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RESEARCH PORTFOLIO Benjamin Buckley Effec Tech Ltd £40,000 Improvements in the measured of gaseous fuels for energy and carbon dioxide emission determination With Upul Wijayantha Kahagala Gamage EngD DTCEPSRC £84,504 Improvements in the measured of gaseous fuels for energy and carbon dioxide emission determination Colin Creaser BBSRC £74,410 Novel Methods for the Direct Analysis of Untreated Biological Samples using Hyphenated Ion Mobility/Mass Spectrometry with Ambient Ionization Owlstone Limited £54,000 ALOA: Interfacing Ultra High Field Asymmetric Ion Mobility Spectrometry with Mass Spectrometry EPSRC £69,121 Application of Desorption Electrospray Ionisation Mass Spectrometry and Ion Mobility Spectrometry to Surface Analysis Castrol UK Ltd £54,000 EPSRC CASE Studentship Astra Zeneca UK Ltd £15,600 BBSRC & Astra Case Studentship With Jim Reynolds Owlstone Limited £60,000 The development and application of chip-based FAIMS combined with mass spectrometry Other – Agilent Technologies £7,317 Chip-based FAIMS combined with mass spectrometry Steven Christie EPSRC £13,590 Building online sampling analysis into flow reactors - Proof of Concept Nuclear Decommissioning Agency £85,000 Superplasticisers Tailored for Applications in Nuclear Decommissioning and Storage EPSRC £150,000 Towards bio-hybrid prosthetics With Paul Thomas Cynar Ltd £259,000 Pyrolysis of Plastic to Diesel Sandra Dann EPSRC £9,871 Hydrogen in Important and Functional Minerals With David Read National Nuclear Laboratory Ltd £79,419 Surface-modified minerals for radiochemical application With Upul Wijayantha Kahagala Gamage Intelligent Energy Limited £30,000 Investigation of the Degradation Processes Affecting the Longevity of MEAs in Hydrogen Fuel Cells Nicholas Evans NERC £318,354 BIogeochemical Gradients and RADionuclide Transport - BIGRAD The European Commission £122,131 SKIN EPSRC £110,530 Atomic & Macro-scale studies of surface processes: Towards a mechanistic understanding of surface reactivity & radionuclide mechanisms (AMASS) NERC £406,065 Long -lived Radionuclides in the Surface Environment (LO-RISE) EU Commission £106,532 CINCH-II Cooperation in education and training in Nuclear Chemistry With Noreen Thomas Amec Nuclear Ltd £45,000 The impact of Aqueous Phase Degradation Products from PVC Additives on Radioactive Waste Management EPSRC via University of Leeds £350,975 Decommissioning, Immobilisation and Storage soluTions for NuClear wasTe InVEntories (DISTINCTIVE) Stephen Fletcher Schlumberger Oilfield UK Plc £73,423 High Performance Polymer Electrolyte Cells Raymond Jones Eli Lilly and Company Ltd £40,000 Cyclic Tricarbonyls: Routes to the Coleophones and Analogues British Council Division £12, 187 Application of B-ketodithioesters and S, S-/N, S-/N, N-acetals in organic sythesis: One-pot multicomponent reactions Paul Kelly DSTL £162,523 Caroline Kirk With Roger Mortimer, Professor Fred Mosselmans and Dr Burkhard Kaulich (Diamond Light Source Limited) STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council £67,499 Development of thin film Ni(OH)2 electrochromic materials using in situ microfocus XANES, EXAFS and XRD techniques NERC though University of Southampton £11,612 Natural enrichments in E-tech elements: Co, In, Te, Li, REE (NEETE) 3 With Paul Kelly, Martin Smith and Gianfranco Claudio NERC £5,239 Process governing semi-metal - PGE linkage in crustal magmatic systems: opportunities for discovery and recovery With Materials Knowledge Transfer Network Ind CASE studentship £9,909 Fireside Corrosion in Co-Fired Supercritical Boilers Roger Mortimer With Gary Critchlow, and Dr Geoff Wilcox (Department of Materials) EPSRC/TSB/ Highly Innovative Technology Enablers for Aerospace (HITEA) £169,355 REACH Compliant Hexavalent Chrome Replacement for Corrosion Protection Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Global Challenge studentship Mark Platt The European Commission £83,287 Nano4Bio Izon Science Ltd £38,000 Resistive Pulse Sensing for the Detection of Viruses Gareth Pritchard Novartis Horsham Research Centre £103,838 Novel Approaches to 1,1-Diaryl Cyclopropanes from Readily Available Carbonyl Compounds David Read Nuclear Decommissioning Auth £473,632 Experiments to Demonstrate Chemical Containment in the Near-Field of a Nuclear Waste Repository Aurora HP Services Ltd £79,029 Characterisation of Radioactive Scales Produced by the Onshore Oil and Gas industry Tata Steel R & D £35,000 Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) in the Iron and Steel Industry NSG Environmental Ltd £188,683 Solubility Studies in presence of Bespoke Superplasticisers NPL Management Ltd £64467 Development of rapid radiochemical separation techniques for on-site characterisation of environmental samples Barry Sharp With Helen Reid NERC £67,757 Improving the utility of LA-ICP-MS for isotope ratio environmental science With Helen Reid The European Commission £200,241 BIOMAP With Helen Reid EURAMET European Metrology Research Programme £121,464 EURAMET European Metrology Research Programme 4 With Helen Reid The European Commission £132,559 The ONE Study With Helen Reid Technology Strategy Board, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships £96,619 Development of quantitative elemental imaging of tissue sections for the study of common age related diseases With Helen Reid LGC Limited £48,310 Development of quantitative elemental imaging of tissue sections for the study of common age related diseases With Helen Reid Higher Education Innovation Fund £85,814 Develop new MS interface technology HLTO5 £114,856 EPSRC £10,030 Molecular Modelling Paul Thomas The European Commission £439,030 Second-Generation Locator for Urban Search and Rescue (SGL for USaR) EPSRC £33,805 DTA 2010/14 John Hogg Technical Solutions Ltd £90,838 Smart Scent EPSRC £26,439 DTA 2011/2015 EPSRC £62,500 DTG 2013 CASE AWARD CHEMISTRY George Weaver With Gareth Pritchard Astra Zeneca UK Ltd £25,500 New Routes to Functionalised Quinolizinones and Diaza-Naphthalenes David Worrall Laser Optical Engineering Limited £26,010 Explosives and Substances of Abuse Cargo Screening using Multidimensional Laser Induced Fluorescence Lubrizol Limited £75,000 Evaluating the role of singlet oxygen in engine oil oxidation With George Weaver British Polythene Industries PLC £29,000 Synthesis and Stabilisation of Novel UV absorbers Upul Wijayantha Kahagala Gamage MAIN CORE EPSRC £124,347 SUPERGEN Excitonic Solar Cell Consortium – 5 Johnson Matthey PLC £26,250 Microwave-Assisted Processing of Materials Tata Steel UK Ltd £33,000 Development of Steel Substrates using Surface Integrated Carbon Nano-Structures for Supercapacitors THE BRITISH COUNCIL £22,500 Development & testing of a highly efficient proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyser for 'renewable electrolysis' EPSRC £473,020 Sustainable manufacturing of transparent conducting oxide (TCO) inks and thin films EPSRC £2,636 Broadening integration of printed power sources with electronic systems: Rechargeable printed power sources 6 RECENT MULTI-DISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIONS. BRB Plasma for Chemistry applications Dr Felipe Iza School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering, Loughborough University Dr Gilbert Sharma Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University Correspondence currently under consideration in Nature Chemistry Heterogenous Catalysis Dr Sandie Dann Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University Prof. Harry Heaney Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University Professor Lei Zhu Department of Chemistry, Florida State University Professor Basu Saha Department of Applied Sciences London Southbank University Alkynylcopper(I) polymers and their use in a mechanistic study of alkyne–azide click reactions B R Buckley, S E Dann, D P Harris, H Heaney, E C Stubbs Chem. Commun. 46, (2010), 2274-2276. Experimental Evidence for the Involvement of Dinuclear Alkynylcopper(I) Complexes in Alkyne- Azide Click Chemistry B R Buckley, S E Dann, H Heaney Chem. Eur. J. 16, (2010), 6278-6284. Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions “On Water” Using Stable Polymeric Alkynylcopper(I) Pre- Catalysts: Alkyne-Azide Cycloaddition B R Buckley, S E Dann, H Heaney, E C Stubbs Eur. J. Org. Chem. (2011), 770-776. Copper(I) Ladderane Complexes and Their Use in Organic Synthesis B R Buckley, The 17th European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (ESOC 2011) Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, from the 10th–15th July, 2011 Mannich Reactions of Alkynes: Mechanistic Insights and the Role of Alkynylcopper(I) Compounds in the Catalytic Cycle B R Buckley, A N Khan, H Heaney Chem. Eur. J. 18, (2012), 3855-3858. SDRC 3D printing of biodegradable materials for medical implants Ricky Wildman, School of Engineering, University of Nottingham Chris Tuck, School of Engineering, University of Nottingham Ruth Goodridge, School of Engineering, University of Nottingham Medical stents Ruth Goodridge, School of Engineering, University of Nottingham Chemical Flow Reactors: Ruth Goodridge, School of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Russ Harris Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Steve Edmondson, Dept of Materials Andy Wright, Andy Wright Ltd, Loughborough Waste Plastic to Diesel: Cynar plc CSC Asthma metabolomics Dr. Dominick Shaw, Nottingham City Hospital 7 MRJE Synthesis conducted at UEA/Hull with Redshaw and at Saga (Japan) with Yamato. Structures determined at Loughborough; sometimes with data collected at the ALS (Dr. Simon Teat is station scientist there). Synthetic and structural studies on transition metal and main group calixarenes, cycles and clusters. Applications in catalysis, hydrogen and CO2 absorption/desorption,