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	14th Apr 2013 Cronin Group researchers use plants to provide blueprint for cheap, green energy In a new paper in the journal Nature Chemistry published today (Monday 14 April), Professor Lee Cronin and Dr Mark Symes of the University of Glasgow outline how they have managed to replicate for the first time plants’ ability to decouple the production of hydrogen and oxygen from water using what they call an electron-coupled proton buffer (ECPB). Read more on the Read More

	6th Feb 2013 Cronin Group 3d printing technology featured in Discover Magazine 'Top 100 Stories of 2012' The pioneering work of the Cronin Group in developing 3d printing technology for assembling chemical compounds has been featured in Discover Magazine as part of 100 top stories of 2012 (number 19). The article can be found on the discover magazine website. Read More

	1st Feb 2013 Cronin group research Highlighted in 'Chemistry & Industry' The Cronin Group's research into the use of 3D printing techniques to create bespoke 'reactionware' has been highlighted in the Society of Chemical Industry's magazine "Chemistry & Industry". Entitled 'Print Your Own Lab', the article looks at the leading role the Cronin Group is playing in the development of 3D printing techniques applied to the field of chemical research. The full article can be read online Read More

	13th Dec 2012 Two Cronin group polyoxometalate articles back-to-back in Angewandte Chemie Two papers from the group appeared in the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie covering very different approaches to polyoxometalate chemistry. In "Directed Assembly of Inorganic Polyoxometalate-based Micrometer-Scale Tubular Architectures by Using Optical Control", laser-induced flow patterns are used to direct the self-assembly of dissolved inorganic polyoxometalate clusters into robust, hollow tubular networks and micro-materials in real time. This technique where tubes 'go with the flow' allows... Read More

	5th Nov 2012 Cronin Group featured on Beilstein TV Prof Cronin and several of his key researchers have described the revolutionary potential of 3D printing in two videos produced by Beilstein TV, an project funded by the Beilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences. In the video Prof. Cronin and his team describe the process of using 3D printing technology to design and fabricate millifluidic reactionware which can be easily interfaced with an array of analytical techniques. The video demonstrates how this process can provide dev... Read More

	28th Sep 2012 Cronin group involved in major EU project to make smart chemo-robots! The EU project, named MICREAgents (EU contribution €3.4 M), plans to build autonomous self-assembling electronic micro-reagents that are almost as small as cells. These micro-reagents will exchange chemical and electronic information to jointly direct complex chemical reactions and analyses in the solutions they are poured into. Together with teams from Germany, Denmark, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Israel and New Zealand, the MICREAgents project heralds a major step beyond Lab-on-a-C... Read More

	9th Aug 2012 3D-printed Miniaturised Fluidic Devices The Cronin Group's 3D Printing techniques have been featured in 'RSC Chemistry World'. The full article can be found here. Read More

	21st Jul 2012 Lee Cronin featured in 'The Observer' newspaper In an article published in The Obsever, Lee Cronin shared his vision of a "personal chemputer" for printing prescription drugs. See the full article on the Observer website. Read More

	26th Jun 2012 Lee Cronin speaks about 3D printers and chemistry at TED Global 2012 The TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conferences are world renowned for bringing together great thinkers. The force behind TED is in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives, and ultimately the world. Last year Lee spoke to the TED Global conference on the Cronin group's work on inorganic biology. This Year Lee has given a short talk about the Group's work in developing 3D printing technologies for use with chemistry, asking “Could we make a really cool universal chemistry set? C... Read More

	25th Jun 2012 Cronin Group in 2012 Nobel Campus Two Cronin group PhD students invited to present at the 2012 CEICS Nobel Campus in Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain). Miss Hong-Ying Zang and Mr Andreu Ruiz have both been selected to take part in this prestigious student Nobel Campus and both students will be presenting their work to Nobel Prize winners. Read More

	29th May 2012 The 81st Joseph Henry Lecture by Lee Cronin Lee Cronin gives the 81st Joseph Henry Lecture at the Philosophical Society of Washington on the 25th May 2012. This prestigious lecture, given every year since 1931 (except 1943), was given by Lee with the title ‘Synthesizing Life’ in which he described our efforts to explore complex chemical systems beyond ‘organic-biology’ to set up inorganic-chemical-systems capable of Darwinian evolution. Lee was also made a member of the so... Read More

	11th May 2012 Lee Cronin wins a RSC-2012 Corday Morgan Prize! First awarded in 1949, this prestigious prize is awarded annually to the best chemist under the age of 40 and several Nobel Prize winners including Derek Barton and Frederick Sanger were awarded the prize in the past and Cronin is the first Chemist at Glasgow to win the award in 35 years. The citation for Cronin’s prize reads “Cronin is recognized for his pioneering and creative studies in the field of inorganic chemistry, specifically the self-assembly and self-organization of inorgani... Read More

	3rd May 2012 Downloadable Drugs Cronin group ‘reactionware’ research, featured on the front cover of Nature Chemistry in May 2012 has caught the imagination. Covered all round the world, on the BBC, in BBC Click and numerous online, TV, and newspapers the story went global in just a few days. Such was the interest a two page news item was published in NewScientist on 21st April 2012, p8-9 and the work was again described in t... Read More

	17th Apr 2012 Cronin Group Nature Chemistry Article on 3D Printed Reactionware Highlighted. The Cronin Group’s article published this week in nature chemistry has been highlighted around the media. This ground-breaking article develops the concept of 3D printed reactionware, where chemical reactors can be printed ‘on-demand’ for specific chemical tasks, such as catalysis or spectroscopy. These reactors incorporate chemically active elements into the very structure of the reaction vessel itself providing ... Read More

	11th Apr 2012 Lee Cronin Delivers Lecture on “New Formats for Molecular Discovery and Complex Chemical Systems” At RSC Dalton meeting. On 11th April, Professor Cronin Delivered a lecture entitled “New Formats for Molecular Discovery and Complex Chemical Systems” at the latest meeting of the Scottish division of the RSC Dalton division held in University of Strathclyde. The lecture highlighted the advantages of new flow setups and 3D printing for discovery of complex chemical systems. For more information, please visit our 3D printing page. Read More

	7th Feb 2012 Lee Cronin Discusses the group's work on Solar Fuel production and storage on BBC News The work of the Cronin Group in collaboration with the Glasgow Solar Fuels team of researchers has been featured on Scottish current affairs programme Newsnight Scotland. The article features a report on the work of the Glasgow Solar Fuels team with Co-Directors Lee Cronin and Prof. Richard Cogdell, and a live discussion with Lee Cronin about the work. The BBC's rep... Read More

	27th Jan 2012 Cronin Group comes of age with our 21^st successful PhD student! Congratulations to Dr. Feng Xu who has become the 21^st successful PhD candidate to graduate from the Cronin Group. Dr. Xu is moving on to a post-doctoral position with Professor Yufei Song at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology. Read More

	13th Jan 2012 Cronin Group paper featured as a 'Hot Article' in the current issue of Dalton Transactions The RSC journal Dalton Transactions has chosen a Cronin Group publication as one of its featured 'Hot Articles', meaning that access to the article is free until 31 January 2012. The article by Laia Vilà-Nadal, Scott G. Mitchell, De-Liang Long, Antonio Rodríguez-Fortea, Xavier López, Josep M. Poblet and Leroy Cronin combines the Group's expertise in both theoretical investigation and ESI Mass spectrometry to investigate the rotational isomerism of non-classical Wells-Dawson POMs. The artic... Read More

	19th Dec 2011 Lee Cronin to Deliver the 2011 Bob Hay Lecture at MASC 2011 The Bob Hay Lectureship is awarded at the RSC Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Group annual meeting. This prestigious lecture is given annually by a younger chemist working in the area of macrocyclic and/or supramolecular chemistry in its widest sense. The award lecture is given in memory of Professor Bob Hay, one of the pioneers of macrocyclic chemistry in the UK. Professor Cronin's Lecture will be titled "Creationism in Inorganic and Supramolecular Chemistry"... Read More

	14th Oct 2011 Lee Cronin Featured on Dr. Kiki's Science Hour Prof. Lee Cronin recently appeared on the popular American science program 'Dr. Kiki's Science Hour' to talk about his research. In an episode entitled "The Living Dead" Prof. Cronin talks about inorganic chemistry and his research. Also in YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXeBRJnho5o<\p> Read More

	8th Oct 2011 Lee Cronin featured in an 'Author Profile' appearing in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. To recognise the publication of Lee Cronin's 25th article appearing in Angewandte Chemie since 2000, the prestigious chemistry journal has published a profile of professor Cronin in which he discusses his motivations as a scientist and the nature of the Cronin Group's research. For the full profile visit the article at Angewandte Chemie here Read More

	9th Sep 2011 Lee Cronin's TED Global 2011 Talk Available Free Online The TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conferences are world renowned for bringing together great thinkers. The force behind TED is in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives, and ultimately the world. Lee spoke in the first session at TED Global “The Stuff of Life” entitled “beginnings” on the Cronin group work on inorganic biology. To view the talk for free online, please visit the TED Global 2011 sit... Read More

	8th Sep 2011 Cronin Group Work on Inorganic Chemical Cells Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition The paper entitled ‘Modular Redox Active Inorganic Chemical Cells: iCHELLs’ by Geoffrey J. T. Cooper, Philip J. Kitson, Ross Winter, Michele Zagnoni, De-Liang Long & Leroy Cronin will appear in the online issue of Angewandte Chemie International Edition today and will also be featured on the back cover of the printed issue. Interfacial membrane formation by cation exchange of polyoxometalates produces modular inorganic chemical cells with tunable morphology, properties, and composition. These in... Read More

	28th Aug 2011 Lee Cronin Interviewed in UK newspaper 'The Observer' Lee Cronin has been interviewed for in the UK sunday newspaper The Observer as part of their Science and Technology series 'My Bright Idea' in which leading scientists and researchers discuss the driving ideas behind their work. The full article can be accessed on the Observer website here Read More

	29th Jul 2011 CAS & SciFinder Student Information Exchange Program Cronin group member Thomas Boyd has been selected to attend the forthcoming information exchange meeting in Columbus, Ohio on August 16-20. The program will give an opportunity for students to exchange ideas and experiences with CAS staff on the subject of chemical information and informatics. In addition, attendees will tour local research facilities such as Battelle Memorial Institute and the Ohio State University James Cancer Research Facility before travelling to Boston for the Fall 2010 Ame... Read More

	20th Jul 2011 PDRA awarded prestigious RSE Fellowship Dr Haralampos (Harry) N. Miras has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society of Edinburgh RSE/Scottish Government Personal Research Fellowship that he will take up in the group later this year. The competition for these Fellowships is intense and gaining this award is a great achievement. This fellowship, co-funded by Marie Curie actions, supports Dr Miras' project on "Non Equilibrium Engineering Methods of Assembling Functional Metal Oxides". Read More

	2nd Jun 2011 Lee Cronin to speak at TED Global 2011 The TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conferences are world renowned for bringing together great thinkers. The force behind TED is in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives, and ultimately the world. Lee will be speaking in the first session at TED Global “The Stuff of Life” entitled “beginnings” on the Cronin group work on inorganic biology. For a list of speakers at the event please visit the TED Global 201... Read More

	2nd Jun 2011 Cronin Group research highlighted in Chemistry World Magazine Research from the Cronin group has been highlighted by Philip Ball in his popular column 'The Crucible' In the RSC's chemistry magazine 'Chemistry World'.Discussing the fascinating processes in the crystal garden phenomenon, Ball discusses some of the Groups work on emergent mesoscale structures: “Cronin hopes to see whether such structures can be developed into inorganic proto-cells with life-like characteristics - one might say, with a vegetative soul”. The full article can be read Read More

	27th Jan 2011 Cronin Group research featured in "New Scientist" magazine The Cronin Group's research has been featured in a recent edition of the popular science magazine "New Scientist". In an in-depth article Prof. Cronin discusses the group's interest in the development of complex chemical systems and the possibility of evolving inorganic systems. Read More

	25th Jan 2011 Cronin Group Hosts EPSRC sponsored "WetFAB" workshop The Cronin Group Has recently hosted an EPSRC sponsored workshop which brought together chemists, engineers, artists and architects amongst others to explore the use of 3D fabrication equipment in a research chemistry environemnent. For more information on the participants and concepts examined, see the workshop programme Read More

	28th May 2010 Cronin Group Work Published in the First Issue of Chemical Science The paper entitled 'Following the self assembly of supramolecular MOFs using X-ray crystallography and cryospray mass spectrometry' by Georg Seeber, Geoffrey J. T. Cooper, Graham N. Newton, Mali H. Rosnes, De-Liang Long, Benson M. Kariuki, Paul Kögerler and Leroy Cronin will appear in the first issue of Chemical Science, the new flagship journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry. Link to Journal ... Read More

	20th May 2010 3D images of publications now available 3D Rotatable structures of the groups publications are now available through the publications page of the website. Simply go to the papers page look for publications which have a 'view 3D structure' link associated with them. clicking this link lets you explore the main structures of the paper. Many papers now have linked structures and we will be adding more soon. Read More

	1st Jan 2010 Cover of Science Latest issue of Science features on the cover: Crystal structure of a molybdenum oxide nanowheel, 2.6 nanometers in diameter, around a smaller molybdenum oxide cluster. Miras et al. used a controlled-flow reactor to show that the central core serves as a transient template for the self-assembly of the nanowheel and is ultimately ejected to yield a hollow finished product. Image: Leroy Cronin, Ryo Tsunashima, Haralampos Miras/ University of Glasgow Unveiling ... Read More

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