2022 news

Olivia Dalby (MChem, 2021) has had her MChem project work, providing new insights into adsorption on solid surfaces, published in the journal Langmuir as the lead author.

A new approach, developed in York, significantly enhances molecular detection in dilute solutions and opens exciting new possibilities in terms of disease diagnosis.

The University of York is one of the first UK Universities to sign the Green Chemistry Commitment - a charter to train the next generation of chemists about the key principles of green chemistry.

A new approach, developed in York, allows the detection of short-lived reactive radicals, and has the potential to enhance understanding of chemical reactions, such as those taking place in Earth’s atmosphere.

Working with a team from AstraZeneca, academics from the Departments of Chemistry and Biology have developed clean and effective enzyme-mediated synthetic methods for use in the pharmaceutical industry.

An academic in the Department of Chemistry has won a prestigious European Research Council Consolidator (ERC) Grant worth £1.7 million pounds to fund transformative research in NMR spectroscopy.

An academic in the Department of Chemistry has won a prestigious European Research Council Consolidator (ERC) Grant worth £1.7 million pounds to fund transformative research in NMR spectroscopy.

York’s department of Chemistry placed 7th in the UK according to the latest release of The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide (2023).

Glassblower Abigail Mortimer has been shortlisted for the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) Outstanding Technician of the Year Award 2022.

Researchers in the Department of Chemistry have pioneered a new experimental method for training graduate students in the safe handling of air-sensitive compounds.

Researchers from the Department of Chemistry have discovered why reducing particle pollution is actually increasing surface ozone pollution in some emerging economies, negatively impacting health, ecosystems and agriculture.

The high-quality teaching in the Department of Chemistry has been recognised in the latest National Student Survey (NSS) results.

A new synthetic method developed in York, conjugate addition/ring expansion (CARE), enables the simple synthesis of a wide range of cyclic compounds that can incorporate many different functional groups.

Chemistry at York is ranked as 7th in the UK by the Complete University Guide.

An innovative method for enhancing benchtop NMR spectroscopic signals has been reported, opening new possibilities for this simple low-cost technology to be used in settings outside the traditional research lab.

Professor Alastair Lewis has received the prestigious 2022 Lord Lewis Prize from The Royal Society of Chemistry.

Professor David Smith has received the prestigious 2022 Tilden Prize from The Royal Society of Chemistry.

An academic in the Department of Chemistry at the University of York has produced a unique version of the Pride rainbow flag for York Pride celebrations this year and it carries an important additional message.

Recent research has demonstrated how hyperpolarised NMR methods can be developed to follow reaction processes with much enhanced sensitivity, opening the possibility of creating hyperpolarized pharmaceuticals and following their distribution and reactivity in the human body by MRI.

Researchers have created a comic about green and sustainable chemistry research which will be given to all of York’s primary schools.

An outstanding performance in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 sees the Department of Chemistry in the Top 10 UK chemistry departments in the Times Higher Education’s ranking of the results, with the majority of its research and impact being rated as world leading (4*).

Recent work performed in collaboration between the Universities of Manchester and York, with input from industrial partners, has uncovered a novel and powerful enzyme capable of synthesising amines with multiple chiral centres.

Professor Ron Hester, one of the original group of lecturers who set up the Department of Chemistry in York, died last month aged 86.

The Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence (GCCE) in the Department of Chemistry has appointed Professor Helen Sneddon, previously a Scientific Team Director at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), as its new Director.

The Society of Chemical Industry Yorkshire and Humber Division has awarded its ‘Science for Society Award’ to a York academic in recognition of their sustained, outstanding and influential contributions to the advancement of science education.

A PhD Student in the Department of Chemistry at the University of York, Harry Maslen, is competing in the heptathlon at the UK Indoor Championships this weekend.

A method has been developed in York to 3D-print self-assembled gel scaffolds and load them with gold nanoparticles in situ – the presence of gold has been shown to significantly enhance stem cell growth.

Professor Lucy Carpenter from the Department of Chemistry received an MBE for services to atmospheric chemistry in the Queen’s New Year Honours.

Landmark research from the Department of Chemistry has developed an innovative synthetic method, able to convert any aromatic halide into a phenol, solving a long-standing problem in organic synthesis.