Prize for Scott!
A belated congratulations to Scott, who is funded by the CRITICAT CDT programme and won a prize for his flash summary of his Ph.D. project at the CRITICAT Firbush retreat earlier this month (12-14 June). Not a bad way…
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Makoto Fujita visits St Andrews
On Friday 19 May – Saturday 20 May the School of Chemistry welcomed Prof. Makoto Fujita (University of Tokyo) as an EaStChem Colloquium speaker. As well as delivering an inspirational lecture on Friday, spanning…
MASC 2016
The whole group made the short journey down to Edinburgh to attend the annual meeting of the RSC Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry interest group on 15-16 December 2016. Guillaume presented a poster…
2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Fantastic news on Wednesday this week (5 October 2016) when Ben Feringa, Jean-Pierre Sauvage and J. Fraser Stoddart were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines”. This…
Ulm International Workshop on Dynamic Covalent Chemistry
Euan spent a very enjoyable Wednesday presenting the group’s work at the University of Ulm at a Workshop on Dynamic Covalent Chemistry “A Central Tool for the Central Science“. It was an excellent and very informative…
Kay group putting championships
We took a Friday afternoon trip to play the famous ‘Himalayas’ putting course in St Andrews. Amazingly none of the group apart from Euan had experienced this St Andrews institution before. Prior experience, however,…
Molecular Sensors and Molecular Logic Gates
From 24th to 28th July, Euan was in Bath at the 5th International Conference on Molecular Sensors and Molecular Logic Gates (MSMLG 2016). As well as giving a flash presentation, it was great to be involved in…
Faraday Discussion: Nanoparticles with Morphological and Functional Anisotropy
Euan participated in the Faraday Discussion on Nanoparticles with Morphological and Functional Anisotropy in Glasgow, UK (4-6 July 2016). Faraday Discussions are an exciting format where the majority of time is devoted…
Gordon Research Conference: Noble Metal Nanoparticles
Euan presented a poster summarizing the group’s work on Dynamic covalent control of nanoparticle properties and assembly at the 2016 Gordon Research Conference on Noble Metal Nanoparticles (June 19–24 2016, Mount…
Welcome Marek and Virginie
This month we welcome two visitors to the group; coming to enjoy summer in sunny St Andrews. Marek Kaminski is from Warsaw, Poland. He graduated with a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Warsaw in 2014, and is…