Research areas

The School currently conducts research in the following areas:

Advanced Materials and Nanoscience which includes: - complex fluids, nanoporous materials, nanotechnology, organic electronic materials, photovoltaics, polymers, quantum dots, solar cells, surface coating

Analytical and Environmental Chemistry which includes: - decomposition of pollutants, electrochemistry, flow injection analysis, green chemistry, membrane separation, trace element analysis

Biological and Medicinal Chemistry which includes: - biological macromolecules, biophysics, biotechnology, metalloenzymes and model complexes, molecular nutrition, pharmaceutical chemistry

Inorganic Chemistry which includes: - bioinorganic chemistry, catalysis, coordination chemistry, inorganic materials, metal ion dynamics, organometallic chemistry, transition metal chemistry

Molecular Design and Synthesis which includes: - catalyst design, computational chemistry, free radical chemistry, ligands and metal complexes, macromolecules, supramolecular chemistry, templates

Organic Chemistry which includes: -  bioorganic chemistry, carbohydrate and peptide chemistry, free radical chemistry, natural product synthesis, physical organic chemistry, structural organic chemistry

Physical Chemistry which includes: -photochemistry, sonochemistry, spectroscopy, surface science, theoretical and quantum chemistry

Spectroscopy and Molecular Characterisation which includes: - atomic force microscopy, fluorescence, mass spectrometry, NMR and EPR, optical microscopy, photochemistry, single particle and ultrafast spectroscopy, structural chemistry, X-ray and synchrotron research