News

Sulfur-modified Starbons enable platinum-group metals to be fished out of complex mixtures.

The Chemistry Analytical Facility (CAF) within the Department of Chemistry at York held its first showcase event on 22nd July funded by the ITSS Technology Specialists Network.

The latest edition of our twice-yearly magazine brings recent news from the Department celebrating the achievements of our colleagues, students and alumni.

A Royal Society of Chemistry Horizon Prize film celebrates pioneering work on microbial sulfur recycling by researchers in the department and international collaborators. Discover how microbes power ecosystems and climate via organosulfur metabolism.

The discovery of fundamental rules allows the efficient and selective separation of polymer mixtures by chemical recycling into pure monomers.

The results of the 2025 National Student Survey have revealed the strengths of the Department of Chemistry which has excelled in ‘Assessment and Feedback’, ‘Academic Support’ and ‘Learning Resources’.

Scientists have shed new light on the rhino family tree after recovering a protein sequence from a fossilised tooth from more than 20 million years ago.

Chemists at the University of York are partners on a new Innovate UK Smart Grant funded project with Eutechtics, a pioneering startup company developing low-carbon routes to essential industrial chemicals.