Professor Richard Catlow FRS, University College London, UK
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Professor Richard Catlow has worked for over 30 years in the field of computational and experimental studies of complex inorganic materials. His group has pioneered a wide range of applications of computational techniques in solid-state chemistry to systems and problems including microporous and oxide catalysts, ionic conductors, electronic ceramics and silicate minerals. This applications programme has been supported by technique and code development, including recent work on embedded cluster methodologies for application to the study of catalytic reactions. The computational work has been firmly linked with experimental studies, using both neutron scattering and synchrotron radiation techniques, where the Royal Institute group has also made notable contributions to development as well as application studies. Professor Catlow’s research has led to over 800 publications, and in 2004 he was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society. He is currently Dean of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Faculty at University College London and Foreign Secretary and Vice-President of the Royal Society.
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Professor Peter Bruce FRS, University of Oxford, UK
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Peter’s research interests embrace materials chemistry and electrochemistry, especially lithium and sodium batteries. Recent efforts have focused on the synthesis and understanding of new materials for lithium-ion batteries, on understanding anomalous oxygen redox processes in 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 research has been recognised by a number of awards and fellowships, including from the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the German Chemical Society and The Electrochemical Society. He was elected to the Royal Society (UK Academy of Sciences) in 2007 and the Royal Society of Edinburgh (Scottish Academy of Sciences) in 1994. As well as directing the UK Energy Storage Hub, SUPERGEN, Peter leads a major research consortium on lithium batteries, is a member of the Science, Industry and Translation and Planning and Resources Committees of the Royal Society.
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Professor Peter Edwards
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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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