Dr Paul A Connor
Senior Research Fellow 1998 – present
Paul received his PhD (Chemistry) from the University of Otago in 1998. He has worked in the School of Chemistry at St Andrews from 1998 till the present and is now a Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer. His research has covered Lithium Batteries, Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Solar collection, catalysis, as well as other general electrochemical projects. He has had two chapters in books, and has over 50 published papers. He is, and has been, a PI and CoI on multiple grants from RCUK and EU, worth well over £10 million. His teaching covers sustainability of energy, to “Fuels of the Future” and on to advanced solid state chemistry.
Grants
| PI | ||
| Structural & Electrochemical characterisation of new materials for SOFCs | British Council | 2009 |
| 3D Graphene-nanotube hybrid for charge storage | SFC | 2014 |
| CoI | ||
| Fuel Cell Technology, Enabling a Robust Clean Energy Economy | EPSRC | 2007 |
| Materials for High Temperature Fuel Cell Technology | EPSRC Platform £1M | 2007 |
| H2SusBuild | EU | 2008 |
| Supergen – Powering a Greener Future | EPSRC | 2009 |
| Crossing Boundaries in energy Storage | EPSRC £3M | 2011 |
| Energy Materials Discovery Characterisation and Application | EPSRC Platform £1M | 2012 |
| Inorganic Bulk Heterojunction for high efficiency in solar cell devices | EPSRC | 2013 |
| Knowledge Transfer partnership | TSB/CIBSE | 2013 |
| Scaled Electricity Storage Using Lithium-Sulfur Batteries | EPSRC | 2015 |
| Tailoring of microstructural evolution in impregnated SOFC electrodes | EPSRC | 2015 |
| In-reservoir destruction of Blue-Green Algae and their toxins | EPSRC £1M | 2017 |
| Multiscale tuning of interfaces and surfaces for energy applications | EPSRC £2M | 2016 |
| Emergent Nanomaterials (Critical Mass Proposal) | EPSRC £1.5M | 2017 |
Three recent pertinent papers
High oxide ion and proton conductivity in a disordered hexagonal perovskite
Fop, S., McCombie, K. S., Wildman, E. J., Skakle, J. M. S., Irvine, J. T. S., Connor, P. A., Savaniu, C., Ritter, C. & Mclaughlin, A. C., Jul 2020, In : Nature Materials. 19, 7, p. 752–757 7 p.
Mechanism of enhanced performance on a hybrid direct carbon fuel cell using sawdust biofuels
Li, S., Jiang, C., Liu, J., Tao, H., Meng, X., Connor, P., Hui, J., Wang, S., Ma, J. & Irvine, J. T. S., 15 Apr 2018, In : Journal of Power Sources. 383, p. 10-16
Tailoring SOFC electrode microstructures for improved performance
Connor, P. A., Yue, X., Savaniu, C. D., Price, R., Triantafyllou, G., Cassidy, M., Kerherve, G., Payne, D. J., Maher, R. C., Cohen, L. F., Tomov, R. I., Glowacki, B. A., Kumar, R. V. & Irvine, J. T. S., 16 Aug 2018, In : Advanced Energy Materials.8, 23, 1800120.