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

Petit completed her MSc in chemistry at the École nationale supérieure de chimie de Montpellier in 2007. She earned her PhD at

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in 2011, working with Teresa Bandosz. She was awarded the

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thesis award in 2012, for her dissertation ''Factors Affecting the Removal of Ammonia from Air on Carbonaceous Materials''.

Research and career

Petit completed postdoctoral research in Alissa Park's group at Columbia University. She worked on

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using nanoparticle organic hybrid materials (NOHMs). She synthesises them by ionic grafting polymer chains onto polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS). She developed several characterisation techniques to analyse their suitability for carbon capture, including nuclear magnetic resonance, Attenuated total reflectance Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and

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. In 2011 she was awarded the French Carbon Group award. In 2013 Petit joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. She leads the Multifunctional Materials Laboratory. Here she develops nano-colloids, graphene-based materials, nitride and metal-organic frameworks. She has delivered several public lectures. 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.

Honours and awards

*2007 - American Carbon Society Mrozowski Award *2015 -

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Sir Frederick Warner medal *2017 -

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Silver Medal *2017 -

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35 under 35 *2019
Philip Leverhulme Prize 2019
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References

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