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French chemist

Camille Petit is a Reader in Materials Engineering at Imperial College London. She designs and characterises functional materials for environmental sustainability.

Early life and education

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Petit completed her MSc in chemistry at the École nationale supérieure de chimie de Montpellier in 2007.[1] She earned her PhD at Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2011, working with Teresa Bandosz.[2][3][4] She was awarded the Springer Nature thesis award in 2012,[_citation needed_] for her dissertation Factors Affecting the Removal of Ammonia from Air on Carbonaceous Materials.[5]

Research and career

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Petit completed postdoctoral research in Alissa Park's group at Columbia University.[4] She worked on carbon capture using nanoparticle organic hybrid materials (NOHMs). She synthesises them by ionic grafting polymer chains onto polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS).[4] She developed several characterisation techniques to analyse their suitability for carbon capture, including nuclear magnetic resonance, Attenuated total reflectance Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry.[4] In 2011 she was awarded the French Carbon Group award.[6] In 2013 Petit joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London.[4][7] She leads the Multifunctional Materials Laboratory.[8] Here she develops nano-colloids, graphene-based materials, nitride and metal-organic frameworks.[8] She has delivered several public lectures.[9][10][11]

Petit is Associate Editor of the journal Frontiers in Energy - Carbon Capture, Storage, and Utilization. In 2019 she was awarded a prestigious European Research Council grant to develop a new class of photocatalysts to help convert carbon dioxide into fuel using sunlight.[12]

• 2007 - American Carbon Society Mrozowski Award[13]
• 2015 - Institution of Chemical Engineers Sir Frederick Warner medal[14]
• 2017 - Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Silver Medal[15][16]
• 2017 - American Institute of Chemical Engineers 35 under 35[17][18]
• 2019 - Philip Leverhulme Prize 2019[19]

1. ^ "Camille Petit". Loop. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
2. ^ Petit, Camille; Bandosz, Teresa J. (2009). "MOF–graphite oxide nanocomposites: surface characterization and evaluation as adsorbents of ammonia". Journal of Materials Chemistry. 19 (36): 6521. doi:10.1039/B908862H. ISSN 0959-9428.
3. ^ "Undergraduate – High school students | Teresa J. Bandosz". tbandosz.com. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
4. ^ a b c d e "Camille Petit at Imperial College, London". www.aiche.org. 2014-03-10. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
5. ^ Factors Affecting the Removal of Ammonia from Air on Carbonaceous Materials - Investigation of Reactive Adsorption Mechanism | Camille Petit | Springer. Springer Theses. Springer. 2012. ISBN 9781461433927.
6. ^ Kolade, Ayodele. "From 2D Materials to 3D Architectures | ICAM - International Centre for Advanced Materials". www.icam-online.org. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
7. ^ "Dr. Camille Petit". www.aiche.org. 2014-06-13. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
8. ^ a b "Sustainability Special Interest Group | Events | 2015 | The Role of Novel Materials in Addressing Sustainability Challenges". www.icheme.org. Archived from the original on 2018-09-13. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
9. ^ Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London (2016-12-19), Dr Camille Petit - Structured adsorbents, retrieved 2018-06-15
10. ^ The BP International Centre for Advanced Materials (2017-05-31), BP-ICAM Webinar Series 2017: From 2D Materials to 3D Architectures, retrieved 2018-06-15
11. ^ Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London (2017-12-04), Undergraduate Research in the Barrer Centre - Metal Organic Frameworks, retrieved 2018-06-15
12. ^ "Imperial academics win €11 million ERC funding | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. Archived from the original on 2019-09-06. Retrieved 2019-12-02.
13. ^ "Honours and Memberships - DR CAMILLE PETIT". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
14. ^ "IChemE | About us | IChemE medals | Warner Prize". www.icheme.org. Archived from the original on 2018-06-15. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
15. ^ "IOM3 Awards 2017 | IOM3". www.iom3.org. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
16. ^ "Congratulations to Dr Camille Petit on winning the Sir Frederick Warner Prize | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
17. ^ "Dr Camille Petit receives AIChE 35 Under 35 Award | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
18. ^ "AIChE ® 35 Under 35". www.aiche.org. 2017-08-02. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
19. ^ "Leverhulme Trust". Archived from the original on 2019-10-17.

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