J. Robert Selman to Be Awarded Grove Medal in Recognition of a Lifetime of Pioneering Work on Fuel Cells

Award to be Presented at the Grove Fuel Cell Science & Technology Conference; Zaragoza, Spain, 6-7 October 2010

OXFORD, England, September 14, 2010 - Elsevier, a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical
information products and services, announced that J. Robert Selman,
University Distinguished Research Professor at the Illinois Institute of
Technology (Chicago, USA) and author of over 135 journal papers, will be
awarded the prestigious Grove Medal at the forthcoming Grove Fuel Cell
Science & Technology Conference (www.fuelcelladvances.com) in Zaragoza,
Spain, 6-7 October 2010.

The Grove Medal is a distinction awarded to those who have made valuable
contributions towards the development and success of fuel cell technology.
Candidates for the Grove Medal award are selected and voted for by the Grove
Steering Committee. The Medal is presented at the annual Grove Fuel Cell
Event.

Robert Selman has over 30 years of experience in battery and fuel cell
research and development, and the global commercialization of these
technologies. His expertise is the electrochemical engineering of batteries
and fuel cells and electrode materials for batteries and high-temperature
fuel cell electrodes. He has six patents, among which are the basic patents
for phase change material in Li-ion batteries. Following receipt of the award
on Wednesday 6 October, he will give the Grove Medal Lecture to officially
open the two-day conference programme.

Prof. Lars Sjunnesson, Chair of the Grove Steering Committee, is pleased
to honour a fellow pioneer of fuel cell technology, "The Grove Committee is
very pleased to announce this year's Medal recipient. Robert Selman has
contributed greatly to international fuel cell research and, more
importantly, to the commercialization of the technology. It is fitting that
he should be honoured in this way and at this important event in the fuel
cell calendar."

Note to Editors

About J Robert Selman

Robert Selman, currently a research professor at the Illinois Institute
of Technology (I.I.T.), Chicago, U.S.A., has over 30 years of experience in
battery and fuel cell research and development, and the global
commercialization of these technologies.

Robert Selman has been involved in electrochemical engineering of
batteries and fuel cells at Argonne National Laboratory, the University of
California Lawrence Berkeley Lab, and the Illinois Institute of Technology
(IIT). He has written over 135 journal papers and has six patents, among
which are the basic patents for phase change material in Li-ion batteries.
Robert is a Distinguished Research Professor in chemical engineering at IIT
and is, as retired professor, today the Director of International Business
Development and a senior technical advisor to AllCell Technologies LLC (a
provider of thermal management solutions for lithium-ion batteries). At IIT
he was involved in a number of electrochemical engineering and technology
areas, and most recently in High Temperature Fuel Cell (MCFC, SOFC) Electrode
Optimization. He won the Electrochemical Society's Energy Technology Award in
2002.

Robert Selman holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University
of California Berkeley, an M.S. in chemical engineering from the University
of Wisconsin Madison, and is an alumnus of the Technological University Delft
in the Netherlands

About Fuel Cells Science & Technology 2010

Fuel Cells Science & Technology 2010 will take place at the World Trade
Center, Zaragoza, Spain, 6-7 October 2010 and it is organized by Elsevier.
The Fuel Cells Science & Technology Conference was launched in 2002 by the
organizers of the Grove Fuel Cell Symposium to provide a dedicated scientific
forum to bring together the various disciplines of basic scientific research
underpinning technological advances in fuel cell developments and
applications. The biennial conference alternates with the Grove Fuel Cell
Symposium. Full details are available at www.fuelcelladvances.com

The first Grove Medal was awarded to Francis (Tom) Bacon for his
pioneering development of the fuel cells which were developed into the Apollo
spacecraft power sources, enabling men to land on the moon 40 years ago.
Subsequently, Grove Medals have been awarded to many other world leading
figures and organizations developing fuel cells. The recipients are chosen by
an international body, the Grove Symposium Steering Committee.

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