Projects

Below is the list of research topics of the Research School of Chemistry.

Projects	Group	Student intake
2D nano-to-atomic scale catalysts / Harnessing solar energy / Advanced 2D materials	Yin Group	Open to students
A Trojan horse to combat malaria / Anti-doping chemistry / Enzyme engineering / Exploring the ‘sulfatome’	McLeod Group	Open to students
Advanced Optical Spectroscopy / The mechanism of biological water splitting / Redox non-innocent first row transition metal complexes	Cox Group	Open to students
Allosteric inhibitors / Neobiochemistry / Engineering an insulin biosensor.	Jackson Group	Open to students
Artificial biomaterials / Development and 3D printing of functional materials	Connal Group	Open to students
Catalysts for chemical hydrogen / Electrochemical and photochemical activation / Designing cooperative transition metal catalysts	Colebatch Group	Open to students
Computer-aided drug design / Antimicrobial resistance / Membrane biophysics		Open to students
Domino Reactions / Step Economic Total Synthesis / Synthesising Designed Molecules	Sherburn Group	Open to students
Inhibitors of the SARS-CoV-2 / Therapeutics for dengue fever / Bicyclic peptides	Nitsche Group	Open to students
Investigation of photochemical mechanism of triazine-based photoinitiator / Development of materials from renewable resources for 3D printing / Development of functional additive for dental materials	Xiao Group	Open to students
Liquid organic hydrogen storage / Solar-powered catalysts / Multifunctional material / Chemistry, structure and property of high performance polar functional materials.	Liu Group	Open to students
Magnesium and Calcium Hydride Catalysis / Low Oxidation State Aluminium Complexes / Main Group Radicals	Hicks Group	Open to students
Materials for potassium-ion batteries / Materials chemistry of hybrid-energy storage / Visualising the behaviour of battery materials	Glushenkov Group	Open to students
Modular fluorescent tags / Lighting up sugars / New dyes for electron and energy transfer.	Brothers Group	Open to students
NMR spectroscopy/ Playing tag with proteins	Otting Group	Open to students
Non-Classical Pincer Ligands for Catalytic Applications / Unusual Carbyne Complexes / Chains of Carbon	Hill Group	Open to students
Non-equilibrium models of active suspensions / Mechanically Interlocked Molecules		Open to students
Oxytocin receptor (OTR) targets / Push-pull chromophores		Open to students
Protein Structure Analysis by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance / Making Better Proteins with Un-natural Amino Acids / Predicting Structure and Function of Proteins / Continuous Molecular Evolution.	Huber Group	Open to students
Spatiotemporal light control / Transition metal complex hybrid materials / Molecular switches / π-Delocalizable oligomers and dendrimers / Syntheses and reactivity of high-nuclearity clusters / Syntheses and reactivity of mixed-metal clusters.	Humphrey Group	Open to students
Spring-Loaded Electrophiles / Accessing Designer Peptides / Synthesis of Peptide Natural Products	Malins Group	Open to students
Stimuli-responsive foldameric molecules as sensors / Squaramide cages	Preston Group	Open to students
Supramolecular chemistry / Catenanes / Combining coordination bond and hydrogen bond-mediated self-assembly / Hydrogen bonded organic frameworks	White Group	Open to students
Synthesizing polymers / Development of electrochemical techniques in organic synthesis / Catalysing and controlling reactions with electric fields.		Open to students

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