Carbon Materials for Catalytic, Energy and Environmental Applications

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

• Extraordinary Doctorate Award from the University of Oviedo

  Award-winning: Samantha Flores López
  Thesis title: Designo of organic, inorganic and hybrid materials through sol-gel process for technological applications
  Supervisors: Ana Arenillas de la Puente and Miguel Ángel Montes Morán
  Date: January 2025

  

  

• San Alberto Magno 2024 Award to the best Doctoral Thesis of the Asturias and Leon Official Chemists Association

  Award-winning: Samantha Flores López
  Work title: Diseño de materiales orgánicos, inorgánicos e híbridos mediante el proceso sol-gel para su utilización en aplicaciones tecnológicas
  Date: November 2024

  

• 2024 Award of the Asturian Science and Engineering Academy to the Distinguished Researcher

  Award-winning: Ana Arenillas
  Reasons: Contributions to the advancement of knowledge and its transfer to the market, the training of future scientists and the internationality of their research
  Date: September 2024

  

• 2024 Award of the Spanish Society of Adsorption

  Award-winning: Judith González Lavín
  Work title: Scientific Dissemination Contest Absorbing Chemistry
  Date: September 2024

  

• Distinguished Publication in the Chemistry Area. AsturChem2023 Award Initiative. Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry. Territorial Division of Asturias

  Award-winnings: Ana Arenillas de la Puente y Natalia Rey-Raap
  Work title: Effective synthesis procedure based on microwave heating of the PdCo aerogel electrocatalyst for its use in microfluidic devices
  Date: March 2024

  

  

• Best oral communication of the XLIII Especialized Electrochemistry Group Meeting of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (GERSEQ 2023)

  Award-winning: Judith González Lavín
  Work title: Iron aerogels as additive for the SOFC cathodes optimization
  Date: 03-05/07/2023

• Special mention to the oral communication in the PhD Multidisciplinary Chemical Congress

  Award-winning: Judith González Lavín
  Work title: Optimizing the process variables for microwave-induced synthesis of iron aerogels
  Date: 19-20/01/2023

• II Edition of ComFuturo of the General CSIC Foundation 

  Award-winning: Ignacio Cameán Martínez

  Work title: Batteries for the sustainable energy storage (DIONBATENER)

  Date: November 2018

  

   

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• San Alberto Magno 2018 Award to the best Doctoral Thesis of the Asturias and Leon Official Chemists Association

  Award-winning: Nuria Cuesta Pedrayes

  Work title: Alternative anodic materials for the development of sustainable lithium-ion batteries

  Date: November 2018

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• Award to the best PhD students poster presente to the XIV Meeting of the Spanish Carbon (GEC Málaga 2017)

  Award-winning: Jorge Rodríguez García 

  Work title: Graphitic carbon foams: active materials in anodes of sodium-ion batteries

  Date: October 2017

   

  

   
• VI Call for Research Grants in Energy and Environment from Iberdrola Foundation

  Award-winning: Ignacio Cameán Martínez

  Work title: Development of dual-ion batteries (Na+/Anion) with carbon materials electrodes for renewable energy storage

  Date: July 2016

   

  

   
• V Call for Research Grants in Energy and Environment from Iberdrola Foundation

  Award-winning: Alberto Ramos Alonso

  Work title: Expanded graphite nanofibers: preparation and application as anodes in sodium-ion batteries for the renewable energy storage

  Date: June 2015

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• Finalist Work in EDP University Challenge 2014

  Award-winnings:  Nuria Cuesta Pedrayes, David Anseán González, Ana Beatriz García Suárez

  Work title: Graphene monolayer as anode in sodium-ion batteries. A solution for large-scale applications

  Date: October 2014

   
• IV Call for Research Grants in Energy and Environment from Iberdrola Foundation

  Award-winning: Alberto Ramos Alonso

  Work title: Graphene monolayer as anode in sodium-ion batteries. A solution for large-scale applications?

  Date: June 2014

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• Accesit to the First Award of the IV SAFT Batteries Awards Edition to the Innovation in Energy Efficiency and Storage

  Award-winning: Nuria Cuesta Pedrayes

  Work title: Binder influence on the electrochemical behavior of carbon materials as anodes in lithium-ion batteries

  Date: November 2013

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• XVIII San Alberto Magno Award of the Asturias and Leon Official Chemists Association for research works

  Award-winning: Miguel Cabielles Ondina,  Ana Beatriz García Suárez

  Work title: Reusing of unburned from fly ashes as precursors for the preparation of graphitic materials

  Date: November 2006