Petra Cameron

Title slide reading “Book covers but we added birds.” Smaller text notes "created by RSPB staff". A Gull wearing red reading glasses peers over an open book. The book is a bird-themed parody titled The Gull Who Played With Fire, with playful review quotes like “Brilliant”, “Talon-biting stuff”, and “A must-read”.

It’s #WorldBookDay!

Admittedly, not a particularly bird-related day.

Don’t worry. We’ve fixed that by asking RSPB staff to redesign their favourite book covers… with birds. 📚

So excited to see 4 redwing in the garden today alongside the more regular visitors #BigGardenBirdwatch

Design for end of life: how circularity can offer a different path for solar energy - Nature Reviews Methods Primers With the rising success of solar photovoltaics, long-term sustainability needs to be addressed. We provide practical steps that researchers, journals and the wider community can take to embed circular...

Day 7️⃣ of the NRMP 5th Anniversary Highlights 🧁

As solar photovoltaics (PVs) are scaled-up at increasing rates, how should the sustainability of solar energy be addressed? This Comment provides practical steps for designing PVs with circularity in mind.🔆♻️ www.nature.com/articles/s43...

@bath-iscc.bsky.social @bathchem.bsky.social

I really enjoyed writing this comment on what we need to do to drive circularity for perovskite solar cells with the very knowledgeable @mldavies04.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

I realise that I haven't posted in a long time as I have been busy teaching a new energy materials course and applying for grants. Now exhausted and looking forward to the end of term!

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Calling all former Bath Chemistry staff and students: last few days to register for our Celebration of @bathchem.bsky.social next week! Details at www.chem25.co.uk

150 people coming so far, but it's not too late to join us for a fantastic programme of alumni talks and evening entertainment.

It's going to be a wonderful event!

Academic Architecture (1/3)

The photograph at the end is stunning.

A screenshot of a news article from The Guardian with the headline: “Legal challenges to infrastructure plans to be blocked in Starmer growth push.” The subheading states that the Prime Minister hopes his plan to ‘take the brakes off Britain’ will encourage businesses to build more. Below the text is an aerial image of Heathrow Airport, showing multiple airplanes taxiing on runways and parked at gates. A caption notes cabinet-level resistance within the Labour Party to plans for a third runway at Heathrow. The source is credited as The Guardian in the bottom right corner.

Keir Starmer, your government promised bold action on climate and nature - but this isn’t it. ❌

It’s a move that risks tearing up our chances for a future where nature, people, and the economy thrive.

My kids say it is the absolute best day of the year so far - proper snow!

These webinars are really good!

Predicting Long-Term Stability from Short-Term Measurement: Insights from Modeling Degradation in Perovskite Solar Cells during Voltage Scans and Impedance Spectroscopy A drift-diffusion model is used to investigate the effect of device degradation on current–voltage and impedance measurements of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Modifications are made to the open-source drift-diffusion software IonMonger to model degradation via an increasing recombination rate during the course of characterization experiments. Impedance spectroscopy is shown to be a significantly more sensitive measure of degradation than current–voltage curves, reliably detecting a power conversion efficiency drop of as little as 0.06% over a 4 h measurement. Furthermore, we find that fast degradation occurring during impedance spectroscopy can induce loops lying above the axis in the Nyquist plot, the first time this experimentally observed phenomenon has been replicated in a physics-based model.

A new collaborative paper with Will Clark and Giles Richardson. We think that short term impedance measurements may be a powerful tool to predict the long term stability of perovskite solar cells pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Light-altering spray for greenhouses could help lengthen the fruit growing season in the UK Researchers in the UK have developed a new spray coating for greenhouses that optimises the wavelength of light shining onto the plants, improving their growth and yield. The technology could in the f...

This is one of the projects we are currently working on. Really exciting to see the translation to actual greenhouses. Work done with Lambda Agri and Dominic Wright at Cambridge.
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When it is a choice between rabbits and chemistry for the first post, rabbits win.