Research
Research groups
Research grants
Materials for End-to-End Hydrogen Application
HENRY ROYCE INSTITUTE (UK)
December 2021 - March 2022
New Transparent Conductors
NSG (UK) LTD
August 2022 - March 2023
Water dissociation interfaces for high current density bipolar membrane electrolysers
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
November 2022 - May 2024
Conformational control of the structure and properties of synthetic porous materials
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
April 2023 - February 2026
Advanced Device Concepts for Next-Generation Photovoltaics
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2023 - September 2028
National Interdisciplinary Centre for Circular Chemical Economy (NIC3E)
UK RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
January 2021 - March 2025
Cleaner Futures (Next-Generation Sustainable Materials for Consumer Products).
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL, UNILEVER PLC (UK)
September 2021 - February 2027
Multi-functional metal organic frameworks (MOFs) for the catalysis of cascade reaction
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY (BEIS) (UK)
January 2018 - January 2020
Chemical control of function beyond the unit cell for new electroceramic materials
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
February 2018 - January 2022
Targeted Creation of Function in Materials by Chemical Synthesis
ROYAL SOCIETY (CHARITABLE)
October 2017 - March 2023
Next Generation Lithium-Ion Cathode Materials (CATMAT)
THE FARADAY INSTITUTION (UK)
October 2019 - September 2025
Digital navigation of chemical space for function
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
December 2021 - November 2026
Catalysts for CO2 conversion
UNILEVER PLC (UK)
October 2019 - March 2024
Targeted Creation of Function in Materials by Chemical Synthesis
ROYAL SOCIETY
March 2018 - March 2024
Chemistry of open-shell correlated materials based on unsaturated hydrocarbons
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2019 - September 2023
Developing novel tools and technologies to assess the safety and efficacy of cell-based regenerative medicine therapies, focusing on kidney disease RenalToolBox
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
November 2018 - April 2023
Data-Driven Discovery of New Sorbents and Catalysts
KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (SAUDI ARABIA)
March 2017 - April 2021
New materials for photocatalytic water decontamination
ROYAL SOCIETY
December 2016 - December 2017
Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design
LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)
October 2016 - March 2027
Dynamic responsive porous crystals - Dynapore
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
October 2016 - September 2022
An in-situ LEIS facility for atomic-scale assembly manufacturing research
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
June 2016 - October 2017
Multimodal preclinical imaging probes to evaluate the safety and efficacy of regenerative medicine therapies
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
August 2016 - July 2018
Flexible Routes to Liquid Fuels from CO2 by Advanced Catalysis and Engineering
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
March 2016 - September 2021
Integration of Computation and Experiment for Accelerated Materials Discovery
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
September 2015 - September 2021
KEL 09/22 - Demonstration devices from new intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cell cathodes
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2011 - September 2012
Frustration, orbital degeneracy, new insulating states and correlation enhancement in superconducting fullerides.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
March 2004 - February 2007
The Chemical Control of Superconductivity in Boride and Borocarbide Systems
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
February 2002 - January 2005
Resilient large unit cell inorganic materials (RLUCIM)
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
April 2009 - March 2014
New microwave dielectric oxides designed by vacancy ordering in hexagonal perovskites.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
May 2004 - April 2007
Conferring bio-inspired guest response on nanoporous synthetic materials.
LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)
December 2005 - November 2008
Molecular Frameworks - Chirality and Sorption.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
November 1999 - April 2003
KEL09/04 - Manufacturing process for SrHfTiO3 high-k dielectric
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
May 2010 - May 2011
Functionalised advanced materials engineering of hybrids and ceramics (FAME).
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
October 2004 - September 2008
Chemistry of the first homochiral microporous solids.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
January 2004 - December 2006
Experiment ILL 5-31-1164.
RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY
October 2000 - September 2003
An Interdisciplinary Network on Perovskite Oxides.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2000 - March 2004
Ternery oxynitrides.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
April 2000 - February 2002
Unit-cell level assembly of complex oxides - developing a new synthetic method for oxide chemistry.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2004 - September 2007
In situ measurement of cation ordering in commercial electroceramics.
COUNCIL FOR THE CENTRAL LABORATORY OF THE RESEARCH COUNCILS
September 2003 - August 2006
KEL09/05 - Atomic layer deposition processes for treating nanostructured materials
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
January 2010 - September 2012
Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry
NORTH WEST DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (UK)
October 2008 - March 2012
Transition metal oxide hydrides - a new class of electronically active extended solid.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
January 2003 - December 2005
In vivo imaging technologies to assess the efficacy and safety of RMTs
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2013 - March 2015
Nanomaterials for clean fuels
INNOVATE UK (UK)
June 2008 - May 2013
PLATFORM: Liverpool Materials Chemistry Group (LMCG).
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
May 2004 - April 2008
Complex Oxides by Design.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
January 2002 - June 2004
A new low-temperature route to vacancy-ordered low oxidation state oxides.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
February 2001 - August 2004
MultiMOF - MARIE CURIE GRANT - INDIVIDUAL
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
September 2010 - August 2012
KEL09/13 - Molecular design and chemoinformatics: A combined approach to novel molecules
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
December 2010 - March 2012
Anchoring of metal-organic frameworks, MOFs to surfaces (SURMOF)
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
October 2006 - September 2009
Green catalyst preparation.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
December 2005 - November 2008
Sorption and reactivity in flexible amino acid-based nanoporous materials
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
April 2008 - October 2011
Neutron diffraction and inorganic materials discovery.
ROYAL SOCIETY (CHARITABLE)
November 2005 - December 2005
Chemical Synthesis of Transformative Extended Materials
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2009 - March 2015
Targeted Creation of Function in Materials by Chemical Synthesis
ROYAL SOCIETY
March 2013 - February 2018
Acquisition of single crystal diffractometer with CCD detector.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2000 - October 2003
New fullerides - powder diffraction studies of structure and bonding.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
March 2000 - September 2001
Atomic-scale structure and processing of commercial dielectric ceramics.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
January 2000 - July 2003
Impact Acceleration Account - University of Liverpool 2012
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2012 - March 2017
Regenerative Medicine Platform in Stem Cell Safety Science
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
June 2013 - March 2018
Spin and orbital physics: Research of advanced new oxides (SOPRANO)
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
October 2008 - September 2012
An Integrated Centre for Molecular Materials Chemistry and Processing in the North West.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
July 2002 - June 2007
Superconductivity and magnetism at and above 38K in molecular materials
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2009 - September 2012
Ultrastable targeted multifunctional hybrid nanomaterials for long-term stem cell tracking
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
September 2010 - October 2014
Spin, Charge and Orbital Ordering in Complex Transition Metal Oxides: An Integrated Synthesis and Measurement Approach (SCOOTMO).
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
October 2002 - March 2006
Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award.
ROYAL SOCIETY (CHARITABLE)
November 2002 - October 2007
New Directions in Molecular Superconductivity
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2013 - April 2017
PhotoCatMOF - Dye-Sensitized Metal-Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Water Splitting
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
April 2012 - March 2014
ENERMAT
EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND
January 2010 - December 2012
Modern Elemental Analysis Facilities at Liverpool.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2001 - February 2005
A Multidisciplinary SQUID Magnetometer.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
February 2001 - January 2002
Approaches to the coupling of dilute spins in oxides
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2009 - December 2012
Catalytic Routes to Intermediates for Sustainable Processes
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
February 2013 - July 2017
Novel oxides with specific magnetic/transport properties (NOVELOX).
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
November 2004 - April 2009
Complex Materials Discovery Portfolio Partnership.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2004 - September 2010
Adaptable Porous Materials
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
July 2012 - March 2016
Improved Processes and Materials for Energy Saving Glazing
INNOVATE UK (UK)
February 2009 - January 2012