Articles tagged with 'chemistry' | University of Manchester

The Enzyme Discovery team won the Chemistry Biology Interface Horizon Prize: Rita and John Cornforth Award, while the Molecular Ratcheteers team won the Organic Chemistry Horizon Prize: Perkin Prize in Physical Organic Chemistry. ...

Led by scientists at The University of Manchester, a series of new stable, porous materials that capture and separate benzene have been developed. 

The University of Manchester is building an Industrial Hub for Sustainable Chemical Engineering with a £1m grant from the Wolfson Foundation.

MIB spin-out company, C3 BIOTECH, in collaboration with the Royal Air Force and the US Navy, have successfully flown a drone using synthetic kerosene.

Three scientists from The University of Manchester have been awarded with prestigious prizes by The Royal Society of Chemistry for their research. Professors Sarah Haigh, Jason Micklefield and Chris Hardacre have all been honoured and will each recei...

Chromition will design, prepare and test Luminspheres tracers specifically for use in Shell's reservoir environments.

Scientists from The University of Manchester have managed to successfully make a transuranium complex where the central metal, here neptunium, forms a multiple bond to just one other element.

The University of Manchester has received $500,000 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a low cost manufacturing route to Molnupiravir, a promising antiviral drug for the treatment of COVID-19, in order to widen access of the medicine ...

A £9 million project to develop new chemical processing technology that could save hundreds of millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions has begun at UK Universities including The University of Manchester. ...

Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad awarded to Dr Jingzhen Du, in recognition of his record of outstanding achievements.

He is recognised for his pioneering work in methods to control molecular-level dynamics.

New research published today details a breakthrough in the creation of evolved enzymes to support a renewable process to make one of the key building blocks of the chemical industry used in everything from beauty products to fuel. ...

Scientists from The University of Manchester have managed to successfully make actinide metals form molecular actinide-actinide bonds for the first time, opening up a new field of scientific study in materials research. ...

On Wednesday ,15 July Professor Nigel Scrutton, Director of the Future Biomanufacturing Research Hub and Professor of Enzymology and Biophysical Chemistry, will take part in an online conference to discuss how biotechnology can help the UK reach its ...

The Department of Chemistry collected a total of four awards.

Three individuals and four teams from The University of Manchester have won prestigious prizes from the Royal Society of Chemistry, celebrating the most exciting chemical science taking place today. ...

Four researchers; PDRAs Oksana Bilyk, Erik Hanko, and Kris Niño Valdehuesa, and PhD student Katherine Baker, from the Takano and Breitling research groups have won this year’s North West Biotech Initiative business idea competition. ...

Researchers at The University of Manchester have discovered a more efficient way to develop valuable chemicals needed for medicines by combining proteins and metals in the manufacturing process.

Professor Nigel Scrutton, who heads up the EPSRC-funded UK Future Biomanufacturing Research Hub and the BBSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre “SYNBIOCHEM”, has been appointed to the UKRI-BBSRC council for a term of three years. ...

The celebrations will recognise the hard work of FSE's Postgraduate Class of 2020.

Professor Daniele Leonori, Professor Artem Mishchenko and Dr David Mills are among the Laureates and Finalists of the prestigious awards.

Chemical engineers have successfully manipulated carbon nitride to use sunlight to synthesize fluorine-based molecules, which are key building blocks of pharmaceutical products in a breakthrough on the path to the ‘holy grail’ of zero waste industry ...

A group of chemists from Manchester have successfully tied a series of microscopic knots using individual molecules for the first time, ushering in the advent of a form of nano-scale weaving which could create a new generation of advanced materials. ...

The hard work of the Faculty's graduates has been recognised in a series of virtual celebrations.

In this video we answer the big questions asked by our undergraduate students regarding teaching, learning and the start of the new academic year.

The UK government recently announced new post-study work visas for international students.

Eleven scientists from The University of Manchester have been honoured with major awards from the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Professor Sarah Heath provides an update to postgraduate (research) offer-holders in the Faculty of Science and Engineering.

The 2020 Volunteer of the Year Awards celebrate local, national and international volunteering projects.

The University appears in Nature science journal's top three for institutional output in chemistry.