Elsevier is pleased to announce that Dr. Guangmin Zhou will receive the Carbon Journal Prize for 2015. This award is given annually to a recent graduate that has written "an outstanding Ph.D. thesis in carbon material science and technology”.  

Dr. Zhou received a bachelor's degree from Nanjing University of Science and Technology in China, and did his PhD thesis research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute for Metal Research under the supervision of Drs. Hui-Ming Cheng and Feng Li.  His thesis focused on the design, fabrication and performance of nanostructured carbon materials for high-energy lithium batteries   Dr. Zhou has recently taken a position at the Texas Materials Institute at the University of Texas, Austin.