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Award of Excellence presented
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POLiS is proud to announce the awardee for the POLiS Award of Excellence for Female Researchers 2022. The board of POLiS and a selection committee has selected Dr. Hernández from Uppsala University, Department of Chemistry. Dr. Hernández is an excellence rseearcher working in the field of of fluorine-free electrolytes for lithium and sodium-based batteries and carbonyl-based solid polymer electrolytes to understand the transport properties and coordination strength between polymers and different cations, in particular lithium, sodium and magnesium.