AI3SD Intern Project: Autonomous optimisation of telescoped bimetallic nanoparticle synthesis and use as the catalyst in reduction reactions.

Published date: 25 September 2021

Additional Information: Louis Greenhalgh: My name is Louis Greenhalgh, I’m a chemistry undergraduate student at the University of Leeds. My main ambition is to work within scientific industry to help advance environmentally friendly technology such as carbon capture, solar cells and electrical energy storage. I will be working Summer 2021 as an intern at the interdisciplinary Chamberlain research group at my university. I will work on the systems used in continuous-flow reactors, to help enable more efficient industrial scale-up from the laboratory setting. My main interests in chemistry are materials, analytical and physical chemistry. I am looking forward to contributing to this group’s work, and to obtain valuable research experience to take with me on my research career. Outside of chemistry, my main hobbies are fitness-oriented; I am a runner and avid hiking enthusiast. I also sing and play piano, learn German, and read fantasy in my spare time. I have just returned from a year abroad studying in Munich, Germany. I’d also like to thank the AI3SD organisation for the research grant I and the Chamberlain group will receive, and for the opportunity to complete this internship. Thomas Chamberlain: I graduated with a MSci in Chemistry in 2005 before obtaining a PhD in the synthesis of novel functional fullerene molecules and the subsequent formation of fullerene/carbon nanotube hybrid structures, 2009, both at the University of Nottingham. I then joined the Nottingham Nanocarbon group as a post-doctoral research associate studying the use of supramolecular forces, such as van der Waals and H-bonding, to organise molecules in 1D and 2D arrays utilising carbon nanotubes as quasi 1D templates. I then went on to establish the application of carbon nanotubes as catalytic nanoreactors for the formation of novel molecular and nanostructured products. I was appointed as a University Academic Fellow in Nanotechnology for Catalysis at the University of Leeds in 2015.

Local EPrints ID: 452282

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/452282

DOI: doi:10.5258/SOTON/AI3SD0146

PURE UUID: 08356189-07f8-4733-9202-3f4c6fdbf2c9

ORCID for Samantha Kanza: orcid.org/0000-0002-4831-9489

ORCID for Jeremy G. Frey: orcid.org/0000-0003-0842-4302

Date deposited: 03 Dec 2021 17:30

Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 03:51