Sol-gel precursors for ceramic oxides with applications as electrochromics, protective coatings, sensors and optical films; organometallics and related complexes as precursors for semiconductor and microelectronic materials; microporous materials including zeolites and pillared clays; metal fullerides and supramolecular complexation of fullerences; inorganic glasses (non-oxide); liquid crystals for opto-electronic devices, buckminster-fullerenes; new conducting polymeers, recyclable polymers.
Self-assembly of multicomponent systems based on host-guest chemistry; molecular recognitions of fullerenes and other golubular molecules; supramolecular indicated transport of molecules across membranes; molecular and supramolecular photonic devices.
Novel ions conducting polymers for applications in batteries, capacitors and electrochromic windows; improving the properties of polymer blends; polyurethane elastomers and foams.
Spectroscopy in supersonic jets; laser detection of gases released in coal gasification; high resolution FTIR spectroscopy of trnasients and atmospheric species; IR spectroscopy of biological molecules, mircowave investigation of the molecular processes of interstellar masers; molecular structures of small molecules and highly reactive compounds from spectroscopy and computational chemistry; x-ray crystallography, magnetochemistry, solution and solid state spectroscopy and electron microscopy in structural evaluation.
Total synthesis of biologically and clinically important molecules, including antiobiotics, antifungals, antivirals, marine toxins and steroids; heterocyclic synthesis, including a wide variety of oxygen and nitrogen-containing heterocycles, many of which are found in important, bio-active molecules; stereoselective methods, design of new reactions using enzymes and organotransition metal catalysts, ring expansion and contraction reactions, conjugate additions; invention of chemical reagents and new chemical reactions, including metal-based systems; synthetic methods for organometallics, coordination complexes, clusters, heterometallic species, metallopolymers and fluorocarbon compounds; organometallics of main group elements, d-block metals, rare earths including catalysts, reagents for organic synthesis, and novel clusters; metal complexes, including amides, imides, oxides, alkoxides, divergent receptor molecules; metal ion hydrolysis products, corrosion inhibitors; catalysis of polymerisation and hydroformylation; element-carbon bond activation.
New ligands for asymmetric synthesis; investigation of reaction mechanisms by application of semi-empirical and ab-initio calculations; ab-initio calculations in supramolecular chemistry.
Development of coal dewatering processes; characterisation of coal structure and coal-water interactions; humic acids for soil improvement; bitumen from coal; liquid fuels from coal; active carbon manufacture and applications; catalytic processes in fuel science; applications of molecular modelling to fuel science.
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