Ross Coffin Purdy Award

Jun Lu

By Deidre Haignere / June 19, 2013

Jun Lu received a B.S. degree in Materials Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China in 1984. In 1987, he received his M.S. degree in Material Physics (with Prof.…

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Michel W. Barsoum

By Deidre Haignere / June 18, 2013

Michel W. Barsoum is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University. He is an internationally recognized leader in the area of MAX phases with…

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Volker Presser

By Deidre Haignere / June 13, 2013

Volker Presser is Leader of the Junior Investigator Group “Energy Materials” at the INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials, and Assistant Professor at the Department for Materials Science and…

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Ross Coffin Purdy Award

By Eileen De Guire / March 6, 2013

Ross Coffin Purdy, in whose honor this award is given, served The American Ceramic Society for 24 years as General Secretary and Editor of its publications. He was the recipient of many awards, a Fellow and Honorary Life Member, and President of the Society. Mr. Purdy was noted for his dynamic leadership, individualism, broad vision, and unswerving devotion to the Society and to the ceramic engineering profession.

 

The Purdy award shall be given to the author or authors who, in the judgment of the committee, made the most valuable contribution to ceramic technical literature published two years prior to the selection year. The 2018 Purdy award will be given to the author(s) of a paper published in 2016.

 

2018 Award Winners
“Improved chemical and electrochemical stability of perovskite oxides with less reducible cations at the surface”
Nature Materials volume 15, pages 1010-1016 (2016)
by Nikolai Tsvetkov, Qiyang Lu, Lixin Sun, Ethan J. Crumlin and Bilge Yildiz

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