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You are warmly invited to join us in 📍 Wuhu, China from 🗓️ 31 October to 2 November 2025 for the RSC Future Innovation Research Summit (RSC FIRST 2025): Energy Materials Frontiers, which will bring together global pioneers in energy materials research to address critical challenges and present cutting-edge innovations around the following topics:

• ⦿  Catalysis for a carbon shift
• ⦿  Materials and devices for rechargeable batteries
• ⦿  Solar fules and solar cells

• This summit's full programme will be composed of

• 1️⃣  RSC PreDoc Symposium 2025 on 31 October for post-graduate students, composed of RSC Rising Star competitions as well as panel sessions on career development and journal publishing; 

• 2️⃣  RSC FIRST 2025 full programme on 1–2 November for all researchers, composed of an opening ceremony, a closing ceremony, multiple plenary speeches and three parallel sessions (corresponding to the above three themes) with invited and contributed oral talks plus round table discussions. Please note that all the talks and discussions on all the parallel sessions will be conducted in the Chinese language. 

• We are looking forward to welcoming you to RSC FIRST 2025!

• Sincerely,

• Yujie Xiong, President of Anhui Normal University & Cheung Kong Chair Professor of Chemistry at the University of Science and Technology of China
• Magda Titirici, Chair in Sustainable Energy Materials in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Sustainable Emerging Energy Technologies, & Chair of RSC Publishing Board
• Shizhang Qiao, Chair Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering and the founding Director of the Center for Materials in Energy and Catalysis (CMEC) at the University of Adelaide & Editor-in-Chief, EES Catalysis
• Jenny Nelson, Professor of Physics at Imperial College London & Chair, Energy & Environ Sci

Session 1：Catalysis for a carbon shift

Session 2：Materials and devices for rechargeable batteries

Session 3：Solar fuels & solar cells

Royal Society of Chemistry, China Office