We have an expanding team of researchers at the forefront of their fields, and an extensive array of new instrumentation and equipment to support our research activities, which have direct applications across the chemical industry and a variety of sectors.
Access Facilities
Our cTAP £11.3 million technology facility enables businesses to access a suite of cutting-edge instrumentation and facilities worth almost £7 million. All our facilities are supported by teams of experienced technicians. Access a huge range of equipment, laboratories space via a variety of agreements, from one off usages to exclusive hire.
Magnetic Resonance Suite
- Solution State
- Solid State
- Software
Mass Spectrometry and Separations
Microscopy and nanofabrication
Optical Spectroscopy
X-ray
Access Expertise
- Analytical chemistry and spectroscopy
- Chemical biology and soft-matter
- Chemical engineering
- Chemical theory and chemical computation
- Condensed matter
- Energy materials, catalysis and sustainable chemistry
- Environmental chemistry
- Nuclear chemistry
- Supramolecular and structural chemistry
- Synthetic chemistry
Benefits of Collaboration
- Access unique knowledge and technologies
- Work with us to develop new products and processes
- Tap into our global network
- Access a range of options for engaging student resources
Working in Partnership
We liaise with all areas of the chemical industry, ranging from multinational oil, chemical and pharmaceutical companies, to a host of smaller enterprises producing new and specialised products. We have relationships with:
- Chemistry Innovation Knowledge Transfer Network
- Nuclear Research Institute
- The Lloyd's Register Educational Trust
- DEFRA
- UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.
Forming Partnerships
Organisations can access our expertise through five types of collaborative partnership:
- Collaborative research
- Commercialisation of intellectual property
- Professional training
- Student engagement
- Facilities for research and development
Partnership Examples
- Viability and proof of concept of a new, safe, high-yielding and practical methodology for the synthesis of drug-like molecules for a global pharmaceutical company, which could be used in drug discovery and development processes, reducing environmental impact
- Collaboration with a water quality business to develop a new, sensitive low cost sensor capable of measuring solids in liquids to improve water quality and efficiency of water treatment
- Proof of concept assessment of experimental methods of high efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells for a large international corporation
- The manufacture of a novel film with superior physical properties over current commercial films for the horticultural crop plastic cladding market
- Harnessing the advantages of additive manufacturing '3D printing' technologies to trial different materials and create highly complex medical fluidic devices that are simpler, quicker and cheaper to manufacture