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Description: The first students to graduate on the jointly taught East China University of Science and Technology(ECUST)/University of Nottingham dual BSc(Hons) degrees in Chemistry and Chemical Sciences have successfully completed their courses.
Date:: 08/07/2015

Description: Congratulations to Professor Katharine Reid, our head of Physical Chemistry and Professor Ivan Powis who have been awarded a grant of €3.2m for their cross-national networking project, Angular Studies of Photoelectrons in Innovative Research Environments (ASPIRE).
Date:: 26/06/2015

Description: Published in the leading journal Nature Chemistry, recent work by Ben Gardner, a postdoctoral researcher in the research group led by Prof. Steve Liddle, has reported the first examples of uranium with covalent single, double, and triple bonds to arsenic.
Date:: 19/06/2015

Description: Two University of Nottingham chemists have joined the ranks of illustrious winners of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Corday-Morgan Awards. Forty seven previous winners of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Awards have gone on to win Nobel Prizes for their pioneering work, including Harry Kroto, Fred Sanger and Linus Pauling.
Date:: 07/05/2015

Description: Anna Bertram, the School of Chemistry's Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory Manager, is travelling to Alcobendas in northern Madrid to compete in the European Duathlon Championships on 26th April where she will be representing Great Britain.
Date:: 23/04/2015

Description: Dr Yantao Chen (AstraZeneca, Sweden) and Year in Industry undergraduate, James Gibson, have published a one-pot synthesis of sulfonimidamides in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal, RSC Advances. This study provides a new structural modification approach for sulfonamides, which might in the future be of benefit drug discovery and development.
Date:: 12/02/2015

Description: Scientists from the School of Chemistry have discovered a ground-breaking technique with the potential to dramatically reduce the amount of energy used in the refinement of crude oil. Professor Martin Schröder and Dr Sihai Yang have led a multi-disciplinary team of scientists from Nottingham, ISIS Neutron Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Diamond Light Source, to discover a porous material that works like a chemical sponge to separate a number of important gases from mixtures generated during crude oil refinement.
Date:: 27/01/2015

Description: Work towards a treatment for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) carried out by 4th year MSci students in the School in collaboration with GSK has recently been published in ACS Medicinal Chemistry letters.
Date:: 15/01/2015

Description: Professor Martyn Poliakoff has been knighted in the Queen's New Year Honours 2015.
Date:: 31/12/2014

Description: A high pressure reactor, designed by chemists and engineers in the School of Chemistry and marketed worldwide by Asynt, won the Lab Innovations Lions' Lair competition for the best piece of new laboratory technology in 2014.
Date:: 15/11/2014

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