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Keep up to date with the latest news from the Department of Chemistry.
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Two innovative research teams win Royal Society of Chemistry’s prestigious Horizon Prizes
13 Jun 2023
The Enzyme Discovery team won the Chemistry Biology Interface Horizon Prize: Rita and John Cornforth Award, while the Molecular Ratcheteers team won ...
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Manchester research captures and separates important toxic air pollutant
24 Feb 2023
Led by scientists at The University of Manchester, a series of new stable, porous materials that capture and separate benzene have been developed.
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Building a new sustainable hub for chemical engineering
1 Aug 2022
The University of Manchester is building an Industrial Hub for Sustainable Chemical Engineering with a £1m grant from the Wolfson Foundation.
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First RAF drone flight using a synthetic fuel
14 Jun 2022
MIB spin-out company, C3 BIOTECH, in collaboration with the Royal Air Force and the US Navy, have successfully flown a drone using synthetic kerosene.
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Trio of Manchester scientists win Royal Society of Chemistry prizes
7 Jun 2022
Three scientists from The University of Manchester have been awarded with prestigious prizes by The Royal Society of Chemistry for their research. ...
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Manchester spinout Chromition announces Shell Luminspheres reservoir surveillance agreement
26 May 2022
Chromition will design, prepare and test Luminspheres tracers specifically for use in Shell's reservoir environments.
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Scientists report breakthrough in transuranium actinide chemical bonding
16 Feb 2022
Scientists from The University of Manchester have managed to successfully make a transuranium complex where the central metal, here neptunium, forms a...
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Gates Foundation funding for University to develop low cost manufacturing route to the promising COVID-19 therapy Molnupiravir
3 Nov 2021
The University of Manchester has received $500,000 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a low cost manufacturing route to ...
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£9 million research programme to reinvent chemical separation methods and significantly cut total global energy consumption begins
26 Oct 2021
A £9 million project to develop new chemical processing technology that could save hundreds of millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions ...
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Chinese Government Award for Dr Jingzhen Du
5 Oct 2021
Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad awarded to Dr Jingzhen Du, in recognition of his record of outstanding ...
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