Department of Chemistry

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Research in Antarctica

Year 4 of our MChem can be spent at York, Abroad or in Industry

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Undergraduate study

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Equality and Diversity

Chemistry at York has held an Athena SWAN Gold award for more than a decade, and was the first department in the UK to achieve this highest level.

Events‌

Wed

Feb

Deep Learning for Photochemistry: From Spectroscopy to Molecular Design

Dr Julia Westermayr, Universitat Leipzig

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Feb

Mechanochemistry & porous liquids as new tools for sustainability

Stuart James, Queens University Belfast

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Measuring marine volatile organic compounds with a proton transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometer

Postgraduate study

ChemYork magazine

The Department publishes a biannual magazine, highlighting our teaching, research, staff and students.

News

New main-group polymers self-assemble into nanostructured materials

Posted on Friday 20 January 2023

Novel catalytic methods developed in York have provided synthetic access to main-group based block co-polymers for the first time, which self-assemble into nanostructured materials.

New study shows ‘self-cleaning’ of marine atmosphere

Posted on Thursday 19 January 2023

Scientists have shed new light on the ‘self-cleaning’ capacity of the atmosphere.

MChem Student Solves Adsorption Problem

Posted on Tuesday 22 November 2022

Olivia Dalby (MChem, 2021) has had her MChem project work, providing new insights into adsorption on solid surfaces, published in the journal Langmuir as the lead author.