Research
WE ARE RANKED NUMBER 1 IN THE UK FOR RESEARCH INTENSITY IN CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(Complete University Guide 2021)
Chemists and Chemical Engineers working together towards a healthy and sustainable future.
We bring together fundamental and applied research, generating real-world impact, evidenced by vibrant spin-out activity and high-profile industrial collaborations.
Our Research
Research Themes
Healthcare, sustainability and fundamental studies
Our research falls under three themes: Health, Sustainability and Fundamental Science. Our work on Sustainability spans five focus areas: CO2 capture and utilisation, clean water, hydrogen and bioenergy, sustainable manufacturing and circular economy. Research on Health covers clean synthesis, antimicrobials and sensors. Our fundamental work, particularly focused on supramolecular chemistry and frontiers of the liquid phase, is the foundation on which we build our more applied projects.
Research Centres
Research Centres
QUILL – Queen’s University Ionic Liquid Laboratories CO2@QUB – Carbon Capture and Utilisation Research Lab CASE – Centre for Advanced Sustainable Energy
Research Centres
Research Environment and Culture
Working together
We are continuously working to nurture a friendly, creative and collaborative research environment. The School is proud of its Silver Athena SWAN Award, a vibrant program of seminars and a strong outreach profile, all of which are described in this section. Visit to learn more about our Early Career Forum, Postgraduate Researchers Forum and research technicians.
Research Environment
Research Impact
Making a difference
Research impact comes in many flavours: impactful papers, growing spin-out companies, technologies developed and implemented with industrial partners, as well as policies and roadmaps. Our School was ranked #3 (joint) in the UK for Research Impact in Research Excellence Framework 2021; browse this section to learn more.
Research ImpactLatest Publications
A sustainable-by-design process for the selective photooxidation of ethylbenzene in a scalable agitated baffle reactor
- Gary Morrison
- Nayan Jyoti Mazumdar
- Nancy Artioli
- Megan Smyth
- Scott Wharry
- Thomas S. Moody
- Jonty Thornton
- Edward Bainbridge
- Nikolay Cherkasov
- Haresh Manyar
Hijacking the electron train: menaquinone-binding antimicrobial peptides
26 August 2025Exploring the potential of chemically matched fragments as internal standards for quantitative SERS with Panobinostat
- Yiming Huang
- Yikai Xu
- Chunchun Li
- Steven Bell
Solar-driven atmospheric water production through hierarchically ordered porous carbon for self-sustaining green hydrogen production
- Bo Fu
- Jifang Zhang
- Neil Robinson
- Zhen Zhang
- Zhengju Zhu
- Mengyang Dong
- Xinyuan Zhang
- Jian Kang
- Paul Michalski
- Zeyang Zhao
- Jiapeng Ji
- Yiming Xu
- Kaidi Zhang
- Xinyu Wang
- Shan Chen
- Haolan Xu
- Porun Liu
- Huajie Yin
- Huijun Zhao