Core capability for Chemistry Research
Lead Research Organisation:
Imperial College London
Department Name: Chemistry
Abstract
The National Importance of a vibrant and successful university Chemistry research sector cannot be underestimated. The RSC's report on the Economic Benefits of Chemistry showed that the UK's upstream chemicals industry and downstream chemistry-using sectors contributed a combined total of £258 billion in added-value in 2007, equivalent to 21% of UK GDP, and supported over 6 million UK jobs. This output is underpinned by some of the world's most successful University Chemistry research, reflecting the fruits of many years of investment. On-going fundamental research is essential, not only to maintain a continuing flow of scientific and technological breakthroughs, but also to ensure that the UK maintains a highly skilled and innovative workforce; it is through these trained people that the UK will adopt and advance new ideas, successfully exploit new technologies, and develop new and better products and services. The ability to develop and exploit chemically-derived technology will fuel economic activity, and is a necessary condition for attracting inward investment to the UK. The RSC report also showed that the quality of UK chemists and the reputation for excellence of the UK's university chemical science base significantly influences companies in decisions to locate within the UK, or to retain a UK-based research presence.
Imperial College is an internationally leading centre for research, education and translation. It is the only UK higher education institution to focus exclusively on science, engineering, medicine and business. The College is renowned both for world-class fundamental research and for the translation of this research to benefit society and the economy; this combination was indeed defined as a core part of the College's mission at its foundation in 1907. Its research strengths reflect its focus on fundamental underpinning science and cover the breadth of engineering and the physical sciences. The College currently holds 270 research grants totalling over £285M that have been through the EPSRC's peer review process; these include 11 Programme Grants and 12 Platform Grants.
The equipment requested is to underpin the above activity.
Imperial College is an internationally leading centre for research, education and translation. It is the only UK higher education institution to focus exclusively on science, engineering, medicine and business. The College is renowned both for world-class fundamental research and for the translation of this research to benefit society and the economy; this combination was indeed defined as a core part of the College's mission at its foundation in 1907. Its research strengths reflect its focus on fundamental underpinning science and cover the breadth of engineering and the physical sciences. The College currently holds 270 research grants totalling over £285M that have been through the EPSRC's peer review process; these include 11 Programme Grants and 12 Platform Grants.
The equipment requested is to underpin the above activity.
Planned Impact
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Organisations
Publications
Campbell J
(2015)
Improving the permeance of hybrid polymer/metal-organic framework (MOF) membranes for organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN) - development of MOF thin films via interfacial synthesis
in Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Dimitrov SD
(2015)
Polaron pair mediated triplet generation in polymer/fullerene blends.
in Nature communications
Marinescu M
(2015)
Electrical control of Faraday rotation at a liquid-liquid interface.
in Faraday discussions
Barreiro E
(2015)
HBF4-Catalysed Nucleophilic Substitutions of Propargylic Alcohols.
in European journal of organic chemistry
McDonald C
(2015)
Membrane Stored Curvature Elastic Stress Modulates Recruitment of Maintenance Proteins PspA and Vipp1.
in mBio
Ja'afar F
(2015)
Surface Charge Measurement of SonoVue, Definity and Optison: A Comparison of Laser Doppler Electrophoresis and Micro-Electrophoresis.
in Ultrasound in medicine & biology
Barriga HM
(2015)
Buffer-induced swelling and vesicle budding in binary lipid mixtures of dioleoylphosphatidylcholine:dioleoylphosphatidylethanolamine and dioleoylphosphatidylcholine:lysophosphatidylcholine using small-angle X-ray scattering and ³¹P static NMR.
in Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Udemba A
(2015)
Design, synthesis and initial characterisation of a radiolabelled [(18)F]pyrimidoindolone probe for detecting activated caspase-3/7.
in Organic & biomolecular chemistry
Broncel M
(2015)
Multifunctional reagents for quantitative proteome-wide analysis of protein modification in human cells and dynamic profiling of protein lipidation during vertebrate development.
in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Cheng LJ
(2015)
Catalytic Nucleophilic Fluorination of Secondary and Tertiary Propargylic Electrophiles with a Copper-N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complex.
in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Wang X
(2015)
Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of Anatase and Rutile: The Impact of Morphology and Phase on Photocatalytic Activity
in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Anwar A
(2015)
Abstracts of the 23rd International Isotope Society (UK group) Symposium: synthesis and applications of labelled compounds 2014 IIS_UK_2014
in Journal of Labelled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals
Shoaee S
(2015)
A Comparison of Charge Separation Dynamics in Organic Blend Films Employing Fullerene and Perylene Diimide Electron Acceptors.
in The journal of physical chemistry letters
Crick C
(2015)
Advanced analysis of nanoparticle composites - a means toward increasing the efficiency of functional materials
in RSC Advances
Reynal A
(2015)
Unravelling the pH-dependence of a molecular photocatalytic system for hydrogen production
in Chemical Science
Yi N
(2015)
Carbon dioxide capture and utilization: using dinuclear catalysts to prepare polycarbonates.
in Faraday discussions
Wade J
(2015)
Operational electrochemical stability of thiophene-thiazole copolymers probed by resonant Raman spectroscopy.
in The Journal of chemical physics
Turek V
(2015)
Self-Assembled Spherical Supercluster Metamaterials from Nanoscale Building Blocks
in ACS Photonics
Clancy AJ
(2015)
A one-step route to solubilised, purified or functionalised single-walled carbon nanotubes.
in Journal of materials chemistry. A
Bull J
(2015)
2-Sulfinyl Oxetanes: Synthesis, Stability and Reactivity
in Synlett
Nguyen BN
(2015)
Electronic structures of cyclometalated palladium complexes in the higher oxidation states.
in Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)
Wheeler S
(2015)
Influence of Surface Recombination on Charge-Carrier Kinetics in Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells with Nickel Oxide Interlayers
in Physical Review Applied
Demetriadou A
(2015)
Principles of nanoparticle imaging using surface plasmons
in New Journal of Physics
Shoaee S
(2015)
Oxygen diffusion dynamics in organic semiconductor films
in Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Vacher M
(2015)
Electron dynamics upon ionization: control of the timescale through chemical substitution and effect of nuclear motion.
in The Journal of chemical physics
Daub CD
(2015)
Lithium ion-water clusters in strong electric fields: a quantum chemical study.
in The journal of physical chemistry. A
Zenzola M
(2015)
Synthesis of Sulfoximine Carbamates by Rhodium-Catalyzed Nitrene Transfer of Carbamates to Sulfoxides.
in The Journal of organic chemistry
Elani Y
(2015)
Measurements of the effect of membrane asymmetry on the mechanical properties of lipid bilayers.
in Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
Buyandelger B
(2015)
ZBTB17 (MIZ1) Is Important for the Cardiac Stress Response and a Novel Candidate Gene for Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure.
in Circulation. Cardiovascular genetics
Mohammad-Aghaie D
(2015)
Force-field dependence on the liquid-expanded to liquid-condensed transition in DPPC monolayers
in Molecular Simulation
Clough M
(2015)
Ionic liquids: not always innocent solvents for cellulose
in Green Chemistry
Cachelin P
(2016)
Optical Acetone Vapor Sensors Based on Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals and Reactive Chiral Dopants
in Advanced Optical Materials
Chen S
(2016)
Avoiding artefacts during electron microscopy of silver nanomaterials exposed to biological environments.
in Journal of microscopy
De La Calle Arregui C
(2016)
Optimised conditions for the synthesis of (17)O and (18)O labelled cholesterol.
in Chemistry and physics of lipids
Shivalingam A
(2016)
Trianguleniums as Optical Probes for G-Quadruplexes: A Photophysical, Electrochemical, and Computational Study.
in Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Govada L
(2016)
Exploring Carbon Nanomaterial Diversity for Nucleation of Protein Crystals.
in Scientific reports
Ding S
(2016)
In situ, high-resolution evidence for iron-coupled mobilization of phosphorus in sediments.
in Scientific reports
Bayazit MK
(2016)
Carbon nanotube anions for the preparation of gold nanoparticle-nanocarbon hybrids.
in Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
Gallina ME
(2016)
Aptamer-conjugated, fluorescent gold nanorods as potential cancer theradiagnostic agents.
in Materials science & engineering. C, Materials for biological applications
Dimitrov SD
(2016)
Singlet Exciton Lifetimes in Conjugated Polymer Films for Organic Solar Cells.
in Polymers
Ang DL
(2016)
Quadruplex DNA-Stabilising Dinuclear Platinum(II) Terpyridine Complexes with Flexible Linkers.
in Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Barriga HM
(2016)
The effect of hydrostatic pressure on model membrane domain composition and lateral compressibility.
in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
Freedman KJ
(2016)
Nanopore sensing at ultra-low concentrations using single-molecule dielectrophoretic trapping.
in Nature communications
Welton T
(2016)
Building an Inclusive Culture in the Chemistry Department at Imperial College.
in Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Cappel UB
(2016)
Evidence for photo-induced charge separation between dye molecules adsorbed to aluminium oxide surfaces.
in Scientific reports
Verrastro I
(2016)
Reversible oxidation of phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) alters its interactions with signaling and regulatory proteins.
in Free radical biology & medicine
MartÃnez-Ferraté O
(2016)
Novel iminopyridine derivatives: ligands for preparation of Fe(ii) and Cu(ii) dinuclear complexes.
in Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)
Kumar S
(2016)
Template-Stripped Multifunctional Wedge and Pyramid Arrays for Magnetic Nanofocusing and Optical Sensing.
in ACS applied materials & interfaces
Edel JB
(2016)
Fundamentals and applications of self-assembled plasmonic nanoparticles at interfaces.
in Chemical Society reviews
Description | Chemistry is the study and application of the science at the molecular scale. It provides some of the most basic understandings of how the world works and underpins many modern technologies. It provides both the most mundane of objects, such as the disposable cup that holds you coffee, and the most vital compounds, such as life-saving drugs. Chemistry relies on four core instrumental techniques to study molecules; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Mass Spectrometry, X-Ray Crystallography and molecular scale Microscopy. This grant gave the Chemistry Department at Imperial College the ability to update these facilities. These have enabled research in all areas of Chemistry, for example the building of artificial cells, the production of fuels from biomass to the development of new potential pharmaceuticals and diagnostic techniques. There are too many to list. |
Exploitation Route | There are many ways in which these results can be put to use in the wider world. |
Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Agriculture, Food and Drink,Chemicals,Energy,Environment,Healthcare,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology,Security and Diplomacy,Transport |
Description | Policy Briefing Document |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Author of policy briefing document: Using Carbon Dioxide |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Presentation to stakeholders |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Laura Barter was invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos to present her research investigating methods for increasing crop yields by promoting more efficient photosynthesis in the session on "Engineering Intelligent Food Systems". |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Radio Interview |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | BBC World Service's The Why Factor (8 February) on "Why is Water Exceptional?" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Radio Interview |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Andrew Ashley interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Inside Science explaining his group's recent discovery in N2 fixation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Schools activity |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Salters Festival of Chemistry: Annual Salters Festival. Y7 and Y8 many schools attend with their teachers to undertake two chemistry-based challenges |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Stakeholder meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Laura Barter, Rudiger Wolcholski and Sarah Al-Beidh organised a Creativity and Ideas generation event for the Sainsbury's farming scholars which was also attended by Sainsbury's horticulture manager, academics from Imperial, Natural History Museum and other UK institutions. Followed by attending the Annual Sainsbury's Farming Conference to highlight the success of the Sainsbury's Farming Scholars Programme - a recent collaboration between Imperial College, AGRI-net and Sainsbury's. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016 |
Description | UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum. Presentation on measuring sustainability |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation and discussion on sustainability metrics |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | World Economic Forum meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Prof David Klug introduced the "Hyperconnected Healthcare" panel at the World Economic Forum meeting in Dalian and participated as a panel member. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |