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