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Functional inorganic, materials and supramolecular chemistry

Our research group examines the synthesis of new materials and functional molecules that contribute to innovation and technology.

Part of Chemistry

About

We research the synthesis of functional inorganic, solid-state and supramolecular materials and assemblies. 

Through our work, we take on challenges in:

  • energy
  • sustainability
  • healthcare
  • diagnostics
  • deposition of nanostructured materials

All our research is underpinned by a background in structure determination and characterisation. We are building sold-state structural libraries to investigate the link between molecular modifications and crystal structure electron density distribution and physical properties.

We use a combination of crystallographic, physical measurement, statistical and computational approaches.

Our 3 main fields are:

  • functional inorganic chemistry
  • materials chemistry
  • supramolecular chemistry

Research highlights

A landscape image of a coal-fired power station expelling pollution into the sky.

Making new products with waste CO2

University of Southampton spin-out company, ViridiCO2, is revolutionising the sustainability of chemical manufacturing processes by making products from carbon dioxide (CO2).

People, Publications and Projects

People

Doctor Darren Bradshaw

Associate Professor

Connect with Darren

Email: d.bradshaw@soton.ac.uk

Address: B30, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

ORCID

Doctor Geoffrey Hyett

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Functional materials: photocatalysts, p-type conducivity
  • Mixed anion materials

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Geoffrey

Email: g.hyett@soton.ac.uk

Address: B30, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

ORCID

Professor Gill Reid

PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY

Research interests

  • Synthetic inorganic chemistry
  • Design and synthesis of new macrocyclic and multidentate ligands involving donor atoms from Groups 15 (P, As, Sb, Bi) and 16 (S, Se, Te)

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Gill

Email: g.reid@soton.ac.uk

Address: B30, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

ORCID

Doctor Khaled Mohammed PhD

Research Fellow

Connect with Khaled

Email: k.mohammed@soton.ac.uk

Address: B29, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

ORCID

Doctor Marianna Casavola

Research Fellow in Materials Synthesis

Connect with Marianna

Email: m.casavola@soton.ac.uk

Address: B30, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Southampton provides a great environment to exploit the amazing creativity and atomic/molecular level control that chemistry affords to contribute toward new and innovative solutions to many of the world’s greatest challenges.
Professor Gill Reid
PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY
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