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Research project

Smart Textiles for Regional Industry and Smart Specialisation Sectors

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor David Harrowven

Professor of Chemistry
Research interests
  • Organic synthesis
  • Natural products total synthesis
  • Radical and diradical chemistry
Connect with David

Email: dch2@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Richard Whitby

Professor of Chemistry
Research interests
  • Synthesis, properties and application of atomic and molecular endofullerenes.
  • The use of flow chemistry for the rapid acquisition of mechanistic and process information.
  • The synthesis of polyaromatic molecules for optoelectronic applications.
Connect with Richard

Email: R.J.Whitby@soton.ac.uk

Professor Neil White BSc, PhD, DSc, CEng, CPhys, FIET, FInstP, SMIEEE

Professor in Intelligent Sensor Systems
Research interests
  • Medical sensors
  • Intelligent sensor systemS
  • Energy harvesting
Connect with Neil

Email: nmw@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Professor Nicholas Harris

Professor
Connect with Nicholas

Email: nrh@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Professor Stephen Beeby PhD, FIEEE, FInstP, FIET, CEng, CPhys

Professor of Electronic Systems & Device
Research interests
  • Electronic Textiles
  • Flexible Electronics
  • Smart Materials
Connect with Stephen

Email: spb@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Professor Richard Brown

Professor of Organic Chemistry
Research interests
  • Organic synthesis
  • Total synthesis of natural products
  • Asymmetric synthesis
Connect with Richard

Email: R.C.Brown@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Synthesis of functional polyaromatic heterocycles and their material and medicinal applications
2025
Type: thesis
Organic semiconductor design for light-emitting electrochemical cell technology
2024
Type: thesis
Aryl-aryl cross-coupling reactions without reagents or catalysts: photocyclization of ortho-Iodoaryl ethers and related compounds via triplet aryl cation intermediates
David C. Harrowven, Wei Sun, Richard C.D. Brown & Luke Wilding-Steele, 2023, ChemComm, 59(72), 10797-10800
DOI: 10.1039/D3CC03271J
Type: article
Predictive TDDFT Methodology for Aromatic Molecules UV-Vis properties
Matthieu Hédouin, Eleonora Luppi, Oliver Ward, David Harrowven, Catherine Fressigné & Isabelle Chataigner, 2023, ChemistrySelect, 8(29)
DOI: 10.1002/slct.202301943
Type: article
High pressure promoted dearomatization of nitroarenes by [4+2] cycloadditions with silyloxydienes
Batoul Rkein, Romain Coffinier, Marian Elise Powderly, Maxime Manneveau, Morgane Sanselme, Muriel Durandetti, Muriel Sebban, Ghanem Hamdoun, Hassan Oulyadi, David C. Harrowven, Julien Legros & Isabelle Chataigner, 2022, Chemical Communications, 58(84), 11807-11810
DOI: 10.1039/D2CC04778K
Type: article