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  • Volunteering at The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2017

    The Royal Society, or rather, the President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, to use to the full name, was established in 1660. In the early days of the Royal Society, membership was...

  • Developing the Next Generation of Solar Cells at Oxford PV

    Since January I’ve been working with scientists and engineers at Oxford Photovoltaics, a start-up company spun out from Oxford University research that aims to scale up and commercialise perovskite solar cells (so named for the crystal structure of the absorber...

  • Our sustainable island at 'Bath Taps Into Science' Festival

    'Bath Taps into Science' is a free, educational outreach event, organised by the University of Bath, in attempt to make science accessible to all. This year, the MRes cohort created a series of fun and hands-on activities showcasing the research being...

  • 7 Reasons to Experiment Abroad

    My PhD focusses on improving materials for solar cells. One of the ways we can do this is by understanding more about their fundamental structure. So, in the last days of January I headed out to the Institute Laue-Langevin (or...

  • Team building in the wilderness

    The following post is designed by Alison Ryder and Megan Stalker to sum up Cohort 2016's three-day team building residential at Magdalen Farm where they experienced a diverse landscape, connected with nature and learnt from sustainable living.

  • A Chemical Chorus

    Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometers (aka. Hidden Force Looking Machines) use very large magnets to help study the structure of chemical molecules. When molecules are inside a magnetic field, they behave in a similar way to tiny bells which can...

  • Meet our Cohort 2016

    19 students, all passionate about sustainable chemical technologies, joined the CSCT in September this year. The following post is designed by Alison Ryder and Megan Stalker to sum up who they are, their different backgrounds and reasons for joining the Centre.  Interested in joining us next...

  • Spot the Physicist: The Secret Life of a Physicist in Chemistry

    Our anonymous Physicist shares snippets of their life in the Chemistry labs. What do you think of when you hear the word Physicist? What do you think of when you hear the word Chemist? Do you think of two very...

  • Hybrid Organic Photovoltaics Conference, Swansea, 2016

    This post was contributed by Oli Weber following his attendance at the Hybrid Organic Photovoltaics Conference (28 June - 1 July 2016). Recently Dom Ferdani (cohort ’14) and I took a trip to the south coast of Wales to attend the 2016 Hybrid Organic...

  • Beyond the Lab: Developing your Industrial Biotechnology Career

    The following blog is written by Tristan Smith. CSCT students Felix (Cohort 2015), Sonia (Cohort 14), Tristan (Cohort 13) and alumnus Anyela (Cohort 10) attended a two day training workshop run by the BBSRC NIBB Networks. It was an opportunity for current students, post-doc...