CoMo group wins Gaydon Award, again
Our paper
Polar curved polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soot formation
Jacob W. Martin, Kimberly L. Bowal, Angiras Menon, Radomir I. Slavchov, Jethro Akroyd, Sebastian Mosbach, and Markus Kraft, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 37(1), 1117-1123, (2019)
has been awarded the Gaydon Prize by the British Section of the Combustion Institute (CI(BS)), for "the most significant UK contribution to the 37th International Symposium on Combustion, 2018".
The paper investigates through theoretical calculations the potential role of curvature of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons - the constituent molecules of soot particles - played in the inception of new soot particles, a process which remains poorly understood.
The award was presented at the 5th Meeting of the UK Fluids Network Special Interest Group on Combustion Science, Technology and Applications at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, on Tuesday 24 September 2019.
This is the second time the CoMo group has received this award. The first time, in 2007, it was also for a paper on soot.