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Research excellence awards. The committee recommends that a steady-state program of 15 awards be achieved over 3 years, at an average level of 100,000 per year per award. 

The committee recommends that a steady-state program of 15 research excellence awards in chemical engineering be achieved over 3 years. This new mechanism is described in Chapter 10. Because these awards are intended to fund speculative high-potential research, they will probably work best in the milieu of a small research group. Thus, the committee recommends that they be funded at about Level D. The steady-state cost of the initiative would be 1.5 million. 

Korotcenkov is the author or editor of 16 books and special issues, 12 invited review papers, 19 book chapters, and more than 190 peer-reviewed articles. He is a holder of 18 patents. His research activities have been honored by Award of the Supreme Council of Science and Advanced Technology of the Republic of Moldova (2004), The Prize of the Presidents of Ukrainian, Belarus and Moldovan Academies of Sciences (2003), Senior Research Excellence Award of Technical University of Moldova (2001,2003,2005), Fellowship from International Research Exchange Board (1998), National Youth Prize of the Repubhc of Moldova (1980), among others. 

We would like to thank the remarkably motivated and talented students who have performed most of the research described in ttiis chapter and whose names are cited in the references. We also acknowledge the scientists with whom we have collaborated with respect to the work described, particularly Profs. Geoffrey A. Ozin and Mitchell A. Winnik of our department and Profs. Joachim P. Spatz (now at the University of Heidelburg), Thomas P. Russell (University Massachusetts) and Martin MoUer at Uhn Germany. Finally, I. M. acknowledges the University of Toronto for a McLean Fellowship (1997-2003), the Ontario Government for a Premier s Research Excellence Award (PREA) (1999-2004), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a Fellowship (1994-98), and the Canadian Government for a Canada Research Chair for the dmation of the work described. 

Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank the support of the Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program under award number W81XWH-09-1-0584, the National Science Foundation DMR 0907453, and the UCLA Specialized Program of Research Excellence in Prostate Cancer P50 CA092131-08. 

Sun is a fellow of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers and a fellow of Engineers Ireland (the Institution of Engineers of Ireland). He has received numerous awards for teaching and research excellence, including the President s Research... 

Helga Halvorsen is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Under the supervision of Dr. Barry MacDougall, her thesis work focuses on the development of Pt nanocatalyst systems. Helga received her M.Sc. from the University of Western Ontario while studying coupled diffusion in surfactant solutions. She is flie recipient of an Ontario Graduate Student Scholarship, in addition to several local awards for academic and research excellence. 

Acknowledgements We wish to thank the EPSRC, Royal Society (Wolfson research merit award to REM), Royal Society of Edinburgh/BP Trust (Research Fellowship to SDR), Nuffield Foundation and EU for generous sponsorship allowing us to pursue our intrto sts in magnesium chemistry and to all past and present members of the Mulvey research group for their excellent contributions to these studies as well as for their friendship. 

Research on polyaramides began at DuPont after 1950, and a first patent appeared in 1958 [24]. The hrst technical product was the m-polyaramide , which was commercialized as a fiber in 1967 under the name Nomex . Due to a Tm of 290-295 °C, combined with high thermostability, Nomex allows for faster sewing and weaving than Nylon-6,6, and it has a higher form stability. Particular important for most applications is its low flammability (see below) Mainly responsible for this success was Wilfred Sweeney (1926-2011), who earned in 2002 the Lavoisier Medal for his life work as researcher [25, 26]. Sweeney had worked at DuPont for 38 years, and he had also contributed to the development of the Dacron polyester fiber. The Lavoisier medal is the highest honor of science excellence awarded by DuPont. 

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