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Travis represents as finalist in Images of Research

Congratulations to 1st year PhD student Travis Hesketh who was shortlisted as a finalist in Strathclyde’s “Images of Research”. Travis created his own thought provoking image of one of our latest tripeptide projects that demonstrates the ability of these remarkable peptides to form highly organised materials that also structure water through their pores. Travis did […]

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Tripeptide Emulsifiers Featured in INFORM Magazine

Gary’s recent work with the development of tripeptide based emulsifiers (published in Advanced Materials) has been attracting quite a bit of attention from the food and cosmetics industry. This work was featured in the February, 2017 edition of INFORM magazine, which is a leading international magazine on oils, fats and related materials. The article “Structuring with Peptides” by Fiona […]

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Tripeptide Emulsifiers on Front Cover of Advanced Materials

Gary’s work on the discovery of a new class of tripeptide emulsifiers is featured on the front cover of Advanced Materials and has received write-ups in several online science sites. The work has been done in collaboration with the Ulijn group and Macphie of Glenbervie (a food ingredients company).     Text Below from ScienceDaily: […]

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Ivan Passes his PhD Viva

In an intense six week period leading up to Christmas, 2015, Ivan wrote, revised and completed his PhD thesis. This work was the culmination of just under 3 years of study within the field of experimental and computational approaches to understanding the nanostructure of Fmoc-based dipeptide systems. Ivan’s work considered the fundamental questions of whether gels […]

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