School of Chemistry

Richard Ansell

Senior Lecturer
Research section: Physical Chemistry

Contact details

Keywords

Chemical sensors
Molecular recognition
Nanostructured materials
Molecularly imprinted polymers
Templated materials
Modified electrodes and photoelectrodes
Electroorganic synthesis

Research interests

My main interest is in new advanced materials and their applications in analytical science and electrochemistry. The work is multidisciplinary, at the boundaries of physical organic chemistry, biophysical chemistry, materials chemistry and analytical science.

Projects are in several areas

1. Molecular recognition in imprinted polymers: Improving molecular recognition in these synthetic receptors through understanding and manipulating the interactions of the ligand with the binding site.
2. Electrochemical biosensors: The interactions of NAD(P)(H) mimetics with dehydrogenases, electrochemical mediators and molecular wires, and their use in sensors.
3. Nanostructured materials and surfaces: Using organic structures as templates to grow nanostructured inorganic films, tubes and particles.
4. Electroorganic chemistry in flow devices.
5. Modified electrodes for electroorganic synthesis, and photoelectrochemistry.

Useful links

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Selected publications

Meegan, J.E., Aggeli, A., Boden, N., Brydson, R., Brown, A.P., Carrick, L., Brough, A.R., Hussain, A., Ansell, R.J. Designed self-assembled beta-sheet peptide fibrils as templates for silica nanotubes. Advanced Functional Materials, 2004, 14, 31-37

Alexander, C. Andersson, H.S., Andersson, L.I., Ansell, R.J., Kirsch, N., Nicholls, I.A., O’Mahony, J., Whitcombe, M.J.* Molecular Imprinting Science and Technology: A survey of the literature for the years up to and including 2003. Journal of Molecular Recognition, 2006, DOI: 10.1002/jmr.760 available online 04/01/06.

Ansell, R.J., Wang, D.Y., Kuah, J.K.L. Imprinted polymers for chiral resolution of (+/-)-ephedrine 2: Probing pre-polymerisation equilibria in different solvents using NMR. Analyst, 2008, 133, 1673-1683.

Ansell R.J., Meegan J.E., Barrett S.A., Warriner S.L On the interactions of alkyl 2-hydroxycarboxylic acids with alkoxysilanes 2. Complexation and esterification of di- and tricarboxylic acids. Dalton Transactions 2009, 1460-1470.