Our sodium-battery paper wins the 2024 IOM3 Vanadium Award
Our paper “Obtaining V2(PO4)3 by sodium extraction from single-phase NaxV2(PO4)3 (1 < x < 3) positive electrode materials”, published in Nature Materials, has received the 2024 Vanadium Award (Retrospective) of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3), among its 2025 Awards and Prizes. The medal was presented at the IOM3 Awards Day ceremony in London on December 4, 2025, by IOM3 President Christine Blackmore.
Sponsored and selected by the Vanadium International Technical Committee (Vanitec), the award recognizes the most outstanding paper in the metallurgy and technology of vanadium and its alloys. The paper was written by Sunkyu Park, Ziliang Wang, Kriti Choudhary, Jean-Noël Chotard, Dany Carlier, François Fauth, Piero Canepa, Laurence Croguennec and Christian Masquelier, together with our colleagues at LRCS in Amiens and ICMCB in Bordeaux, France.