Welcome to the School of Chemistry news page, featuring the latest awards, achievements and acknowledgements attributed to academics, postgraduates and undergraduates.
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- The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded for lithium-ion batteries. Professor Peter Slater, Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of Birmingham, explains the chemistry inside the batteries.
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- 15/10/2019
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- Malaria is a killer.
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- 02/10/2019
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- Two University of Birmingham researchers have been awarded Future Leaders Fellowships as part of a new £78 million investment announced today by UK Research and Innovation.
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- 25/09/2019
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- A group of scientists at the University of Birmingham have been shortlisted by the Royal Society of Chemistry for this year's Emerging Technologies Competition.
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- 13/09/2019
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- Our dear friend and colleague, Professor Roy Johnston, 58, has passed away after a long illness.
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- 10/09/2019
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- A way of making organic polymers from the fragrant molecules in conifers and fruit trees has been developed by scientists at the University of Birmingham.
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- 06/09/2019
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- Scientists at the University of Birmingham have created an antimicrobial coating for steel surfaces which has proven to rapidly kill bacteria that cause some of the most common hospital-acquired infections.
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- 28/08/2019
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- Professor Roy Johnston sadly passed away on Friday 16 August 2019.
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- 22/08/2019
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- Professor Dirk-Peter Herten's interdisciplinary research spans from microscopy techniques over switchable fluorescent probes to biological applications.
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- 12/08/2019
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- Researchers at the University of Birmingham have shown that it's possible to produce a compound with anti-cancer properties directly from feverfew – a common flowering garden plant.
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- 01/08/2019
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