Jas Pal Singh Badyal (born 1964)
FRS[ is a ]Professor
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in the Department of Chemistry at Durham University
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Education
Badyal was educated at the University of Cambridge
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where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts
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degree in Natural Sciences
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in 1985 followed by a PhD in 1988 on the surface science
Surface science is the study of physical and chemical phenomena that occur at the interface of two phases, including solid–liquid interfaces, solid–gas interfaces, solid–vacuum interfaces, and liquid–gas interfaces. It includes the fiel ...
of ruthenium
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- titania heterogeneous catalysts.
Career and research
Following his PhD, Badyal held a King's College, Cambridge
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research fellowship and the Cambridge University Oppenheimer Research Fellowship. He was appointed a Lecturer
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at Durham University in 1989 and was promoted to Full Professor
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in 1996[ where he has worked since.
Badyal is internationally recognised for his pioneering research on the functionalisation of solid surfaces and deposition of functional nanolayers. Badyal has invented a wide range of novel surfaces for technological and societal applications. These have been underpinned by the investigation of fundamental mechanisms and scale-up. Examples include: ]antibacterial
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, fog harvesting, catalysis, non-fouling, optochiral switches, filtration, biochips, super-repellency, and nano-actuation.[
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Awards and honours
Badyal was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016.[ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: ] He was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Edward Harrison Memorial Prize
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in 1993 and Tilden Medal in 2017.the British Vacuum Council
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References
External links
Jas Pal Badyal's Functional Surfaces Youtube channel
Living people
Fellows of the Royal Society
1964 births
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