Polymers

  • Frontiers in Green Materials Conference

    Stefanie is a second year PhD student working with Professor Matthew Davidson and Professor Janet Scott on the synthesis of novel bio-based polymers from terpenes. It’s early Monday morning in London a week before Christmas. I’m fighting my way through...

  • Working towards Food Security with Syngenta

    This post was contributed by George Gregory. Keen to gain industrial experience, I spent three months at Syngenta in Jeolotts Hill, Bracknell. Seeds such as corn and soya are coated with active ingredients (AIs) namely pesticides and herbicides to ensure...

  • Plastics from corn

    Our third year CSCT student, Paul McKeown took part in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition held at University of Bath. The competition challenges doctoral candidates to present a compelling spoken presentation on their research topic and its significance to...

  • Conference Report: ISACS13

    On 1–4 July 2014, CSCT student Sarah Kirk presented her research in Dublin at the 13th International Symposium for Advancing the Chemical Sciences (ISACS), a conference series run by the RSC.  This is her report. Sarah is in her  third year of the DTC,...