Jas Pal Badyal
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Jas Pal Singh Badyal March 1964 (age 52)[1] Staffordshire, England, UK |
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD) |
| Thesis | Structure, chemistry and catalysis at the ruthenium-titania interface (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Professor Richard Lambert |
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Jas Pal Singh Badyal (born 1964) FRS[2] is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Durham University.[3]
Education
Badyal was educated at the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences in 1985 followed by a PhD in 1988 on the surface science of ruthenium-titania heterogeneous catalysts.[4]
Career and research
Following his PhD, Badyal held a King’s College, Cambridge research fellowship and the Cambridge University Oppenheimer Research Fellowship. He was appointed a Lecturer at Durham University in 1989 and was promoted to Full Professor in 1996[2] where he has worked since.
Badyal is internationally recognised for his pioneering research on the functionalisation of solid surfaces and deposition of functional nanolayers. Badyal has invented a wide range of novel surfaces for technological and societal applications. These have been underpinned by the investigation of fundamental mechanisms and scale-up. Examples include: antibacterial, fog harvesting, catalysis, non-fouling, optochiral switches, filtration, biochips, super-repellency, and nano-actuation.[2]
Awards and honours
Badyal was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Edward Harrison Memorial Prize in 1993 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016.[2] In 1995, he received the C R Burch Prize, awarded by the British Vacuum Council.
References
- ↑ "Jas Pal Singh BADYAL: Surface Innovations Limited, company number 04212511". London: Companies House. Archived from the original on 2016-05-10.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Professor Jas Badyal FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2016-04-29. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
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- ↑ Woodward, I.; Schofield, W. C. E.; Roucoules, V.; Badyal, J. P. S. (2003). "Super-hydrophobic Surfaces Produced by Plasma Fluorination of Polybutadiene Films". Langmuir. 19 (8): 3432–3438. doi:10.1021/la020427e.
- ↑ Badyal, Jas Pal Singh (1988). Structure, chemistry and catalysis at the ruthenium-titania interface (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 557203216.