Congratulations to Dr Graham Rance who has been awarded the 2015 Brian Kelly Award from the British Carbon Group (BCG). A post doctoral researcher in the School of Chemistry and specialist Raman spectroscopy officer at the Nottingham Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre, Graham is one of the foremost experts in the chemistry of carbon nanotubes i.e. nanoscale relatives of graphite with diameters as small as 1/80,000th of that of a human hair, and lengths reaching up to several millimetres. The BCG is a special-interest group of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Institute of Physics, and Society of Chemical Industry, and this prestigious award recognises the novelty, rigour and depth of Dr Rance's work on the action of carbon-nanotube-based catalysts.
As part of today's award Graham is currently at the Carbon 2015 conference, where he is presenting a lecture on his latest research on catalytic carbon nanoreactors entitled 'Palladium nanoparticles in catalytic carbon nanoreactors: the effect of confinement on Suzuki-Miyaura reactions'.
For more details and comments on this award please see this research exchange blog from Emma Thorne. More details on the Brian Kelly Award can be found on the RSC website.
Posted on Thursday 16th July 2015