2024 Faraday Horizon Prize Winners
Electrical Transport Spectroscopy
Awarded for the development of electron transport microscopy to experimentally determine the platinum-surface hydronium pKa and its role in pH-dependent hydrogen evolution reactions.
The Electrical Transport Spectroscopy team is a collaboration between the University of California, Los Angeles, Caltech and Suzhou University, China.
2024 Faraday Division Horizon Prize
Lighting up RNA team
Awarded for the development of electron transport microscopy to experimentally determine the platinum-surface hydronium pKa and its role in pH-dependent hydrogen evolution reactions.
The Lighting up RNA team is a collaboration between groups from Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiatong University, and the East China University of Science and Technology.
| Year | Name | Institution | Citation |
| 2023 | Electron Bifurcation | Awarded for discovering the essential structural and redox potential landscapes that are required to generate high-efficiency electron bifurcation reactions in flavoproteins. | |
| 2022 | Chiroptical Harmony | New optically nonlinear chiral effect | Awarded for the discovery of chiroptical harmonic scattering, theoretically predicted in 1979 and demonstrated experimentally 40 years later. |
| 2022 | Single Atom Alloy Catalysis | Single-atom alloy catalysts for sustainable chemistry | Awarded for the development of single-atom alloys, a new class of catalysts that play a prominent role in the energy and sustainability fields. |
| 2021 | Ultrafast X-ray scattering | Recording molecular motion with ultrafast x-rays | Awarded for the development of ultrafast x-ray scattering for studying chemical dynamics and structure in photoexcited molecules. |
| 2021 | MXene Electrochemistry | Uncovering the electrochemistry of MXenes | Awarded for novel studies on the electrochemical properties and energy storage applications of MXenes. |
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