Materials RIG

Modern materials chemistry is wide ranging topic and includes surfaces, interfaces, polymers, nanoparticles and nanoporous materials, self assembly, and biomaterials, with applications relevant to: oil recovery and separation, catalysis, photovoltaics, fuel cells and batteries, crystallization and pharmaceutical formulation, gas sorption, energy, functional materials, biocompatible materials, computer memory, and sensors.

Our common themes are:

1. Energy Production, Storage and Conversion

• Synthesis and characterisation of rechargeable batteries,
supercapacitors and fuel cells (Grey)

• Synthesis and assembly of bioinspired photocatalytic nanomaterials (Reisner)

• Metal Organic Frameworks for gas sorption and purification (Wood, Lloyd)

• Electrochemistry - Charge transport at interfaces (Grey, Reisner, Sprik)

• Colloidal properties and interfaces (Clarke S, Frenkel)

2. Surfaces, Crystals and Catalysis

• Surface properties, catalysis and characterisation methods (Clarke S, Jenkins, Jefferson)

• New molecular materials, nanoparticles and solid-state precursors (Lloyd, Wood, Wright, Wheatley)

• Molecular Cages (Nitschke),

• Crystal engineering and pharmaceutical materials (Day, Jones)

• Theory of materials properties and design (Alavi, Day, Sprik, Wales)

3. Biomaterials

• Structure and chemistry of biological and bioinspired materials (Duer)

• Metalloenzymes in technology (Reisner)

• Nanoparticles and drug delivery (Scherman)

4. Sensors and Transducers

• New non-volatile computer-memory materials (Elliot)

• Cantilever sensors (Elliot)

• Protein Film Voltammetry (Reisner)

5. Self-assembling Functional Materials

• Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry (Sanders, Nitschke)

• Supramolecular assembly and polymers (Bampos, Lloyd, Nitschke, Scherman, Wales, Wood)