Environmental Chemistry RESEARCH

Combustion Chemistry Centre
The Combustion Chemistry Centre conducts research into how fuels burn. The centre has equipment for the study cf combustion, under quasi realistic conditions, which is only available in a small number of institutions. The centre is an active partner in the Environmental Change Institute.

Biomolecular Electronics
The Biomolecular Electronics Research Laboratory focuses on the preparation and characterisation of electron-transfer catalysts and modified electrode surfaces directed to eventual application as biomolecular electrochemical detection platforms and devices. The research laboratory is located in the Environmental Change Institute.

Green Chemistry
There has been a growing interest in the use of more environmentally friendly chemical synthetic procedures in recent years. Water is the most benign reaction solvent available and its use to promote organic reactions in mixed media as a reaction solvent in multi-phase systems has been developed with considerable success.

A method for making carbon–carbon bonds using green technology which avoids metal based catalysts has also been developed. As well as avoiding toxic reagents, approach has other environmental attractions: sunlight can be used to trigger the reaction and the photomediator can be attached to a solid support, which means it might be recycled.

Nitroxide-mediated living/controlled radical dispersion polymerizations in supercritical carbon dioxide that produce materials with controlled microstructure and particle morphology are being developed. Supercritical carbon dioxide has unique properties such as acting as a plasticizer allowing the polymer to be isolated as a powder, and circumventing the use of toxic and environmentally damaging volatile organic solvents

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