16/06/2026: Photobattery work on the Cover 

 Our photo-assisted battery work, Interfacial strain engineering induces fatigue-resistant, high-capacity photo-assisted lithium storage, appeared on the inside front cover of EES Batteries. https://doi.org/10.1039/d6eb00089d

 

 

18/06/2026 Congratulations to Himal for passing his PhD

During this PhD work, we developed high-performance perovskite SLIPT receivers for optical data communication, in collaboration with Mojtaba Abdi-Jalebi’s group at UCL and Iman Tavakkolnia’s group at the University of Cambridge.

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18/05/2026 Congratulations to Bahattin on passing his PhD viva

Bahattin’s PhD focused on developing fast, self-powered, high-speed Organic Photodetectors for Optical Data Communications, in collaboration with Iman Tavakkolnia’s group at the University of Cambridge.

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09/12/2025: Proud moment for our team!

Our PhD students, Bahattin and Mudassar Nazir, presented our collaborative work on self-powered photodetectors and photobatteries at the Faraday Community Poster Symposium 2025. Bahattin Bademci won the Best Poster Prize, a well-deserved recognition of the quality and impact of this research. Well done, Bahattin!  This work was carried out in collaboration with our friends Dr Iman Tavakkolnia  at Cambridge and Dr Mojtaba Abdi-Jalebi at UCL.

 

 

18/11/2025 Photobattery work on the Cover 

 Our photo-assisted battery work appeared on the front cover of Advanced Functional Materials. 

18/09/2025 Team at EMRS Fall 2025 in Warsaw

Our PI, Dr Tariq Sajjad, gave an invited talk on photo-assisted rechargeable batteries, and our  PhD student, Himal Muwanwella, presented our collaborative work with Cambridge on self-energy harvesting receivers for optical data communication

16/12/2024: EPSRC grant 

Dr Tariq Sajjad (PI) and Dr Suela Kellici (Co-I) have secured an EPSRC grant to develop a bifunctional perovskite-based electrocatalyst in collaboration with Prof Asif Tahir (University of Exeter) and Prof Robert Weatherup (Oxford University). The team will utilise these advanced catalysts for seawater electrolysis to produce hydrogen.

01/07/2024 ISPF grant for Sustainable Agriculture

 Dr Tariq Sajjad and Dr Suela Kellici secured funding for an exciting project. Over the next two years, they will be working with the ITU team led by Prof Levent Trabzon to develop nanofertilizers and nano-optical antennas to address global food shortages.

Photo taken from British Council Linkedin page

24/07/2023 Falak’s First Paper accepted

Congratulation to Falak for her first paper in Nanoscale Horizons (doi.org/10.1039/D3NH00). This is fabulous work by Green’s team, from Kings College London, reporting a simpler synthetic route to prepare air-stable highly InP-based quantum dots.

20/07/2023 Bahattin at Summer School 

This week, our PhD student Bahattin attended Cost Action (@COSTprogramme) “NEWFOCUS” Training School on Optical Wireless Communication at the Canolfan Rhagoriaeth DSP Centre of Excellence of Bangor University, UK. During 2 days of training, he had been given training from fundamental levels of Optical communication to complex real-time communication systems.

10/08/2023: Prof Al-Hashimi visit to LSBU

We hosted Prof Mohammed Al-Hashimi from Texas University Qatar this week.  We had a lot of discussions about ongoing and future collaborative research work. 

01/08/2023 Net Zero Futures Bootcamp

We welcome the 6th cohort of the NetZero Future Greenskills Bootcamp, where 12 highly motivated and technically minded individuals will be trained in the power energy sectors. Special thanks to our amazing PhD students for their incredible support.

 

24/07/2023 Falak’s First Paper accepted

Congratulation to Falak for her first paper in Nanoscale Horizons (doi.org/10.1039/D3NH00). This is fabulous work by Green’s team, from Kings College London, reporting a simpler synthetic route to prepare air-stable highly InP-based quantum dots.

20/07/2023 Bahattin at Summer School 

This week, our PhD student Bahattin attended Cost Action (@COSTprogramme) “NEWFOCUS” Training School on Optical Wireless Communication at the Canolfan Rhagoriaeth DSP Centre of Excellence of Bangor University, UK. During 2 days of training, he had been given training from fundamental levels of Optical communication to complex real-time communication systems.

15/07/2023: Dr Rabia attended the Battery Cells and System Expo

Our group member Dr Rabia attended Battery Cells and Systems Expo, at NEC, Birmingham on the 28th and 29th of June 2023 where she had an insightful conversation with industry and academic professionals about how to address EV and battery supply chain challenges.

02/07/2023 Himal and Bahattin at PVSAT17

Our PhD students Himal and Bahattin presented their PhD work on perovskite solar cells and Organic solar cells for indoor PV and optical communication at PVSAT17.

 

07/06/2023 Dr Tariq Sajjad and Dr Suela Kellici won Education Award

Congratulations to our group leader Dr Tariq sajjad & LCEE head Dr Suela Kellici for their achievements at @LSBU
 Education Awards 2023! Tariq has been awarded the Postgraduate Dissertation Supervisor of the Year, while Suela secured the PGR Supervisor of the Year award. Well done!

Dr Tariq Sajjad was Selected as Emerging Investigators in the field of Energy by RSC

 Dr Tariq Sajjad was selected as one of the emerging investigators in the field of energy by the Royal Society of Chemistry and was invited for an article in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A emerging investigators theme issue 2020. According to RSC, “this themed issue highlighting 2020’s rising stars of materials chemistry research and each contributor was recommended by experts in their fields as carrying out work with the potential to influence future directions in materials chemistry”.

 The link to the theme issue is given below.

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/articlecollectionlanding?sercode=ta&themeid=45c9faa2-4d4a-44ef-89c1-e1e54ec3e7f1

here a list of emerging Investigators who contributed to this issue.

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/ta/d0ta90163f#!divAbstract

 

Time-resolved Spectroscopy facility

Group bought a new FLS1000 flourimeter. 

 

 

We are very thankful to London South Bank University and Edinburgh Instruments Ltd