Anthony Roy West FRSE, FRSC, FInstP, FIMMM (born 21 January 1947) is a British chemist and materials scientist, and Professor of Electroceramics and Solid State Chemistry at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield.
[1] West was educated at The Harvey Grammar School and then University College Swansea where he gained a Bachelor of Science in chemistry in 1968.
West's research has covered the synthesis of new oxide materials, crystal structure determination and structure-property relations with particular focus on ionic, electronic and mixed ionic-electronic conduction.
His research on these new materials has covered a broad range of conducting materials, including Li3VO4-Li4(Si,Ge)O4 solid solutions with high lithium ion conductivity at room temperature,[2] the Ca12Al14O33 oxide ion conductor[3] and much research on barium titanate, such as that on the La-doped BaTiO3 high permittivity dielectric.
[15] West was awarded the John B. Goodenough Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2013 for "his outstanding contributions to our understanding of structure-composition-property relationships in oxide-based materials, and their application in solid state devices, and for his preeminent role in promoting materials chemistry.