Peter Edwards (chemist)

<p>Peter Philip Edwards <a href="/facts/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Chemistry/XBwDJpYr">FRSC</a> <a href="/facts/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society/cWs8TdC5">FRS</a> (born 1949, Liverpool) is a British Emeritus Professor of <a href="/facts/Inorganic_Chemistry/ErD6ypnb">Inorganic Chemistry</a> and former Head of Inorganic Chemistry at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Oxford/ExVVQL6V">University of Oxford</a> and a Fellow of <a href="/facts/St_Catherine%27s_College,_Oxford/Imz4gTJC">St Catherine's College, Oxford</a>. Edwards is the recipient of the <a href="/facts/Corday-Morgan_Medal/STMbv9QC">Corday-Morgan Medal</a> (1985), the Tilden Lectureship (1993–94) and Liversidge Award (1999) of the <a href="/facts/Royal_Society_of_Chemistry/1fg4xnqR">Royal Society of Chemistry</a>. He was elected a Fellow of the <a href="/facts/Royal_Society/KI5yXCuV">Royal Society</a> in 1996 and was awarded the 2003 <a href="/facts/Hughes_Medal/zhwEaYAP">Hughes Medal</a> of the Royal Society  "for his distinguished work as a solid state chemist. He has made seminal contributions to fields including superconductivity and the behaviour of metal nanoparticles, and has greatly advanced our understanding of the phenomenology of the metal-insulator transition". In 2009 Edwards was elected to the <a href="/facts/German_Academy_of_Sciences_Leopoldina/rMSzXfGu">German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina</a>,  and he was elected Einstein Professor for 2011 by the <a href="/facts/Chinese_Academy_of_Sciences/zzHb3yVm">Chinese Academy of Sciences</a>. In 2012 he was awarded the <a href="/facts/Bakerian_Lecture/n1Kk0WBE">Bakerian Lecture</a> by the Royal Society "in recognition of decisive contributions to the physics, chemistry and materials science of condensed matter, including work on the metal-insulator transition". In the spring of 2012 he was elected International Member of the <a href="/facts/American_Philosophical_Society/auqTbV2C">American Philosophical Society</a>; one of only four people from the UK in that year to be awarded this honour across all subjects and disciplines. Later in 2012 he was awarded the <a href="/facts/Worshipful_Company_of_Armourers_and_Brasiers/pNGnkfby">Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers</a> Materials Science Venture Prize for his work on new, low-cost, high-performance conducting oxide coatings for solar cells and optoelectronic materials. In the Autumn of 2013 he was elected Member of <a href="/facts/Academia_Europaea/yxtePdEl">Academia Europaea</a>, and he was elected as a Foreign Honorary Member of the <a href="/facts/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences/KptWYgz4">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> in 2014.
</p><p>Together with Tiancun Xiao and John Thomas and their teams Edwards demonstrated in 2020 a new method using microwaves to initiate the catalytic decomposition of <a href="/facts/Plastic_waste/oLNNHQrG">plastic waste</a> to generate hydrogen and multiwalled carbon nanotubes. This approach was subsequently developed by the <a href="/facts/University_spin-off/HE9lspIj">spin-out company</a> Oxford Sustainable Fuels. As of 2022<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Edwards_(chemist)&action=edit">[update]</a> Edwards is also working with CarbonMeta Technologies to commercialise the approach.
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Peter Edwards (chemist)