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Ifan Stephens

@ifanstephens.bsky.social
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Professor of Electrochemistry at Department of Materials, Imperial College London. Leader of Interfacial Electrochemistry Group. Henry Royce Institute: Research Area Lead in Atoms to Devices.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 12/02/2026
NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months * Down in 2025 * Still below Mar 2024 * Clean energy wave a key factor If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far… www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Great to chat with BBC Cymru about my non-linear path in science. Alongside electrocatalysis, we touched on everything from Sir John Meurig Thomas to why EDI really matters in materials science. Original: www.bbc.co.uk/cymrufyw/ert... Translation: www-bbc-co-uk.translate.goog/cymrufyw/ert...
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Daniel Jopling @usualtropes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
[2/3] With talks from @aronwalsh.github.io 💻, @emjewls.bsky.social 🔋, @ifanstephens.bsky.social 🔌, Petra Cameron ☀️, Libby Gibson ♻️ and Jessica Higgins ☢️ and networking opportunities and poster sessions organised by @titiricigroup.bsky.social @proffreitag.bsky.social...
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Free speech and academic freedom killed off in the USA in less than 3 months.
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
What a shining star in the @royalsociety.org fellowship. They must be so proud.
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I am delighted to share two new papers from @interfacial-ec.bsky.social
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for @carbonbrief.org providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/261393/... @royceimperial.bsky.social
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Royce at Imperial announces new Royce Research Area Lead | Imperial News | Imperial College London
CELEBRATING OUR LEADS - Professor Ifan Stephens has been announced as the new Research Area Lead for Royce at Imperial, succeeding Professor Neil Alford.
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María Escudero Escribano @mariaescesc.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Attending #MATSUS25 in beautiful #Sevilla! @nanoge.org @titiricigroup.bsky.social @ifanstephens.bsky.social
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The @royalsociety.org should stand up for the scientific community and eject Elon Musk.
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Congratulations @mariaescesc.bsky.social! Such well deserved recognition of your countless achievements! I am sure Queen Laetizia was ever so impressed too! www.20minutos.es/noticia/5681...
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La reina Letizia entrega los premios que reconocen el Joven Talento Científico Femenino
Los galardones visibilizan a las jóvenes investigadoras que "están construyendo el futuro de la ciencia en España".
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I finished off yesterday at the Queens Arms at the pub catching up with Soren Scott who has now been Assistant Professor at @ucph.bsky.social for 15 months! Although we miss him sorely at @interfacial-ec.bsky.social, I am so pleased to see he is going from strength to strength in Copenhagen!
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
We had a fascinating day showing the Faraday Institution leadership around Imperial yesterday with @titiricigroup.bsky.social @jingyuf.bsky.social @lonepair.bsky.social and many more.
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Here we relate CV peaks and O2 reduction activity on Fe macrocycles, combining, electrochemistry, XAS and DFT pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Same FeN4 Active Site, Different Activity: How Redox Peaks Control Oxygen Reduction on Fe Macrocycles
Macrocycles show high activity for the electrochemical reduction of oxygen in alkaline media. However, even macrocycles with the same metal centers and MN4 active site can vary significantly in activi...
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Delighted to be back at ICN2 @mariaescesc.bsky.social one year on from my last visit. Maria has amassed an exceptionally talented team (some new faces, some old friends), augmented by state-of the-art equipment! ¡Gracias por la invitación!
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
So happy to be reunited with Arthur, my childhood teddy bear for Christmas!
Ifan hugging a teddy bear
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/12/2024
The UK continues to quietly force trans adults to detransition. It was never about trans youth. Doctors in the UK are withdrawing hormones without warning and cutting tags people off even after decades of being on HRT. www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home...
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GPs halting transgender patients’ hormone treatment or refusing prescriptions
Investigation: GPs cite lack of expertise or funding as key factors in withdrawals of trans patients’ prescriptions. Billie Gay Jackson and Holly Bancroft report
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@titiricigroup @titiricigroup.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Time to share some of our latest publications: This one led by @angus-pedersen.bsky.social with amazing collaborators like @ifanstephens.bsky.social, Frédéric Maillard and Lior Elbaz looking at ionomer effect on degradation of Fe-N-C. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/GFWKEZ...
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Fe‐N‐C in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells: Impact of Ionomer Loading on Degradation and Stability
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
What a fun joint🎄 party @titiricigroup.bsky.social and @interfacial-ec.bsky.social had! Thanks to @craigburdis.bsky.social and Morven for the hard work in ensuring it ran to perfection! Who knew Morven was such a karaoke queen?
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Finally!!!
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Congratulations to @romaintort.bsky.social on passing his PhD viva with minor corrections! It’s so gratifying to supervise a student who is not only a brilliant scientist, but also kind, conscientious and a pleasure to work with for all of us at @interfacial-ec.bsky.social!
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
At @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social we were hugely privileged yesterday to host a talk from @jakobkibsgaard.bsky.social from DTU. We were enlightened about the wonders of mass selected nanoparticles as catalysts for energy conversion reactions.
Jakob and Ifan standing in front of projector screen as Jakob is about to give a talk.
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I hope the EU is able to obluge the government to drop fees as our current pool for funded PhD students is far too small on.ft.com/4eVw15W
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
What an exciting moment for us all. Outstanding work @jingyuf.bsky.social !!!
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Interested in using carbon electrodes for nitrogen reduction? Look no further! Well done Craig!!!
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Justin Bui @justincbui.com · 18/11/2024
Lots of new people on 🦋 today, so I thought I'd introduce myself! I am an electrochemical engineer + incoming PI at NYU. I combine computational models with 3D-printing and reaction engineering to develop electrochemical systems for environmental remediation and decarbonization. #GreenSky #ChemSky
Description of Justin Bui's Research Activities and Approaches.
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
What a great idea!!!!
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I would like to speak up today for the trans community. You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
This autumn is splendid in Vicky Park
Lake in Victoria ParkAutumn trees by Regent’s CanalLake
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Dr Abigail Ackerman @abitheacademic.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
For those who don’t know me: I’m an early career metallurgist specialising in hydrogen interactions in metals, passionate about policy, communication and sustainability. Side projects supporting disabilities in academia and EDI.
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Romain Tort @romaintort.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Thank you NanoGe for a lovely time in Lausanne attending the MATSUS Fall conference, with a fantastic line up of speakers at the #EEInt symposium organised by Mariana Monteiro and Yu Katayama! And thanks again for the treat ChemElectroChem @chemistryeurope.bsky.social 🥳
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Well done @angus-pedersen.bsky.social for revealing the role of ionomer loading in degradation of non precious metal catalysts for O2 reduction in fuel cells onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Fe‐N‐C in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells: Impact of Ionomer Loading on Degradation and Stability
The impact of the ionomer to catalyst ratio for atomic Fe in N-doped C (Fe-N-C) degradation in proton exchange membrane fuel cells is elucidated by advanced electrochemical techniques. Kinetic degrad....
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Cathleen Crudden @cathleencrudden.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Want to give a good scientific talk? TELL A GOOD STORY. don’t show the audience every result, don’t give us one slide on every paper you’ve ever published. If I want to read your resume, I will. Teach me something, tell me a story.
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Congratulations from afar to @romaintort.bsky.social for winning the best talk prize at #EEInt symposium at MATSUS in Lausanne for his talk on correlating electrolyte and interphase composition to performance in N2 electroreduction!
Romain receiving prize from Mariana Monteiro and Yu KatayamaRomain revealing role of Li plating potential and proton activity on %NH3
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
In this work we demonstrate how Pt with acidic oxides can steer the electrovalorisation of waste glycerol towards lactic acid, a building block for sustainable bio polymers! Congrats to Hui, Mianle and all other co-authors pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Selective glycerol to lactic acid conversion via a tandem effect between platinum and metal oxides with abundant acid groups
Phasing out petrochemical-based thermoplastics with bio-plastics produced in an energy efficient and environmentally friendly way is of paramount interest. Among them, polylactic acid (PLA) is the fla...
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 09/11/2024
How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump (Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam) www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3v...
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TESLA = TRUMP
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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Prashant Kamat @kamat.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
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anna-hankin.bsky.social @anna-hankin.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
It was really great to attend the 'Beyond H2 Workshop' today at Uni of Manchester. Thank you ever so much for the invitation and for the thought-provoking interactions 🤩 I so enjoyed hearing the presentation of my colleague @ifanstephens.bsky.social, whose talks i've been missing recently.
Professor Ifan Stephens delivering his talk called 'Towards the electrification of the chemical industry'. He is standing in front of the screen, holding a microphone. He is addressing the audience.
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
What a great resource!!!
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Today’s “Beyond H2” workshop by the Solar Chemicals Network was so enjoyable, covering such a broad range of approaches. Naturally my personal highlight was my colleague @anna-hankin.bsky.social’s insightful invited talk on the practical implementation of solar H2O splitting in S Africa.
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The Surendranath Group 🥭 @interphases.org · 12/11/2024
No 🔋⚡ELECTROCHEMSKY⚡🔋 starter pack? That's fine, we'll make our own. go.bsky.app/7BokNKP
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Dr Zoë Ayres @zjayres.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Yasss! Electrochemistry unite!
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Incredibly useful list (honoured to be part of it)
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Ifan Stephens @ifanstephens.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Hello Bluesky! I am a prof at the Department of Materials at Imperial College. My research focuses on electrocatalysis for the production of fuels and chemicals. I also dabble in batteries and fuel cells. Here I am celebrating 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ with the Interfacial Electrochemistry Group, which I lead, last June.
LGBTQIA pride
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Prof Ben Britton @bmatb.expmicromech.com · 10/11/2024
I'm looking to grow some connectivity for materials scientists & engineers on BlueSky - if you identify in this grouping, I'd be happy to add you to this starter pack 🧪 go.bsky.app/U5wGm7M
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