Solar-powered reactor turns plastic and greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels
(Left to right) Erwin Reisner, Subhajit Bhattacharjee, Motiar Rahaman. Taken by Carolina Pulignani.
The Reisner group has developed a solar-powered reactor that converts two distinct waste products; greenhouse gases and plastics, into useful products at the same time.
Join us in person at St Catharine's College, or via a live stream link on YouTube, to hear Dr Peter Wothers discuss how Jane Marcet defied the prejudices of her time and published a book about chemistry for women.
PhD student Alice Merryweather is a member of the Faraday battery project team
A new, low-cost technique for measuring energy storage inside operating batteries should speed up the development of next-generation battery materials.
Learning to use AI to help solve Alzheimer's disease
PhD student Ryan Geiser was inspired to research Alzheimer's disease
Just weeks before losing his grandfather to Alzheimer’s, Ryan Geiser took a genetic test that showed he had a slightly increased risk of developing the same debilitating disease.
Artificial leaf array recognised in solar fuel competition
The Cambridge team and their artificial leaf array
A team of University of Cambridge researchers have reached the final of the EU "Fuel from the Sun" competition with their artificial leaf array which converts sunlight to solar fuel.
Professor Silvia Vignolini, courtesy @ChemistryPhotography
Professor of Chemistry and Bio-materials Silvia Vignolini has been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies worth £2.5 million.
The prize winners take the stage at the Symposium, courtesy Philip Murray
Two postgraduates in the Gaunt group were recognised for their outstanding research posters at the Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Science Symposium in November.
From left: Matt Greenig, Srijit Seal, Elsa Lawrence, Adham El-Shazly and Chaitanya K Joshi
Two students from our Department, with colleagues in Computer Science, Philosophy and Pharmacology, have been awarded a grant to investigate the application of artificial intelligence in biological discovery.