Research & Consultancy
Dr Alexander's current research interests can be collected under the groupings of:
- Solar energy conversion, photocatalysis & renewable fuels.
- Computational chemistry used to probe primary and secondary structure.
- Surface and structural analysis by spectroscopy.
- Development of modified surfaces for micro-array sensors.
Specifically, and in no particular order, his current projects include:
- Solar generation of hydrogen using semiconductor electrodes.
- Photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants and wastewater remediation.
- Photocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide.
- Molecular Dynamics studies of the folding preference of peptide mimics.
- Ab initio and density functional theory calculations and molecular modelling applied to the investigation of structure preference of a range of bio-organic systems.
- Development of novel surface enhanced Raman (SERS) and fluorescence based sensors using self-assembled monolayers and colloidal microgel particles.
- Spectroscopic determination of polymorphism.
- Electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical studies of molecular electrocatalysts.
- Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy, its theory and applications to the study of thin films and modified electrodes.
| Dr Bruce Alexander | Telephone: 0208 331 8209 | Email: b.alexander@gre.ac.uk |