Best student oral presentation at the Carbon conference 2019

PhD student Jacob Martin has won the 2019 Mrozowski Award for best oral presentation at the 2019 Carbon conference. The Mrozowski Award is for best oral presentation by a student at international carbon conferences organised and/or sponsored by the American Carbon Society.

Carbon is the world’s premier conference on carbon science, running annually with 450-600 attendees from around the world. This year’s conference ran for six days in Lexington, Kentucky and hosted more than 200 presentations, along with poster sessions. Jacob attended Carbon with fellow PhD student Angiras Menon. Jacob and Angiras presented a number of talks from the University of Cambridge Computational Modelling Group:

Presentations:

• Understanding the lack of fullerenes in fullerene-like carbons, by J. Martin
• Flexoelectricity and the electrical aspects of carbon formation in flames, by J. Martin
• Topology of disordered graphene networks, by J. Martin
• Impact of crosslinks, curvature and radical character on the optical band gap of nanographenes, by A. Menon
• Degree of crosslinking in combustion carbons, by L. Pascazio
• Investigating the self-assembly and structure of nanoparticles containing curved carbons, by K. Bowal

If you’re interested in reading more about this year’s Carbon conference, Jacob has written a blog post that contains his presentations and highlights some of the other exciting research that was presented.

Photo: Jacob and Angiras at the end of a long week.