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2024 Charles Hatchett Award winners announced
transformation in niobium oxide electrode for Li-ion batteries'
Nature Materials 21, 795–803 (2022)
Electric mobility, for instance, drives this growth with next-generation ceramic materials offering solutions to safety concerns, such as thermal runaway, while enabling faster charging, longer durability, and higher voltage capacity.
For this reason, solid-state batteries have become a dominant topic for researchers looking to improve performance, cost and safety.
The authors demonstrated how a rock-salt Nb2O5 electrode material with high capacity and cycling stability can be produced spontaneously by the electrochemically driven crystallisation of an amorphous nano-channelled Nb2O5 .
This method offers an innovative approach for the development of high performance and stable electrode materials that were previously unobtainable using conventional synthesis methods.
Each has the potential for global impact, and competition for the award is tough, with hundreds of papers being reviewed in the process.
In the past five years, three award-winning studies have focused on energy storage and battery development, underscoring Niobium's strategic role in technological advancement.
The selection process of the Charles Hatchett Award is concerned with technical excellence and originality, but also takes account of the social, economic and environmental advantages of any proposed application of Niobium.
The annual Award, now in its 46th year, is sponsored by CBMM, The lead authors, Pete Barnes (Idaho National Laboratory) and Claire Xiong (Boise State University), were presented with the Charles Hatchett medal at the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) 2024 Premier Award Dinner, held in London on December 5th, 2024