Triggering a passion for science is the aim as Cardiff University welcomes 40 students from 10 South Wales schools as part of a touring festival of chemistry.
Cardiff made a major contribution to the 18th Rideal meeting with a special session dedicated to Professor Wyn Roberts and also had success with 2 prize winners in the poster competition.
Two new papers from the group of Dr Jamie Platts have used modern theoretical methods to shed light on how one important modification, cytosine methylation, affects the structure and dynamics of DNA.
On Monday 26th January Professor Michel Che of the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6 & Institut Universitaire de France gave his 2014 Faraday Lecture at the School of Chemistry.
A recent publication in the ACS journal Physical Chemistry Letters shows that filter paper can be used as a robust support for catalytically active palladium nanoparticles.