LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa.,
Aug. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Air
Products (NYSE: APD) has named Dr. Cheol
Seong Hwang of Seoul National
University and Dr. Adelio
Mendes of the University of Porto as winners of its 2011 Faculty
Excellence Award. The program recognizes outstanding faculty in
technology areas strategic to Air Products' long-term growth. The
two winners will each receive an unrestricted grant for their
institutions to further their research -- Dr. Hwang for
semiconductor memory technologies and Dr. Mendes for gas
separations involving membranes and adsorption processes.
"Air Products is pleased and honored to recognize and support
the research of Dr. Cheol Seong
Hwang and Dr. Adelio Mendes,"
said Monty Alger, Air Products vice
president and chief technology officer. "The research contributions
of these scientists are aligned with Air Products' current and
future areas of technology interest in our electronics and gas
separation businesses. Recognizing and supporting these
contributions are part of our effort to stay connected with the
technology community outside of Air Products."
Dr. Hwang's research activities cover a wide variety of topics
in semiconductor memory and logic device fabrication. His research
has focussed on fabrication of ultra-high capacitance density
capacitors for DRAM, high-k gate dielectric research, resistance
switching memory, phase change memory, cross-bar arrays and thin
film transistors for their applications in future 3D stacked
memories. He earned a Ph.D. in the Department of Inorganic
Materials Science and Engineering from Seoul National University in 1993 and was in a guest
scientist position for his postdoctoral research work at the
National Institute of Standards and Technology the following year.
Dr. Hwang is currently a Professor in the Department of Materials
Science and Engineering at Seoul National
University and has published over 330 peer-reviewed journal
articles, filed 60 patents and conducted many invited presentations
at international conferences.
Dr. Mendes has research interests in the areas of membrane and
adsorbent-based gas separations, carbon molecular sieve membranes,
fuel cells, dye sensitized solar cells, photoelectrochemical cells
for hydrogen production, photocatalysis, catalytic membrane
reactors, and steam reforming. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical
Engineering from the University of Porto in 1993 and is presently Associate
Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the
University of Porto. Dr. Mendes
has published more than 130 peer-reviewed journal articles and
filed applications for 18 patent families.
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of atmospheric gases, process and specialty gases, performance
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environment. In fiscal 2010, Air Products had revenues of
$9 billion, operations in over 40
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EDITOR'S NOTES: Photos of the award recipients are
available in Air Products' online News Center at
www.airproducts.com/company/news-center/2011/0822-air-products-recognizes-two-university-professors-with-its-2011-faculty-excellence-award.aspx.
SOURCE Air Products