University College Dublin

UCD is one of Europe's leading research-intensive universities, attracting over 38,000 students from 152 countries. As Ireland's largest university, UCD is also the national leader in winning European Union research funding and is home to the largest School of Chemistry in Ireland. UCD Chemistry is a thriving research school with over 120 researchers, based in newly renovated teaching and research laboratories in Science Centre South of the O'Brien Centre for Science, supported by a suite of Technical Officer-supported research instrumentation. We are, with the TCD School of Chemistry, part of Dublin Chemistry, a joint graduate school (and home of the oldest structured Chemistry PhD programme in Ireland). We offer a diverse range of Chemistry degree programmes, including Chemistry with Environmental and Sustainable Chemistry.

Role within INERRANT

In INERRANT, UCD leads WP2 which focuses on the development of scalable and sustainable processes to produce high-capacity cathode active materials for Li-ion batteries. Specifically, UCD will develop scalable syntheses for modified single crystal Ni-rich cathodes and nanostructured polyanionic cathodes of tuneable morphologies, improving lifetime, cyclability and safety.