Sharon Connor

Name:	Sharon Connor
Affiliation:	University of Cambridge
E-mail:	(only provided to users who are logged into talks.cam)
Last login:	12 Mar 2026, 12:22 p.m.

Public lists managed by Sharon Connor

• Chemistry
• Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures
• Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Talks given by Sharon Connor

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• 2015 Materials RIG BP Day: Talks by 3rd year PhD students and Poster presentations by 2nd year PhD students

Talks organised by Sharon Connor

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• Melville Lecturer: 2nd-6th May
• Lewis Lecturer: 26th- 29th April
• Mechanistic insights into electron-transfer reactions: from electrocatalysis to solar cells
• Professor Gwénaël Rapenne
• Designing Single-atom Catalysts and Nanocatalysts for Hydrogen Production and Utilization
• Something for everyone: Stories from the vault of an optoelectronic materials group.
• Quantum metal-organic frameworks: harnessing the modularity of magnetic MOFs towards quantum function
• Interested in Catalysis ? Biology sets ultimate goals, from electrocatalysts to tandem++ cascades in mesoporous materials
• Composite electrodes for sodium-ion batteries – are two phases better than one?
• Formation and properties of biominerals
• Molecular Optical Probes to Bridge Polymer Physics and Mechanics
• Integration of electrochemical and microbial electrochemical CO2 conversion process towards Net Zero
• Metal nanoparticles, clusters, single atom or combination for sustainable catalysis
• Synthesis and Sequencing of Sequenced-Defined Biotic and Abiotic Polymers
• Triaryl Phosphine, Arsine, Stibine and Bismuthine Metal-Organic Frameworks as Solid-State Ligands for Catalysis in Unique Reaction Environments
• Catalysts for H2 production and CO2 reduction
• Is recycling just a load of rubbish?
• Lewis Lectures 2025 - Lecture II - "Tales of the Unexpected: New Perspectives on Electrochemistry at Carbon Electrodes and Membranes"
• Lewis Lectures 2025 - Lecture I - New Ways of Seeing Electrochemistry
• RSC Prizewinner Seminar - "Linking structure and properties in complex quantum materials"
• Special Careers Session with Dr Yuval Elani - RSC Prizewinner
• RSC Prizewinner's Talk: Microfluidics and engineered biomembranes as enabling technologies in synthetic cell design
• "New guidelines for molecular materials design beyond the frontier orbital picture"
• "Enabling the first-principles modelling of electrochemical interfaces at the nanoscale"
• "Machine learning methods for finite-temperature full-quantum simulations: towards predictive modelling of condensed-phase interfaces"
• "Marvellous metastabilities of battery cathode materials"
• Practical Functional Oxide Thin Films for Electronic Devices
• Special Careers Session with Prof. Judith Driscoll
• Semiconductor Nanomaterials for photoelectrochemical energy conversion
• "Hops, Walks, and Spins: The Choreography of Cellular Electron Transport at Biotic-Abiotic Interfaces"
• Porphyrins In Discrete Metal-Mediated Assemblies
• Formulating protein behaviour in nanospace: Key to rational glue screening
• Supramolecular Hosts: From Energy Intensive Separations to Sensors and Soft Robotics
• Development of Solid-State Solar Thermal Fuels
• Little Solutions to Big Problems: How we use nanoporous materials to address sustainability challenges
• Diastereoselective self-assembly of low-symmetry metal-organic cages
• Supramolecular Control: Strategic Uses of Carbon Nanohoops, Fluorinated Cyclohexanes and Organophosphates
• Calibrate Weak Intermolecular Ligand Interactions on Nanoparticles via the Dynamic Volume of Chain Segments
• Colloidal nanocrystals to advance catalysis and energy technologies
• Molecular design approaches to organic semiconductors
• Modernist Materials Synthesis: Finding Thermodynamic Shortcuts with Hyperdimensional Chemistry
• Photosynthesis on an electrode
• Discovering New Materials By Combining Computation And Intelligent Mobile Robotic Chemists
• The unusual reactivity inside the supramolecular resorcinarene capsule catalyst – from terpene cyclizations to glycosylations
• Protection against self-oxidation by copper oxygenases
• Self-assembling Organic Nanostructures for Solar Energy Conversion
• Perylene-Based Poly(N-Heterocycles): Organic Semiconductors, Biological Fluorescence Probes and Building Blocks for Molecular Surface Networks
• Identification of Active Species and Mechanistic Pathways in the Enantioselective Catalysis with 3d Transition Metal Pincer Complexes
• Novel proteins that orchestrate starch granule formation in plants
• Biopolymers for photonics - painting opals with water and light
• Functional Nanoscale and Hierarchical Materials by Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly
• From binary anionic P4 analogs to ternary intermetalloid clusters
• Organic Electronics for Monitoring and Hosting of 3D Cell Biology Models
• Solid State Seminar Series: "Oxide Ion Conductors for Energy Applications: Structure and Dynamics"
• Solid State Seminar Series: "Crystal structure prediction for next-generation battery anodes"
• Predicting and designing the self-assembly of colloidal particles: a computer game
• Self-assembly of Si- and SiGe-based dielectric Mie resonators via templated solid-state dewetting
• The artificial leaf for efficient generation of solar fuels: involved elementary steps and material's design
• BP KEYNOTE LECTURE: Importance of C-O Bond Activation for CO2/COUtilization - An Approach to Energy Conversion and Storage
• Cyclic Peptides: Building Blocks for Supramolecular Designs
• Networks, resilience and complexity
• Correlation between reflected and transmitted light in scattering media
• Coordination Self-Assembly: From the Origins to the Latest Advances
• 2017 Lord Lewis Lecture (II) Plasmonics for sustainability: harvesting light energy for new solar applications
• 2017 Lord Lewis Lecture (I) Sustainable plasmonics: abundant materials for modular photocatalysis
• Cellulose-based helical micro/nano filaments and films
• RSC Prizewinner's seminar: Self-assembed coordination cages: host-guest chemistry and functional behaviour
• Biomimicry with Synthetic Receptors: Self-Assembly and Molecular Recognition
• Melville Lecture 2: Rational Strategy for Chain-Growth Supramolecular Polymerization
• Melville Lecture 1: Stimuli-Responsive Smart Soft Materials abricated under Nonequilibrated Conditions
• Molecular Organisation: Working with Molecules on the Nanoscale
• Label-free detection mechanism for carbon nanoparticles using non-linear optical excitation
• Interfacial Coordination Programming of 1D and 2D Materials
• RSC Prizewinner's seminar - From the Digitisation of Matter to Chemical Cybernetics
• Self-assembly of jammed heterogeneous colloidal shells by combining electrohydrodynamics and dielectrophoresis
• BP Keynote Lecture: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery and supercapacitor technologies function
• Hadean, pre-biotic Photosynthesis and Enzyme-like Heterogeneous Catalysts: Mimicking a state we do not know
• Controlling Life with Photons
• Materials and devices for electrochemical water splitting: a fresh look at some old catalysts and some new(er) catalysts for old applications
• Is the crystallisation of pharmaceutical molecules controlled by thermodynamics or kinetics?
• Unusual NMR experiments using home-made and open-resource systems
• Teaching Sponges New Tricks: Catalysis and Charge Transport in Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks
• Biomineralization of nacre
• Biogenic light induced tuneable photonic crystals
• Using Proteins to Prepare Functional Polymeric Nanomaterials
• Molecular Electronics for Chemical Sensors
• 2016 Lord Lewis Lecture: Dynamic Particles for Biological and Chemical Sensing
• Plasmonic nanobiosensors: From therapeutic drug monitoring to optophysiology of live cells
• Seeing the Invisible: Vibrational Imaging for Biology and Medicine
• Single Molecule Enzymology: Transcription against Supercoiling
• Intensified-Process Integration at All Scales – flow reactor networks and end-to-end intensified chemical plants
• The Linnett Lecture - Life at the Single Molecule Level: Single Cell Genomics
• Catalysts for CO2 reduction: from molecules to solids
• Nature Inspired Manufacturing Workshop
• Nature Inspired Manufacturing Workshop
• Nanostructures for Energy Conversion: From Metal Oxides to Electroactive Covalent Organic Frameworks
• The Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR): New Paradigms for Next Generation Energy Storage
• "Studies at the abiotic-biotic interface"
• BP Keynote Lecture: "Multiscale-Multimodal Imaging: Shining a light on materials behaviour”
• 2015 Materials RIG BP Day: Talks by 3rd year PhD students and Poster presentations by 2nd year PhD students
• Self-assembled functional materials. Adsorption processes in metal-organic frameworks
• Luminescent materials by controlling and managing self-assembly