Our 'Lab-In-a-Box' team has been awarded Royal Society of Chemistry’s Excellence in Higher Education Prize 🥳 The Imperial Chemistry team developed kits that allowed students to conduct experiments from anywhere in the world during the pandemic. Read more about the prize 👇 ow.ly/smYg50LJzgV

Great stuff @Faysall__! Bringing the wonders of the nanoworld to the Imperial College London Lates event and flying the flag for the CDT in Smart Medical Imaging at King's & Imperial!

Recently finished my Royal Society of Chemistry Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Award lecture tour in the great city of Edinburgh. Really enjoyable and stimulating chats with colleagues there. Many thanks to Amanda Jarvis, Jenni Garden & Cowley Group! Pictures of the skyline and James Clerk Maxwell.

Many congratulations to Xin on passing her PhD viva Imperial Chemistry! It was great to celebrate with her on her return to the UK. Many thanks for the fantastic work on theranostic gold nanorods (now adorning her commemorative mug!) and all the best for the postdoc Cambridge University!

It is that time of year again! The JWE group managed to combine testing the lift capacity with the annual Christmas dinner Imperial Chemistry! It was really great that illustrious former members, Hannah Perry and Tamzin were able to join us!

Promoting this opportunity again...Pls RT...Come and join our team UCL Chemistry for a 12 month PDRA position making agents for chemical weapon detection using MRI. Deadline 5th Jan, details here: jobs.ac.uk/job/CVO046/res…

Really nice article on our work by @h_dunning. We used SIM cards but you can also use printed circuit boards, printer cartridges etc. to make catalytically-active gold complexes thanks to the technique pioneered by our collaborator Angela Serpe Università degli Studi di Cagliari!

If you wish to know more, the paper in ACS Sustainable Journals (open access) is here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

This work in ACS Sustainable Journals on the use of recovered gold complexes in catalysis has now been covered by 24 news outlets!(acs.altmetric.com/details/139729…).

Despite the best efforts of the pandemic, Rian (Imperial Chemistry CDT in Smart Medical Imaging at King's & Imperial) produced a really nice PhD thesis describing his many contributions to our work on CO probes in biological environments. Last week he passed his viva with flying colours! Congratulations, Dr Rian!!

Students never believe it when I tell them that PhD vivas often turn in to stimulating and (dare I say it) enjoyable discussions, but Rian was happy to confirm that this was indeed the case, thanks to @GroupThomas and Britovsek Group!

A little story for a wet Friday night. Near my house I found a wallet in the road. When opening it I found a bank card, some cash, a library and a youth club card. And also a front door key. The person who dropped it is 14 and could be locked out so I set out to find him….1/6

Congratulations Dr Connor Wells UCL Chemistry Imperial Chemistry on passing your viva! It was a pleasure to be part of your supervisory team. All the best for your new role with Matter_CP!

Imperial Chemistry is celebrating Black history with a talk by Sim Superville, a mentor at the Afro-Caribbean Commercial Science Network and Advanced Product Manager at Benevolent AI! 💻 There'll be dance, food and music, so make sure to join 🍾🎵

Great to be able to welcome new group members, Cliona, Steffan and Olivia today. They will each be working in a different area of the group's research programme on imaging, sensing and catalysis!

We're looking forward to contributing to the sustainability of Pd in labs @Impchemistry through the award of a Royal Society of Chemistry Sustainable Laboratories Grant! #SustainableLabs rsc.org/news-events/ar…

Congratulations to Alex, Olivia and Yan on graduating from their MRes courses Chemistry Masters Courses @Imperial College Imperial Chemistry! It was great to see them and have the chance to take some pictures with their proud supervisors and members of the group.

Delighted that our work on Pd catalysts recovered from waste is featured on the cover of the current issue of Catalysts MDPI along with many other interesting articles in the issue. mdpi.com/2073-4344/14/5

Congratulations to Yu on winning the best talk prize in the Imaging, Sensing and Analytical Chemistry section at the Imperial Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium!! Yu gave a really great talk on her nanogel work for combined imaging and therapy.

(Belated) Congratulations to Sean on passing his viva on Friday! An excellent and insightful researcher EPSRC CDT rEaCt - Imperial College London Imperial Chemistry and also great lab colleague. His work with us and Chris Braddock has been pivotal in so much of our work on catalysis using recovered metals.