Research group: Catalysis
Improving fuels, pharmaceuticals, agricultural and other chemical products while helping industry to move towards a less polluting, lower carbon world.
About
About our research
Catalysis plays a central role in controlling pollution and producing renewable fuels, sustainable platform chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and agricultural and other chemical products.
The development of novel catalysts that can impact energy consumption and emissions is of paramount importance for the urgently needed transition to a low-carbon world.
Coupled with advanced materials synthetic and characterisation methods, our work develops both an applied and fundamental understanding of catalyst performance.
We bring together leading research chemists and technologists to further our understanding of catalytic processes and products.
Our research specialisms include:
- catalytic converters by 3D printing that decompose exhaust emissions at lower temperatures
- electrocatalysis for sustainable energy technologies such as green hydrogen synthesis, fuel cells and the carbon dioxide reduction reaction
- surface chemistry catalysis
- optically active enzymatic and transition metal catalysts
- photocatalysis using high surface area porous materials
- synthetic organometallic chemistry
- hyperpolarisation: signal amplification by reversible exchange (SABRE)
Contact
Contact us
You can contact individual members of the team through their staff profiles.
For general enquiries, please contact our research group leads Dr Aidan M Doyle and Dr Laurie King.