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Marking the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, a new short documentary featuring Professor Lucy Carpenter and the University of York's Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories explores the science, diplomacy and international cooperation behind the Amendment.

New research from York reveals that AI tools trained on the patent chemistry literature could make the field's historical reliance on hazardous solvents even harder to break.

Embedding the European Commission's Safe and Sustainable by Design framework into an open-access, interactive solvent selection guide covering 365 solvents.

Celebrating outstanding research achievements by our final-year PhD students in the Department of Chemistry

We celebrate the excellent science done by our Department’s PhD, PDRA and technical co-workers by recognising the prizes and awards have won in 2026 so far.

The Department of Chemistry has placed 9th in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2027 for the subject of chemistry.

Researchers in Dr Angelo Frei’s group in the Department of Chemistry have developed a high-throughput robotic approach to prepare and screen a library of 1,440 new iridium(III) complexes, leading to the identification of promising compounds with antibacterial activity.

York researchers have uncovered how E. coli renews its protective outer membrane despite the absence of cell growth, revealing the role of nanoscale lipid spheres called vesicles in remodelling this barrier helping it to shield bacteria from antibiotics and immune attack.