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Ground-breaking study reveals that effective regulation and monitoring are crucial for addressing emissions of a super-greenhouse gas.
22 August 2024
New research has uncovered that factories worldwide are failing to adequately eliminate a highly potent greenhouse gas produced during the manufacturing of fluoropolymers, such as Teflon, and refrigerants.
- Dr Alastair Lennox receives funding to develop new treatments towards Chagas disease 10 September 2024 Dr Alastair Lennox has been awarded an International Science Partnership Fund Collaboration Award of £225,000 to work in collaboration with a team in Minas Gerais, Brazil, to develop new treatments towards Chagas disease.
- School of Chemistry academics present at ViCEPHEC 2024 10 September 2024 In August, a group of academic staff from the School of Chemistry presented talks at the Variety in Chemistry Education/ Physics Higher Education Conference (ViCEPHEC) 2024, hosted by the University of Surrey.
- Rob Harniman secures BBSRC funding for cutting-edge Atomic Force Microscopy (bio-AFM) platform 2 September 2024 School of Chemistry Technical Specialist Dr Rob Harniman has secured landmark funding of over £1m from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) for a cutting-edge Atomic Force Microscopy (bio-AFM) platform at the University of Bristol, to enhance bioscience research in multi-disciplinary programmes across life, health, physical and environmental sciences.
- Ground-breaking study reveals that effective regulation and monitoring are crucial for addressing emissions of a super-greenhouse gas. 22 August 2024 New research has uncovered that factories worldwide are failing to adequately eliminate a highly potent greenhouse gas produced during the manufacturing of fluoropolymers, such as Teflon, and refrigerants.
- Bristol Aerosol Research Centre contributes to final paper of PERFORM project 22 August 2024 Bristol Aerosol Research Centre have collaborated on a recent publication entitled 'Relationship between Exhaled Aerosol and Carbon Dioxide Emission Across Respiratory Activities'.
- Matt Rigby awarded £1m NERC grant for greenhouse gas emissions evaluation and machine learning 7 August 2024 Professor Matt Rigby has been awarded a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Pushing the Frontiers grant worth £1m on greenhouse gas emissions evaluation and machine learning.
- Woolfson and Dodding labs awarded £1.5m project grant 30 July 2024 Professor Dek Woolfson is the co-recipient of a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences (BBSRC) grant worth £1.5m for a research project entitled 'Mechanism and design of allostery in the kinesin-1 complex'.
- Varinder Aggarwal to give 2nd Ila-Junjappa Endowment Lecture at CRSI Symposium 24 July 2024 Professor Varinder Aggarwal has been selected to give the second Ila-Junjappa Endowment Lecture during the 34th National Symposium in Chemistry of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI), at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal from 6th to 9th February, 2025.
- PhD students win prizes at Great Western Electrochemistry Meeting 16 July 2024 Two School of Chemistry PhD students were awarded top prizes at the Great Western Electrochemistry meeting, which took place at the University of Bath on June 17.
- Dr Luke Western receives Dobson Award by the International Ozone Commission 28 June 2024 Dr Luke Western has been awarded the "Dobson Award for Young Scientists" by the International Ozone Commission.