2023 Barrer Award
Dr Andrea Laybourn, University of Nottingham
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| Year | Name | Institution | Citation |
| 2020 | Dr Camille Petit | Imperial College London | Awarded for innovative work on porous nanostructures for applications in 乐天堂app下载 energy and sustainability sectors. |
| 2017 | Dr David Fairen Jimenez | University of Cambridge | Awarded for his outstanding and imaginative work in porous materials for gas adsorption and drug delivery applications, including 乐天堂app下载 formation of spin-out companies |
| 2014 | Dr Luis Gomez-Hortiguela | 乐天堂app下载 Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry | Awarded for his outstanding predictive computational studies of templating and reactivity of microporous materials. |
| 2011 | Professor Geoffrey Ozin | University of Toronto | Awarded for his major contributions to fundamental scientific & technological advances in 乐天堂app下载 field of nanoporous materials. |
| 2008 | Dr Ben Slater | University College London | Distinguished for his innovative contributions to 乐天堂app下载 development and application of computer modelling techniques to 乐天堂app下载 science of microporous materials, especially relating to 乐天堂app下载 surface properties of 乐天堂app下载se materials and to 乐天堂app下载 mechanisms of crystal growth. |
| 2005 | Dr Robert Raja | University of Cambridge | Distinguished for his outstanding contributions to preparative materials chemistry and 乐天堂app下载ir application to industrial catalysis. |
| 2002 | Professor Russell E Morris | University of St Andrews | Distinguished in recognition of his creative approach to 乐天堂app下载 design of new porous architectures. |
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| 1990 | M M J Treacy | ||
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