Prof Kevin Ryan talks Nanotechnology, Batteries and Engineering

In this episode, Finbarr and Erin chat with Prof Kevin Ryan, Chair of Chemical Nanotechnology at the University of Limerick, about very little things; nano things!

Professor Kevin M. Ryan holds a Personal Chair in Chemical Nanotechnology at the Department of Chemical Sciences in the School of Natural Sciences at the University of Limerick.

He is the coordinator of the H2020 EU projects Si-Drive and NEILLSBAT in the area of Li-ion and Lithium-Sulfur batteries respectively. He is a Co-Principal Investigator on SFI Centres MaREI and AMBER and a funded Investigator on SSPC and Confirm. He is the team leader for the Molecular/Nano cluster at the Bernal Institute and holds SFI IVP and IRC Laureate awards.

Kevin is a native of Limerick and graduated with a BSc in 1999 and a PhD in 2003 in Chemistry from University College Cork.

Prof Ryan subsequently held Marie Curie Fellowship positions at Merck Chemicals Southampton, UK, and at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, prior to joining the University of Limerick in 2006 as a Stokes Lecturer. He has published over 140 academic papers with a h-index of 43 (Google Scholar) and holds several patents with research interests in semiconductor nanocrystals and nanowires for applications in electronic devices and batteries. His research group currently has 5 postdoctoral researchers and 16 PhD students all based in the Bernal Institute, University of Limerick.

"Moore's Law states that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles every two years. The law claims that we can expect the speed and capability of our computers to increase every two years because of this, yet we will pay less for them. Another tenet of Moore's Law asserts that this growth is exponential."

https://www.ul.ie/research/prof-kevin-m-ryan

This episode is produced by the KBS Digital Hub-Grzegorz Rogala