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UCL Chemistry NEWSLETTER UCL DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY NEWSLETTER 2013 UCL Chemistry NEWSLETTER Contents Welcome to the Newsletter 1. Introduction This has been another exciting year in the Chemistry Department. We have continued to produce excellent publications across all sections of the discipline, including new insights into the origins of life, new discriminating gas 2. Staff Highlights and News sensors, developing fundamental understanding of catalytic processes and determining the correct band alignment 3. Student Highlights and News in photocatalytic systems. The department has made a number of new academic staff appointments with two new Professors; Giuseppe Battaglia and Francesco Gervasio, who bring research into membrane structures and biological 4. Alumni Matters computational modelling over multiscales. At lecturer level Dr Hugo Bronstein and Dr Matthew Blunt have joined us to work on organic solar cells and surface analysis. We also have two Crick Fellows join the department; Jamie Christie 5. Research Highlights and Kreso Bucar who work on computational biomaterials and crystal polymorphs. We have further developed our 6. Grants and Contracts links with the Harwell Campus with the appointment of Dr David Scanlon as a lecturer, who works on computational chemistry of condensed oxide systems. 7. Talks/presentations Our grant income has grown since last year and as of 1st of July we had the largest EPSRC funded portfolio of any 8. Publications chemistry department in the country (£39M). We also have over 200 postgraduate students and 65 PDRAs working in the department. The department has expanded into the Harwell Campus site through a series of EPSRC funded 9. Staff initiatives that have been championed by Professor Richard Catlow. We now have a significant research present at the Harwell Campus; this research effort makes considerable use of the Diamond Light Source. Dr Andy Beale has started as an EPSRC Advanced Fellow based at Harwell and UCL. The department was awarded £1.5M of equipment funding from the EPSRC. This has enabled us to acquire two new powder XRD instruments, two upgrades to existing powder diffractometers, a new single crystal instrument (Cu and Mo sources), two mass spectrometers and an ATM instrument. UCL Chemistry will act as a hub university for these instruments and allow usage from local universities including IC, KCL, QMUL, KCL, Kent, Greenwich and the OU. Introduction At the time of writing the department was making the final touches to our REF submission. This has involved a large amount of administrative work.; in particular the current submission uses impact statements for the first time, which Many thanks go to Nicola Best for detail the impact of specific research work from the department during the period 2008-2013. They can be based organising this year’s newsletter and on work that was published from 1993 onward. Specific cases that will be included in our submission include Mike to Tracy Hankey at UCL Creative Abraham’s solvation equations and their use in biomedicine, Robin Clark’s work on the use of Raman microscopy Media Services for her help. in artworks and David William’s work on gas sensors. We hope this newsletter gives a Wendy Brown left UCL Chemistry to take up a Chair Position at the University of Sussex and Susan Perkin left to take flavour of the exciting chemistry and up an academic position at Oxford University. We thank both of them for their work in helping to build the department family atmosphere achieved in the and wish them both success in the future. department. It is not an exhaustive The departments’ efforts in energy conservation were recognised with a commendation from the National SET Awards. document but can provide a number Many thanks go to Professor Andrea Sella for championing this between his busy filming and teaching schedules. of contact points to the wide variety of activity that occurs in the Personal thanks to Professor Derek Tocher for acting as Departmental Tutor for the last 12 years. He stepped down department. from the role at the end of July and has been replaced by Dr Simon Banks. Our intake has increased again this year; we will have over 140 new undergraduates on chemistry programmes start this year. This was not that much of a surprise as we had over a 30% increase in UCAS applications this year, the highest at UCL. In addition to the straight chemists there are around 130 natural sciences starting in the faculty, many of whom will do substantive parts of the chemistry course. The quality of the intake is particularly impressive with few exceptions the vast majority of the students have AAA or better. Many thanks to Dr Dewi Lewis for chemistry and Dr Jeremy Cockcroft for natural sciences for being such excellent Admissions Tutors. Jeremy steps down from the role this year; he has overseen a rapid expansion in natural sciences numbers that have more than doubled over the last four years. By Professor Ivan Parkin ChemUCL 2013 STAFF HIGHLIGHTS AND NEWS NEW ACADEMICS Matthew’s research centres around molecular self-assembly on surfaces. This topic has led to a broad spectrum of work ranging Giuseppe Battaglia from fundamental physical chemistry with the thermodynamics of Giuseppe (or Beppe as most people call self-assembly through to the formation of structures with potential him), obtained his Laurea degree in Chemical technological applications such as 2D covalent-organic frameworks Engineering from the Universita degli Studi (COFs) and functional molecular networks. Recent research di Palermo in Italy in 2001. He specialised highlights include the first reported example of an entropically during his final year project for his Laurea stabilised random molecular network and the formation of light in Macromolecular Biomaterials and started responsive molecular structures constructed from azobenzene working in close collaboration with the Imperial functionalised nanoporous networks. In the future Matthew’s group Chemical Industries Strategy Technology will continue to investigate molecular self-assembly with a focus Group (ICI STG). Beppe was employed by on how the structures that it produces can be applied in areas ICI straight after his first degree and relocated to the Wilton Centre of nanotechnology such as dye-sensitized solar cells, molecular (Redcar) where he worked on projects between Colloid Science and electronics and the development of novel sensors. Particle Technology. After a year of industrial research, he relocated to Sheffield where he undertook an ICI sponsored PhD in Soft Matter Physical Chemistry under the guidance of Prof Anthony Ryan. There, he started working on the study of water based self-assembly Hugo Bronstein particularly focusing on amphiphilic membrane enclosed structures Hugo Bronstein has joined the department as formed by synthetic polymers. Straight after his PhD (2006), he Lecturer in Organic Chemistry. He received was appointed to a fixed term lectureship within the Department his PhD at Imperial College in 2009 under of Material Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield the supervision of Prof. Charlotte Williams where he joined the Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Group. developing novel electrophosphorescent This allowed Beppe to translate his soft materials into biomedical polymers for use in Organic Light Emitting applications such as drug and gene delivery as well as cell engineering. Diodes (OLEDs). He then moved to the In 2009, Beppe relocated to a permanent position in the Department University of Washington to undertake of Biomedical Science, also at the University of Sheffield, where he postdoctoral research for Prof. Christine was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2010 and to a Personal Chair in Luscombe developing catalytic initiators for conjugated polymer 2011. Beppe joined the Department of Chemistry at UCL this March synthesis. In 2010 he returned to Imperial College to work for Prof. and he’s now the Professor of Molecular Bionics leading a 17 strong Iain McCulloch synthesising novel conjugated polymers for use in group of researchers working at the interface between physical and organic solar cells (OPV) and transistors (OFETs), after which he life science. He is interested in research problems that require a was awarded a junior research fellowship in 2012. considerable understanding of biology to tackle clinical challenges via Hugo has previously been involved in the study of heavy metal the development of new physical and nanotechnological approaches. complex containing polyfluorenes, the synthesis of ultra-high The group starts identifying the tools necessary to tackle the specific mobility planar donor-acceptor copolymers and the synthesis of biological problem, they subsequently study in detail the interactions diketopyrrolopyrrole based narrow band gap polymers. between the nanostructured materials and living systems often adapting and/or developing new techniques. Finally, they translate His research interests involve the synthesis of conjugated materials these for addressing specific clinical challenges by using detailed (small molecules and polymers) for use in next generation organic pharmacological and biomedical characterisations. They approach electronics. Research efforts at UCL will involve the synthesis of this by combining fundamental science with engineering coalescing novel electron rich conjugated polymers and polymer-metal complex expertise from across disciplines such as synthetic chemistry, systems for use in organic solar cells and transistors. polymer science,
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