Our perspective article has been designated as a HOT article by Dalton Transactions
October 2024
Our recent perspective article on f-block hydrides has been selected as a HOT article by Dalton Transactions.
HOT Articles have been highlighted by reviewers as being interesting and significant work for the inorganic research community.
The article will now be free to access until November 24th.
Bell group welcomes two new members
October 2024
The new academic year brings two new members to our group. Freya is the newest PhD student in the group and will be using Autoschlenk to build f-block metal clusters.
Emanuele joins us with established expertise in digital chemistry after a placement project at the Materials Innovation Factory in the University of Liverpool.
Autoschlenk wins the RSC Digital Discovery Prize at the TAROS conference
August 2024
Marina presented her work at the Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) conference in London this week.
Winning the RSC Digital Discovery prize for her presentation entitled: How Automation solves a Chemical Cold Case.
Congratulations Marina!
Bell Group welcomes two summer students
July 2024
Two students are joining our group for the summer to work on ligand development for lanthanide complexes.
Oliver is Postgraduate Masters student at UofG and is finishing his degree with a research project in our lab.
Cristina is an international visiting student from Texas as part of the Arcadia exchange program.
Their presence is brightening up this rainy summer in the Bell lab!
Marina Wins Top Prize for her poster at USIC
June 2024
The Bell Group was out in force at the reinstituted Universities of Scotland Inorganic Chemistry conference at the University of Edinburgh.
Our PhD Student Marina presented a poster on her Copper bis-silylamide chemistry and took home the top poster prize for her contribution.
Well done Marina!!
Dr Bell gives keynote lecture at the 2024 Stone Symposium in Bristol
May 2024
Nicola was invited to be part of this symposium honouring Prof. Phil Power. She was able to share some exciting unpublished work from our group.
Link here: 2024: Stone Symposium 2024 | School of Chemistry | University of Bristol
Watch this space to see this work in preprint .
Bell group wins funds from RSE to setup international collaboration
Febuary 2024
We have secured funds from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to setup a collaboration with Virginia Tech’s Dr Michael Schulz. We will work together on polymer sequestration of harmful metals.
In the first part of the project we will host an american student in the Bell group to train them in handling of actinides.
University of Glasgow - University news - UofG researchers share in £727,000 of new RSE funding
Royal Society funds the Bell Group
January 2024
We’re delighted to have been awarded funds from the Royal Society to develop our technology for high throughput organometallic chemistry.
This award has funded the purchase of a ReactIR system for our lab to perform real time monitoring of our reactions.
Eve joins the group
4th December 2023
This week we welcomed Eve to the group. She will be undertaking a short research project developing novel Zwitterionic ligands under the tutelage of Dr Drummond-Turnbull.
Welcome Eve!
Dr Bell attends the Automated Synthesis Forum
29th November 2023
This week Dr Bell jetted off to icy Basel, Switzerland to attend the 2023 Automated synthesis Forum on the Novartis campus there. Our work on automating air sensitive chemistry was presented as well as a host of automation solutions from across industry and academia.
Richard presents ‘Extremely Basic Chemistry’
22nd November 2023
Group Postdoc Richard presents his work today on Extremely basic chemistry at the Functional Molecules and Assemblies symposia. Richard also introduced the work of the Bell Group generally to the department.
We’re Moving!!!
21st November 2023
Big changes here in Glasgow as we finally move into our permanent lab space. This new facility allows us plenty of room to grow and a fabrication workspace to develop our automation tools. Props to the team for a smooth transition.
Bell Group welcomes it’s first PhD Student
2nd October 2023
With the new semester now in full swing the Bell group is growing. We’re delighted to welcome Marina as our first PhD student who will be investigating high throughput organometallic chemistry. Marina comes to us from the University of Strathclyde and enjoys learning German in her spare time.
EPSRC Vacation Intern - Cameron - presents his results
13th September 2023
Our superstar summer intern Cameron will today present the results of his 10 week project in the Bell Group. Cameron, a computer science undergraduate at Glasgow, has been working on developing the functionality and user interface for our automated systems.
Bell Group visits SUERC to share materials and knowledge
5th September 2023
Today we visited SUERC to find out about their history of radioactive research and obtain some Thorium for our future investigations.
Dr Bell presents at the Organometallics GRC
13th July 2023
After registering for a poster presentations Dr Bell was one of the few attendees invited to present a talk to the Organometallics Gordon Research Conference in Newport, Rhode Island.
Installation of our new Glovebox
16th June 2023
After a long wait we were delighted to have our inert atmosphere glovebox installed in our new labs this week.
Watch this space for some exciting highly reactive chemistry…
Our Digital Schlenk Line goes public
19th May 2023
Our work describing the development and demonstration of our digital Schlenk line (AutoSchlenk) has been published on the ChemRxiv.
You can read the paper here: https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-g3pkc
Welcoming Dr Richard Drummond Turnbull
9th May 2023
Our first postdoc Richard joins the group this month from Manchester. Richard is an expert in highly air sensitive uranium chemistry and will be turning his hand to automation here at Glasgow.
Unveiling the AutoSchlenk at Dalton 2023
19th April 2023
At the 2023 RSC Dalton Joint Interest Group Meeting held at the University of Warwick Dr Bell presented our work on the AutoSchlenk for the first time.
Dr Bell presents to the EPSRC Council
28th Febuary 2023
Dr Bell was recently invited to present to the EPSRC Council meeting on the Future of Chemistry.
Nicola discussed how we can accelerate the digital revolution in chemistry and how we can improve support for new parents in academia.
Chloe presents her poster
17th Febuary 2023
Chloe presented her poster at the BSc Poster Symposium in the Wolfson Medical Building.
Her research involved investigating catalytic amidine formation from zwitterionic aminoboranes
Announcement of Dr Bell’s EPSRC Open Fellowship
January 2023
Read all about it:
Glasgow Uni News Article