Projects (17)

Catalyst Cascade Reactions in ‘One-Flow’ within a Compartmentalized, Green-Solvent ‘Digital Synthesis Machinery’ – End-to-End Green Process Design for Pharmaceuticals Jan 1, 2017 - Jun 30, 2021
ONE-FLOW translates ‘vertical hierarchy’ of chemical multistep synthesis with its complex machinery into self-organising ‘horizontal hierarchy’ of a compartmentalized flow reactor system – a biomimetic digital flow cascade machinery with just one rea... Read More about Catalyst Cascade Reactions in ‘One-Flow’ within a Compartmentalized, Green-Solvent ‘Digital Synthesis Machinery’ – End-to-End Green Process Design for Pharmaceuticals.

Photo-activated surface coatings to combat bacterial contamination Oct 1, 2019 - May 31, 2023
Antimicrobial materials have received much interest recently. The efficient inactivation of pathogenic bacteria on surfaces is one of the major challenges in the management of infection. Our project seeks to develop a cost effective and versatile pol... Read More about Photo-activated surface coatings to combat bacterial contamination.

Novel Radiation Enhancing Compounds Jan 1, 2016 - Dec 31, 2025

Triggering the anti‐cancer immune response by combined radio‐ photodynamic‐ therapy of liver tumours Sep 1, 2014 - Dec 31, 2024
The majority of deaths from cancer are not caused by the primary tumour, but by secondary metastases. The liver ranks second only to the lymph nodes, as the most common site where metastatic tumours develop. Worldwide 700,000 people are diagnosed wit... Read More about Triggering the anti‐cancer immune response by combined radio‐ photodynamic‐ therapy of liver tumours.

Emulsions stabilised by soft particles Mar 1, 2015 - Aug 31, 2018

Crude Oil Pour Point Depressants – Screening And Design Of New Products Sep 28, 2015 - Mar 28, 2019

Luminescent C-Dots: Fabrication, Characterization And Application As Potential Photocatalyst And Fluorescent Sensor Feb 28, 2018 - Mar 31, 2019
Wastewater streams are a serious environmental concern because of the risks of discharging poorly treated effluents directly into the environment by posing a pollution threat to all receiving water bodies, groundwater pollution, soil contamination an... Read More about Luminescent C-Dots: Fabrication, Characterization And Application As Potential Photocatalyst And Fluorescent Sensor.

Anion-Deficient Solids for CO2 Capture – Towards New Materials Jun 4, 2018 - Jul 27, 2018
This project is closely linked to Jon’s two career goals (completing research in materials and in green chemistry) as would be gaining experience in creating and characterising new materials. As well as using CO2 in their synthesis, as materials that... Read More about Anion-Deficient Solids for CO2 Capture – Towards New Materials.

Pollutants and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - understanding gas-gas and gas-solid interactions towards a cleaner atmosphere ATMOS Dec 1, 2021 - Jan 31, 2026
ATMOS denotes a consortium of eleven scientific institutions, six beneficiaries and five partners which main objective is to establish a collaborative effort for the study of scientific problems related to the atmosphere pollution elements, with an e... Read More about Pollutants and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - understanding gas-gas and gas-solid interactions towards a cleaner atmosphere ATMOS.

New strategies to synthesise chiral alcohols with transition metal complexes Mar 31, 2020 - Mar 30, 2022

A “Shake and Use” Theranostic System for Combined Radio-imaging and Photodynamic Therapy Apr 1, 2021 - Aug 31, 2024

Henry Royce Institute Study Aug 1, 2020 - Jul 31, 2026

THYME Producing sustainable fine chemicals and fuels from photo-cracking plastic waste via grafted UV/Vis active nanoparticles Jul 1, 2021 - Apr 30, 2022

Bluegen - Utilisation of biorefinery residues for blue hydrogen production Jun 1, 2022 - May 31, 2023

Towards the use of CO2 and heat from steel industry emissions to prepare new materials Jan 1, 2023 - Dec 31, 2023
Here we propose to utilise the emitted CO2 and waste heat from steel industry as main resources to prepare new materials. The vision behind this proof of concept is that CO2 within gas emissions from steel industry will be used as a reagent and the h... Read More about Towards the use of CO2 and heat from steel industry emissions to prepare new materials.

EC Horizon 2020 MSCA Evaluation Oct 1, 2022 - Sep 30, 2023

Royal Society of Chemistry Undergraduate Research Bursaries Jun 1, 2023 - Aug 31, 2023
This project is linked to an EPSRC funded Feasibility Project (FP), which aims at providing a tool for the simultaneous utilisation of CO2 emissions and heat waste from the steel industry, towards the preparation of advanced materials. The FP focuses... Read More about Royal Society of Chemistry Undergraduate Research Bursaries.