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Understanding Charged Interfaces at the Nanoscale with Designer Nanomaterials
Adam Clancy is a Lecturer of Inorganic & Materials Chemistry in UCL Department of Chemistry, and currently holds a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. His research focusses on the use of high aspect ratio covalent nanomaterials in solution, but he has been known to dabble in polymer synthesis, solvent structures, and icephobic coatings.
Adam has raised over £2.5 million, primarily from his research fellowships and neutron scattering beamtime. Neutron scattering allows him to study the "solutions" part of nanomaterial solutions, which is often neglected as people solely focus on the nanomaterial. He has been recently appointed to the Scientific Advice Committee of the UK's ISIS Neutron and Muon Source for a 3-year term (2022-25). He had 38 papers when he wrote this page, but a more up to date list can be found here or on his google scholar.
He previously held a Ramsay Fellowship funded by the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) at UCL Chemistry, investigating the dissolution of high crystallinity carbon nitrides which he did alongside his mentor - the late, great Prof Paul F McMillan. During this position, he undertook a secondment to the University of Cambridge Department of Physics, as the Lent 2022 Corpus Christi Visiting Fellow, where he was embedded in the group of Prof Akshay Rao, to probe group 15 nanoribbons.
Before moving to UCL, Adam graduated in Chemistry from Cardiff University (Chemistry, 1st Hons) in 2011 and undertook his PhD at Imperial College London under Prof Milo Shaffer in the NanoHAC group, investigating the use of single walled carbon nanotube in high strength and high toughness composites. His work was patented alongside Thomas Swan Ltd, but as with most patents, he never saw a penny from it. As part of his PhD research, he did manage to create the world's strongest PVC composite, a record he holds to this day. As PVC is primarily used for its low cost, and the record composite involved adding ~20% by weight of one of the most expensive materials known to man, this record is (a) unlikely to be broken, and (b) useless.