The project will involve exploring the chemistry of the fluorescent BODIPY molecule and its chemistry with sugars, focusing on mono- and disaccharides.

We are offering both computational and experimental projects in this field, focusing their research on (1) catalyst design and assembly, and (2) optimization and restoration of hydrogen carriers (related to organic synthesis).

The project will involve training in the use of highly reactive, air-sensitive reagents which require handling under strict anaerobic conditions. X-ray crystallography and multinuclear NMR spectroscopy are the common characterisation techniques that will be used on a daily basis.

The project will involve training in the use of highly reactive, air-sensitive reagents which require handling under strict anaerobic conditions, therefore training in strict air-sensitive chemistry will be given. X-ray crystallography and multinuclear NMR spectroscopy are the common characterization techniques that will be used on a daily basis.

The project will involve training in the use of highly reactive, air-sensitive reagents, which require handling under strict anaerobic conditions. Furthermore, training in X-ray crystallography, multinuclear NMR spectroscopy and EPR spectroscopy will be given.

This project will engineer new aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases to genetically encode un-natural amino acids with unusual chemical properties and apply them to produce valuable designer proteins for medicine, biotechnology and synthetic biology.

This projects will investigate materials chemistry of negative and positive electrodes that can enable such a high-speed, unusual operation of electrochemical energy storage cells.

This project will focus on the discovery of new electrode materials, exploration of the electrochemical mechanisms of their reactivity with potassium and optimization of the electrode behavior.

We aim to develop these as molecular machines, switching between forms to turn on or off their capacity to interact, sense, and/or catalytically transform target molecules.

We have projects in developing systems from them towards the following goals: 1. Photophysical applications: arranging photophysically active groups close in space for FRET, donor-acceptor, or upconversion events 2. Binding and transport of anions and more...

This project will magnetically label proteins for new electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) experiments to study a protein’s structure and dynamics at low concentrations and in-cell, and then compute informative models from the measured EPR distances.

BODIPY dyes are widely used as fluorescent tags for key sites in biomolecules. An alternative approach is to develop amine-functionalised BODIPYs which could be appended to peptides or proteins via a cysteine residue.

This project will involve the synthesis of new organic and organometallic switches and characterization of their accessible states using various techniques including UV/vis/NIR/IR spectroelectrochemistry.

The research includes the material synthesis, electron microscopy characterization and various diffraction and property measurement, with a potential to use national neutron/synchrotron facility.

This project will involve collaboration with partners within the Centre of Excellence in Peptide and Protein Science.