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Centre for Catalytic Science secures EPSRC equipment funding
The Centre for Catalytic Science, led by Prof. Richard Catlow, has secured £675, 000 funding for equipment to be based at RCaH. Catalysts speed up chemical reactions, and are a key part of many industrial processes that are critical to the UK economy. This equipment will strengthen the group’s position as a major centre for catalysis in the UK and help forge stronger partnerships with the other world-leading facilities on the Harwell Oxford campus. The new equipment upgrades our capacity to monitor chemical reactions and analyse their products, including the ability to study catalytic processes in situ as they happen using the Diamond Light Source.
The Research Complex at Harwell (RCaH) is a new, multidisciplinary laboratory that provides facilities for researchers to undertake new and cutting edge scientific research in both life and physical sciences and the interface between them. It is located on the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) site on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, adjacent to Diamond, the new third generation Synchrotron Radiation (SR) source. It is also close to other leading facilities on the campus: the ISIS neutron source, Central Laser Facility, Membrane Protein Laboratory, MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit and Mary Lyon Centre, and a Biological Solid State NMR Facility.
It is open, on a competitive basis, to research teams from UK universities, as well as to Diamond and RAL staff. The MRC is leading the project on behalf of RCUK, in partnership with BBSRC, EPSRC, NERC, STFC and Diamond.
