Research in Chemistry
Chemistry provides excellent opportunities for PhD and MSc research students that arise from working in modern well equipped and recently refurbished laboratories which have international recognition for excellence.
Analytical Chemistry
- New advanced analytical techniques
- Application of analytical techniques to forensic investigations
- Mechanism of bioremediation of soil contaminated with persistent organic pollutants
- Structure and analysis of wine flavour constituents
- Biochemistry and molecular biology of fungal contaminants in wines
- Biomimetic metal complexes for metalloenzyme active sites
- Biosynthesis of metal clusters in proteins
- Protein and enzyme electro-chemistry
- Supramolecular ‘host-guest’ reactions
- Cyclic peptide based nano-structures for controlled drug delivery
- Self assembling peptide-DNA conjugates for gene therapy
- Elucidation of protein proximity using fluorescence resonance energy transfer
- Peptide synthesis
- Self-assembling of peptide-DNA conjugates
- Polyrotaxane synthesis
- Detection and profiling of drug and explosive volatiles
- Drug analysis and mechanisms of decay
- New techniques for forensic analysis
- Environmental forensic investigations
- Kinetic and thermodynamic aspects of pendant donor macrocyclic ligand-metal ion interactions
- Metal ion-activated molecular recognition
- Inorganic chemistry relating to forensic analysis procedures
- Microcantilver array biosensor
- Development of an inter-ferometric nanoscale silicon biosensor
- Development of an electro-responsive transfection chip
- Investigation of dendrimer aggregates by means of atomic force microscopy
- Synthesis of a new polymer for protein separation
- Mass spectrometric DNA-chip; enhanced desorption/ionisation by DNA-binders
- Controlled macromolecular architectures
- Sol-gel chemistry
- Synthesis of nano-inorganic cages
- Structure-property relationships in polymers
- Crystal growth
- Nanostructures
- Multinuclear NMR studies of intramolecular electronic interactions
- Medicinal chemistry
- Synthetic and analytical chemistry of wine flavour
- Studies of molecular dynamics
- Collision-induced energy transfer measurements
- Collision-free vibrational energy transfer measurements
- Rate measurements for reactions involving radical species
- STM studies of biological molecules
- X-ray photoelectron studies of metals on semiconductors
- Electron momentum spectroscopy studies on van der Waals’ molecules and dusters
- Porphyrim chemistry - capsules, molecular switches, artificial photosynthesis
- Immobilisation of biomolecules on substrate surfaces
- Imported lipid-bilayer
