Distinguished Scientific Paper
Akinola Oyedele, Liangbo Liang, Alexander Puretzky, Kai Wang, Jingjie Zhang, Pushpa Pudasaini, Christopher Rouleau, Bobby Sumpter, Philip Rack, Dave Geohegan, and Kai Xiao, "PdSe2: Pentagonal Two-Dimensional Layers with High Air Stability for Electronics," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139, 14090 (2017).
Distinguished Patent
Minghu Pan, Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera, Peter Maksymovych, and Bobby Sumpter, "Self-assembly patterning of organic molecules on a surface" (US 9,610,608 B2).
Outstanding Scientific or Technical Contribution
Yang Song, Rui Peng, Dale Hensley, Peter Bonnesen, Liangbo Liang, Zili Wu, Miaofang Chi, Cheng Ma, Bobby Sumpter, and Adam Rondinone, For discovery of a novel electrochemical reaction in which carbon dioxide is converted directly into ethanol with both high yield and high selectivity.
CNMS User Project
Jonathan Poplawsky, First-time application of laser-assisted atom probe tomography to identify deactivation mechanisms of zeolite catalysts at the atomic-scale.
User collaborations: Utrecht University (Bert Weckhuysen, Joel Schmidt, Ozgun Attila, and Donglong Fu); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (Simon Bare).
Postdoctoral Award
Liam Collins, For highly recognized advances in Kelvin probe force microscopy, including development of general mode KPFM and to applications of KPFM to imaging in liquids and for resolving time dependent ionic motion.
Special Award
Kevin Harman, For outstanding support to CNMS researchers.