Congratulations to our 2024 Prize winners
Through its Prizes programme, the Materials Chemistry Community celebrates the individuals, teams and collaborations who contribute to the advances in the subject, as well as recognising significant recent novel discoveries in the field.
Materials Chemistry Community Prize Committee
Winners are selected by the Materials Chemistry Community Prize Committee, chaired by the Council President. Many thanks to this year’s prize committee:
- Magda Titirici, Imperial College London (Chair)
- Marina Freitag, Newcastle University (Vice-chair)
- David Amabilino, Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona
- Sohini Kar-Narayan, University of Cambridge
- Fiona Meldrum, University of Leeds
- Alberto Saiani, University of Manchester
Prize winners
The Materials Chemistry Community offers its congratulations to:
Materials Chemistry Early Career Prize
Dr Nicola Gasparini (Imperial College London)
For understanding charge recombination processes in organic and perovskite semiconductors for high-performance photovoltaic and photodetector devices.
Materials Chemistry Mid-career Prize: Peter Day Prize
Professor Ross Forgan (University of Glasgow)
For contributions to the development and application of metal-organic frameworks as functional energy materials.
Materials Chemistry Open Prize: John B Goodenough Prize
Professor Dermot O'Hare (University of Oxford)
For pioneering new concepts in materials chemistry, catalysis, and nanomaterials and promoting their application and commercialisation in sustainable technologies.
Materials Chemistry Horizon Prizes: Stephanie L Kwolek Prize
For the development of van der Waals thin films with high electronic performance, mechanical stretchability, and permeability for highly flexible, adaptable and breathable bioelectronic membranes.
NSF Center for Molecularly Optimized Networks
For demonstrating the potential and impact of embedded mechanochemical reactivity on the mechanical limits of cross-linked polymer networks.
See all our 2024 欧美AV Prize winnersWhat’s next?
Nominations for our 2025 Horizon, Inclusion and Diversity, Research & Innovation and Volunteer Recognition Prizes will open in the autumn. Keep an eye out nearer the time for more information and consider making a nomination.