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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