Prof. Hui-Ming Cheng wins the Utz-Hellmuth Felcht Award

During the Carbon 2015 in Dresden, Germany, SGL Group – The Carbon Company presented the Utz-Hellmuth Felcht Award to Prof. Hui-Ming CHENG from Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Sciences, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, also Editor-in-Chief of Energy Storage Materials, for his contribution in the research of carbon nano-materials and energy storage materials, especially of the synthesis of graphene three dimensional (3D) interconnected structures by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Prof. CHENG and his group fabricated a flexible and highly-conductive 3D interconnected structure of graphene material with a nickel foam template by CVD. This graphene material can be used in flexible conductors and flexible lithium ion batteries with high capacity and fast charging/discharging performance.

The Utz-Hellmuth Felcht Award is established by the SGL Group, a Carbon Company in Germany, to recognize the particular recent breakthrough achievement of an individual in the field of carbon, graphite and ceramic materials for honoring the outstanding strategic contributions of Prof. Dr. Utz-Hellmuth Felcht during his time as supervisory board member of the SGL Group. The award is given to one scientist biennially, with flexible nomination and evaluation by the Award Committee. Prof. CHENG is the third recipient. The first and second recipients are Prof. Water de Heer of Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, and Prof. Klaus Mullen of Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Germany, respectively.