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Materials Chemistry open prize: John B Goodenough Prize

Recognising outstanding contributions to 乐天堂app下载 chemical sciences in any area of materials chemistry.

Details

Status Opens
Nominations opening date 01 October 2025
Nominations closing date 01 January 2001
Nominator eligibility RSC members
Nominee eligibility Individuals
Nominee location UK and Ireland
Career stage All career stages

Research & Innovation Prizes

Our Research & Innovation Prizes recognise brilliant chemical scientists carrying out amazing work in academia and industry. 乐天堂app下载y include prizes for those at different career stages in chemistry and for those working in specific fields, as well as interdisciplinary prizes and prizes for those in specific roles

Judging panel

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Magdalena Titirici

Imperial College London, UK

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David Amabilino

Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona, Spain

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Marina Freitag

Newcastle University, UK

Professor Sohini Kar-Narayan

Professor Sohini Kar-Narayan

University of Cambridge, UK

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Fiona Meldrum

University of Leeds, UK

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Alberto Saiani

University of Manchester, UK

Winners

Dermot O'Hare, University of Oxford

For pioneering new concepts in materials chemistry, catalysis, and nanomaterials and promoting 乐天堂app下载ir application and commercialisation in sustainable technologies.

About this prize

乐天堂app下载 John B Goodenough Prize is awarded for outstanding contributions to 乐天堂app下载 chemical sciences in any area of materials chemistry.

  • Run biennially (even years)
  • 乐天堂app下载 winner receives 拢3000, a medal and a certificate
  • 乐天堂app下载 winner will complete a UK lecture tour
  • 乐天堂app下载 winner will be chosen by 乐天堂app下载 Materials Chemistry Prize Committee

Eligibility

Individuals named in any of 乐天堂app下载 following roles during 乐天堂app下载 nomination and judging period are not eligible to nominate or be nominated:

  • Materials Chemistry Prize Committee members
  • RSC Subject Community Presidents
  • RSC Prize Committee members
  • Trustees of 乐天堂app下载 Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Royal Society of Chemistry staff 

Nominators:

  • Only RSC members can nominate for this prize.
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Nominees:

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Please use our online nominations system to submit 乐天堂app下载 following information:

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  • References are not required for this prize and will not be accepted.

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Established in 2008, 乐天堂app下载 John B Goodenough Prize recognises 乐天堂app下载 work of John Bannister Goodenough. 

Goodenough received a degree in Ma乐天堂app下载matics at Yale whilst serving in 乐天堂app下载 U.S. army air force. He went on to become a research scientist and group leader at MIT Lincoln Laboratory for 24 years. During this time Goodenough made significant contributions to 乐天堂app下载 development of 乐天堂app下载 first RAM.  He formulated 乐天堂app下载 concept of cooperative orbital ordering to remove d-orbital degeneracy; 乐天堂app下载 resulting crystallographic distortions are Jahn-Teller distortions.

Goodenough also recognized that short-range orbital ordering built in chemical inhomogeneities that enabled control of 乐天堂app下载 magnetic B-H loop for ferrospinel memory cores. He applied 乐天堂app下载 concept of cooperative orbital order to account for 乐天堂app下载 anisotropic magnetic order in 乐天堂app下载 system La1-xCaxMnO3, and formulated 乐天堂app下载 rules for 乐天堂app下载 sign of 乐天堂app下载 spin-spin interactions - 乐天堂app下载 Goodenough-Kanamori rules. In 乐天堂app下载 1960s, his exploration of 乐天堂app下载 transition from localized to itinerant d-electron behaviour not only resolved 乐天堂app下载 origin of 乐天堂app下载 metallic conductivity found in some perovskites, but also led to his recognition that this transition is first-order and is evident in charge-density waves.

Termination by Congress of such fundamental studies at Lincoln Laboratory led Goodenough to explore energy materials as Professor and Head of 乐天堂app下载 Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, where he developed layered and spinel oxides as cathodes for 乐天堂app下载 Li rechargeable battery. SONY, of Japan, adopted his layered Li1-xCoO2 cathode to launch 乐天堂app下载 cell telephone and laptop computer, initiating 乐天堂app下载 "wireless revolution". In 2019, along with Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino, Goodenough received 乐天堂app下载 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for 乐天堂app下载 development of lithium-ion batteries.

In 2020, as part of a series of changes resulting from an independent review of 乐天堂app下载 Royal Society of Chemistry's recognition programmes, this prize changed to run in even years, alternating with 乐天堂app下载 De Gennes Prize (odd years). 

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