Chemistry
Chemical Biology
- Design and Synthesis of Molecular Probes
- Drug Delivery and Targeting
- Development of Polyamides as Tools and Therapeutic Agents
- Single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy of biological systems
- Raman microspectroscopy and optical tweezing in biology and aerosol research
- Applications of microfluidics in biology and medicine
- 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
- Polymerisation catalysis
- Organobimetallic transformations
- New inorganic materials
Spectroscopy, Dynamics and Atmospheric Chemistry
- Optical absorption spectroscopy measure trace gases in the atmospheric gases
- Cavity ringdown spectroscopy (CRDS)
- Air quality instrumentation, monitoring and modelling
- 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
- Laser Induced Fluorescence Spectroscopy
- Computational Chemistry
- Microwave Spectroscopy
- Infrared Spectroscopy
- Single Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Biological Systems
- Raman Microspectroscopy and Optical Tweezing in Biology and Aerosol Research
- Applications of Microfluidics in Biology and Medicine
- Jet-Cooled Spectroscopy of Biomolecules
- Helium Nanodroplets
- Physical Chemistry in Helium Nanodroplets
- Synthesis of Novel Nanoparticles and Nanowires
Sustainable Synthesis and Catalysis
- C-H Activation
- Luminescent Complexes
- Fluoride as a Ligand in Organometallic and Coordination Complexes
- Coordination Chemistry of Fluorinated Ligands
- Fluorous Approaches to Catalysis
- Polymerisation Catalysis
- Organobimetallic Transformations
- New Inorganic Materials
- Electrophilic Fluorination Using Hypervalent Iodine Reagents
- Fluorinated Reformatsky Reaction
- Fluorous Catalysis
- Synthetic methods
- Main group elements in synthesis
- C-H functionalisation