Dr. Fathy Hassan announced as a 2016 Reaxys PhD Prize Finalist

Monday, October 3, 2016

Fathy Hassan
The Reaxys PhD Prize recognizes young chemists conducting original and innovative research in organic, organometallic and inorganic chemistry. New Scientist Live,  Money News 2016 and Inspiring Chemistry Reaxys

Dr. Hassan's PhD thesis, supervised by Prof., Zhongwei Chen, "Engineered Nano-Architectures as Advanced Anode Materials for Next Generation Lithium Ion Batteries" focused on research into the use of silicon for Lithium-ion batteries. Silicon has the potential to revolutionize the energy storage capacities of lithium ion batteries to meet the ever increasing power demands of next generation technologies. To avoid the operational stability problems of silicon-based anodes, Fathy proposed a synergistic physico-chemical alteration of electrode structure during its design.