:Camille Petit
{{short description|French chemist}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Camille Petit
| workplaces = Columbia University
| alma_mater = École nationale supérieure de chimie de Montpellier
| thesis_title = Factors Affecting the Removal of Ammonia from Air on Carbonaceous Materials
| thesis_url = https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9781461433927
| thesis_year = 2011
| doctoral_advisor = Teresa Bandosz
| website = http://www.imperial.ac.uk/multifunctional-nanomaterials/
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Camille Petit is a Professor in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. She designs and characterises functional materials for environmental sustainability.
Early life and education
Petit completed her MSc in chemistry at the École nationale supérieure de chimie de Montpellier in 2007.{{Cite web|url=https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/154746/bio|title=Camille Petit|website=Loop|language=en|access-date=2018-06-15}} She earned her PhD at Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2011, working with Teresa Bandosz.{{Cite journal|last1=Petit|first1=Camille|last2=Bandosz|first2=Teresa J.|date=2009|title=MOF–graphite oxide nanocomposites: surface characterization and evaluation as adsorbents of ammonia|journal=Journal of Materials Chemistry|language=en|volume=19|issue=36|pages=6521|doi=10.1039/B908862H|issn=0959-9428}}{{Cite web|url=http://tbandosz.com/undergraduate-high-school-students|title=Undergraduate – High school students {{!}} Teresa J. Bandosz|website=tbandosz.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-06-15}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.aiche.org/ccusnetwork/camille-petit-imperial-college-london|title=Camille Petit at Imperial College, London|website=www.aiche.org|language=en|access-date=2018-06-15|date=2014-03-10}} She was awarded the Springer Nature thesis award in 2012,{{citation needed|date=May 2019}} for her dissertation Factors Affecting the Removal of Ammonia from Air on Carbonaceous Materials.{{Cite book|url=https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9781461433927|title=Factors Affecting the Removal of Ammonia from Air on Carbonaceous Materials - Investigation of Reactive Adsorption Mechanism {{!}} Camille Petit {{!}} Springer|language=en|isbn=9781461433927|publisher=Springer|year=2012|series=Springer Theses}}
Research and career
Petit completed postdoctoral research in Alissa Park's group at Columbia University. She worked on carbon capture using nanoparticle organic hybrid materials (NOHMs). She synthesises them by ionic grafting polymer chains onto polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS). She developed several characterisation techniques to analyse their suitability for carbon capture, including nuclear magnetic resonance, Attenuated total reflectance Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry. In 2011 she was awarded the French Carbon Group award.{{Cite web|url=http://www.icam-online.org/research/lectureseries/from2dmaterialsto3darchitectures/|title=From 2D Materials to 3D Architectures {{!}} ICAM - International Centre for Advanced Materials|last=Kolade|first=Ayodele|website=www.icam-online.org|language=en|access-date=2018-06-15}} In 2013 Petit joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aiche.org/community/bio/dr-camille-petit|title=Dr. Camille Petit|website=www.aiche.org|language=en|access-date=2018-06-15|date=2014-06-13}} She leads the Multifunctional Materials Laboratory.{{Cite web|url=http://www.icheme.org/communities/special-interest-groups/sustainability/events/2015/16-dec-webinar-petit.aspx#.WyPDgRJKjxg|title=Sustainability Special Interest Group {{!}} Events {{!}} 2015 {{!}} The Role of Novel Materials in Addressing Sustainability Challenges|website=www.icheme.org|access-date=2018-06-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913073717/http://www.icheme.org/communities/special-interest-groups/sustainability/events/2015/16-dec-webinar-petit.aspx#.WyPDgRJKjxg|archive-date=2018-09-13|url-status=dead}} Here she develops nano-colloids, graphene-based materials, nitride and metal-organic frameworks. She has delivered several public lectures.{{Citation|last=Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London|title=Dr Camille Petit - Structured adsorbents|date=2016-12-19|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7IOA6Uhckw|access-date=2018-06-15}}{{Citation|last=The BP International Centre for Advanced Materials|title=BP-ICAM Webinar Series 2017: From 2D Materials to 3D Architectures|date=2017-05-31|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prqf1JRuXBg|access-date=2018-06-15}}{{Citation|last=Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London|title=Undergraduate Research in the Barrer Centre - Metal Organic Frameworks|date=2017-12-04|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTje8Cv5Aec|access-date=2018-06-15}}
Petit is Associate Editor of the journal [https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/energy-research/sections/carbon-capture-storage-and-utilization Frontiers in Energy - Carbon Capture, Storage, and Utilization]. In 2019 she was awarded a prestigious European Research Council grant to develop a new class of photocatalysts to help convert carbon dioxide into fuel using sunlight.{{cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/192590/imperial-academics-11-million-erc-funding/|title=Imperial academics win €11 million ERC funding {{!}} Imperial News {{!}} Imperial College London|date=|website=Imperial News|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190906092656/http://www.imperial.ac.uk:80/news/192590/imperial-academics-11-million-erc-funding/ |archive-date=2019-09-06 |access-date=2019-12-02}}
=Honours and awards=
- 2007 - American Carbon Society Mrozowski Award{{Cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/camille.petit/honours-and-memberships.html|title=Honours and Memberships - DR CAMILLE PETIT|website=www.imperial.ac.uk|access-date=2018-06-15}}
- 2015 - Institution of Chemical Engineers Sir Frederick Warner medal{{Cite web|url=http://www.icheme.org/about_us/medals/warner.aspx|title=IChemE {{!}} About us {{!}} IChemE medals {{!}} Warner Prize|website=www.icheme.org|access-date=2018-06-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615190658/http://www.icheme.org/about_us/medals/warner.aspx|archive-date=2018-06-15|url-status=dead}}
- 2017 - Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Silver Medal{{Cite web|url=http://www.iom3.org/iom3-awards-2017|title=IOM3 Awards 2017 {{!}} IOM3|website=www.iom3.org|language=en|access-date=2018-06-15}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/169402/congratulations-dr-camille-petit-winning-sir/|title=Congratulations to Dr Camille Petit on winning the Sir Frederick Warner Prize {{!}} Imperial News {{!}} Imperial College London|work=Imperial News|access-date=2018-06-15|language=en-GB}}
- 2017 - American Institute of Chemical Engineers 35 under 35{{Cite news|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/181006/dr-camille-petit-receives-aiche-35/|title=Dr Camille Petit receives AIChE 35 Under 35 Award {{!}} Imperial News {{!}} Imperial College London|work=Imperial News|access-date=2018-06-15|language=en-GB}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.aiche.org/resources/publications/cep/2017/august/aiche-r-35-under-35|title=AIChE ® 35 Under 35|website=www.aiche.org|language=en|access-date=2018-06-15|date=2017-08-02}}
- 2019 - [https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/193446/dr-camille-petit-named-2019-philip/ Philip Leverhulme Prize 2019]{{Cite web|url=https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/philip-leverhulme-prizes-2019|title=Leverhulme Trust|last=|first=|date=|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191017102634/https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/philip-leverhulme-prizes-2019 |archive-date=2019-10-17 |access-date=}}
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