| RefNo | EC/2024/74 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Carter, Emily Ann: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 21 April 2024 |
| Description | Certificate endorsing election of Emily Carter as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. Includes personal details of the elected Foreign Member, citation giving the reasons for election, and names of proposers. Signed by the Executive Director of the Royal Society, Julie Maxton. |
| Citation | For her development and application of new quantum mechanics techniques to design and optimize materials, most recently for a diverse set of sustainable energy technologies. She introduced new concepts for carbon-free electricity from solar cells, fusion reactors, and solid-oxide fuel cells; and for renewable fuels and chemicals, including water splitting to produce renewable hydrogen from water electrolysis using inexpensive electrocatalysts or from concentrated sunlight and optimal metal oxide perovskites, recycling carbon dioxide and methane via sunlight and doped metal nanoparticles to produce synthesis gas, recycling carbon dioxide via functionalized semiconductors to produce fuels, and nitrogen activation for sustainable ammonia production. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Computer printout |
| PhysicalDescription | A4 papers |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
| AccessConditions | Election certificates are subject to 50 year closure period from date of election. Details of proposers and date certificate was first submitted for candidacy are kept confidential until the 50 year closure period has elapsed. |