With this award, the KONA Award Committee recognises Prof. Arno Kwade’s pioneering contributions to the fundamental understanding of particle stress and his leading role in applying particle technology to groundbreaking applications, particularly in the fields of battery process engineering and recycling, as well as pharmaceutical process engineering.
In front of an audience of hundreds of researchers, Yoshio Hosokawa, President of the Hosokawa Powder Technology Foundation, presented the award. Subsequently, in his award lecture “Comminution, mixing and compaction of particulate materials: Important process-structure-property functions for the production of battery electrodes and solid drug products”, he gave the audience an insight into his work on fundamental stress models and process-structure and structure-property models for describing and predicting the manufacture of pharmaceutical nanosuspensions, their processing into tablets, and the production of battery electrodes.
Prof. Kwade was accompanied by over 20 other members of the Institute of Particle Technology, including Prof. Carsten Schilde, who, in the closing plenary lecture at the World Congress for Particle Technology, highlighted the use of modern simulation methods for modelling particle-based processes and products.
In addition, Finn Frankenberg and Victor Oldhues from the Institute of Particle Technology each received the award for the best presentation in their respective fields.
Text: János Krüger