Watch Now Early Career Researcher symposium – Lignins

When: 22 March 2023, 15:00 – 17:00 GMTWhere: Online The UK Catalysis Hub are hosting a series of seminars for Early Career Researchers on the use of catalysts (bio, hetero- and homo-geneous) towards sustainable solutions in the carbon economy. The next virtual seminar for Early Career Researchers will be on…

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Doctoral Fellowship opportunity – I4WORLD / MSCA COFUND

There is an opened call for Doctoral Researcher Fellowships (I4WORLD – MSCA COFUND) that involves our group in Oslo as well as our collaborators at the University of Oulu in Finland and MAX IV Laboratory in Sweden. This doctoral program is based at the University of Oulu and provides the candidates…

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Post-doctoral position at the ISIS Neutron & Muon Source

A 3-year post-doctoral position is available at the ISIS Neutron & Muon Source for research into materials for the Circular Economy.  This is part of the ReMade@ARI Horizon Europe project which brings together analytical research infrastructures across Europe. The position is a very good opportunity for the right person to experience research…

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The Designed Synthesis and Operando Study of Microporous Catalysts

Zeolites are essential catalysts in a range of important current processes, including petrochemical refining, automobile emissions reduction and fine chemicals synthesis, and much pioneering research was performed by JMT in understanding them. Their performance relates closely to their structure in a unique way, because active sites distributed throughout the catalyst…

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Watch Now – UK Catalysis Hub Winter Conference 2022

When: 29 & 30 November 2022Where: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Fermi Avenue, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX On the 29th & 30th of November 2022 the UK Catalysis Hub held its annual winter conference and networking meeting. The Conference took place at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire.  The conference began at…

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Complexity in Pd–Catalyzed Cross-Couplings: Uncovering Competing Catalytic Cycles Through High Throughput Experimentation and Rich Data Analysis of Reaction Outcomes

In this Webinar I will discuss the complexity associated with some Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions (e.g. in terms of Pd catalyst speciation and reaction outcomes).  I will then describe how we have used the Chemspeed ISYNTH platform, in tandem with other techniques and methods, to examine a complicated Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling involving the reaction…

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Automating Chemical HTE workflow and dataflow

This presentation will look at some of the challenges and progress made in automating Chemical HTE and associated flow of data between systems. Biography Simon gained his MChem in Chemistry from the University of York in 2002 and has spent the majority of his career in AstraZeneca’s Chemical Development department.…

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Flexible Automation: A New Approach to Meet Evolving Challenges

Automated executions of chemical synthesis and discovery has risen as a critical enabling technology. New tools combining advanced robotics with experiment planning by machine learning, known as self-driving labs, are now attainable. However, the optimal deployment of these technologies remains under development, requiring a recursive design-make-build cycle dedicated to tuning…

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Providing accurate chemical reactivity prediction with ML models

Numerous disciplines, such as image recognition and machine translation, have been revolutionized by using machine learning (ML) to leverage big data. In organic synthesis, providing accurate chemical reactivity prediction with ML models could assist chemists with reaction prediction, optimization, and mechanistic interrogation. This talk will cover the Doyle group’s efforts…

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