MRes Projects
The Molecular Engineering MRes includes a 6 month collaborative, multidisciplinary research project. Every project has two academic supervisors from different disciplines, and at least one industrial supervisor. Each student undertakes a 3 month research placement hosted by one of our external partners, as an integrated component of their project.
| Project name | Industrial partner | Acedemic supervisor |
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Conducting Polymers |
BASF | Martin Heeney (Chemistry), Jason Hallett (Chemical Engineering) |
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Equation of State Phase Equilibrium Modelling |
BASF | George Jackson (Chemical Engineering), Niall Mac Dowell (Centre for Environmental Policy) |
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Characterisation of Disperse Systems |
BASF | Jason Riley (Materials), Jerry Heng (Chemical Engineering) |
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Factors Driving Phase Instability |
P&G | Claire Adjiman (Chemical Engineering), Paul Luckham (Chemical Engineering) |
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Ionic Liquid Modelling via Molecular Dynamics |
STFC, PSE | Patricia Hunt (Chemistry), George Jackson (Chemical Engineering) |
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Industrial ingredient specification interpretation |
P&G | George Jackson (Chemical Engineering), Mimi Hii (Chemistry) |
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Data generation procedures for the accurate parameterization of reactive SAFT EoS |
P&G, PSE | Amparo Galindo (Chemical Engineering), Fernando Bresme (Chemistry) |
| Project name | Industrial partner | Acedemic supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Design of high-throughput experiments to gain reaction understanding | Lilly UK | Claire Adjiman (Chemical Engineering), Mimi Hii (Chemistry) |
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Screening of Precipitation Processes by Combining Microfluidics and X-ray Scattering |
BASF | Joao Cabral (Chemical Engineering), Nick Brooks (Chemsitry) |
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Equation of State Phase Equilibrium Modelling |
BASF | George Jackson (Chemical Engineering), Fernando Bresme (Chemistry) |
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Process performance indexed solvent design for CO2 capture |
BP | Niall Mac Dowell (Centre for Environmental Policy), Jason Hallett (Chemical Engineering), George Jackson (Chemical Engineering) |
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Prediction of solubility |
Syngenta | Claire Adjiman (Chemical Engineering), Jerry Heng (Chemical Engineering) |
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Molecular dynamics modelling of ionic liquids |
STFC Daresbury | George Jackson (Chemical Engineering), Patricia Hunt (Chemistry) |
| Project name | Industrial partner | Acedemic supervisor |
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Photochemistry in Flow |
BASF | Mimi Hii (Chemistry), Klaus Hellgardt (Chemical Engineering) |
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Interaction of insecticides with model insect membranes and barriers |
BASF | Nick Brooks (Chemistry), Oscar Ces (Chemistry) |
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High-throughput and automation of catalysis assays: Copper-mediated trifluoromethylation of aryl halogenides |
BASF | Mimi Hii (Chemistry), Ben Deadman (Chemistry) |
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Understanding surfactant and polymer adsorption at mineral surfaces |
BP |
Janet Wong (Mechanical Engineering), Nic Harrison (Chemistry) |
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Crystal structure prediction: big data and state of the art molecular modelling for pharmaceuticals and organic semiconductors |
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre | Claire Adjiman (Chemical Engineering), Kim Jelfs (Chemistry) |
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Controlled release of Pharmaceuticals |
P&G |
Claire Adjiman (Chemical Engineering), Fernando Bresme (Chemistry) |
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Miniature Surface Acoustic Wave Sensors for Remote Temperature Measurement in Instrumentation |
Surface Measurement Systems |
Daryl Williams (Chemical Engineering), Ali Yetisen (Chemical Engineering) |
| Project name | Industrial partner | Acedemic supervisor |
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Moving towards low-cost solar generation of H2 fuel – can metal oxide heterojunctions make this a reality? |
Redoxme | Andreas Kafizas (Chemistry), Anna Hankin (Chemical Engineering) |
| Smart light-activated surfaces to tackle infection and antimicrobial resistance | Surface Measurement Systems | Saif Haque (Chemistry), Ali Salehi-Reyhani (Surgery & Cancer) |
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Can buildings purify the air we breathe? Developing photocatalytic coatings on window glass that use sunlight to remove NOx pollution |
Pilkington NSG | Andreas Kafizas (Grantham Institute & Chemistry), James Durrant (Chemistry) |
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3D Printed synthetic tissues for screening hazardous cosmetics |
BEIS |
Mark Friddin (Design Engineering), Connor Myant (Design Engineering) |
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Crystal Structure Prediction: big data and state of the art molecular modelling for pharamaceuticals and organic semiconductors |
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre | Claire Adjiman (Chemical Engineering), Isaac Sugden (Chemical Engineering) |
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Microchip-based wearable monitoring system for the optimisation of antimicrobial dosing |
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust |
Pantelis Georgiou (EEE), Alison Holmes (Infectious Disease & Centre for Antimicrobial Optimisation) |
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Interaction of insecticides with model insect membranes and barriers |
BASF |
Nick Brooks (Chemistry), Oscar Ces (Chemistry) |
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Recycling oriented steel design |
BASF |
Rupert Myers (Civil & Environmental Engineering), Emilio Martinez-Paneda (Civil & Environmental Engineering) |
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Ab-initio Simulations of Clay Particles in Saline Solution |
BP | Nic Harrison (Chemistry), Laura Ratcliff (Materials) |
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Molecular Simulations of Carbon Black in Aqueous Solution |
BP |
Erich Muller (Chemical Engineering), Nic Harrison (Chemistry) |
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The role of electrochemically generated radicals in polymer coating failures |
BASF |
Mary Ryan (Materials), Nic Harrison (chemistry) |
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A multiscale model of undercoating corrosion |
BASF | Nic Harrison (Chemistry), Mary Ryan (Materials) |
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Monitoring bioreactors in real-time to maintain optimal culture conditions of metabolically engineered yeast for biofuels |
Ali Salehi-Reyhani (Surgery & Cancer), Rodrigo Ledesma Amaro (Bioengineering) | |
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Automating Biology - self-guided robotic isolation of rare cancer cells using deep learning |
Ali Salehi-Reyhani (Surgery & Cancer), Charles Coombes (Surgery & Cancer) | |
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Beating cancer one cell at a time – a microfluidic platform to capture circulating tumour cells in the blood |
Ali Salehi-Reyhani (Surgery & Cancer), Charles Coombes (Surgery & Cancer) | |