More information on my activities can be found here.

Teaching: See Blackboard web-site (UoM only)

Research: We are interested in a range of electrochemical problems, spanning fundamental to applied work.

We collaborate with various groups, both within and outside the University (see below).

Current Projects:

NEW! A PhD studentship on the electrochemical applications of graphene is available, see

http://www.chemistry.manchester.ac.uk/research/studentships/

for more information.

(1) We are interested in the electrochemical properties of carbons in general, and graphene in particular. An EPSRC-funded project in this area (collaborating with Dr E Hill of Computer Science, UoM; Dr I Kinloch of Materials, UoM, Prof K Novoselov of Physics & Astronomy, UoM, abd Prof M Heggie of Chemistry, Sussex University) has recently begun.  RESEARCHERS: Dr Anna Valota and Mr Adam Cooper

(2) The electrochemistry of the liquid-liquid interface has been a long-standing interest of mine. A particular focus has been the deposition of noble metal particles at this interface: a current EPSRC-NSF (USA) "Materials World" project is applying synchrotron-based radiation sources to probe particle growth in situ.. This work is in collaboration with Dr Sven Schroeder (Chem Eng/Analytical Science, UoM) and Prof M Schlossman (Physics, University of Illinois Chicago).     RESEARCHER: Dr Yvonne Gruender

(3) Another long-standing interest, related to the liquid-liquid work is membrane transport, specifically using electrochemistry to probe or modify transport across membrane phases. This work has led to a useful collaboration with AstraZeneca (Alderley Park site, just south of Manchester), applying our methods to the permeability assays routinely used in the pharmaceutical industry. RESEARCHER: Mr Matej Velický.

(4) A new direction is the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. I am interested in this area from two stand-points: clearly, from an "energy" perspective, lowering of the kinetic barrier to carbon dioxide reduction is  a very significant challenge. To this end, we are investigating electro-catalysts,  based on transition metal complexes, for CO₂ reduction. A fundamental problem is the nature of the (uncatalysed) reduction process, which is quite poorly understood. RESEARCHER:  Briony- Setterfield-Price

Previous Projects:  to follow!

Other:

Conference organisation:  I have been a stalwart supporter of the UK "Electrochem" meeting. I organised symposia at this meeting in 2003, 2004, 2005 and (to come) 2011 - this year's meeting is in Bath in September.

 I organised this conference, here in Manchester, in Sept. 2009, with assistance from Peter Fielden (RSC Electroanalytical group), Ted Roberts (SCI) and Nick Stevens (ICorr). Link:

https://www.meeting.co.uk/confercare/electrochem09/

I was on the organising committee of Faraday Discussion 129 (Dynamics and Structure of the Liquid-Liquid Interface), held in Cambridge in 2004, link:

http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/fd/previous.asp

 and organised a symposium on Liquid-Liquid Electrochemistry at the 57th Annual meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), held in Edinburgh in 2006.

http://www.ise-online.org/annmeet/ann_meet_old.php

I was a member of the ISE publications committee (2005-07) and acted as UK representative for the ISE (2008-10). I was also a member of the RSC electrochemistry group committee (2005-10). I am RSC "parliamentary link" for my local constituency, Stockport.

http://rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Parliament/LinkScheme.asp