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Awards previous recipients

Rayleigh award previous recipients

2023
H. Becker, E. Dickinson, X. Lu, G. Smith, G. Hinds, Assessing potential profiles in water electrolysers to minimise titanium useEnergy Environ. Sci. 15, 2508, 2022.
External co-authors include U. Bexell, S. Proch, C. Moffatt, and M. Stenström of AB Sandvik Materials Technology (now Alleima).

2022
C. Rennick, T. Arnold, E. Safi, A. Drinkwater, C. Dylag, E.M. Webber, R. Hill-Pearce, D.R. Worton, F. Bausi, D. Lowry, Boreas: a sample preparation-coupled laser spectrometer system for simultaneous high-precision in situ analysis of δ13C and δ2H from ambient air methane, Anal. Chem. 93, 10141, 2021

2021
I.E. Kepiro, I. Marzuoli, K. Hammond, X. Ba, H. Lewis, M. Shaw, S.B. Gunnoo, E. De Santis, U. Łapińska, S. Pagliara, M.A. Holmes, C.D. Lorenz, B.W. Hoogenboom, F. Fraternali, M.G. Ryadnov, Engineering chirally blind protein pseudocapsids into antibacterial persisters, ACS Nano 14, 1609, 2020

2020
Y. Cao, G. Koutsourakis, G.J.M. Sutton, J.W.E. Kneller, S. Wood, J.C. Blakesley, F.A. Castro, In situ contactless thermal characterisation and imaging of encapsulated photovoltaic devices using phosphor thermometry, Prog. Photovolt. Res. Appl. 27, 673, 2019

2019
G. Marra, C. Clivati, R. Luckett, A. Tampellini, J. Kronjäger, L. Wright, A. Mura, F. Levi, S. Robinson, A. Xuereb, B. Baptie, D. Calonico, Ultrastable laser interferometry for earthquake detection with  terrestrial and submarine cables, Science 361, 486, 2018

2018
L. Del Bino, J.M. Silver, S.L. Stebbings, P. Del'Haye, Symmetry breaking of counter-propagating light in a nonlinear resonator, Scientific Reports 7, 43142, 2017

2017
R. Underwood, M. de Podesta, G. Sutton, L. Stanger, R. Rusby, P. Harris, P. Morantz, G. Machin, Estimates of the difference between thermodynamic temperature and the International Temperature Scale of 1990 in the range 118 K to 303 K, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A374, 20150048, 2016

2016
J. Keightley, A. Pearce, A. Fenwick, S. Collins, K. Ferreira, L. Johansson, Standardisation of 223Ra by liquid scintillation counting techniques and comparison with secondary measurements, Applied Radiation and Isotopes 95, 114, 2015

2015
J. Burnett, L. Faoro, I. Wisby, V.L. Gurtovoi, A.V. Chernykh, G.M. Mikhailov, V.A. Tulin, R. Shaikhaidarov, V. Antonov, P.J. Meeson, A.Y. Tzalenchuk, T. Lindström, Evidence for interacting two-level systems from the 1/f noise of a superconducting resonator, Nature Communications 5, 4119, 2014

2014
P.D. Rakowska, H. Jiang, S. Ray, A. Pyne, B. Lamarre, M. Carre, P.J. Judge, J. Ravia, U.I.M. Gerling, B. Kokschg, G.J. Martyna, B.W. Hoogenboom, A. Watts, J. Crain, C.R.M. Grovenor, M.G. Ryadnov, Nanoscale imaging reveals laterally expanding antimicrobial pores in lipid bilayers, PNAS 110, 8918, 2013

2013
S.P. Giblin, M. Kataoka, J.D. Fletcher, P. See, T.J.B.M. Janssen, J.P. Griffiths, G.A.C. Jones, I. Farrer, D.A. Ritchie, Towards a quantum representation of the ampere using single electron pumps, Nature Communications 3, 930, 2012

2012
W.C. Tsoi, P.G. Nicholson, J.S. Kim, D. Roy, T.L. Burnett, C.E. Murphy, J. Nelson, D.D.C. Bradley, J.-S. Kim, F.A. Castro, Surface and subsurface morphology of operating nanowire:fullerene solar cells revealed by photoconductive-AFM, Energy Environ. Sci. 4, 3646, 2011

2011
A. Tzalenchuk, S. Lara-Avila, A. Kalaboukhov, S. Paolillo, M. Syväjärvi, R. Yakimova, O. Kazakova, T.J.B.M. Janssen, V. Fal'ko, S. Kubatkin, Towards a quantum resistance standard based on epitaxial graphene, Nature Nanotechnology 5, 186, 2010

2010
N.M. Jennett, R. Ghisleni, J. Michler, Enhanced yield strength of materials -the thinness effect, Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 123102, 2009

2009
D. Roy, E. Angeles-Tactay, R.J.C. Brown, S.J. Spencer, T. Fry, T.A. Dunton, T. Young, M.J.T. Milton, Synthesis and Raman spectroscopic characterization of carbon nanoscrolls, Chem. Phys. Lett. 465, 254, 2008 and S.A. Webster, M. Oxborrow, S. Pugla, J. Millo, P. Gill, Thermal-noise-limited optical cavity, Phys. Rev. A 77, 033847, 2008

2008
K. Szymaniec, W. Chałupczak, E. Tiesinga, C.J. Williams, S. Weyers, R. Wynands, Cancellation of the collisional frequency shift in caesium fountain clocks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 153002, 2007

2007
G. Sutton, A. Levick, G. Edwards, D. Greenhalgh, A combustion temperature and species standard for the calibration of laser diagnostic techniques, Combustion and Flame 147, 39, 2006

2006
C.A. Clifford, M.P. Seah, The determination of atomic force microscope cantilever spring constants via dimensional methods for nanomechanical analysis, Nanotechnology 16, 1666, 2005

Impact from science award previous recipients

2020
Justin Ablitt, Jim Bradley-Webster, Sei-Him Cheong, Chris Dilley, Ben Ford, Nick Lucas, Sam Masterman, Stephen Robinson, Lian Wang, Jake Ward: Assessing man-made marine noise and Michael Campbell, Ben Hughes, Mattia Lazzerini: BepiColombo mission to Mercury

2018
David Butterfield, Chris Bradshaw, Andy Finlayson, Morven Sinclair, Fabrizio Innocenti: New methodology for monitoring methane emissions from the National Grid

NPI Award previous recipients

2021
DAART and Breast Scanner

2020
Ventilator Testing and MR Guided Radiotherapy

2019
Celsius Health 

2018
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