Professor Richard Catlow FRS, University College London, UK
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Richard Catlow’s scientific programme develops and applies computer models to solid state and materials chemistry - areas of chemistry that investigate the synthesis, structure and properties of functional materials. His approach applies powerful computational methods with experiment, to contribute to areas as diverse as catalysis and mineralogy. His approach has also advanced our understanding of how defects in the atomic level structure of solids can play a key role in modifying their electronic, chemical and mechanical properties.
His work has offered insight into the behaviour of nuclear fuels under irradiation and to the molecular mechanisms underlying industrial catalysis, especially involving microporous materials and metal oxides, in structural chemistry and mineralogy. Simulation methods are now routinely used to predict the structures of complex solid materials.
His work has been extensively published and cited with over 1000 research articles and several books and reviews.
He has worked extensively on collaborative projects with the developing world, especially in Africa, and was elected Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society - the Academy of Sciences of the UK - in 2016.
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Professor Peter Bruce FRS, University of Oxford, UK
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Peter Bruce is Wolfson Professor of Materials at the University of Oxford. His research interests embrace materials chemistry and electrochemistry, with a particular emphasis on energy storage, especially lithium and sodium batteries. Recent efforts have focused on the synthesis and understanding of new materials for lithium and sodium-ion batteries, on understanding anomalous oxygen redox processes in transition metal oxides used as high capacity Li-ion cathodes, the challenges of the lithium-air battery and the influence of order on the ionic conductivity of polymer electrolytes. His pioneering work has provided many advances.
Peter received the Tilden Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2008, the Carl Wagner Award of the Electrochemical Society in 2011, the Liversidge Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2016 and the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society in 2017. He has also been selected as Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
As well as directing the UK Energy Storage Hub (SuperStore) and a consortium on lithium batteries, Peter is a founder and Chief Scientist of the Faraday Institution, the UK centre for research on electrochemical energy storage. Peter also took up the position of Physical Secretary and Vice President of the Royal Society in November 2018.
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Professor Peter Edwards FRS, University of Oxford, UK
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Peter P Edwards is Professor and Head of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford. His research interests include metal-insulator transitions, high temperature superconductivity, metals in non-aqueous solvents, small metallic particles and energy materials, with a particular emphasis on new-generation, high-performance materials for hydrogen production and storage, CO2 activation and utilisation, inorganic semiconductor thin films for solar energy applications and advanced catalytic materials.
Following BSc and PhD degrees at Salford University, Edwards spent periods at Cornell (Fulbright Scholar and National Science Foundation Fellow)), Cambridge (Lecturer and Director of Studies in Chemistry, Jesus College), Birmingham (Professor of Chemistry, and of Materials), before assuming his present position at Oxford in 2003. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996 and to the German Academy of Sciences in 2009.
He has been the recipient of the Corday-Morgan, Tilden and Liversidge Medals of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society. In 2012 he is to present The Bakerian Prize Lecture of the Royal Society; the Society’s premier lecture in the physical sciences.
Selection of Publications:
- Turning Points in Solid-State, Materials and Surface Science. A Book in Celebration of the Life and work of Sir John Meurig Thomas, KDM Harris, PP Edwards, eds, Royal Society of Chemistry, London (2007)
- Turning carbon dioxide into fuel, Z Jiang, T Xiao, VL Kuznetsov, PP Edwards, Phil Trans R Soc A, 368, 3343-3364 (2010)
- ' ... a metal conducts and a non-metal doesn't', PP Edwards, MTJ Lodge, F Hensel, et al, Phil Trans R Soc A, 368, 1914, 941-965, (2010)
- Functional Materials for Sustainable Energy Technologies: Four Case Studies, VL Kuznetsov, PP Edwards, ChemSusChem, 3, 1, 44-58 (2010)
- A Molecular Perspective on Lithium-Ammonia Solutions, E Zurek, PP Edwards, R Hoffmann, Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 48, 44, 8198-8232 (2009)
- Photo-catalytic conversion of oxygenated hydrocarbons to hydrogen over heteroatom-doped TiO2 catalysts, NJ Luo, Z Jiang, HH Shi, FH Cao, T Xiao, PP Edwards, Int Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 34, 1, 125-129 (2009)
- Water/oil microemulsion for the preparation of robust La-hexaaluminates for methane catalytic combustion, Z Jiang, Su Hao, T Xiao, PP Edwards, Chem, Comm, 22, 3225-3227 (2009)
- Metallic Oxygen, PP Edwards and F Hensel, ChemPhysChem., 3, 53-56 (2002)
- What, Why and When is a Metal?, PP Edwards in The New Chemistry, ed N Hall, Cambridge University Press, 85-114 (2000)
- Synthesis and Superconducting Properties of the Strontium Copper Oxyfluoride Sr2CuO2F2+, M Al-Mamouri, PP Edwards, C Greaves and M Slaski, Nature, 369, 382-384 (1994)
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