to evaluate metal hydride (poster presentation)

Yassin Ziar

18th International Symposium on Metal-Hydrogen Systems, 26-31 May 2024 (Saint-Malo, France)

Thermal Conductivity Improvement for Hydrogen Storage via Additive Manufacturing (oral presentation)

Una O’Hara

18th International Symposium on Metal-Hydrogen Systems, 26-31 May 2024 (Saint-Malo, France)

Identifying hydrogen release and diborane mitigation reaction mechanisms in sodium zinc borohydride - calcium hydride composites (oral presentation)

Salim Ubale

18th International Symposium on Metal-Hydrogen Systems, 26-31 May 2024 (Saint-Malo, France)

Reliability Analysis of PEM Electrolyser Plant (poster presentation)

Ramas Al Qudah

18th International Symposium on Metal-Hydrogen Systems, 26-31 May 2024 (Saint-Malo, France)

Innovative Materials for thermal Compression- Solving the Challenge of Hydrogen Compression (poster presentation)

Amelia-Rose Edgley

18th International Symposium on Metal-Hydrogen Systems, 26-31 May 2024 (Saint-Malo, France)

Feasibility Study into Metal Hydride Buffer Stores for Use in Offshore Wind Scenarios (poster presentation)

Mossen Randeree

Birmingham Business School Research Conference, 8 May 2024 (Birmingham, UK)

Towards Understanding Sociotechnical Aspects of Regional Hydrogen Economies (oral presentation)

Samir Soares

Energy Research Accelerator (ERA): A race against time – energy innovation for Net-Zero Conference, 25 Jan 2024 (Cranfield, UK)

Evaluating rural energy accessibility by the UK (poster presentation)

Samir Soares

UK Energy Storage conference (UKES2024), 10-12 Apr 2024(Nottingham, UK)

Using hydrogen for a sustainable built environment (oral presentation)

Amelia-Rose Edgley

UK Energy Storage conference (UKES2024), 10-12 Apr 2024 (Nottingham, UK)

Nanostructured hydrogen storage materials for offshore green hydrogen (poster presentation)

Kieran Heeley

Hydrogen Days, 14th International Conference on Hydrogen Technologies, 20-22 Mar 2024 (Prague, Czech Republic)

Algal biomass to hydrogen: a circular approach for green sustainable processing with enhanced efficiency and minimal waste (oral presentation)

Joseph Walton

European Hydrogen Energy Conference (EHEC), 6-8 Mar 2024 (Bilbao, Spain)

Up-to-date hydrogen production costs and their sensitivity to key parameter variations (poster presentation)

Alexandra Brochoire

World Fuel Cell Conference at Imperial College London, 11-13 Dec 2023 (London, UK)

Proton exchange membrane water electrolysers with thin film nanostructured electrodes(poster presentation)

Mina Kazemi

Northen Ireland High Performance Computing (NI-HPC) User Conference, 7 Nov 2023 (Belfast, Northern Ireland)

Hydrogen flame stability limits (oral presentation)

   

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