New macro-ligands for protein binding, and drug delivery
New macro-ligands for protein binding, and drug delivery
About the Project Proteins bind and recognise each other using large surface areas. This recognition process is vital for a variety of biological applications. Sensing and recognizing specific proteins is … Read More Read More
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Synthesis of Artificial blood
Synthesis of Artificial blood
About the Project Inspired by Nature, we have developed a number of porphyrin containing biomimetic macromolecules. These have included a porphyrin cored polymer capable of reversibly binding oxygen. As such, … Read More Read More
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Magnetic Nano-particles for the separation and purification of proteins
Magnetic Nano-particles for the separation and purification of proteins
About the Project When proteins are synthesised (using a natural or cell-based method), they are contaminated with hundreds of other proteins, nucleic acids and numerous other small molecules. At the … Read More Read More
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Dendrimers for Drug delivery
Dendrimers for Drug delivery
About the Project We have worked with a number of water soluble polymer systems capable of encapsulating and solubilising various hydrophobic drug moieties. Despite the formation of stable complexes, we … Read More Read More
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Developing conjugated photocatalytic polymer nanostructures for sustainable chemical organic synthesis
Developing conjugated photocatalytic polymer nanostructures for sustainable chemical organic synthesis
About the Project Light is a powerful and abundant energy source that can drive chemical reactions. Photocatalysts absorb photons and use this energy to accelerate chemical reactions more sustainably. Therefore, … Read More Read More
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Conjugated polymer photocatalytic polymer nanostructures
Conjugated polymer photocatalytic polymer nanostructures
About the Project Light is a powerful and abundant energy source that can drive chemical reactions. Photocatalysts absorb photons and use this energy to accelerate chemical reactions more sustainably. Therefore, … Read More Read More
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Synthesis of Shielded Molecular Radicals for Quantum Information Technologies
Synthesis of Shielded Molecular Radicals for Quantum Information Technologies
About the Project A PhD studentship is available in the group of Dr Iain Wright, University of Edinburgh; School of Chemistry, Dr Iain A. Wright | The University of Edinburgh … Read More Read More
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Molecular design for energy-efficient and high colour-purity light-emitting devices
Molecular design for energy-efficient and high colour-purity light-emitting devices
About the Project About 20% of the world’s electricity production is used for lighting and powering our displays, which account for 6% of the world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Organic … Read More Read More
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Sustianable plastics
Sustianable plastics
About the Project This Project aims to design and develop compostable plastics. The project will utilise new and sustainable feedstocks to build new plastics alternatives. The team has already created … Read More Read More
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Sustainable Photocatalytic and Light-Mediated Reactions for Organic Synthesis
Sustainable Photocatalytic and Light-Mediated Reactions for Organic Synthesis
About the Project Project Summary The Lee Group is recruiting a motivated PhD student to develop sustainable methodologies for photocatalytic and light-mediated reactions. In this project, we will develop photocatalytic … Read More Read More
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