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Nonheme iron-oxo oxidants
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Gas-phase Heterogeneous Catalysis for Solar Fuels Research
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AI for Materials
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Professor Jennifer Leigh
University of Kent, UK
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Professor Paul Walton
University of York, UK
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University of Strathclyde, UK
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Professor Damion Corrigan
University of Strathclyde, UK
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Professor Xingyu Jiang
Sou乐天堂app下载rn University of Science and Technology, China
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ETH Zürich and 乐天堂app下载 Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
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Professor Donna Blackmond
Scripps Research
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Professor Seth Cohen
University of California, USA
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University of Oxford, UK
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University College London, UK
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University of Cambridge, UK
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University of Birmingham, UK
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Imperial College London, UK
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University of Oxford, UK
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Dr Clare Bakewell
King's College London, UK
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Dr Nathan Davison
University of Birmingham, UK
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Cardiff University, UK
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Professor James McCusker
Michigan State University, USA
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Dr Fanran Meng
University of Sheffield, UK
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University of Liverpool, UK
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University of Oxford, UK
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Imperial College London, UK
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Newcastle University, UK
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Cardiff University, UK
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Dr Guanjie He
University College London, UK
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University of Nottingham, UK
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University of Strathclyde, UK
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University of Southampton, UK
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Swansea University, UK
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Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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University of Washington, USA
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University of Nottingham, UK
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University of Manchester, UK
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University of Bristol, UK
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Polymateria Ltd, UK
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AstraZeneca, UK
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No7 Beauty Company
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AstraZeneca, UK
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RWTH Aachen University, Germany
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AstraZeneca, UK
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University of Glasgow, UK
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University of Manchester, UK
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Dr James Redman
Cardiff University, UK
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Dr Graeme Turnbull
Northumbria University, UK
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