Le Févre Memorial Prize

Published on by in Academic

Le Févre Memorial Prize

Professor Yu at UQ's Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Has Been Recognised with the 2015 Le Févre Memorial Prize for His Scientific Research to Improve Water-treatment Technologies

Professor Yu, group leader at UQ's Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, has been recognised with the 2015Le Févre Memorial Prizefor his scientific research which ranges from developing new ways to deliver vaccines to improved water-treatment technologies.

UQ Provost and Senior Vice-President Professor Max Lusaid Professor Yu was an outstanding physical chemist who had made significant contributions in the innovation, design, preparation and application of novel nanomaterials.

The many different applications offered by the new materials include drug and vaccine delivery, battery materials and water-treatment technologies.

His group has also engineer nanomaterials to remove toxins and other unwanted compounds from waterand to develop functional materials for lithium-ion batteries, a technology which has monopolised the power-supply market for portable electronics since 1990.

The Le Fèvre Memorial Prize commemorates the work of the late Professor RJW Le Fèvre and recognises outstanding scientific research in chemistry.

Source: The University of Queensland

Media

Taxonomy