26 August 2014 Chemical synthesis, the production and manipulation of more complex and valuable molecules from simple reactants, is in essence the primary driver of Chemistry as a STEM subject. The more valuable molecules may be targets for advanced materials, for imaging and contrast agents or drugs in medicine, for…
1 September 2014 Prof. Damien Murphy has received a Wolfson Research Merit Award from the Royal Society to support a five year project in Pressurised pathways for free radical detection using Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectroscopy (2014-2019). The award will enable Prof. Murphy to develop and exploit the pressure-jump EPR…
15 July 2014 The Cardiff Catalysis Institute (CCI) team from the School of Chemistry spent the first week in July staging an exhibit for the Royal Society’s summer science exhibition. This is a prestigious event, and competition to exhibit is fierce. The show lasts 7 days, and welcomed over 15,000…