ISEM awards

2022 awards

Call for nominations for 2022 student awards open 14 March 2023 and close 25 March 2023.

2021 awards

Postgraduate Student Excellence Award

• Yaser Rehman
• Mengting Zhao
• Yaojie Lei
• Xiaoning Li

Postgraduate Student Merit Award

• Caleb Stamper
• Yilian Xi
• Wafa Afzal
• Chang Wu
• Jicheng Jiang
• Zhi Zheng
• Lkhagvasuren Baasandorj
• Jincymol Joseph
• Yumeng Du

Postgraduate Student Best Paper Award

• Hamzeh  Qutaish: Hamzeh Qutaish, Jaewoo Lee, Yuhwan Hyeon, Sang A Han, In-Hwan Lee, Yoon-Uk Heo, Dongmok Whang, Janghyuk Moon, Min-Sik Park, Jung Ho Kim, Design of cobalt catalysed carbon nanotubes in bimetallic zeolitic imidazolate frameworks, Applied Surface Science, 2021, 547, 149134.
•  Jing You: Jing You, Jiajia Shao, Yahua He, Frank Fei Yun, Khay Wai See, Zhong Lin Wang, and Xiaolin Wang, High-Electrification Performance and Mechanism of a Water–Solid Mode Triboelectric Nanogenerator,  ACS Nano, 2021, 15(5), 8706-8714.
•  Yameng Fan: Yameng Fan, Wenchao Zhanga, Yunlong Zhao, Zaiping Guo, Qiong Cai, Fundamental understanding and practical challenges of lithium-rich oxide cathode materials: Layered and disordered-rock salt structure, Energy Storage Materials, 2021, 40, 51-71.
•  Libei Yuan: Libei Yuan, Junnan Hao, Chun-Chuan Kao, Chao Wu, Hua-Kun Liu, Shi-Xue Dou, Shi-Zhang Qiao, Regulation methods for the Zn/electrolyte interphase and the effectiveness evaluation in aqueous Zn-ion batteries, Energy & Environmental Science, 2021, 14, 5669-5689.
•  Qining Fan: Qining Fan, Jicheng Jiang, Shilin Zhang, Tengfei Zhou, Wei Kong Pang, Qinfen Gu, Huakun Liu, Zaiping Guo, Jiazhao Wang, Accelerated Polysulfide Redox in Binder-Free Li2S Cathodes Promises High-Energy-Density Lithium–Sulfur Batteries, Advanced Energy Materials, 2021, 11, 2100957.

2020 awards

Postgraduate Student Excellence Award

• Antony Jones
• Nana Liu
• Guangsai Yang
• Xiaohui Zeng

Postgraduate Student Merit Award

• Abdulhakim Bake
• Mengmeng Lao
• Jian Peng
• Yaser Rehman
• Lina Sang
• Jingxing Wu
• Yanyan Wang
• Qiuran Yang
• Huiling Yang

Postgraduate Student Best Paper Award

• Peter Kabakov: Peter Kabakov, Christopher Dean,b Valsala Kurusingal, Zhenxiang Cheng, Ho-Yong Lee and Shujun Zhang, ‘Solid-state crystal growth of lead-free Ferroelectrics’, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8, 7606.
• Hanwen Liu: Hanwen Liu, Wei Pei, Wei-Hong Lai, Zichao Yan, Huiling Yang, Yaojie Lei, Yun-Xiao Wang, Qinfen Gu, Si Zhou, Shulei Chou, Hua Kun Liu, Shi Xue Dou, ‘Electrocatalyzing S Cathodes via Multisulfiphilic Sites for Superior Room Temperature Sodium−Sulfur Batteries’, ACS Nano 14 (6), 2020, 7259-7268. 
• Yueyu Tong: Yueyu Tong, Haipeng Guo, Daolan Liu, Ji Liang, Xiao Yan, Panpan Su, Si Zhou, Jian Liu, Gao Qing (Max) Lu, Shi Xue Dou, ‘Vacancy Engineering of Fe-doped W18O49 Nanoreactors for Low-barrier Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction’, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59, 7356.

2019 awards

Postgraduate Student Excellence Award

• Gemeng Liang
• Wanlin Wang
• Weiyao Zhao
• Zhijie Wang

Postgraduate Student Merit Award

• Al Jumlat Ahmed
• Alain Moriana
• Mohanad Mohammad
• Peng Li
• Xiaobo Zheng
• Yanhua Sun
• Zhibin Wu

Postgraduate Student Best Paper Award

• Zichao Yan:  Zichao Yan, et al., “Nickel sulfide nanocrystals on nitrogen-doped porous carbon nanotubes with high-efficiency electrocatalysis for room-temperature sodium-sulfur batteries,” Nature Communications 10, 4793 (2019)
• Sailin Liu: Sailin Liu, et al. "An intrinsically non‐flammable electrolyte for high performance potassium batteries." Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2019).
• Letao Yang:   Letao Yang et al. "Perovskite lead-free dielectrics for energy storage applications." Progress in Materials Science 102 (2019): 72-108

2018 awards

Postgraduate Student Excellence Award

• Weihong Lai
• Liang Wang
• Shilin Zhang

Postgraduate Student Merit Award

• Kadhim Al-Attafi
• Ningyan Cheng
• Florian Gebert
• Junnan Hao
• Alexander Morlando
• Letao Yang
• Weiyao Zhao

Postgraduate Student Best Paper Award

• Muhammad Nadeem: Long range intrinsic ferromagnetism in two-dimensional materials and dissipationless future technologies , Applied Physics Reviews 5 (4), 041105, 2018
• Guoqing Zhao: Heterostructures for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction towards Electrochemical Water Splitting: A Review. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018

2017 awards

Postgraduate Student Excellence Award

• Zhe Hu
• Yajie Liu
• Wenbin Qiu
• Neng Zhang
• Binwei Zhang

Postgraduate Student Merit Award

• Shaymaa Al-Rubaye
• Haipeng Guo
• Sheik Md Kazi Nazrul Islam
• Zhixin Tai
• Li Wang
• Qing Zhang
• Lijuan Zhang

Postgraduate Student Best Paper Award

• Mingzhe Chen – M. Z. Chen et al., “Carbon-coated Na3.32Fe2.34(P2O7)2 cathode material for high-rate and long-life sodium-ion batteries”, Advanced Materials 29, 1605535 (2017)
• Wenchao Zhang – W. C. Zhang et al., “Phosphorus-based alloy materials for advanced potassium-ion battery anode”, Journal of the American Chemical Society 139, 3316 (2017)

2016 awards

Postgraduate Student Excellence Award

• Haifeng Feng
• Md. Monirul Islam
• Joao Rafael Lourenco Santos
• Lei Zhang
• Yang Zheng

Postgraduate Student Merit Award

• Hong Gao
• Lili Liu
• Qiannan Liu
• Ranjusha Rajagopalan
• Long Ren
• Zheyin Yu

Postgraduate Student Best Paper Award

• Majharul Haque Khan – M. H. Khan et al., “Atomically thin hexagonal boron nitride nanofilm for Cu protection: The importance of film perfection”, Advanced Materials, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201603937
• Shaohua Zhang – S. H. Zhang et al., “Ambient aqueous synthesis of ultrasmall PEGylated Cu2-xSe nanoparticles as a multifunctional theranostic agent for multimodal imaging guided photothermal therapy of cancer”, Advanced Materials, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201602193

2015 awards

Postgraduate Student Excellence Award

• Dipak Patel
• Kai Chin Lim
• Hongqiang Wang

Postgraduate Student Merit Award

• Tengfei Zhou
• Rejaul Kaiser
• Jinyan Xiong

Postgraduate Student Best Paper Award

• Feixiang Xiang

2014 awards

Postgraduate Student Excellence Award

• Jincheng Zhuang
• Wenbin Luo
• Sujith Kalluri

Postgraduate Student Merit Award

• Jianjian Lin
• Xin Liang
• Zhijia Zhang
• Xinqi Chen

Postgraduate Student Best Paper Award

• Chao Han

2013 awards

Postgraduate Student Excellence Award

• Igor Golovchanskiy
• Yunxian Wang
• Yi Shi

Postgraduate Student Merit Award

• Zengji Yue
• Evan Constable
• Muhammad Faiz Din
• Li Li
• Dan Li
• Jiantie Xu

Postgraduate Student Best Paper Award

• Weijie Li
• Lucia Malebogo Lepodise

2012 awards

Postgraduate Student Excellence Award

• Seng Kuok Hau
• Victor Malgras

Postgraduate Student Merit Award

• Tomas Katkus
• Jae Geun Kim
• Xuanwen Gao
• David Cortie

Postgraduate Student Best Paper Award

• Chaofeng Zhang
• Sergey Fedoseev

2011 awards

Postgraduate Student Excellence Award

• Seyed Hamed Aboutalebi

Postgraduate Student Merit Award

• Alfred Chidembo
• Jyotish Debnath
• Hong Fang
• Lukman Noerochim

Postgraduate Student Best Paper Award

• Priyanka Jood

2010 awards

Postgraduate Student Excellence Award

• Yi Du

Postgraduate Student Merit Awards

• Khay Wai See
• Mohammad Ismail
• Peng Liu

Postgraduate Student Best Paper Awards

• Guodong Du
• Yee Sin Ang

2009 awards

Postgraduate Student Excellence Award

• Anthony Wright

Postgraduate Student Merit Awards

• Abbas Ranjbar
• Chao Zhong
• Md Mokhlesur Rahman

Postgraduate Student Best Paper Awards

• Krunal Radhanpura
• Jianfeng Mao

2008 awards

Postgraduate Student Excellence Awards

• Shulei Chou
• Wenxian Li
• Stuart Hargreaves

Best Postgraduate Published Paper Awards

• Rashmi Nigam
• Hao Liu

2007 awards

Postgraduate Student Excellence Awards

• Sau Yen Chew
• Xun (Joe) Xu

Best Postgraduate Published Paper Awards

• Olga Shcherbakova
• Min Sik Park

2006 awards

Postgraduate Student Excellence Awards

• Wai Kong Yeoh
• See How (Desmond) Ng

Postgraduate Student Merit Award

• Rashmi Nigam

Best Postgraduate Published Paper Award

• Germanas Peleckis

2005 awards

Postgraduate Student Excellence Award

• Serhiy Pysarenko

Postgraduate Student Merit Award

• Min Sik Park

2004 awards

Postgraduate Student Excellence Awards

• Scott Andrew Needham
• Germanas Peleckis

Postgraduate Student Merit Awards

• Zhenguo (Bernie) Huang
• See How (Desmond) Ng
• Olga Shcherbakova
• Mark O'Dwyer

Postgraduate Best Published Paper Award

• Brad Winton

2003 awards

Postgraduate Student Excellence Awards

• Y. Zhao

Postgraduate Student Merit Awards

• Q.W. Yao
• M. Roussel
• Y. Chen
• S. Bewlay

Best Postgraduate Published Paper Awards

• Saeid Soltanian
• W.K. Yeoh

2002 awards

Postgraduate Student Excellence Award

• S. Keshavarzi

Postgraduate Student Merit Awards

• S. Bewlay
• Matthew Lindsay
• Saeid Soltanian
• S. Zhou

2001 awards

Outstanding Thesis Award (Faculty Award)

• Guoxiu Wang

Postgraduate Student Excellence Award

• Saeid Soltanian

Postgraduate Student Merit Awards

• Matthew Lindsay
• Zaiping Guo
• Krishna Uprety
• Ben Lough