UCL DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
UCL Chemistry NEWSLETTER
Contents Welcome to the Newsletter
1. Introduction 2. Staff Highlights and News This is my last newsletter address. I am stepping down as Head of Department after six and a half years to take up the Dean of MAPS position. I would like to thank everyone in the 3. Student Highlights and News department, you all have really supported me as HOD and helped the department to grow in size and research impact. The new Head of Chemistry will be Professor Claire Carmalt, the 4. Alumni Matters seventeenth Head of Chemistry at UCL and the fi rst women to take on the role. I am sure 5. Research Highlights you will join with me in supporting Claire in the years to come. 6. Grants and Awards The undergraduate and postgraduate admission look very strong again this year and we expect over 140 new undergraduates to be studying chemistry. These students will benefi t 7. Publications from some major changes in the way that we will administer the laboratory courses. Katherine 8. Staff Holt, Head of Teaching Committee, has overseen major changes to how we deliver third year laboratories and we will have closer synergy in aspects of synthesis and analysis.
The department was successful in getting virtually all of our courses credited by the Royal Society of Chemistry. They were very impressed by how we deliver material and the depth and rigour of our courses. We have been given a few pointers for the future to make sure that analytical chemistry and practical elements of physical chemistry are given a bit more attention.
The department has continued its success in grant applications and has a portfolio of Introduction current grants in excess of £50M. It has the highest EPSRC grant portfolio of any Chemistry Department in the country. Amongst many successes this year I wanted to highlight Beppe Many thanks go to Nicola Best for Battaglia and Tracey Clarke who have both been awarded EPSRC Fellowships. organising this year’s newsletter and to Tracy Hankey at UCL Digital We have a new professorial appointment, Professor Graeme Worth, who joins us from the Media Services for her help. University of Birmingham to take up a Chair in Computational Physical Chemistry.
We hope this newsletter gives a The Christopher Ingold building has been showing its age. With the large amount of building flavour of the exciting chemistry and work that has been going on around the department we have had a number of windows family atmosphere achieved in the that have cracked and in some places fallen out. The college have been quick to respond department. It is not an exhaustive to this and we have a current window replacement project in place for every window in the document but can provide a number department. These will be double glazing units with energy control coatings and tints to help of contact points to the wide us to reduce our energy usage and help to reduce external sound. I was particularly pleased variety of activity that occurs in the that the windows will have a self-cleaning coating on the exterior surface; this is something department. I fi rst worked on in 1996 at UCL. So we should have no need for window cleaning in the future...
I wish you all a successful and healthy 2016-17
Yours sincerely
Professor Ivan Parkin
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NEW STARTERS a cornerstone of the quantum dynamics field. After 9 pedagogical research involved the introduction of tablets David Scanlon years in Heidelberg, Graham returned to the UK to work to first-year undergraduates and development of the lab Promoted to Reader in Professional Services appointment in the group of Prof. Mike Robb at King’s College London skills acquisition record. His efforts were recognised in Computational Materials and before moving to Birmingham. 2016, when students voted him “Teacher of the Year” at Michael Kelly the Queen Mary Student Union awards. Inorganic Chemistry Chemistry Senior Teaching & Learning Studies in the Worth group aim to describe what happens in the first few hundred femtoseconds after a molecule At UCL, aside from undergraduate teaching, Stephen’s “I am delighted to be promoted Undergraduate Administrator absorbs a photon. These are complicated processes role has a particular focus on e-learning methods for to Reader. It is the culmination of Michael has joined the department with competing pathways that are key to understanding enhancing the student (and staff) experience. He is nearly 10 years of work and career after a year working as the Senior photochemical behaviour. He works closely with laser looking forward to working with you all on any e-learning development, and recognises work carried out with a Programme Administrator for spectroscopists, whose time-resolved studies often need ideas you might have. myriad of excellent collaborators at UCL, Diamond Light Computer Science, King’s College theoretical support for an interpretation. He is looking Source, nationally and internationally, as well as with a London. Prior to his last post, Michael forward to working at UCL, in particular to strengthening host of dedicated and talented students. Moving forward has also held posts at SSEES-UCL and Warwick his existing collaboration with Helen Fielding and starting PROMOTIONS my group will continue to use the tools of Computational University, and has actively worked in academic Chemistry to design the next generation of materials for new work with his new colleagues. Please join us in congratulating the following people administration since graduating from the University of renewable energy applications.” on their promotions. The department is pleased to Wales, Aberystwyth in 2010. Stephen Potts say that we had a 100% success rate this year. Martinus Zwijnenburg Michael is the primary administrator for the department’s Chemistry Teaching Fellow undergraduate taught programmes and activities. Furo Cora Promoted to Reader in Any questions concerning undergraduate students Stephen joined the Department as a Promoted to Professor of Computational Chemistry and activities should be raised with Michael in the first Chemistry Teaching Fellow in June Computational Chemistry instance. 2016. He graduated from UCL with “I am delighted to be promoted to an MSci degree in Chemistry (2005) Reader, something that would not Academic appointment and stayed on to undertake a PhD have been possible without the hard sponsored by a CASE award from Epichem Ltd. under work of my group and our excellent Graham Worth the supervision of Prof. Claire Carmalt. During this time, collaborators in and outside UCL. Moving forward, we Lecturer he designed and synthesised a variety of novel imido-, will continue our efforts on modelling the electronic cyclopentadienyl- and guanidinate-based precursors Stefan Howorka properties of complex organic and nanostructured Graham joined the department as for chemical vapour deposition (CVD) and atomic layer Promoted to Professor of materials and use this, together with our experimental Professor of Computational Chemistry collaborators, as input for developing new materials for deposition (ALD) processes to tungsten and zirconium Biological Chemistry in July 2016 and has appreciated the carbonitride films. application such as photocatalysis, photoconductors and warm welcome he has received. His sensors. “Being Professor raises my profile previous post was at the University of In 2008, Stephen moved to the Netherlands to take a and helps me attract good candidates Birmingham where he had been since 2005, starting as postdoctoral position at the Eindhoven University of for PhD and PDRA positions.” Alekseys Sokols Technology in the Plasma & Materials Processing group, a University Research Fellow before becoming a Senior Promoted to Principal Lecturer and then Professor in 2013. His degree was in led by Prof. Erwin Kessels. He focused on the testing of Research Associate chemistry at the University of Oxford, where he stayed to new metalorganic precursors to oxide, nitride and metallic Ben Slater do a DPhil with Graham Richards calculating equilibrium films and the development of low-temperature (<150 “Good news. I will be carrying on constants for molecules in the condensed phase. This °C) ALD processes suitable for temperature-sensitive Promoted to Professor of projects with the focus on development lead to postdoctoral work at the European Molecular substrates and corrosion protection. During his time in Computational Chemistry and application of hybrid QM/MM Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg with Rebecca Wade. Eindhoven, he was the winner of the Electrochemical methodologies in the fields of catalytic While at the EMBL he realised that his real interests Society’s Norman Hackerman Young Author of the Year and energy materials, complemented by further work on lay in more fundamental studies and he obtained a Award (2010) for his article “Low Temperature Plasma- new types of interatomic potentials.” Human Capital and Mobility Fellowship (the fore-runner Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition of Metal Oxide Thin of the Marie-Curie scheme) to work at the University Films” (S. E. Potts et al., J. Electrochem. Soc., 2010, of Heidelberg in the group of Lenz Cederbaum on the 157, P66). development of quantum dynamics simulations to study Christoph Salzmann molecular reactivity. In 2013, Stephen returned to the UK to focus on Promoted to Reader in Physical teaching matters as a Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry This development remains at the heart of his work, in (Teaching & Scholarship) at Queen Mary University of particular developing efficient algorithms for the direct London. He was responsible for teaching undergraduate “I was absolutely delighted to hear the solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation chemistry courses from foundation up to third year level, news about my promotion. It certainly for nuclear motion, and applying this to studying photo- with a particular focus on transition metal coordination gives additional momentum to push excited systems. Over the last decade this work, as chemistry and its applications. He also became the ahead with new research ideas and encoded in his Quantics software package, has become School’s go-to person for advice on Moodle quizzes. His projects.”
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New Dean of Mathematical Professor Richard Catlow New Head of Department MAPS Faculty & Physical Sciences named new Royal Society appointed Teaching Award
appointed Foreign Secretary The department is delighted to announce the appointment Each year the Mathematical and Physical Sciences of Prof. Claire Carmalt as the new Head of Department Faculty recognises excellence in teaching by staff and The faculty is delighted to announce the appointment Professor Richard Catlow has been teaching assistants at all levels within the faculty through of Professor Ivan Parkin as the new Dean of for Chemistry UCL. The appointment will be effective as elected Foreign Secretary of the of next academic year (2016-17). the Faculty Teaching Awards. Mathematical and Physical Sciences. The appointment Royal Society. He will take over from will be effective as of next academic year (2016-17). Professor Martyn Poliakoff who will Prof. Carmalt joined the department We are pleased to announce that our step down in November. very own Dr Chris Blackman won an Prof. Parkin joined UCL in 1993 and in 1997 as a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow and soon after award this year in the teaching staff is currently Head of the Department, “The relationship between science in category. a position he has held for six years. became a Lecturer, she was the UK and Europe is in a state of fl ux promoted to Senior Lecturer in He has led the development of new Chris was instrumental in the re- and so the role of the Foreign Secretary of the Society 2002, Reader in 2004 and Professor inorganic materials and the discovery structuring of the second year has never been more important. Science has always in 2009. She has been Head of of new phases and polymorphs. His inorganic chemistry module after been a global undertaking and international collaboration Inorganic & Materials Chemistry work has included light activated identifying several areas where it has become the norm. Richard Catlow is well placed to Section for the past 6 years and Vice-Dean (Education) antimicrobial polymers; self-cleaning could be improved. He says: “This meant implementing help the Society negotiate this diffi cult time and build on for the MAPS Faculty since 2014. window glass; discriminating gas sensors based on the strong relationships we have across the world.” Said signifi cant revisions right across the module, from refi ning zeolites; thermochromic coatings by Chemical Vapour Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society. Claire’s research involves developing innovative lectures, altering the structure of the exam paper and the Deposition (CVD) and Photoaccustic based ultrasound new routes to technologically important inorganic way coursework was assessed, to completely rewriting fi bers. His group have published over 550 publications, Professor Catlow’s research develops and applies materials. Her work has included the synthesis and the lab component. A key aspect of these changes was including recent work in Nature Materials, Science and computer models in conjunction with experiment to probe characterisation of novel molecular precursors for use a clear and open dialogue with the students on the aims Nature Comms. the properties of materials, including their synthesis, in thin fi lm deposition; transparent conducting oxides and intended outcomes of these changes and, crucially, structure and properties. By combining computational being open to revising ideas to better meet student He said: “I am looking forward to taking up this new and photocatalysts by Chemical Vapour Deposition and methods with experiments, he has made considerable superhydrophobic paints. need and improve student experience. I believe this challenge. It is a great honour to be the new Dean of contributions to major areas of contemporary materials dialogue was key, as refl ected in student comments on MAPS. The MAPS Faculty has a prestigious history chemistry and physics, including mineralogy and the She said “I am delighted to be have been appointed as the module, and is an element I will take forward into with 15 previous Nobel prize winners and two Fields study of electronic, energy and catalytic materials. the next Head of Chemistry at UCL. It is a huge honour teaching in the future.” medalists from its constituent departments. Research to be the fi rst female head of chemistry at UCL in its rich from the faculty is addressing key global challenges. I He said “I am very pleased and honoured to be taking on history. The department was ranked second best in the Other winners included: aim to help foster stronger connections both within the this new and challenging role. Science is an international UK for most impactful research in REF2014 and is one faculty and throughout the wider college.” • CPD: Luciano Rila (Mathematics) endeavour and its of key importance to maintain and of the top chemistry departments in the UK. I am very extend the international collaborations and interactions Prof. Michael Arthur, President & Provost of UCL, much looking forward to leading the department into the • Support Staff: Charlotte Pearce (Natural Sciences) of UK science and to ensure that UK science plays its full next phase of its exciting development.” said: ““I am delighted that Prof. Ivan Parkin has been role on the world stage.” appointed to be the next Dean of Maths and Physical • Postgraduate Teaching Assistant: Matthew Scroggs Prof. Claire Carmalt will succeed Prof. Ivan Parkin, from Sciences. He has an outstanding personal track record (Mathematics) Professor Catlow currently has a joint appointment 1st October who was appointed as Dean of the Faculty. in both research and education, and a proven excellence between the Department of Chemistry, UCL and in academic leadership, as a highly successful Head of the School of Chemistry, Cardiff University. He has Chemistry at UCL. He will also be an excellent member collaborated in Europe, the US, India, China, Japan, of the UCL senior management team and I look forward Cuba, Africa and Australia and has a particular interest to working with him in guiding UCL and the Faculty of in capacity building programmes in Africa. Maths and Physical Sciences forward.” Sponsored Run for Mike Ewing and Macmillian Cancer Support The post of Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society dates Prof. Parkin will succeed Prof. Richard Catlow, FRS, back to 1723 and predates the post of Foreign Secretary Following the sad death of Professor Mike Ewing earlier in the year, Mike’s family asked for donations to go to Macmillan from 1st October who was appointed as Interim Dean of in HM Government by sixty years. Cancer Support. the Faculty on 1st July. To raise money for this good cause in memory of Mike, Professor Helen Fielding, Professor Helen Hailes, Dr Daren Caruana, Professor Alethea Tabor, Dr Mike Porter and Professor Steve Price have signed up to do the Kew 10k run on Sunday 18th September 2016. RSC Prize If you would like to make a donation in memory of Mike Ewing, you can so through the groups just giving page:
The 2015 Societé Chimique de France/Royal Society of Chemistry French-British Prize has been awarded to Professor https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Stephen-Price21 William Motherwell “in recognition of his eminent works in the development of organic synthesis and their applications in the petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries”. The prize is in the gift of the RSC and the SCF and is awarded in They do promise photos of the event as a reward(?!) for those of you who donate. alternate years to a British and a French chemist.
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Provost Teaching Award Student Choice Tracey Clarke’s EPSRC
We are delighted to announce that UCL Chemistry won three Provost Teaching Awards this year: Teaching Awards 2016 Early Career Fellowship University College London Martin Rosillo-Lopez won the Postgraduate Teaching Assistant award. Martin is currently in the 4th year of his PhD, Since starting at UCL in March 2015, supervised by Dr Christoph Salzmann. Alongside his PhD studies he has served as the TA for the physical chemistry Union I have been busy setting up transient section. He has additionally played a significant role in the support of the CHEM160x Chemistry for Biologists lab course absorption spectroscopy in the and his award recognises this demonstrable impact on the student experience over the last two years. He has helped to The Student Choice Teaching Awards (SCTAs) have department with the help of my brilliant establish new and improved ways of assessing this course and providing better feedback to the students. He has helped been entirely developed by students - they developed new PhD student, Jordan Shaikh. There develop resources in the form of lab manuals, questions and training videos. Moreover, he has helped this year to train new the criteria, created the name and make up the entirety have been a few teething problems – PhD student demonstrators, ensuring that his knowledge and expertise are not lost. of the judging panel. They have been developed in my new monochromator was delivered partnership with UCL and are awarded with the Provost in a decidedly non-functional state so I Dr Andrew Wills has won an individual staff award. He is a Reader in Physical Chemistry, specialising Teaching Awards. Our students have told us they want to had to wait another three months for it to be fixed! But I am in the synthesis and study of materials with new types of electronic properties. After a term as Director reward and celebrate our outstanding members of staff. happy to say that we are almost there, and should be able of Studies, he is taking a breather from a full teaching load and is using his sabbatical to develop new to measure our first set of kinetics very soon. research directions and work with the Connected Curriculum team. In 2013 he received a Provost’s We are thrilled that Dr Vijay Chudasama (Lecturer, Teaching Award for initiatives that have improved the management of the student experience and the Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology) won Transient absorption spectroscopy is a brilliant technique quality of feedback for many thousands of lab experiments. His 2016 Provost’s Teaching Award is for this award. Dr Vijay Chudasama has won multiple for looking at photophysical and photochemical processes developing a new e-learning space that is able to support the development of mathematical skills across prestigious prizes and awards (departmental, faculty, that occur on the nanosecond to millisecond timescales year groups and faculties, FERMAT-vle. This VLE interfaces with Mathematica to generate mathematic national and international) throughout his career such as (in my current set-up). It is very versatile, with the ability practice questions on demand, allowing students to challenge themselves with multiple examples and test themselves the UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences to look at both film and solution phases, and can provide against it. Medal (2008), Science, Engineering and Technology information on the identity of the photogenerated transient (SET) Student of the Year (2008) and the Ramsay species, their yields, and their decay dynamics. In Finally the ‘CHEM160x Team’ led by Prof. Andrea Sella won the Team Award. The Chem160x module and the lab course in Medal (2011). Moreover, he was recently highlighted particular, I am interested in the recombination processes particular has pioneered new approaches to teaching. The team took existing practicals and got students to do chemistry on by Scientific American (2014), the Royal Society of that occur in organic photovoltaic blends, although I am a set of 6-20 variants of the same procedure. For example, they might determine the iron content of one of a dozen dietary Chemistry (2015), Forbes Magazine (2015) and CNN looking at branching out to other molecular electronic supplements bought on the high street or from the internet. Or they would look at the response of one of six different acids News (2016), independently, to be a future leader in systems as well. At the moment we are studying the to the addition of alkali. In doing so the students collected a small piece of a larger puzzle that could be later assembled in the field of chemistry. He has research interests in the photophysics of an amazing polymer synthesised by Hugo a whole class seminar. The aim was to encourage a spirit of inquiry, to make the lab more personal for each student, and development and application of novel methodologies Bronstein’s group which may have the ability to undergo to give the entire class a sense of purpose and ownership of the data. More importantly the entire class could look at each in Chemical Biology (www.chudasama-group.eu), photon up-conversion in a single material. other’s results and consider bigger picture issues like error analysis and statistics, intermolecular forces, spectroscopy and resulting in over 35 publications and 3 granted patents other key ideas for chemists. to date. Particular highlights include publications in I was recently awarded an EPSRC Early Career Contributions to this project Nature Chem. (2), Nature Commun., Chem. Sci. (2) and Fellowship. The idea behind this fellowship is to engineer have come from a large Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. - VC is also one of the founders, energetic barriers to bimolecular recombination in organic number of individuals, including and Technical Director, of UCL spin-out ThioLogics™ photovoltaic cells by manipulating morphology and thus but limited to: Andrea Sella, (www.thiologics.com). energy gradients within polymer/fullerene blends to Katherine Holt, Tracey Clarke, maintain spatial separation of opposing charge carriers. Kreso Bucar, Helen Grounds, Dr Vijay Chudasama said “I am These energetic barriers will alleviate the significant Martin Rosillo-Lopez, Daren exceptionally pleased to have been loss mechanism of bimolecular recombination, thereby Caruana, Paul McMillan, presented with a Student Choice promoting the feasible commercialisation of organic Caroline Knapp, Rachael Teaching Award (SCTA) earlier this photovoltaics. Hazael, Hugo Bronstein, Matt year; it is very satisfying that the Blunt, Crosby Medley, Mike students felt that I had done a good The most exciting part of this project is that I will be Parkes, Alan Philcox, Phil job - I am grateful for their putting my setting up nanosecond resolution time-resolved Raman Hayes, Martyn Towner, Claire name forward. The SCTAs have been spectroscopy to monitor and analyse the recombination. Gacki, Dave Webb, Toby entirely developed by students - they developed the Time-resolved Raman spectroscopy has very rarely been Gill, Abigail Mountain, Derek criteria, created the name and make up the entirety of applied to polymer/fullerene blends, and is only used Tocher, Furio Cora and the the judging panel, which makes it all the more meaningful by a few groups worldwide in the organic photovoltaics CHEM160x students. to me personally as student learning/development is research field. It has the potential to monitor the honestly at the heart of my teaching practice. I should structural dynamics of specific chemical bonds during also add that teaching is a two-way street and that I am the conformational changes that occur during electron very thankful to many students who have helped me transfer processes (such as recombination). Although a mould my teaching through their honest and constructive technically challenging technique, time-resolved Raman feedback.” offers huge potential benefits in terms of elucidating relationships between morphology, energetics, and recombination in organic photovoltaic blends. Can’t wait to get started!
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Professor Helen Fielding says, “This Royal Society of UCL Chemistry courses Women in Leadership programme allowed me to refl ect on Chemistry prizes accredited by Royal Society Professor Claire Carmalt my strengths and weaknesses and and Professor Helen to learn about current opinions on Professor Ivan Parkin has been of Chemistry Fielding were selected to leadership styles and how different awarded the RSC Tilden Prize for take part in the UCL Women styles are required for different The Department has received offi cial notifi cation that a advances in chemistry for his research in Leadership programme, occasions. It was a privilege to listen selection of UCL Chemistry undergraduate and graduate focusing on making innovative thin which took place between to the inspirational guest speakers and meet many of courses have been accredited by the Royal Society of fi lms and coatings that have functional February and July 2016. the outstanding women who are working across UCL. Chemistry (RSC), including many courses that were not properties. The Tilden Prize was This programme was As a result of attending this programme, I have more previously recognised. founded in 1939 and commemorates commissioned at the confi dence in myself. I am very grateful to have been Sir William Augustus Tilden, a British offered the opportunity to attend this course and hope all The list of accredited courses includes: request of the Provost and President Professor Michael chemist and pioneer in the teaching of science. Arthur and the Senior Management team at UCL. The our female colleagues who did not attend this year will objective of this professional development programme have the opportunity to attend next year.” Professor Parkin’s group has developed self-cleaning • MSci Chemistry was to make available the latest thinking and approaches and energy effi cient window coatings in collaboration • MSci Chemistry (International Programme) to leadership using input from leading experts in the with NSG-Pilkington, and anti-microbial surfaces which • MSci Chemistry with a European Language fi eld, coaching, learning methodologies, and a project to decontaminate themselves for use in hospitals and • MSci Chemistry with Maths apply the learning from the programme. It was aimed at offi ces. They have also successfully researched new • MSci Chemistry with Management Studies supporting women at grades nine and ten to progress gas sensing materials to detect pollutant gasses and Women at UCL: Presence • MSci Medicinal Chemistry to greater leadership roles balancing the 50-50 gender help track toxic contamination in waste water. • MSc Chemical Research between men and women in these grades. It shows and Absence 2016 the commitment that UCL has to training, supporting Over 550 research publications and 11 patents detailing • MRes Organic Chemistry: Drug Discovery and empowering Academic and Professional Services The exhibition ‘Women at UCL: Presence and Absence’ the synthesis of new materials and coatings have been & leaders of exceptional potential. was created to celebrate and recognise women at published by his team and many of the projects involve • BSc (Hons) Chemistry UCL who inspire those they work with. There was a colleagues across UCL and researchers from the global • BSc (Hons) Chemistry with a European Language The content of the programme involved facilitation by fantastic response to the call for nominations, with over scientifi c community. • BSc (Hons) Chemistry with Maths subject matter experts and involved academic and 200 submissions, which shows the real impact UCL practically transferable content. Access to mentoring “I am delighted to be the recipient of the RSC Tilden • BSc (Hons) Chemistry with Management Studies women have their colleagues. The exhibition profi led and a sponsor, as well as both 1-1 and peer coaching, Prize and although it has been awarded to me, it is an women from across the UCL community. A call went • BSc (Hons) Medicinal Chemistry were key aspects of the programme. Inspirational guest acknowledgement of the hard work, enthusiasm and out asking staff and students to nominate a woman at speakers gave us the opportunity to interact with a range dedication of my research team,” said Professor Parkin. This is a wonderful achievement UCL who had infl uenced them – either by inspiring or of leaders across UCL and develop our networking for the department and serves as encouraging, or helping them to think differently about skills. Developmental questionnaires (360) allowed us to an excellent endorsement of the their work or study. A panel, made up of representatives refl ect on our leadership effectiveness through the eyes dedication of the teaching team, from UCL’s equality groups, had the challenging but of our line manager, peers, direct reports and other key especially Dr Katherine Holt, who was enjoyable task of selecting these 24 inspirational women stakeholders. New Baby instrumental in this achievement. from a pool of excellent nominees. As the response was so overwhelming, the panel considered it important to We are delighted to announce that in November 2015, Professor Claire Carmalt says recognise everyone who had been nominated, so a Dr Rob Palgrave and his partner had a healthy baby boy “This programme gave me a great “This is fantastic news that our courses have been booklet was created profi ling every nominee. weighing in at a staggering 10lb. We couldn’t be happier opportunity for self-refl ection to think accredited - it demonstrates the excellent coverage we for his family. about where I am currently in my give to the subject at BSc, MSc and MSci degree level,” The Chemistry Department received the most nominees leadership and where I would like to Professor Ivan Parkin, Head of Department. within the MAPS Faculty, these went to Nicola Best, go. It allowed me to understand my Claire Carmalt, Helen Fielding, Katherine Holt, RSC accreditation provides students and employers with leadership strengths and develop Caroline Knapp and Liz Read. the confi dence that they have achieved the standards further leadership skills. It was excellent and has The exhibition also included artwork exploring the history necessary to be considered professional chemists. provided me with more confi dence and conviction in my abilities and motivation to embrace leadership of women at UCL. Artist Kristina Clackson-Bonnington This recognition also boosts the department’s profi le challenges. It was a great opportunity to meet women in produced a series of works titled ‘Theirs to Ours’, a amongst a wider section of professionals, academics, different roles across UCL and the guest speakers were series of twelve mixed-media works that illuminate students and the general public. truly inspirational. I would certainly advise other female the institutional change that has taken place since the colleagues to attend the course in the future and I thank founding of UCL in 1826 – from the initial decision to both the Chemistry Department and MAPS Faculty for admit women in 1878 to the re-negotiating of spaces and supporting my attendance.” positions that is still taking place today. These artworks are included in this booklet.
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2015 – 2016 PRIZE WINNERS PhD Prize Winners ANTONIO VAMVAKEROS Rothwell Prize Winner Supervisor: Dr Matthew Powner We would like to congratulate the following This years’ Ramsay Medal Winner Clark Prize – best PhD presentation in Inorganic We are pleased to announce that Monika Jurcic prize winners: is TOBIAS GILL (Supervisor: Chemistry for his presentation entitled “Nature’s highest- (Supervisor: Prof. Ivan Parkin) won the Rothwell Prize energy phosphate: Prebiotic synthesis of phosphoenol Professor Cyrus Hirjibehedin) for his for best poster presentation in the department, 2016. pyruvate by a-phosphorylation controlled triose Undergraduate Prize Winners presentation entitled “Controlling the electronic Monika is pictured below with the organiser, Prof. glycolysis”. and magnetic properties of the two dimensional Gopinathan Sankar. WEIPENG YIN material silicone”. Tobias also won the Ewing Prize ADAM COGGINS CK Ingold Prize - For Excellence in Undergraduate (see below) for best PhD presentation in Physical Supervisor: Professor Andy Beale Performance Chemistry for this presentation. Davies Prize – best PhD presentation in Organic Chemistry for his presentation entitled “Unravelling SEBASTIAN GORGON JAMES CUTHBERTSON the chemical evolution of catalytic materials under CK Ingold Prize - For Excellence in Undergraduate Supervisor: Jon Wilden operating conditions with real time chemical imaging“. Performance Apley Prize - For the best abstract for a Ph.D thesis. Monika obtained a First Class (hons) Master of MOHAMED IBRAHIM JAMES PRIME Chemistry degree from the University of Bath in 2013, CK Ingold Prize - For Excellence in Undergraduate Supervisor: Dewi Lewis after which, she joined UCL as part of the Jill Dando Performance Tuffnell Prize (year 1) - For the best student institute’s Security Science doctoral training centre, commencing a Ph.D. in the Department of Chemistry, UCL. DEANS LIST where she completed a Master of Research in 2014. DIOGO DA SILVA CK Ingold Prize - For Excellence in Undergraduate NAFSIKA FORTE Congratulations to six chemistry graduates who have received a commendation for this year’s Dean’s List. She is currently a second year PhD student hosted Performance Supervisor: Jamie Baker within the Department of Chemistry where she is Tuffnell Prize (year 2) - For the best student ANDRÉ SHAMSABADI pursuing her research into the use of fluorescent JANA OCKOVA commencing a Ph.D. in the Department of Chemistry, UCL. MSci Chemistry metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for the trace CK Ingold Prize - For Excellence in Undergraduate detection of explosives. Performance SEBASTIAN DIXON GEORGIE FUNNELL Supervisor: Ivan Parkin BSc Chemistry The scope for this research arises from the increase HOLLIE PACKMAN 2014/15 Ronald Gillespie Prize - For best student in in explosives attacks in recent years, thus there is a CK Ingold Prize - For Excellence in Undergraduate Inorganic/Materials Chemistry proceeding to a Ph.D. at UCL. KATHERINE ANNE SANDERS need for further developments into detection methods Performance MSci Chemistry that successfully identify explosives or explosive MAXIMILLIAM LEE related materials on a person, surface or vapour. STEPHEN LEACH Supervisor: Vijay Chudasama LASZLO BERENCEI Neil Sharp Prize - For Excellence in Theoretical 2014/15 Badar Prize - For best student commencing a MSci Chemistry with Mathematics The aim of the project is to probe the use of metal- (including Computational) Chemistry Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry. organic frameworks as sensing materials for the MARIE-EMMANUELLE CARPENTER detection of trace quantities of explosive vapours and DAPHNE LAM KEALAN FALLON MSci Chemistry solutions containing explosives. Parke Davis Prize - For Excellence in Medicinal Supervisor: Dr Hugo Bronstein Chemistry Pharmaceutical Industry Prize - for his presentation STEPHEN DAVID LEACH Metal-organic frameworks are a relatively novel class entitled “Synthesis of Naturally Inspired Conjugated MSci Chemistry of porous and crystalline materials that have shown MARIE CARPENTER Materials for Organic Electronics”. This prize promise as sensing materials owing to their high Harry Poole Prize - For Excellence in Physical is sponsored by AstraZeneca, Charles River, porosity and surface area, tailorable surface/pore GlaxoSmithKline and UCB. chemistries, easy and timely synthesis, high thermal Chemistry The Dean’s List is designed to reward undergraduate stability, amongst others. This project envisages who excel in their chosen field and deserve recognition TOBIAS GILL building a sensory array of a number of metal-organic KATE SANDERS for their achievements but who may not necessarily Supervisor: Professor Cyrus Hirjibehedin frameworks, for the potential construction of a novel Ronald Nyholm Prize - For Excellence in Inorganic receive any other Departmental or Faculty award. Chemistry Ewing Prize – best PhD presentation in Physical and portable explosives detection platform. Chemistry for his presentation entitled “Controlling Well done guys! BEN COLVILLE the electronic and magnetic properties of the two Charles Vernon Prize - For Excellence in Biological dimensional material silicone”. Chemistry REBECCA HYLTON ANDRE SHAMSABADI Supervisor: Professor Sally Price Franz Sondheimer Prize - For Excellence in Organic Catlow Prize – best PhD presentation in Computational Chemistry Chemistry for her presentation entitled “Crystal structure prediction as an aid to designing chiral resolution processes”.
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GRADUATING STUDENTS FARZAD FOROUTAN DAVID MORA FONZ SILVIA LOVERA PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry Doctor of Philosophy Degrees Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Knowles Supervisor: Professor Richard Catlow Supervisor: Professor Francesco Gervasio ROBERT FOSTER SOPHIE NYBERG NEEL MAKWANA ABDUL-LATEEF ADEDIGBA PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry Supervisor: Professor Helen Hailes Supervisor: Professor Giuseppe Battaglia Supervisor: Professor Jawwad Darr Supervisor: Professor Richard Catlow GAVIN FULLSTONE PANAGIOTA PELEKANAKI ANTIONE MARUANI FIONA BELLANY PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry Supervisor: Professor Giuseppe Battaglia Supervisor: Professor Richard Catlow Supervisor: Professor Stephen Caddick Supervisor: Professor Alethea Tabor XIAOYU HAN MICHAEL POWELL CHRIS MATTHEWS MILO BEM PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry Supervisor: Professor Xiao Guo Supervisor: Professor Ivan Parkin Supervisor: Professor Charles Marson Supervisor: Professor Peter Coveney MEETAL HIRANI LIU QU THOMAS MELLAN DAVID BOLDRIN PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry Supervisor: Dr Katherine Holt Supervisor: Professor Kwang-Leong Choy Supervisor: Dr Furio Cora Supervisor: Dr Andrew Wills ROSEMARY HUCKVAL DANIEL RICHARDS MARION BROOKS-BARTLETT PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry Supervisor: Dr Jamie Baker Supervisor: Dr Jamie Baker Masters of Research Degrees Supervisor: Dr Simon Banks PRAGNA KIRI SAEEDEH SARABADANU TAFRESHI PIERRE CANAVELLI
PENELOPE CARMICHAEL PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry MRes Organic Chemistry: Drug Discovery PhD Chemistry Supervisor: Professor Claire Carmalt Supervisor: Professor Nora de Leeuw Supervisor: Professor Ivan Parkin ADAM CLARK EMILY KNIGHT LEILA SHARIFF MRes Molecular Modelling and Materials Science
NICHOLAS CHADWICK PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry Supervisor: Professor Gopinathan Sankar PhD Chemistry Supervisor: Professor Stephen Caddick Supervisor: Professor Derek MacMillan Supervisor: Professor Claire Carmalt SIMON COPLOWE ELEANOR LAMMING ASHLEY SHIELDS MRes Molecular Modelling and Materials Science
CLAIR CHEW PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry Supervisor: Professor Ivan Parkin PhD Chemistry Supervisor: Professor Helen Hailes Supervisor: Professor Richard Catlow Supervisor: Professor Ivan Parkin DANIEL DERVIN SILVIA LOVERA FENG TAO MRes Organic Chemistry: Drug Discovery
JAMES CUTHBERTSON PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry Supervisor: Professor Richard Catlow PhD Chemistry Supervisor: Professor Francesco Gervasio Supervisor: Professor Xiao Guo Supervisor: Dr Jon Wilden VERITY DOWLING NEEL MAKWANA MILENA WOBBE MRes Organic Chemistry: Drug Discovery GARY DAVIES PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry Supervisor: Professor Jawwad Darr Supervisor: Dr Martijn Zwijnenburg ALEX GANOSE Supervisor: Professor Peter Coveney MRes Molecular Modelling and Materials Science ANTIONE MARUANI JANE YATES Supervisor: Dr David Scanlon DANIEL DEACON-SMITH PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry Supervisor: Professor Stephen Caddick Supervisor: Dr Glenn Jones NIALL GOODEAL Supervisor: Dr Scott Woodley MRes Molecular Modelling and Materials Science CHRIS MATTHEWS ELENA YIANNAKI Supervisor: Dr Hugo Bronstein SIMON DITE PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry Supervisor: Professor Charles Marson Supervisor: Professor Erik Arstad MAMPI GODWAMI Supervisor: Dr Paul Ekins MRes Molecular Modelling and Materials Science THOMAS MELLAN PENG ZHANG Supervisor: Dr Rob Bell PhD Chemistry PhD Chemistry Supervisor: Dr Furio Cora Supervisor: Professor Kwang-Leong Choy
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JAMES HALES HENRY LANCASHIRE Chinese students studying in UK honoured MRes Molecular Modelling and Materials Science EngD Molecular Modelling and Materials Science Supervisor: Professor Nik Kaltsoyannis Supervisor: Professor Gordon Blunn Thirty-one Chinese students studying in the United Kingdom were given awards by LUCA IUZZOLINO NIALL LOGAN the Chinese Government to recognize their MRes Molecular Modelling and Materials Science EngD Molecular Modelling and Materials Science outstanding academic achievements, Yao Supervisor: Professor Sally Price Supervisor: Dr Peter Brett Lu, a third-year PhD student with Professor Ivan Parkin from our department was one of JENCHIKA KANAPATHEPILLAI JOE MANZI the well-deserved winners. MRes Organic Chemistry: Drug Discovery EngD Molecular Modelling and Materials Science Supervisor: Professor Ivan Parkin The ceremony for the 2015 National Award SATYAM LADVA for Outstanding Self-fi nanced Chinese MRes Molecular Modelling and Materials Science ALEXANDER O’MALLEY Students Studying Overseas was held at the Supervisor: Dr Robert Palgrave EngD Molecular Modelling and Materials Science Chinese Embassy in London. Supervisor: Professor Richard Catlow IVAN LAM On behalf of the embassy, Ambassador MRes Organic Chemistry: Drug Discovery Liu Xiaoming congratulated the winners and also expressed gratitude towards their IMMAD NADEEM teachers in the UK. During his speech, Liu MRes Molecular Modelling and Materials Science called on those honoured to cherish their opportunity to study in the UK and study hard to realize their dreams Supervisor: Professor Geoff Thornton Founders Award 2016 and make a contribution to China’s development.
LISA RICHARDS Many congratulations to Dr Alex O’Malley has been “This is not only an award or a fi nancial support, but also a glorious honour from our homeland,” said Yao Lu. MRes Molecular Modelling and Materials Science awarded the “Founders Award” of the British Zeolite Supervisor: Dr Scott Woodley Association (BZA) for his work on neutron scattering Established in 2003 by China’s Ministry of Education and Ministry of Finance, the award is set up to honour and computer modelling studies of hydrocarbons in overseas Chinese students with outstanding academic accomplishments. To be eligible for the award, a student JACK STRAND zeolites. must be studying for a PhD degree, be under the age of 40 and be paying for his or her own education. MRes Molecular Modelling and Materials Science The Founders’ Award is an annual award for UK Supervisor: Professor Alexander Shluger Majoring in Chemistry, Yao, together with his supervisors and colleagues, has developed a paint that can be based postgraduate student working in the area of treated on almost any solid substrates to make extremely robust super hydrophobic surfaces. The fi ndings were micro or mesoporous science. It aims to celebrate YASMIN SURANI published in the journal Science last year and covered by more than 200 media globally. MRes Organic Chemistry: Drug Discovery the best/most promising postgraduate scientist of the year. The Award will be presented each year at the “I wish I could be a bridge of research between China and the UK, and enhance communications and collaborations BZA Annual Meeting and has been devised in honour MICHAEL WOOD between China and the West,” Yao said. MRes Organic Chemistry: Drug Discovery of the late Professor Lovat Rees, one of the founding members of the British Zeolite Association and one of David Cowan, a professor from King’s College London, said his award-winning student, Yaoyao Wang, is the father fi gures of British zeolite science. Engineering Doctorate Degrees intelligent, hardworking, enthusiastic pupil, quick to understand like many other Chinese students. Alex said “I’m delighted to receive SAMUEL BRADLEY this award and feel I’ve been very “We very much value the quality of Chinese students coming to UK,” he said. “And in terms of tuition fee income, EngD Molecular Modelling and Materials Science privileged with access to such China is the largest market for King’s College London. It’s very important for us both intellectually and fi nancially.” Supervisor: Professor Alexander Shluger excellent facilities and techniques Since its establishment, the award has honoured more than 4,900 Chinese students studying overseas. The in studying such interesting and winners will receive a scholarship of $ 6,000. NICOLAS CONSTANTINO important systems. I’m very grateful EngD Molecular Modelling and Materials Science to my supervisors and colleagues at Supervisor: Professor Paul Warburton the Catalysis Hub, the ISIS neutron source and elsewhere. Hopefully this does them MATTHEW HALLIDAY justice and the work we’ve accomplished so far is only Perfume traces could help to solve crimes EngD Molecular Modelling and Materials Science the beginning!” Supervisor: Professor Alexander Shluger Professor Ivan Parkin and Simona Gherghel (PhD student) have found that the chemical components of a I am sure you will join us in congratulating Alex on fragrance can transfer from one person’s clothing to another’s - even if contact is brief, the scent’s signature IMAN HASSAN his award. lingers for days, although it lessens over time. The team says this is a proof-of-principle study, but suggests EngD Molecular Modelling and Materials Science that perfumes have the potential to be used as trace evidence. Full story available on-line at Supervisor: Professor Claire Carmalt http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/news/news/2016/perfume-traces and featured on the BBC at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37160171
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Student News Images from CDT Sixth Form Event 2016
• Dr Anna Ploszajski was invited to give a talk at the Royal Institution Family Funday on 15th May. Anna gave three 30 minute lectures in the iconic Royal Institution lecture theatre on inventions which use resonance, such as quartz crystals in clocks, radios and trumpets. Anna used her trumpet to demonstrate sound waves using the Rubens’ Tube which she made at the Institute of Making and has done demos with this at the Bloomsbury Theatre and Institute of Making open days.
• Dr Nadia Abdul-Karim has been awarded the NRF-Newton Fellowship for Early Career Researchers from the United Kingdom, many congratulations.
• Merina Corpinot was awarded a CrystEngComm poster prize at the 2016 British Crystallographic Association meeting for her poster “On the predictability of supramolecular interactions in molecular cocrystals” with coauthors SA Stratford, M Arhangelskis, J. Anka-Lufford, W Jones and DK Bucar.
• Luca Luzzolino was awarded a prize for his poster on “The development of Organic Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) inspired by the CCDC Blind Tests” at the Gordon Research Conference on Crystal Engineering, Stowe Vermont on 30th June 2016. Well done Luca!
CDT Sixth Form Event 2016
On 28th June, 2016, 12 CDT’s second/third year EngD/PhD students organised the CDT’s sixth form outreach event. 42 AS students and three teachers from Woodhouse College, London, attended the event.
The event was carefully designed by our students to provide a fun and informative day for college students wanting to study chemistry at university. The event was comprised of fi ve themes:
• Static electricity - a talk given by Professor Andrea Sella.
• Fire trumpet - an experimental demonstration, which illustrate the links between music maths and scientifi c disciplines.
• Classic reaction - Nylon, where AS students had a chance to create ropes of Nylon and discuss the reaction mechanism.
• Tour of the UCL campus, when the students were taken around the campus with its eclectic mix of neoclassical and modern buildings and experience a day in the life of a world-class research and educational institution
• Chemistry in action - Elephant toothpaste and black snake, where AS students had an opportunity to do some experiments with foam and colours in a fun and safe way, and understand the chemistry!
All participants including students and teachers from the college and the CDT’s students enjoyed the day.
It was a splendid and well organised day.
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M3S CDT Industry Day 2016
The M3S CDT Annual Industry Day took place on Wednesday 6th July 2016 in Christopher Ingold Building, UCL. This was the sixth event since the Centre established in 2005. Over 70 people attended the event, including Dr Ian Smith of EPSRC, nine representatives from the CDT’s sponsors as well as students and academic staff of the CDT.
Professor Ivan Parkin, the Director of the M3S CDT, opened the event and welcomed everyone on behalf of the CDT. Dr Richard White of Thermo Fisher Scientifi c gave a keynote lecture, titled ‘Materials Analysis with Thermo Fisher Scientifi c’. The talk was very interesting and prompted a lot of discussion afterwards.
Throughout the day, three sessions of oral presentations were carried out, where 13 third year and 8 fi rst year EngD students of the M3S CDT gave a ten-minute oral presentation each. In addition, 21 posters were displayed on the day, which were presented by the M3S CDT’s MRes cohort and the CDT’s students on other programmes. External participants were very expressed by the quality and quantity of the work presented by our students.
In addition, the representative of CDT’s 2013 cohort, Mr Jacob Chapman, reviewed this year’s CDT outreach event.
At the award ceremony, Alex Ganose, who was a student of the CDT’s 2014 MRes cohort, received the Violet Horsall Prize for his outstanding performance during his MRes year. Third year EngD student, Yasmine Al-Hamdani and fi rst year PhD student, Anish Goodeal received the best oral presentation awards. While the best poster presentation awards went to MRes student Oluwaseun Olusegun Seun Alayande and fi rst year PhD student Ladislav Hovan.
The wine reception was another highlight of the day, where students, academic staff and external participants had a chance to exchange ideas and network. There is no doubt that it was an enjoyable and fruitful event.
Images from M3S CDT Industry Day 2016
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2016 Chemistry Lab Dinner Wolf Prize in Chemistry
We are pleased to announce that this year’s dinner will be taking place in the Jeremy Bentham Room at One of our alumni, Kyriacos.C. Nicolaou, who completed a PhD with Prof. UCL on Friday 25th November 2016. Peter Garratt, has been awarded a half share of the 2016 Wolf Prize in Chemistry for “advancing the fi eld of chemical synthesis to the extremes of molecular From 4:30pm there will be an opportunity to meet fellow alumni for tea and coffee in the department’s complexity, linking structure and function, and expanding our dominion over the interface of chemistry, biology, and medicine.” Nyholm Room. Nicolaou’s group has tackled the total synthesis of myriad complex natural The pre-dinner lecture at 5:00pm will be given by our very own Head of Department, Professor Ivan Parkin, products, including the anticancer drug paclitaxel, the immunosuppressant titled “Adventures in materials science from window coatings to water repellent surfaces”, which rapamycin, and the antibiotic vancomycin. promises to be an excellent start to the evening.
Dinner will be taking place at 7:15pm, this will be preceded by drinks at 6:15pm in the North Cloisters. Our after dinner speech will be given by the department’s Professor Alwyn Davies – it will be a fantastic evening.
The full cost of the evening is £45, for current postgraduate students, a limited number of tickets will be charged at £35. Tickets went on sale in July and we have 30 places left, if you would like to book a place please visit : http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/about-us/lab-dinner. Obituary
Professor Mike Ewing 1948 - 2016
It is with great sadness that we inform you of the death of Professor Mike Ewing.
Mike was born in Sydney, but raised in the small town of Guyra, just south of Ben Lomond. He went to school in Armidale and then to the University of New England, in the same town, which had earlier been the alma mater of Dr R.A. (Bob) Ross. Mike received a B.Sc. degree in 1969 with the University Medal and a Ph.D. degree in 1974. There followed less than two years of post-doctoral research on a Rothman’s Fellowship before coming to UCL in 1975, where he based his research career in the thermodynamics laboratory which Professor Max McGlashan had established. An appointment as Lecturer followed his Ramsay Fellowship, and he was promoted to Reader in 1992 and to Professor in 2002.
Mike’s research concentrated on the thermo-physical properties of fl uids, and included developing a very accurate methodology for the determination of the gas constant. Mike rose through the ranks of the Department and College, spending time in the role of Deputy Head of Department, as well as serving UCL as Dean of Students (Academic) and Acting Vice-Provost (Education).
Many will remember fondly Mike’s wonderful attention to detail, which permeated every task he undertook; be that in the role of Chair of Departmental Examinations for 18 years, or developing experiments for the Undergraduate teaching laboratories. This intellectual rigour was coupled with a disarmingly dry and dead-pan sense of humour. Mike retired from UCL in 2014, leaving us with the “Ewing Model” for the College timetable and a cohort of slightly shell-shocked Tutors who had witnessed at fi rst hand his attention to detail in Internal Quality Audits. A subtler legacy of Mike’s time in College administration was demonstrated in the Faculty of Arts examiners’ meeting. Here, a colleague from a Humanities Department declared that he had been forced to “go away and learn to use Microsoft Excel”. Why did he have to do that? So he could try and understand those spreadsheets that Mike kept producing. In addition to spreading the gospel of numeracy to the Arts Faculties, Mike played a key role in the transformation of both UCL and the Chemistry Department. As a colleague he was always generous with his time and had set us all a great example by applying the highest academic standards to each and every aspect of his job.
The 2014 Chemistry Newsletter contained an appreciation of Mike’s career, which can be found at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/about-us/chem-newsletter
He is survived by his wife Jean and their daughter Chlöe.
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followed. John was awarded the prestigious Ramsay of his staff and gave encouragement and impetus to the Obituary Memorial Medal in 1974 for his work, the success of Obituary implementation of digital electronics arising out of the which owed much to his ingenuity, determination and birth of home computing in the 1980s. His ability in RF John Wynford Bevan perseverance. Professor Chris McGuigan circuit design and construction was exceptional. 1946-2016 Lecturer 1958-2016 On completing the PhD degree, John went to North David was a very practical person, and we were kept John Bevan was a Member of the Lab from October 1970 America to conduct postdoctoral research, first (1975- We are sorry to record the death of Prof. Chris informed regularly of his many projects in DIY at home. to January 1975 who died of cancer in College Station, 6) with Robert Curl (1996 Nobel Prize winner with McGuigan, who was a Lecturer in the department from He also loved the outdoor life and spent happy times Texas early in the morning of April 23, 2016. Kroto and Smalley) at Rice University in Houston, then 1985-90. Chris was one of a group of new lecturers, walking hills and climbing mountains. This was all (1976-77) with Camille Sandorfy in Montreal and finally including Derek Tocher, David Crich and Glyn Williams, the more impressive as he did not enjoy good health, John Bevan was born on April 16, (1977-78) at the world-renowned Herzberg Institute who joined the department at this time and were urgently being subject to a chronic lung condition dating back to 1946 in humble circumstances in of Astrophysics in Ottawa. In 1978, he began his long required. Chris rapidly established himself and became a childhood, which often sapped his energy and made him Gorseinon, South Wales, where association with the Chemistry Department at Texas familiar figure, striding purposely along the corridors and subject to serious infections. education was viewed as important. A&M University, first as Assistant Professor and finally through the labs. Chris and David had a friendly rivalry He studied for the degree of BSc occupying the prestigious Davidson Chair in Science. and although the department had a very small number He retired in the Summer of 1994 on grounds of ill health in Chemistry at the University of John’s research throughout his career was characterized of undergraduates, Chris was able to attract students but was then able to enjoy some twenty years pursuing his Wales, Swansea, but the class of by care, thoroughness, completeness and absolute and establish a research group. There was at this time, hobbies of electronics and getting out into the countryside. degree he achieved in 1968 was intellectual honesty. He built several cleverly designed however, little possibility of promotion in the department It is a tragic irony that it was a fall on the stairs at his insufficient for him to be awarded a spectrometers, always seeking higher sensitivity and and Chris left for Southampton University in 1990 cottage in Malvern that caused inoperable brain damage research studentship for doctoral work. John’s ambition resolution, which allowed him important insights into where he also did not remain for long, moving to Cardiff and led to his death in late September 2015. was to purse a research career and therefore, with the properties of prototypical molecular complexes. University as Professor in 1994. At Cardiff he continued typical determination, took himself off to the University He was not one for publishing fragments prematurely, his “drug hunting” activities and was very successful in He is survived by his wife, Susan, and two daughters. of Surrey to enrol for the two-year MSc in Chemical so his list of publications is not as extensive as some, engaging both postgraduate and postdoctoral students Physics, then run by Dr Brian Stace, a graduate of the but his work will stand the test of time. In recent years, in these studies. His group currently have a number of (Biographical note by Dick Waymark, member of UCL Chemistry Department. John thrived at Surrey he developed (with Robert Lucchese) a method of compounds at various stages of clinical trials. In 2013 a Electronics Section 1969-2005) and, after completing the MSc degree, arrived at the ‘morphing’ the potential energy functions of molecular life sciences hub was established in Cardiff Bay under UCL Chemistry Department in October 1970 to begin complexes by combining his experimental results his leadership with the aim of nurturing home grown ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– research with D. J. Millen and A. C. Legon, just as the with ab initio calculations. This collaboration later companies and attracting international talent. first commercial microwave spectrometer (HP 8460A) included mathematician Jay Walton and culminated was delivered. in an important general result, namely that potential ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– energy functions of a wide range of diatomic and other Obituary The HP 8460A was a revolutionary instrument: it had + - molecules, spanning covalently bound H2, ionic Na Cl , a microwave radiation source automatically tuneable hydrogen-bonded OC...HF, halogen bonded OC...BrCl Obituary Francesca Garforth over a wide frequency range, yielded a flat baseline and the van der Waals molecule Ar2 , are canonical. and had a high sensitivity. Millen and Legon had earlier I believe this result has profound consequences for Francesca Garforth (neé Leeke) David R. Bowman (unsuccessfully) tried to investigate hydrogen-bonded our understanding of the nature of bonding and will died, aged 91, on June 1, 2016. She complexes by using a hand-built microwave spectrometer become generally acknowledged for its importance. Electronics Section Leader 1969-1994 was one of Sir Christopher Ingold’s that (unlike the HP 8460A) required manual tuning of Characteristically, in the last conversation I had with outstanding Ph.D. students when David joined the department in 1969 as Leader of the klystrons, of reflector voltages, and other variables, etc., John (a few weeks before he died), his excitement at the Chemistry Department returned Electronics Section, when Sir Ronald Nyholm was Head all of which detracted from the difficult task of making the beauty and simplicity of this result could not be from evacuation in 1944. She studied of Department. suitable equilibrium gas mixtures B + HX = B...HX in a contained. But John Bevan was gentle and modest, with Ingold, and in part with Harry long, narrow waveguide cell at a uniform temperature without interest in self-promotion; he loved science for Poole, the first ultraviolet absorption At that time the section comprised six technicians, plus T. If T is not low enough, the equilibrium lies too far to its own sake and had wide interests in, and knowledge and fluorescence spectrum bands of an NMR technician and two attached research students. the left, but if T is too low, the gas mixture condenses. of, physics and astronomy. These attributes made him all the possible deuterated isomers of benzene, which Sadly that number declined over the years until 2005 Legon’s PhD thesis did, however, contain a chapter that a respected and well-liked colleague. It can be truly provided the first analysis of the geometry and mechanics when there was just a single member. considered which B and HX mixture was most likely said that John was a scholar and a gentleman. of a polyatomic molecular excited state. In 1948 this to allow observation of the rotational spectrum of the resulted in 12 consecutive papers in the Journal of the complex. It concluded that, for several reasons, the He is survived by his wife Jennifer and their three Throughout his twenty five years in charge, David Chemical Society in pages 406-516, under the generic strenuously championed the cause of having good quality title Excited States of Benzene. Eleven of the papers optimum system involved CH3CN and HF. children, and two children from his first marriage. in-house technical support for a department increasingly were on Francesca’s Ph.D. work. She was awarded the The new spectrometer freed the operator to concentrate By A. C. Legon reliant on sophisticated analytical instrumentation to Ramsay Medal for the academic year 1946/47. on the chemistry. John (with Steve Rogers, 1974- maintain its top rated position in research and teaching. 77) worked long and hard on the difficult problem of He oversaw removal from the cramped conditions of These were the days when there were two Students’ temperature control, developed a cooling method Room C6 in the old building to the spacious D17/OB29; Unions, Women’s and Men’s. Francesca was President involving liquid nitrogen, and was finally successful in then to A10/0222 in the old and finally G16 in the new. of the Women’s Union and Tony James (later Sir Tony James), another chemist, was President of the Men’s observing the beautiful rotational spectrum of CH3CN... He was always keen to advance the gradings and careers Union. HF. Others systems, such as HCN...HF and H2O...HF,
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Marriage to a lecturer in Hull University, and motherhood, The fi rst time I really engaged with the fact that Mum So thank you Mum from all of us, and from all your a fi rst rate scientist with deep interest in many branches precluded her from following an academic career and was a teacher was when she was teaching at St Mary’s colleagues in Hull, York and elsewhere, for your wisdom, of inorganic chemistry and spectroscopy. He rapidly she took up school teaching. Her son Bernard, says that Girls High School in Hull. As one of the few staff who insight, determination and dedication; your generosity of became familiar with the handling and servicing of when she was a teacher at St Mary’s Girls High School wasn’t a practising nun, she was given the challenge spirit; and your inexhaustible desire to give every child lasers, Raman Spectrometers and computers; on the in Hull, as one of the few staff who wasn’t a practising of introducing sex education into the strict Catholic the best possible chance. We all aspire to follow your specifi cs of which he has little prior knowledge. Despite nun, she was given the challenge of introducing sex curriculum. She used to come home very excited at amazing example. signifi cant damage to his hands caused by a bus education into the strict Catholic curriculum. She used all the new words she had learned from her teenage accident in Romania, Dr Ciomartan became technically to come home very excited at all the new words she students, and insisted on running them by me to check one of the most able within Professors Clark’s group had learned from her teenage students, and insisted on their meaning and spelling before the next lesson. Her at running all the Raman equipment as well as all the running them by him to check their meaning and spelling infl uence at St Marys proved to be global; when Julie, I ancillary equipment. In summary, he became technically before the next lesson. and the boys moved to the USA in 1994, the fi rst English excellent, widely read and was deeply interested in person we met turned out to be an ex-pupil of Mum’s. all matters scientifi c. He produced four papers with She then worked at Kelvin Hall Secondary School, as Professor Clark. a Chemistry Teacher and Deputy Head, and took some She then worked at Kelvin Hall Secondary School, as a time off to study for a Masters Degree in Chemistry Chemistry Teacher and Deputy Head, and quickly gained Dr Ciomartan could carry out physical measurements Education at the University of York. This was the start a reputation as a dedicated teacher but also – before of all kinds and scientifi cally he worked in association of a collaboration with the University of York and the the availability of computer software to help – a genius with David Michael (a BSc student of Professor Clark’s) Salters Institute through which she helped to pioneer at creating timetables designed to give students the in 1987/8 (2-term project in third year) making 1:2:3 the development of a new approach to science biggest possible choice of subject options. I remember superconductors and studying their Raman spectra at education, where students would learn science not in our dining room table covered in sheets of lessons, ca. 10 K. the traditional way but by applying it to the experiences teachers and times – and Mum moving these around like and observations of their everyday lives. The emergence some giant jigsaw puzzle till it all made sense. Dr Ciomartan was very sincere, wholly reliable and of the Salters Science Course several years later was immensely grateful for any assistance one could give testament to her enthusiasm and drive, and her ability to While at Kelvin, she took some time off to study a him. He was an excellent colleague and one we would inspire others with her vision. masters in Chemistry Education at the University of have liked to retain at UCL. He left UCL for Manchester York. This was the start of a collaboration with the in 1988/89. She had a life-long determination to give every child University of York and the Salters Institute through which the best possible chance in life, and in retirement she Mum pioneered the development of a completely new continued this as a governor at Castleton Primary School. approach to science education, where students would learn science not in the traditional way but by applying ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– it to the experiences and observations of their everyday lives. The emergence of the Salters Science course Mum several years later was testament to Mum’s enthusiasm By Bernard Garforth and determination, and her ability to inspire others with ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– her vision. When I started teaching in 2002, long after One of the lovely experiences of the past two weeks Mum had retired, it was lovely to be able to tell her that has been to read the tributes from Mum’s colleagues in those Salters science books were still in use – as part of Obituary the various educational establishments she has worked what we now call Applied Science - with her name still in in during her life. Thanks to Sister Mary Emelda, Jo the credits. Rodmell, David Waddington and others, we have been Dr Dan Ciomartan reminded of details of Mum’s teaching career that we Even in retirement she found a way to carry on 1938 – 2015 may otherwise have forgotten. contributing, as a governor at Castleton Primary School. In that role, she was proud to have been the guest of We are very sad to report that Dr Dan Ciomartan sadly Mum was brilliant at many things. She obtained a honour – as one of Wordsworth’s descendants – at the passed away last year aged 77. fi rst class degree and doctorate in Chemistry, a major school’s celebration of the 200th anniversary of his poem achievement anyway, but particularly for a woman at that “Daffodils”. The photo of Mum, surrounded by small Dr Ciomartan was a remarkable person. He came to Professor Robin Clark’s Research Group in 1990. time and in view of the disruption to her studies caused by children and daffodils, is one of our favourite memories. UCL Chemistry in late 1987, effectively as a refugee Dr Dan Ciomartan, far right. the war. She sometimes used to wonder aloud – with a from Romania where he had held a number of senior tinge of regret – what she might have achieved if she had Mum never gave up her interest in education. Those scientifi c positions in Bucharest. At that time Romania continued her career in chemical research – something of us – me, Sally, Manfred, Martin, Rachel – who are or was denying anyone access to any scientifi c text either we never quite understood about benzene rings - rather have been teachers have all enjoyed long conversations at home or in research laboratories. He suffered early than stopping to assume the responsibilities of marriage with Mum about classroom practice, how things have morning raids to remove books from his home and and motherhood. She would undoubtedly have been an changed and – more often than not – how things have imprisonment. exceptional chemist and made all kinds of exciting new really not changed at all. We all know from our own discoveries. In the end however, apart from looking after experience, how hard Mum must have worked to do all He joined Professor Robin Clark’s research group on all of us, the activity that defi ned Mum – when she was she did in school and manage all the demands of her Raman Spectroscopy on the strength of his obvious at her passionate and determined best – was teaching. home life at the same time. expertise in spectroscopy and integrity; indeed he was
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William Ramsay’s Pli Cacheté of 1894 Experiments on the nitrogen in the air By Alwyn Davies William Ramsay, F.R.S. Professor of Chemistry in University College, London Since 1735 the French Académie des Sciences has had a system by which a researcher or inventor can lay claim to a discovery or invention without publishing it. An account, signed by the author, is deposited with the Permanent Guided by the experiments of Lord Rayleigh on the density of nitrogen, which show that the nitrogen obtained from the Secretary of the Academy where it is put into a packet sealed with wax, called a Pli Cacheté or Pacquet Sceleé (sealed air by means of copper metal is more dense by one part in 231 than the nitrogen obtained by chemical means from packet; Figure 1); thereafter it is known only by a registration number. The author can then ask for it to be opened at a ammonia, or from nitrous acid, I have studied the residue after a large quantity of nitrogen from air has been absorbed later date if he wants to make a claim for priority: in some ways it is the equivalent of a patent. by means of magnesium at red heat. I started with 20 litres of nitrogen, and after I reduced its volume to 200 cubic centimetres its density is increased to about 16.1 times that of hydrogen. We must conclude that the air contains an More than 18,000 were deposited between 1735 and 2012. In 1976, to keep the growing number in check, the unknown gas that may be a new element or perhaps an allotropic modification of nitrogen. That it is not a gas already Academy adopted a procedure by which plis cachetés are opened if they have remained sealed for 100 years or more. known is proved by the fact that this gas, after being passed over copper and copper oxide, both at red heat, slaked Some can be discarded immediately but ones of lime, and phosphorus pentoxide, does not change its specific weight. It cannot contain hydrogen, which would reduce historical interest are published, with commentaries, its weight, nor oxygen, nor carbon dioxide, or nitrogen oxides, nor a hydrocarbon, nor ammonia. Furthermore, there is in the Academy’s journals. not a gas that would escape the action of these absorbents. But the gas which I have obtained still contains nitrogen; at least, it still is absorbed by magnesium. I am inclined to believe that there is formed, apart from magnesium nitride, a complex of gas X with the magnesium, but the metal preferentially absorbs nitrogen.
I hope to decide soon if the gas is a modification of nitrogen, perhaps N3, or a new element, by carrying out the Figure 1 Plis Cachetés absorption by magnesium, making each experiment more quantitative by volume, and by measuring the ammonia or a combination of X with hydrogen, I can decide what is its approximate atomic weight. If it happens that I have a new gaseous element, I intend to name it Eikazote, with the symbol Ez. On 10 June 2004 the Commission des Plis Cachetés opened packet 5038 which turned out to be from William Ramsay. It is reproduced in Comptes Rendus Chimie with a commentary by Yves Jeannin.1 Its title, in French, is To end this note, it should be recognised that it is to Lord Rayleigh, with whom I have been in communication, that this Experiments on the nitrogen of the air, and it was deposited in discovery is credited; he has shown the place to explore; I found the means to isolate this novel gas. July 1894. Unfortunately, the space where one would hope to William Ramsay find the precise date in the covering note is blank (Figure 2). He could not start the work until teaching and examinations He describes briefly the isolation of a heavier gas when atmospheric nitrogen is passed over red-hot magnesium and were over at the beginning of July so this must represent less the inertness which this gas shows to a variety of potential absorbents. He accepts that he may have a new element than a month’s work. (equation 1) but is inclined to believe that the nitrogen reacts with magnesium to form magnesium nitride but, less readily, also reacts to give new gas, perhaps a trimer of nitrogen (equation 2) which would be equivalent to ozone.
He proposes to carry out the experiment quantitatively. Hydrolysis of the magnesium nitride gives ammonia and if he can show that ammonia is formed quantitatively from the initial nitrogen there can be no nitrogen in the unknown gas and it must be a new element. If it is, he proposes to call it Eikazote and give it the symbol Ez.
Ramsay carried out those check experiments and decided that indeed he had got a new element, and on August 4 he wrote to Lord Raleigh to announce the discovery of what Figure 2. Ramsay’s covering note came to be called argon. The paper occupies a single page in Ramsay’s hand writing in French The first few lines are shown in Figure 3. It is rather surprising that Ramsay should feel the need to register his prior claim to isolating a new gas from the air. The only other person whom we know to have been working with the same aim at that time was Lord Rayleigh but he was a collaborator rather than a competitor and Ramsay generously acknowledges Rayleigh’s work in the in the first and last paragraphs of the pli.
1. Yves Jeannin, Comptes Rendus Chimie, 2009, 8, 3-7. 2. Most of Ramsay’s handwriting can be read with confidence but there are some words in the penultimate paragraph which we have found difficult to read and an alternative translation might be better, though this should not affect the overall meaning. Readers are invited to download the paper and suggest improvements.
I am grateful to Robin Clark for drawing my attention to Yves Jeannin’s article, and to Paul Guermond and Sheila Figure 3. The first few lines of Ramsay’s Pli Cacheté. Garratt for helping to read Ramsay’s writing. A translation is as follows. 2
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Carbon Framework Catalyst – Towards Effective Nature inspired nano-structures mean no more cleaning windows
Bi-functionality Smart windows clean themselves, save energy and mimic moth eyes to cut glare A revolutionary new type of smart window could cut window-cleaning costs in tall buildings while reducing Prof. Z. Xiao Guo’s group has recently developed a carbon framework catalyst that can function as effective heating bills and boosting worker productivity. oxygen reduction or evolution catalyst from simple control of synthesis and treatment conditions, as reported in Developed by UCL researchers (Dr Ioannis Papakonstantinou, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering an recent article in Energy and Environmental Science” (DOI: 10.1039/C6EE00551A), with leading co-author, Dr. and Prof. Ivan Parkin, Department of Chemistry) with support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Srinivas Gadipelli. (Figure reproduced from EES) Council (EPSRC), prototype samples have the potential to deliver three key benefi ts: Catalysts of such bi-functionalities are very desirable for electrochemical energy storage and conversion • Self-cleaning: The window is ultra-resistant to water, so rain hitting the outside forms spherical droplets that roll technologies, such as fuel-cells, rechargeable metal–air batteries and water electrolysers, which are greatly easily over the surface – picking up dirt, dust and other contaminants and carrying them away. This is due to the pencil-like, important for clean electric vehicles, smart power grids, and integration of renewable energy resources. However, conical design of nanostructures engraved onto the glass, trapping air and ensuring only a tiny amount of water comes into high cost has been a major obstacle hindering their wide spread applications, nearly 40% of which is due to contact with the surface. This is different from normal glass, where raindrops cling to the surface, slide down more slowly the use of expensive catalysts. Hence, a critical challenge is to identify cost-effective electrocatalysts for the and leave marks behind. oxygen reduction and evolution reactions (ORR and OER), to replace platinum and iridium oxide, respectively. Here, we report an approach of obtaining highly effective ORR and OER electrocatalysts based on nanoporous • Energy-saving: The glass is coated with a very thin (5-10 nanometre) fi lm of vanadium dioxide which during cold functionalised carbon of a cobalt-nitrogen-carbon framework system. For this highly porous, bimetallic precursor, periods stops thermal radiation escaping and so prevents heat loss; during hot periods it prevents infrared radiation from the sun entering the building. Vanadium dioxide is a cheap and abundant material, combining with the thinness of the coating zeolitic-imidazolate frameworks (CoxZn100–x) are rationally designed, formulated and subjected to different carbonization conditions. The optimized system is identifi ed through extensive screening of samples obtained to offer real cost and sustainability advantages over silver/gold-based and other coatings used by current energy-saving at different synthesis conditions, such as cobalt- and nitrogen-concentrations, degree of graphitization, porosity windows.
and oxidation state of cobalt, e.g. Co(0), Co(II)O@Co(0) and Co3(II, III)O4. Finally, it is shown that the tuneable • Anti-glare: The design of the nanostructures also gives the windows the same anti-refl ective properties found in the catalytic activity for ORR and OER can be achieved by relatively simple control over cobalt-induced graphitization. eyes of moths and other creatures that have evolved to hide from predators. It cuts the amount of light refl ected internally in This approach points to a facile direction in the design and development of cost-effective non-noble-metal a room to less than 5% – compared with the 20-30% achieved by other prototype vanadium dioxide-coated energy-saving electrocatalyst systems. windows – with this reduction in ‘glare’ providing a big boost to occupant comfort. Discussions are now under way with UK glass manufacturers with a view to driving this new window concept towards commercialisation. The key is to develop ways of scaling up the nano-manufacturing methods that the UCL team have specially developed to produce the glass, as well as scaling up the vanadium dioxide coating process. Smart windows could begin to reach the market within around 3-5 years, depending on the team’s success in securing industrial interest. A 5-year European Research Council (ERC) starting grant (IntelGlazing) has been awarded to fabricate smart windows on a large scale and test them under realistic, outdoor environmental conditions and a 3-year Horizon2020 grant (EENSULATE) has been awarded to integrate the window into the building fabric. https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/news/selfcleaningwindows/ Dr Ioannis Papakonstantinou said “The success of the project stems from the close collaboration between engineers and chemists. Without this cross-disciplinary approach, problems as complex in nature as the ones would not have been possible to be solved”.
Figure caption: A scanning electron miscroscope photograph shows the A smart glass prototype developed by the UCL team. The dark areas are pyramid-like nanostructures engraved onto glass, at 200 nm they are 100 decorated with the nanostructures, which signifi cantly suppress refl ections. times smaller than a human hair. Controlling the surface morphology at They also repel water forcing it to form nearly spherical droplets and the nanoscale allows scientists us to tailor how the glass interacts with preventing it from wetting the surface of the glass. The UCL logo is made liquids and light with high precision. Photo: Courtesy Alaric Taylor. of untreated glass and appears signifi cantly more refl ective compared with its surrounding region. Photo: Courtesy Alaric Taylor.
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