Elsevier is pleased to announce that Carbon Journal Prize for 2020 goes to Dr. Chong Luo and Dr. Farjana J. Sonia.

This annual award aims to recognize recent graduates with "an outstanding Ph.D. thesis in carbon material science and technology”.

In addition, we are pleased to recognize Dr. María Canal Rodríguez, Dr. Fatemeh Ostadhossein and Dr. Juyoung Leem for winning the second place in the competition.
 

Winners: 

Chong Luo 
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China The Controllable Assembly of Graphene-Based Porous Carbons and Their Applications in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

Farjana J. Sonia 
IIT Bombay, India Electrochemical Li-ion and K-ion storage in graphene and its variants: An experimental,
analytical and computational study

Second place winners:

María Canal Rodríguez
Consejo Superior De
Investigaciones Científicas,
Spain Carbon Xerogels as electrode material in electrochemical devices

Fatemeh Ostadhossein
University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign,
United States Carbon Dots: From Photoluminescence Investigation to Biomedical Application

Juyoung Leem
University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign,
United States Mechanical self-assembly of deformed 2D materials for advanced functionalities