Philip Drake
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Lecturer in Materials Chemistry Researching nanoparticles for cancer therapy and pathogen detection. Nanostructures, magnetic hyperthermia, SERS, biosensors.
University of Bradford
Joined March 2017
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RT @ChemistryWorld: What if we could watch proteins move in real time – see photosystem II turn water into oxygen, for example? Thanks to c….
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Proteins are constantly moving, but our structures of them are static. Clare Sansom talks to the researchers using free-electron lasers to make time-resolved structures
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RT @ChemistryWorld: Areas of the UK where chemistry can't be studied within a reasonable travel time are emerging with the closure of unive….
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Some regions face a future with fewer chemists
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RT @cenmag: By putting a carbon atom in place of a core oxygen, chemists constructed an opioid that blocks pain with less respiratory depre….
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By putting a carbon atom in place of a core oxygen, chemists constructed an opioid that blocks pain with less respiratory depression in mice
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I captured a Peacock butterfly sunning it's self on the wall.
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Today's lunch was with the Gatekeeper butterfly . Lots of them!
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RT @ChemistryWorld: For 70 years, researchers have struggled to find an efficient way to produce ortho-quinodimethane. A new method uses a….
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Ortho-quinodimethane made under mild conditions from common reagents
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RT @visitBradford: Stay & Explore Bradford This Summer. Fresh experiences, heritage treasures & creative energy await in the UK’s City of C….
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RT @MAstronomers: NEWS🚨: NASA saves Voyager 1 mission by successfully reviving frozen thrusters from almost 24 billion kilometers away http….
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Today I had lunch with lots of Peacock Butterflies. They were hard to get pictures of . kept fluttering around.
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RT @DrZoeWaller: Dilek Guneri explains how DNA G-quadruplex structures appear to act like an on/off switch, whereas i-motif DNA structures….
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RT @ChemistryWorld: Lichen may not look astonishing, but research shows that their ability to tolerate ultraviolet radiation is something t….
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Discovery also suggests that photosynthetic life might survive on planets circling powerful stars
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RT @ChemistryWorld: Famed Renaissance Venetian artist Titian loved a red satin robe. What we love is the chemistry behind such paints and g….
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Laccaic acid, thought to be produced by lac insects, is produced by a symbiont similar to the zombie ant fungus
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RT @UniBradOutreach: Anna is finishing off a very busy week at @HeckGrammar this morning for their Progression Day! ☀️ .
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RT @UniBradOutreach: Today we hosted the GHWY Teachers and Advisers Conference. The conference brought teachers and advisers from across We….
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RT @ChemistryWorld: Chemists have a new strategy to prepare ortho-quinodimethane, a valuable molecule for creating the complex compounds fo….
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Ortho-quinodimethane made under mild conditions from common reagents
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RT @cenmag: As Moderna and the partnership of Pfizer and BioNTech struggle to respond to huge demand for their mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, supp….
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Several specialty chemical companies are adding capacity to supply Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech
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I was visited by a Red Admiral at lunch today. He came to sample the Buddleia nectar 😋
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RT @cenmag: This channel electron multiplier amplifies the faint signals generated in some types of mass spectrometry and other precision a….
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