2024 John B Goodenough Award Winner
Professor Dermot O'Hare, University of Oxford
Awarded for pioneering new concepts in materials chemistry, catalysis, and nanomaterials and promoting their application and commercialisation in sustainable technologies.
The O’Hare Research Group is a friendly and dynamic team of inorganic chemists focused on green chemistry and closing loops in the chemical circular economy. Their research interests span the breadth of chemistry from energy utilisation and carbon net zero to the chemical circular economy and the future of plastics and polymers.
| Year | Name | Institution | Citation |
| 2022 | Professor J. Paul Attfield | The University of Edinburgh | Awarded for transformative discoveries of new materials from high pressure synthesis and of novel electronic phenomena in solids. |
| 2019 | Professor Clare Grey | University of Cambridge | Awarded for pioneering and innovative uses of magnetic resonance methods to study structure and dynamics in electrochemical devices. |
| 2017 | Professor Stephen Elliott | University of Cambridge | Awarded for his distinguished contributions to the science of disordered materials when applied to chalcogenide glasses and phase-change materials for industry. |
| 2015 | Professor William David | ISIS Facility and University of Oxford |
Awarded for his development of new theoretical and experimental approaches to powder diffraction and his contributions to the understanding of structure-property relationships in important solid-state materials. |
| 2013 |
Professor Anthony West | University of Sheffield | Awarded for outstanding contributions to our understanding ofstructure-composition-property relationships in oxide-based materials, and their application in solid state devices, and for his preeminent role in promoting materials chemistry. |
| 2011 |
Andrew Holmes | University of Melbourne | Awarded for his groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of the synthesis, properties and practical device-applications of polymeric materials for optoelectronics and for harvesting energy from light. |
| 2009 |
David Sherrington | University of Strathclyde | Awarded for his multivarious contributions to the materials chemistry of polymers in particular for control of porosity, synthetic routes to branched vinyl polymers and for polymer supported catalysts. |
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