Dr Ulugbek Azimov, University of Northumbria at Newcastle / Emerald Green Power

Industrial Fellowships 2024

Dr Azimov has been involved in the development of advanced engine combustion technologies, first working as an engineer in industry, and later as a postdoctoral researcher. As the world moves towards clean renewable energy applications, his career path has increasingly focused on energy storage systems. 

This project aims to develop an innovative, environmentally friendly, sustainable, flexible, and rechargeable battery technology that uses bio-waste organic materials. The proposed battery will have a wide range of potential applications, such as in renewable energy storage systems, wearable devices, smart textile, electric vehicles, agriculture, and others. Conventional batteries contain lithium and cobalt and extracting these materials is tough on the environment.  

With an aim to revolutionise how we store sustainably generated electricity, this project is inspired by how nature generates, transports and stores energy in human cells. Nature uses only organic molecules to store energy and doesn’t use any metals. This battery doesn’t use rare earth metals and is based on fully recyclable organic materials that are available all over the world. The team has proven that new technology works on a lab scale and is now aiming to demonstrate that the technology works on a large scale in practice.  

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