The Prize recognises their discovery and development of hybrid glasses, a new family of glasses separate to the known inorganic, organic and metallic families. Horizon Prizes are awarded annually by the RSC to recognise the work of teams, groups and collaborations.

David's contribution to the team included X-ray total scattering/pair distribution function experiments at the Diamond Light Source and in-house X-ray total scattering instrument at ISIS, as well as earlier neutron measurements on the General Materials Diffractometer (GEM) instrument.

The prize-winning team includes 18 researchers from ten countries, led by Professor Tom Bennett from the University of Canterbury and The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology in New Zealand.

“It has been hugely enjoyable to work with Tom Bennett and the wider team on these materials," says David. "From the first full structural characterisation of the hybrid glass ZIF-4 on GEM in 2010, right up to the wide range of different materials now being studied, they continually provide structural challenges. Challenges that are ideally addressed with instrumentation here at ISIS and Diamond."​

​The full announcement can be found on the RSC website​.