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Serena Corr

Serena Corr is a chair in Functional Materials and Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield. She works on next-generation battery materials and advanced characterisation techniques for nanomaterials.

Early life and education

Corr grew up in Clonmel and attended Presentation Secondary School. She studied chemistry at Trinity College Dublin.[1] She completed her doctoral work on magnetic structured materials (nanoparticles and quantum dots for biomedical applications) with Yurii Gun'ko.[2] She focussed on nanomaterials that could be used for biomedical applications.[3] Corr worked on several outreach programs during her PhD. She joined the University of California, Santa Barbara, working with Ram Seshadri on vanadate metal-insulator transitions from 2007 to 2009.[1][4] She worked on rutile vanadium oxide.[4][5] They also explored molybdenum dioxide materials that demonstrated reversible lithium storage capacity.[6]

As a student, Serena was heavily involved in the Maths Department in Trinity College Dublin, acting as a course administrator for Tim Murphy's 061 Practical Computing course[citation needed].

Career

Corr was made a lecturer at the University of Kent.[1] She spent her first year writing papers and proposals for the Diamond Light Source and ISIS neutron source.[3][7] Her early work considered ways to design nanostructured materials using organometallic precursors.[8][9] She demonstrated that magnetic nanoparticles could be used as MRI contrast agents.[10] She held a visiting professorship at the University of Otago[citation needed].

Corr joined the University of Glasgow as a lecturer in 2013 and was made a professor in 2018.[1] She took part in the science communication competition I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here!.[11] In 2014 she collaborated with Eleanor Schofield to conserve the Mary Rose.[12] She developed multi-functional magnetic nano-composites that could remove the iron ions within waterlogged wood.[12]

In 2013 she edited a chapter for Nanomedicine, Magnetic Nanoparticles for Targeted Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy.[13] Her group look at new insertion electrodes for energy storage.[14] These were formed from nanoparticles, which house lithium ions that can be moved between the cathode and anode.[15] She showed that shape and size of the nanoparticles can impact their electrochemical properties.[15] She uses fast microwave processing and alkoxides for continuous chemical synthesis of next generation battery materials.[15][16] In 2015 she was awarded a £1.2 million Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council grant to investigate the reliability of these materials in devices.[17] This involves studying the structure of electrodes and dynamics of ion movement.[18][19] In 2017 she was made a Training Champion for the Faraday Institution, an academia - industry response to the Faraday Battery Challenge.[20][21] Her research on battery longevity and how Lithium-ion batteries degrade was covered by The Daily Telegraph.[22] In 2019 she will talk about the history of batteries at the Royal Institution.[23]

In 2017 Corr was selected as a Royal Society of Chemistry Journal of Materials Chemistry lecturer.[1][24] She joined the University of Sheffield as a chair in Functional Materials and Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering in 2018.[25][26] She serves on the management board of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council doctoral training centre in energy storage.[27] She is an associate editor of Royal Society of Chemistry journal Nanoscale[citation needed] and the IOP Publishing journal Progress in Energy.[28][29]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Group". Corr group. 20 March 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  2. ^ Gun’ko, Yurii K.; Rakovich, Yury P.; Corr, Serena A. (1 March 2008). "Multifunctional Magnetic-fluorescent Nanocomposites for Biomedical Applications". Nanoscale Research Letters. 3 (3): 87–104. Bibcode:2008NRL.....3...87C. doi:10.1007/s11671-008-9122-8. ISSN 1556-276X. PMC 3244791.
  3. ^ a b Lalloo, Manisha (10 April 2013). "Starting out in academia". Chemistry World. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  4. ^ a b Corr, Serena A.; Grossman, Madeleine; Furman, Joshua D.; Melot, Brent C.; Cheetham, Anthony K.; Heier, Kevin R.; Seshadri, Ram (28 October 2008). "Controlled Reduction of Vanadium Oxide Nanoscrolls: Crystal Structure, Morphology, and Electrical Properties". Chemistry of Materials. 20 (20): 6396–6404. doi:10.1021/cm801539f. ISSN 0897-4756.
  5. ^ "Strongly correlated materials". Corr group. 3 October 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  6. ^ Shi, Yifeng; Guo, Bingkun; Corr, Serena A.; Shi, Qihui; Hu, Yong-Sheng; Heier, Kevin R.; Chen, Liquan; Seshadri, Ram; Stucky, Galen D. (9 December 2009). "Ordered Mesoporous Metallic MoO2 Materials with Highly Reversible Lithium Storage Capacity". Nano Letters. 9 (12): 4215–4220. Bibcode:2009NanoL...9.4215S. doi:10.1021/nl902423a. ISSN 1530-6984. PMID 19775084.
  7. ^ "STFC home". data.isis.stfc.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  8. ^ "Nanostructured material design". Corr group. 3 October 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  9. ^ Corr, Serena A.; Gun'ko, Yurii K.; Douvalis, Alexios P.; Venkatesan, Munuswamy; Gunning, Robert D.; Nellist‖, Peter D. (9 January 2008). "From Nanocrystals to Nanorods: New Iron Oxide−Silica Nanocomposites from Metallorganic Precursors". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 112 (4): 1008–1018. doi:10.1021/jp076871d.
  10. ^ Corr, Serena A.; Byrne, Stephen J.; Tekoriute, Renata; Meledandri, Carla J.; Brougham, Dermot F.; Lynch, Marina; Kerskens, Christian; O'Dwyer, Laurence; Gun'ko, Yurii K. (1 April 2008). "Linear Assemblies of Magnetic Nanoparticles as MRI Contrast Agents". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 130 (13): 4214–4215. doi:10.1021/ja710172z. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 18331033.
  11. ^ "Profile". New Materials Zone. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  12. ^ a b "Nanomaterials for conservation". Corr group. 3 October 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  13. ^ Williams, Marc J.; Corr, Serena A. (2013), "Magnetic Nanoparticles for Targeted Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy", Nanomedicine, Elsevier, pp. 29–63, doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-098338-7.00002-9, ISBN 9780080983387
  14. ^ "Insertion electrodes for energy storage". Corr group. 3 October 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  15. ^ a b c "Microwave processing for fast, green preparation of insertion electrodes". UKRI. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  16. ^ "Dr Serena Corr has been awarded a Supergen Energy Storage Challenge grant". www.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  17. ^ "Design and high throughput microwave synthesis of Li-ion battery materials". UKRI. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  18. ^ Tierney, S. "Connecting Research: The Forum · Chemistry Seminar – Dr Serena Corr". Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  19. ^ "Ian Dangerfield Lecture". www.maynoothuniversity.ie. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  20. ^ "About – The Faraday Institution". Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  21. ^ "Graduate & Postdoctoral – The Faraday Institution". Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  22. ^ English, Andrew (15 November 2018). "Everything you need to know about lithium-ion batteries – but which car makers forgot to tell you". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  23. ^ "The battery – inside out". Eventbrite. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  24. ^ "Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship Winner 2017 – Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog". Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  25. ^ "5 new academics to join Department". www.sheffield.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  26. ^ "New academics for the department". www.sheffield.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  27. ^ "Management". Energy Storage and its Applications. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  28. ^ "nanoscale_editorial board members". www.rsc.org. 23 February 2016. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  29. ^ "Editorial Board - Progress in Energy - IOPscience". iopscience.iop.org. Retrieved 8 December 2018.