News

A new bioinformatics-driven approach called signal-strapping, supported by spectroscopy and crystallography, uncovers previously unknown metalloproteins essential for bacterial metal uptake.

Researchers in the Departments of Chemistry and Biology have made a fluorinated inhibitor that reduces bacterial motility by potentially disrupting the biosynthesis of a sugar essential for flagella formation.

Hexagonal-boron nitride (hex-BN) fibres can outperform carbon fibres in the extreme environments that are often encountered in land, air, and space transportation. In contrast to established synthetic routes, which are difficult to scale and use specialised techniques, new collaborative work from York and Oxford reports a straightforward synthetic approach to hex-BN fibres. This uses catalytic methods for the controlled synthesis of BN-based inorganic polymers, that are then used to fabricate hex-BN fibres. The easy fabrication of these BN materials could be transformative for their use in next generation technologies.

Students explore previously inaccessible topics in atmospheric chemistry and air-quality in a newly-developed undergraduate lab activity.

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

The Department of Chemistry has placed 4th in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026 for the subject of Chemistry. The ranking recognises the quality of our courses, and the experiences and opportunities they provide to our students.

2025 marks 60 years since the first students enrolled in Chemistry at York. To celebrate we held an event for alumni and current and former staff on Saturday 13 September.

Dr Martin A. Fascione has been awarded the prestigious 2025 RSC Dextra Carbohydrate Chemistry Award, recognizing his exceptional contributions to the field of carbohydrate chemistry and chemical glycobiology.