Camille Petit

Camille Petit
Alma materÉcole nationale supérieure de chimie de Montpellier
CUNY Graduate Center
Scientific career
InstitutionsColumbia University
Imperial College London
ThesisFactors Affecting the Removal of Ammonia from Air on Carbonaceous Materials (2011)
Doctoral advisorTeresa Bandosz
Websitehttp://www.imperial.ac.uk/multifunctional-nanomaterials/

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.[1] She earned her PhD at Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2011, working with Teresa Bandosz.[2][3][4] She was awarded the Springer Nature thesis award in 2012,[citation needed] for her dissertation Factors Affecting the Removal of Ammonia from Air on Carbonaceous Materials.[5]

Research and career

Petit completed postdoctoral research in Alissa Park's group at Columbia University.[4] She worked on carbon capture using nanoparticle organic hybrid materials (NOHMs). She synthesises them by ionic grafting polymer chains onto polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS).[4] She developed several characterisation techniques to analyse their suitability for carbon capture, including nuclear magnetic resonance, Attenuated total reflectance Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry.[4] In 2011 she was awarded the French Carbon Group award.[6] In 2013 Petit joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London.[4][7] She leads the Multifunctional Materials Laboratory.[8] Here she develops nano-colloids, graphene-based materials, nitride and metal-organic frameworks.[8] She has delivered several public lectures.[9][10][11]

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.[12]

Honours and awards

References

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  2. ^ Petit, Camille; Bandosz, Teresa J. (2009). "MOF–graphite oxide nanocomposites: surface characterization and evaluation as adsorbents of ammonia". Journal of Materials Chemistry. 19 (36): 6521. doi:10.1039/B908862H. ISSN 0959-9428.
  3. ^ "Undergraduate – High school students | Teresa J. Bandosz". tbandosz.com. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
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  5. ^ Factors Affecting the Removal of Ammonia from Air on Carbonaceous Materials - Investigation of Reactive Adsorption Mechanism | Camille Petit | Springer. Springer Theses. Springer. 2012. ISBN 9781461433927.
  6. ^ Kolade, Ayodele. "From 2D Materials to 3D Architectures | ICAM - International Centre for Advanced Materials". www.icam-online.org. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
  7. ^ "Dr. Camille Petit". www.aiche.org. 2014-06-13. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
  8. ^ a b "Sustainability Special Interest Group | Events | 2015 | The Role of Novel Materials in Addressing Sustainability Challenges". www.icheme.org. Archived from the original on 2018-09-13. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
  9. ^ Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London (2016-12-19), Dr Camille Petit - Structured adsorbents, retrieved 2018-06-15
  10. ^ The BP International Centre for Advanced Materials (2017-05-31), BP-ICAM Webinar Series 2017: From 2D Materials to 3D Architectures, retrieved 2018-06-15
  11. ^ Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London (2017-12-04), Undergraduate Research in the Barrer Centre - Metal Organic Frameworks, retrieved 2018-06-15
  12. ^ "Imperial academics win €11 million ERC funding | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. Archived from the original on 2019-09-06. Retrieved 2019-12-02.
  13. ^ "Honours and Memberships - DR CAMILLE PETIT". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
  14. ^ "IChemE | About us | IChemE medals | Warner Prize". www.icheme.org. Archived from the original on 2018-06-15. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
  15. ^ "IOM3 Awards 2017 | IOM3". www.iom3.org. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
  16. ^ "Congratulations to Dr Camille Petit on winning the Sir Frederick Warner Prize | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
  17. ^ "Dr Camille Petit receives AIChE 35 Under 35 Award | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
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  19. ^ "Leverhulme Trust". Archived from the original on 2019-10-17.