When: 22 – 24 July 2024Where: Cardiff, Wales, UK This Cell Symposia will bring together a diverse range of stakeholders from across the science, engineering, business, and policy sectors with a view to facilitate cross-disciplinary dialogue and identify key actions to take now as well as the future research and…
When: 24 – 26 July 2024Where: London The 7th Energy Materials workshop of the Thomas Young Centre will take place in London from July 24-26, 2024. It will focus on the journey from data to discovery of new energy materials and will bring together the theoretical and experimental communities to discuss…
Three PhD studentships are available in the Rosseinsky Group, University of Liverpool, as part of a Prosperity Partnership grant between the Universities of Liverpool and Oxford, and Unilever, investigating new catalysts for sustainable consumer products. For more information and to apply visit: Metal-organic framework derived multi-metallic catalysts and catalytic functionalisation…
The development of a prototype for the UKCH catalysis data infrastructure (CDI) presents a dashboard listing of publications, datasets, and authors data. The data is presented as indicators that demonstrate the impact of the UKCH, providing insight into the number and types of publications, author statistics, institutional collaborations, and research…
This talk will provide short vignettes across my career, which began in academic heterogeneous catalysis research, moved though pharmaceutical process R&D, and back into academia, exploring homogeneous catalysis in the origin of biological homochirality. Research across chemistry and chemical engineering positions in three different countries led me from autocatalysis (automotive)…
Empirical potential structure refinement (EPSR) has been used to simulate and probe mixtures of benzene and cyclohexane when confined in the pores of MCM-41. This study has been enabled by the development of an innovative combined NMR and total neutron scattering system. This technique allows for time resolved chemical compositions that…
The intrinsic ability of zeolite H-ZSM-5 to convert methanol into hydrocarbons (MTH) promises a substantial impact on the petro-chemical industry due to its ability to provide better/renewable alternatives to the conventional fossil fuel based gasoline or polymer grade olefin processes [1,2]. It has triggered extensive research to understand the underlying…
John is a Professor of Structural Biology focused on the global challenge of plastic pollution and leads a team of scientists researching natural enzyme discovery and engineering. Their work revealed the detailed workings of an enzyme that can digest polyethylene terephthalate (PET), and more recently, demonstrated that engineering these enzymes…
The “MAX”-phase of over 100 ternary carbides/nitrides was first identified in the 1960s.[1] The nomenclature is an abbreviation of the general formula of these 2D material ‘Mn+1AXn’, whereby M denotes a transition metal and A/X represent an A group element and carbon/nitrogen respectively.[2] They also display a very novel combination of properties…
Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in computational protein design, to either design new enzymes completely de novo or to redesign existing enzymes towards novel catalytic properties. The Kemp elimination reaction has been a particularly popular model system for both experimental and computational design studies, despite inherent challenges…
