Sunscreen technology
Croda Europe Ltd develops sustainable processes and produces chemical additives to meet a diverse array of customer needs. One of these developments is looking at sunscreen technologies to minimise the damage to health from exposure to sunlight.
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Centre for Energy Efficient Materials
ceem@york.ac.uk
+44 (0)1904 322251
School of Physics, Engineering and Technology,
University of York,
Heslington,
York,
YO10 5DD
CEEM funding allowed us to explore a proof-of-concept technology in collaboration with expertise at York. The project was successful and will be the basis of future collaborative work.
- Robert Sayer (R&D Manager- Personal Care, Croda Europe Ltd)
Under the solar technologies theme, support has been provided by CEEM to fund an undergraduate project to explore proof-of-concept materials to selectively block solar energy comprising harmful wavelengths.
York provided synthetic expertise and access to materials characterisation facilities including structural (SEM, PXRD) and spectroscopic (UV-Vis, TRPL) instrumentation.
Connor Murrill, an undergraduate student from the University’s Department of Chemistry, worked with Croda on the development of sunscreen technology
Dr Richard Douthwaite from the University’s Department of Chemistry said: “Croda approached the university to explore proof-of-concept technologies for sunscreen additives.
“The funding from CEEM helped to initiate a new collaboration with Croda to explore a real world problem and provide very valuable research experience for one of our undergraduates.”
Connor Murrill, undergraduate student in the Department of Chemistry at York said: “I very much enjoyed the opportunity to use some of my chemical knowledge to investigate an applied research problem.”
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Contact us
Centre for Energy Efficient Materials
ceem@york.ac.uk
+44 (0)1904 322251
School of Physics, Engineering and Technology,
University of York,
Heslington,
York,
YO10 5DD