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Junior Research Fellow wins Elsevier Early Career Researcher Award

Junior Research Fellow wins Elsevier Early Career Researcher Award

Junior Research Fellow Jack Alexander-Webber wins an Elsevier Early Career Researcher Award. 

The Early Career Researcher Awards recognise and reward outstanding young research talent making a significant contribution to their field of research and thus having a positive effect on society.

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Jack is working in Dr Stephan Hofmann's group within the Electrical Engineering Division. Speaking about his research behind the award Jack says "As a group we are focused on growing new nanostructured materials including atomically thin sheets of graphene and boron nitride, as well as so-called one-dimensional structures thousands of times thinner than a hair, such as semiconductor nanowires and carbon nanotubes.

"The properties of these nanostructured materials can often greatly exceed those of bulk materials. These remarkable properties can also appear together within a single nanomaterial; such as the mechanical flexibility, high electrical conductivity and optical transparency found in graphene. Coupled with the potentially low cost of large scale production these materials are attracting significant academic and industrial interest.

"My research is currently focused on exploring and developing these new materials with optimised electronic properties using industrially scalable processes for applications ranging from flexible displays and low-cost solar cells to novel magnetic sensors and radiation detectors."

Since 1995, Elsevier has hosted Early Career Researcher Awards with partner organisations around the world.

The Early Career Researcher Awards recognise and reward outstanding young research talent making a significant contribution to their field of research and thus having a positive effect on society. Elsevier believes in the vital importance of supporting researchers at an early stage in their career and wants to recognise the institutions that foster them.

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