2024 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Horizon Prize: John Jeyes Prize Award Winner
The ReLiB Project
Awarded for transformative research and influence leading to the establishment of a technology pipeline for low cost, high throughput, and low environmental impact lithium-ion battery recycling.
Relib is a multidisciplinary collaboration between the universities of Edinburgh, Leicester, Newcastle, Oxford and Imperial College, and led by the University of Birmingham.
2024 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Horizon Prize: John Jeyes Prize Winner
A Greener Route to Nylon Production
Awarded for transformative research and influence leading to the establishment of a technology pipeline for low cost, high throughput, and low environmental impact lithium-ion battery recycling.
A Greener Route to Nylon Production is a collaboration led by Cardiff University, UBE Corporation, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, with contributions from the Research Complex at Harwell, the University of Bath and Lehigh University.
| Year | Team Name | Intstitution | Citatition |
| 2023 | Monash Ammonia Team | Awarded for the development of a highly selective electrochemical process for sustainable production of ammonia from nitrogen and renewable energy at close to ambient conditions, suitable for distributed production of fertilisers. | |
| 2023 | Polarisation Photocatalysis | Awarded for the development of polarisation photocatalysis using spontaneous electric fields in polar materials to mitigate charge carrier recombination, promoting commercialisation of photocatalytic technology. | |
| 2022 | Sustainable methanol | Sustainable methanol production from carbon dioxide | Awarded for the discovery, fundamental understanding, and technical development of a novel catalytic technology for the recycling of carbon dioxide to produce sustainable methanol. |
| 2021 | Artificial Leaf team | Setting a benchmark for artificial leaf design | Awarded for successfully prototyping a solar-to-hydrocarbons reactor, achieving excellent performance and demonstrating a reliable benchmark for artificial leaf design. |
| 2021 | Power-to-peroxide: HPNow and friends | Engineering hydrogen peroxide for water treatment | Awarded for scientific and engineering breakthroughs that have enabled hydrogen peroxide synthesis to become a commercial and industrial reality. |
Re-thinking recognition: Science prizes for the modern world
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