Current Chemistry Investigators

Make your own batteries from common material that you can find around the house, and test out your battery by making a mini-torch! CCI is an informal education project about electrochemistry. The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the discovery of the Lithium-Ion battery - a technology that has revolutionised our society! These batteries are now in our phones, cars, laptops and houses. However, they need many chemical elements from all over the world to store energy. Our modern society is facing into an energy crisis and we need to find more efficient ways to store and transport energy. Also, can we make batteries more sustainable and from cheaper alternatives?. CCI will show how chemistry and physics comes together to make and store the energy we need for our modern lives.