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Professor Ian Murison Smith, FRS

Image courtesy Department of Chemistry Photography

Nov 10 2016

Many Department of Chemistry alumni and former staff members will remember with great affection Ian Smith, who died on Tuesday 8 November.

Gift makes microfabrication laboratory a reality

Image of Tuomas Knowles courtesy Nathan Pitt Department of Chemistry

Nov 10 2016

Professor Tuomas Knowles has received a £250,000 gift from the Frances and Augustus Newman Foundation to set up and run a state-of-the-art microfabrication laboratory.

Algorithm for predicting protein pairings

Image of interacting proteins courtesy Dr Lucy Colwell

Nov 7 2016

Dr Lucy Colwell has helped develop an algorithm which models how proteins inside cells interact with each other, shedding light on how proteins work together and aiding our understanding of how living systems work.

Prospective graduates visit department for Open Day

Image courtesy Nathan Pitt, Department of Chemistry.

Nov 7 2016

The department opened its doors to approximately 100 prospective applicants at the Graduate Admissions Open Day on 21 October.

New class of antibody-drug bio-conjugates

Courtesy of Ella Marushchenko.

Oct 27 2016

A group of researchers led by Gonçalo Bernardes have developed a new site-selective method for the construction of complex protein/antibody conjugates.

Safe new storage method could be key to future of hydrogen-powered vehicles

Courtesy Department of Chemistry

Oct 24 2016

Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas and colleagues have discovered a potential safe hydrogen storage method that could pave the way for widespread adoption of hydrogen-fuelled cars.

Department to host Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium

Image courtesy RSC/shutter stock

Oct 20 2016

The Department of Chemistry will host the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 10^th Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium on 16 December.

HFC phase-out agreed at 28th Montreal Protocol meeting

2015 was the warmest year since modern record keeping began, image courtesy NASA (colours indicate temperature anomalies)

Oct 18 2016

197 nations agreed to drastically reduce their use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) at the 28^th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in October.

Better cure for the “Curse of Dimensionality”

The tennis ball team turn their attention to the Curse of Dimensionality

Oct 17 2016

Graduate student Stefano Martiniani and colleagues have developed an improved approach to solving the problem known as the “Curse of Dimensionality”.

Inaugural Chemistry Networks Event a Success

Graduate student Emma Durham explains her research at the posters session

Oct 17 2016

Over 20 companies and funding bodies attended the first ever Chemistry Networks event, held in the Department on 29 September.

Professor Ian Murison Smith, FRS

Gift makes microfabrication laboratory a reality

Algorithm for predicting protein pairings

Prospective graduates visit department for Open Day

New class of antibody-drug bio-conjugates

Safe new storage method could be key to future of hydrogen-powered vehicles

Department to host Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium

HFC phase-out agreed at 28th Montreal Protocol meeting

Better cure for the “Curse of Dimensionality”

Inaugural Chemistry Networks Event a Success

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