Undergraduate
Undergraduate projects 2019-2020
Potential undergraduate projects in the ERG during the 2019-2020 academic year. Please come and chat to Prof Edler if you are interested in these areas (or related topics):
- Porous inorganic materials from novel green solvents
- Surfactants as solvents - characterising new nanostructured liquids
- "Molecular glove boxes" How to store biomolecules in ambient conditions
- Green emulsions for drug delivery
- Modified cellulose and starch - sustainable thickeners for personal care
- Synthesis and characterisation of bio-derived surfactants (with Simon Lewis)
- Can the solvent control enantioselectivity of reactions? (with Simon Lewis)
Undergraduate projects that took place within the ERG during the 2018-2019 academic year:
- Porous inorganic materials from novel green solvents
- "Molecular glove boxes" How to store biomolecules in ambient conditions
- Cellulose and starch - renewable thickeners for personal care
- Designer polymers for extracting membrane proteins in lipid nanodiscs (with Gareth Price)
Undergraduate projects that took place within the ERG during the 2017-2018 academic year:
- Cellulose based aerogels: production and functionality
- Surfactant-cellulose: towards novel plant based surface active complexes
- Amphiphilic hydrogen bond donors in deep eutectic solvents