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Optoelectronic Materials and Device Spectroscopy Group (StranksLab)

 

Spin-outs

 

Sustain Education

Not-for-profit founded by Stuart Macpherson, Beth Tennyson and Sam Stranks in 2021. Providing all students at a critical learning age (7-11 years old) with the knowledge to generate progressive and innovative ideas, enabling them to renovate the world to their own modern vision.

https://sustaineducation.org/

 

Swift Solar

Co-founded by Sam Stranks in 2017. Developing next-generation of halide perovskite solar photovoltaics.

https://www.swiftsolar.com/

 


Ongoing projects

 

Affordable Perovskite Solar Irrigation Systems for Small-holder Farmers in Ethiopia (APSISSFE)

April 2020 - present

Research into developing lower cost solar irrigation systems for Ethiopian small-holder farmers, together with the Centre for Global Equality and Bahir Dar University.

   

   

 

EU 'Fuel from the Sun' Prize Competition

2019 –  2022 

A combined team from Strankslab and the group of Erwin Reisner reached the final of the EU ‘Fuel from the Sun’ Final competition, producing a scaled up system of artificial leaves producing a sustainable solar fuel.

The team of researchers testing their artificial leaf array on the rooftop of the Maxwell Centre in Cambridge

 

West Cambridge Energy Tour

March 2021 – present

The West Cambridge Energy Tour explores the West Cambridge Research Campus and introduces some of the energy-related research that goes on at the University.

 

Primary school mapping challenge

April 2019 – present

This activity enables children of 9-12 years old to become researchers and discover the potential of renewable energy: https://energymap.oe.phy.cam.ac.uk/info 

        

 

Air Travel Carbon Footprint

June 21, 2019 – present (Cambridge, UK)

All Strankslab members record the carbon footprint of work- related travel.

 

Cambridge Festival

2019 - present (Cambridge, UK)

Building solar cells using berries.

Photos from Saturday 18th March 2023

 

 

 

Physics @ Work

2019 - present (Cambridge, UK)

School groups from the surrounding Cambridge area. Ages range from middle – high school levels

Photo from September 17 – 19, 2019

 


Past projects

Experience Cambridge 2019

July 13, 2019 (Cambridge, UK)

 

SRUK meeting 2019

June 30 – July 2, 2019 (Cambridge, UK)

 

Cambridge Science Fair 2019

March 23, 2019 (Cambridge, UK)

Build your own dye sensitised solar cell

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Pop-Up Physics Fest

December 2, 2018 (Peterborough, UK)

In collaboration with the Institute of Physics

 

Physics Fest 2018

November 25, 2018 (Ipswich, UK)

In collaboration with the Institute of Physics

 

Solar Panel Activities

November 7, 2018 (Cambridge, UK)

 

Physics @ Work

September 18 – 20, 2018 (Cambridge, UK)

School groups from the surrounding Cambridge area. Ages range from middle – high school levels