The Division of Solid-State Chemistry & Materials Research awarded the Rudolf-Hoppe Lectureship to Professor Thomas Fässler (Technical University of Munich) in recognition of his outstanding work on lithium-ion conductors at the 21st Lecture Conference for Inorganic Chemistry on 27 September 2022 in Marburg

"Honoured are his excellent interdisciplinary contributions in the field of solid state and materials research. His scientific work impresses with its wealth of ideas, the wide range of accomplished synthetic work and clearly communicated structure-property relationships. Furthermore, Professor Fässler's scientific lectures are able to inspire a broad audience and are thus entirely in the spirit of the prize to be awarded".

The Rudolf-Hoppe Lectureship 2018 was awarded at the Division conference in Regensburg. The winner of the lecture, which aims to highlight the importance of inorganic solid-state chemistry as an important foundation of any material development, is Prof. Dr Mathias Wickleder from the University of Cologne.

"Mathias Wickleder is one of the most important and influential German-speaking solid-state chemists of the last decade. His work, particularly on compounds with different types of oxoanions, has also attracted a great deal of attention worldwide. However, Mathias Wickleder is above all a preparative chemist who, through creative ideas, has created access to compounds whose existence would have been considered impossible years ago. Anyone who has heard one of his lectures can confirm his special ability to communicate these results to an interested scientific and non-scientific audience."

The Rudolf-Hoppe Lectureship was awarded for the first time at the Division conference in Innsbruck. The newly created named lecture is intended to emphasise the importance of inorganic solid-state chemistry as an important foundation of any material development. The award winner is Professor Tom Nilges (TU Munich).

"Mr Nilges' work is characterised by a broad chemical spectrum and makes substantial contributions to various areas of solid-state and materials chemistry. His investigations into the allotropes of phosphorus are already part of recent textbooks on inorganic chemistry and his findingson the chemical modifiability of thermoelectric materials have attracted considerable international attention. Mr Nilges' enthusiasm for his research is palpable in his lively lectures, so the Divisions is convinced that it has chosen a worthy winner to convey the great importance of solid-state and materials chemistry."