Congratulations to the 2022 Materials Chemistry Division Prize Winners

Materials Chemistry Division Early Career Award

Dr Lucy Clark (University of Birmingham)

For outstanding contributions to the discovery, characterisation and understanding of quantum magnets.

Materials Chemistry Division mid-career Award: Peter Day Award

Prof. Andrew Beale (University College London)

For the development of novel methodologies using bright light sources to identify active species in catalysis and energy storage.

Materials Chemistry Division open award: John B Goodenough Award

Prof. J. Paul Attfield (University of Edinburgh)

For transformative discoveries of new materials from high-pressure synthesis and of novel electronic phenomena in solids.

Materials Chemistry Division Horizon Prize: Stephanie L Kwolek Award

E-TAC water splitting (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

For the development of an innovative membrane-less water splitting technology for low-cost production of green hydrogen at scale. 

Materials Chemistry Division Horizon Prize: Stephanie L Kwolek Award

The Chiral Materials Team (Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, University of East Anglia, Universitat de Barcelona, University of Nottingham, Imperial College London, Weizmann Institute of Science, J. A. Woollam Co. Inc, Diamond Light Source Ltd, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, IIT Bombay, ETH Zürich, Eindhoven University of Technology, University of Utah, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Linköping University, Advanced Light Source, University of Pisa)

For the discovery of chiral organic materials that allow high control of photon and electron spin.