2012 PANalytical Award

Thomas Bennett.

The inaugural PANalytical Award of 2012 was presented to Thomas Bennett, Dept. of Materials Science at the U. of Cambridge, UK. The prize was based on a research article published in Physical Review Letters (2010), 104, 115503, entitled: 'Structure and Properties of an Amorphous Metal Organic Framework'. As first author on the publication Dr Bennett received the PANalytical Award trophy, a certificate and £5,000 sterling.

The PANalytical Award initiative was launched to identify and encourage exceptional young researchers who have never held a professorship and use laboratory-scale X-ray equipment as their primary analytical technique. A key feature of Dr Bennett's work is his use of X-ray total scattering data (PDF), in combination with data from scattering electron diffraction and optical microscopy and computer pictures of the metal-organic framework under investigation.