The PhD Candidate of the Department of Materials Science of the University of Patras and fellow of The Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (ICE-HT), Ms. Penelope Angelopoulou, with the supervision of Ass. Prof. George Avgouropoulos was evaluated by an international scientific committee and won the first prize "Young Researcher Award" in the international conference "13th international conference on Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies" for her work entitled "Combustion-synthesized LiMn-based spinel nanostructures as cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries".
