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!!Professor Saiful Islam awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Environment, Sustainability and Energy Prize
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__[Professor Saiful Islam|Member/Islam_Saiful] FRSC MAE, Department of Materials at the [Oxford University|https://www.ox.ac.uk], was awarded the [Royal Society of Chemistry’s Environment, Sustainability and Energy Prize|https://www.rsc.org/standards-and-recognition/prizes/winners/professor-saiful-islam] "''for deepening the understanding of atomistic processes underpinning the properties of complex materials for lithium batteries and hybrid photovoltaics''".
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Prof. Islam was elected as member of the [Chemical Sciences|Acad_Main/Sections/Chemical_sciences] section of Academia Europaea in 2021.__
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Professor Islam’s award recognises his pioneering work to develop next-generation materials to help deliver new clean energy technologies. In particular, his research uses powerful computer modelling techniques to reveal the atom-scale processes underpinning the properties of lithium battery materials for electric vehicles and a new type of solar cell compound called perovskite.
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Professor Islam currently leads the Faraday Institution CATMAT project, which is researching next-generation cathode materials that could significantly increase the energy density of lithium-ion batteries. He has received several awards including the 2022 Royal Society Hughes Medal and 2020 American Chemical Society Award in Energy Chemistry. He presented the 2016 BBC Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on the theme of energy, which included a [Guinness World Record lemon battery, made from 3000 lemons|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMc7HQj3gVE].