Take a look at our current research projects, and opportunities to join the group.
Current projects:
PolyForm Future Leaders Fellowship: a unified approach to biodegradable polymers for fabric care formulations
Working in partnership with Procter and Gamble, this project aims to transform both the performance and environmental footprint of an essential human activity – the cleaning of textiles and hard surfaces. The PolyForm team are developing the fundamental capabilities for sustainable, high-performance cleaning by developing new tools, models and synthetic routes to generate novel sustainably-sourced polymers for formulation within consumer goods products.
Development of tools to detect and differentiate pathogens
Modern healthcare has enabled vast improvements in human life expectancy and quality of life, but a significant barrier to further improvements in treatments of many diseases is the lack of rapid diagnostic tests to enable their timely identification. The development of sensors to rapidly detect bacteria and other pathogens would enable earlier diagnosis, and more appropriate treatment, for a range of infectious diseases, as well as presenting opportunities to detect these pathogens in the environment and prevent their transmission. Within this interdisciplinary project, we are developing polymer based biosensing platforms to detect bacterial proteins.
Upcoming opportunities to join the group:
We welcome enquiries about research opportunities in the group at all levels. Contact Clare to discuss potential projects.