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Federico Bella and Grace Han
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Federico Bella

Federico Bella is Full Professor of Chemistry at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. His main scientific activity covers post-lithium batteries and electrochemical ammonia production, through sustainable chemistry-oriented and multivariate approaches. He is coordinating an ERC Starting Grant project (SuN2rise), with an overall fund of 1.5 M euros, and has recently launched 乐天堂app下载 first Italian research laboratory on potassium-based batteries.
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Grace Han

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Highly commended nominations
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Michael Booth
University College London, UK

César de la Fuente
University of Pennsylvania, USA

Nikolay Kornienko
University of Bonn, Germany