From left to right: Manuel Jesús Izquierdo Mogrera, Director General of Youth and Relations with the University Community of the City Council of Seville; Emilio Lora-Tamayo, President of the CSIC; Miguel Ángel Castro Arroyo, Rector of the University of Seville; Carmen Vela, Secretary of State for Research, Development and Innovation; Pablo Ríos Moreno, second runner-up; Miguel Anaya Martín, Winner; Manuel Oliva Ramírez, first runner-up; Antonio Hernández Callejas, President of Ebro Foods; Antonio Ramírez de Arellano, Minister of Economy and Knowledge; Miguel Ángel De la Rosa, Director of the cicCartuja.
The scientists awarded in the 2016 edition were:
Winner: Miguel Anaya Martín, from the Institute of Materials Science of Seville (ICMS), has won the first prize thanks to a study that relates the optical and electrical properties of new generation devices based on perovskite with the morphology and movement of ions in the material.
Unbroken Perovskite: Interplay of Morphology, Electro-optical Properties, and Ionic Movement
Adv. Mater. 2016, 28, 5031-5037.
First Accesit: Manuel Oliva-Ramírez, also from ICMS, was awarded for developing an optofluidic sensor for determining sugar concentration during fermentation processes.
Optofluidic Modulation of Self-Associated Nanostructural Units Forming Planar Bragg Microcavities
ACS Nano 2016, 10, 1256-1264
Second Accesit: Pablo Ríos Moreno, from the Institute of Chemical Research (IIQ), which obtained second prize for the development of nickel catalysts capable of obtaining formaldehyde from CO2 under very mild temperature and pressure conditions.
Mechanistic Studies on the Selective Reduction of CO2 to the Aldehyde Level by a Bis(phosphino)boryl (PBP)-Supported Nickel Complex
ACS Catalysis 2016, Vol. 10, 5715-5723.
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