The development of novel and well defined visible-light photocatalytic materials as a vehicle for the transfer of expertise

该项目汇集了三位拥有不同研究专长的大学学者。其中两名学者是两所不同大学化学系的化学家，而第三名学者是另一所大学化学工程系的化学工程师。这个想法是让所有的申请者从其他人那里学习新的研究方法。为了做到这一点，他们将致力于一个项目，该项目将开发新的催化剂，能够利用阳光来影响化学变化。这一研究领域对清理受污染的供水具有潜在的重要性。其中一些催化剂还可以直接分解水，从阳光和水中产生氢燃料。除了增加研究人员的专业知识外，具有不同背景/方法的人员的组合可能会确定新的研究领域，或采取新的方法来解决现有问题。

This project brings together three university based academics with different research expertise. Two of these academics are chemists based in chemistry departments at two different universities, whilst the third is a chemical engineer based in a chemical engineering department at a separate university. The idea is for all the applicants to learn new approaches to their research from the others. To do this, they will work on a project which will develop new catalysts which are able to utilise sunlight to effect chemical changes. This area of research is of potential importance for the clean-up of contaminated water supplies. Some of these catalysts may also be able to directly split the water, producing hydrogen fuel from sunlight and water. As well as increasing the expertise of the researchers, the combination of people with such different backgrounds/approaches may identify new areas of research, or new approaches to be taken to tackle existing problems.