Chemistry
Chemical Biology
- Spectroscopy and electrochemistry of proteins and enzymes
- Metalloenzymes involved in chemical energy conversion
- Biomimetic systems for small molecule activation
- Technique development for biophysics and structural biology
- Single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy of biological systems
- Raman microspectroscopy and optical tweezing in biology and aerosol research
- Applications of microfluidics in biology and medicine
- The design and synthesis of heterobifunctional molecules
- Targeted protein degradation
- The synthesis and application of chemical probes for structural studies of epigenetic protein complexes
- Targeting epigenetic proteins with small molecules for drug discovery
- Design, discovery and synthesis of bioactive small molecules
- Molecular glues to stabilise protein-protein interactions
- 14-3-3 proteins as drug targets
Dr Kogularamanan (Rama) Suntharalingam
- Design abd development of anticancer metallopharmaceuticals
- Cancer stem cells and other chemotherapy resistance tumour sub-populations
- Immunotherapeutic small molecules
- Nanoparticles to deliver therapeutics to their sites of actions
- Design, synthesis and biological testing of small molecule chemical tools and probes
- Development and application of small molecule quantification methods in biological samples
- Analysis of enzyme structures and activities
- Development of novel medicines
- Computational design of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIPs).
- Design and development of polymers for the separation and purification for drug targets and environmental pollutants
- Computational design, development and preparation of high-performance bespoke polymeric adsorbents for natural and synthetic compounds
- Development of signal molecule-sequestering polymers (SSPs) for the attenuation of quorum sensing
- Chloroplasts and their application in sensors and environmental monitoring
- Optimisation of the protocols for purification, separation and quantification of natural and synthetic compounds of interest
- Biomimetic molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs)
- Computational design and molecular modelling
- Bioanalytical chemistry - design of sensors and assays for clinical and environmental diagnostics
- Nanoparticles for diagnostics and therapeutic applications
Materials and Inferfaces
- Ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents
- Bioplastics
- Metal processing
- Mineral processing
- Dynamics of polymer films
- Electroanalytical chemistry
- Structural studies of electroactive films
- Forensic science
- Metal finishing from new ionic liquids
- Probe microscopy of electroactive services and thin film coatings
- Electronic and electroluminescent conducting polymers
Spectroscopy, Dynamics and Atmospheric Chemistry
- Optical absorption spectroscopy measure trace gases in the atmospheric gases
- Cavity ringdown spectroscopy (CRDS)
- Atmospheric Chemistry
- Earth Observation Science
- Breath Analysis / Medical Diagnostics
- Business Facing Activities
- Laser Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry of Molecules, Ions and Clusters in Helium Nanodroplets
- Growing Nanoparticles in Helium Nanodroplets: A Route to New Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
- Ultra-fast Motion of Molecules in Quantum Fluids
- Laser Spectroscopy of Clusters and Complexes in Supersonic Jets
- Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrometry and its Applications
- Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry of Molecules and Molecular Clusters in Superfluid Helium
- Synthesis of Novel Nanoparticles and Nanowires
- High-moment Magnetic Nanometerials for Imaging
- Novel Nanowires for Electrically Driven Nanowire Lasers
- Nanoparticles Embedded Plastics Materials
- Micro and Nano-Plastics in Living Organisms
Sustainable Synthesis and Catalysis
- Synthesis of multimetallic transition metal complexes
- Small molecule activation and catalysis
- Organometallic electrochemistry
- Group 2 and Rae Earth organometallic chemistry
- Lanthanide photocatalysis
- Small molecule activation
- Synthetic methods
- Main group element in sythesis
- C-H functionalisation
- Polymerisation catalysis
- Organobimetallic chemistry
- Hydrogenation/de-hydrogenation catalysis
- New fluorinating reagents
- Hypervalent iodine(III) chemistry
- New synthetic methodology towards fluorinated heterocycles