Brian Kelly Award
Supporting students and early career researchers to attend the annual World Carbon Conference.
Details
| Status | Closed |
|---|---|
| Career stage | Early career |
Awarded by the British Carbon Group
The group promotes the science or technology of graphite and carbon materials. This includes diamond and fullerenes, composites, fibres, deposits and any other relevant carbon science topics in the UK. By providing a forum for scientific discussion we represent the interests of UK carbon scientists in relation to learned societies worldwide.
Winners
Graphite formation through annealable topological defects
Pair Distribution Function Analysis of Hard Carbon Anode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries
Factors influencing the antibacterial activity of graphene oxide beyond materials physicochemistry
- 2017: Riutao Lv, Assistant Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
- 2016: Dr. Yasuhiro Yamada, Chiba University
- 2015: Dr. Graham Rance, University of Nottingham
- 2014: No award
- 2013: Vilas Pol, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA and Wei Lv, Engineering Laboratory for Functionalized Carbon Materials, Tsinghua University, China
- 2012: Fei Guo, Chemical Engineering, Brown University, USA
- 2011: Monica J. Hanus, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia.
- 2010: Jean-Philippe Tessonnier, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
- 2009: Gemma Haffenden, Theoretical 九州影院 and 九州影院 of Materials group, University of Sussex, UK
- 2008: Denisa Hulicova-Jurcakova, ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials, University of Queensland, Austrialia
- 2007: Philip Adelhelm, Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Potsdam, Germany
- 2006: An-hui Lu, Max-Planck-Institut fur Kohlenforschung, Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany and Emmanuel Flahaut, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
- 2004: Q H Yang, Tohoku University, Sendai Japan
- 2002: J Y Howe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA and M Guellali, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- 2001: Z-X Ma, Tohoku University, Japan
- 2000: J Klett, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA and J Andresen, Penn State University, USA
- 1998: B Fathollahi, University of California, San Diego, USA
- 1997: J Barbosa-Mota, Inst Biologia Experimental e Tecnologica, Oeiras, Portugal
- 1996: Y Kawabuchi, Kyushu University, Japan
About this prize
This annual award was established in 1996 by the British Carbon Group in memory of Brian Kelly, a leading authority on the physics of graphite.
The award is intended as a travel grant for students and early career researchers with up to ten years of postdoctoral experience to attend the annual World Carbon Conference. Anyone living or working, at the time of that conference, in the country where the conference is held is not eligible. As a consequence, applications will not be accepted from China on this occasion.
The award is made upon the basis of an appraisal of three documents:
- The extended abstract or paper as submitted to the conference
- A short CV (with the date of the award of PhD if applicable)
- A commentary is provided normally by the candidate's supervisor or close colleague
Self-nomination is not permitted. The Award Committee of the British Carbon Group will determine the successful applicant.
The award is currently seven hundred fifty pounds sterling (拢750) and is presented at the time of the conference with a certificate. It is a condition of the award that the winner attends the conference and presents his or her paper either orally or as a poster.
Applications may be sent to the Chairman of The British Carbon Group. Previous applicants are welcome to re-apply.
Brian Kelly was a world authority both on the physics of graphite and on irradiation damage in solids. He was born and educated in Wales and spent most of his career working for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, UKAEA.
One of his major contributions at UKAEA was the development of specifications for the isotropic graphite required for the graphite core for the British Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors, AGR. Brian鈥檚 approach, which he carried out brilliantly, was to underpin engineering design data with an understanding of the basic science. For example, he related the irradiation-induced dimensional changes in the graphite bricks in the reactor core to the displacement of atoms in the graphite crystal.
Brian made many contributions to the basic science of graphite, much of it summarised in his much sought-after book 鈥楾he Physics of Graphite鈥�, Applied Science Publishers, 1981. In 1981 he also received the Charles E Pettinos Award of the American Carbon Society for 鈥� his many contributions to the theoretical and experimental aspects of the physics of carbon and graphite鈥�.鈥� After he retired from the UKAEA, Brian was engaged as a consultant by Oak Ridge National Laboratories, USA. During a productive association with ORNL, Brian worked on a number of projects including graphites for high-temperature gas-cooled reactors and the mechanisms of irradiation-induced creep of graphite.
Brian was an engaging person who wore his formidable learning lightly. At conferences, he enjoyed vigorous but good-natured discussions on many topics, particularly on the physics of graphite.