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Doctor Sebastian Sprick

Chancellor'S Fellow - Senior Lecturer

Pure and Applied Chemistry

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Personal statement

I obtained my PhD in 2013 from The University of Manchester under the supervision of Prof. Michael Turner working on N-heterocyclic palladium carbene catalysts for polytriarylamine synthesis. After this I moved to the University of Liverpool working with Prof. Andrew Cooper as a postdoctoral research associate on soluble conjugated microporous polymers (C-PIMs) and water splitting using conjugated microporous polymers as photocatalysts. In 2015 started my new role as a Research Lead within the group leading the photocatalysis research. In 2020 I started my independent career as a Å·ÃÀ¸ßÇå Chancellor’s Fellow.

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Prize And Awards

Recipient
15/7/2025
Recipient
12/9/2024
Recipient
8/11/2022
Recipient
8/9/2022

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Publications

Lyons Richard J, , , Harding Sam D, Pawlak Krzysztof, Fellowes Thomas, Capps Harry W, Cowan Alexander J, Cooper Andrew I, Gardner Adrian M, Zwijnenburg Martijn A,
Advanced Functional Materials Vol 36 (2026)
Luo Zhipeng, , Zhang Fengtao, Xiong Yujing, Zheng Weimin, Chen Xiong,
Science China Materials (2026)
, Shalom Menny, Wang Xinchen
Sustainable Energy & Fuels Vol 9, pp. 4773-4774 (2025)
Lyons Richard J, , , Thwaites Owen, Cooper Andrew I, , Cowan Alexander J, Gardner Adrian M
Journal of Chemical Physics Vol 163 (2025)
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Joule Vol 9 (2025)
Sakakibara Noritaka, , , Ishitani Osamu
Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan Vol 98 (2025)

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Research Interests

The goal of my group is to address challenges in sustainability. In particular we are aiming to make so-called ‘solar fuels’ (e.g. hydrogen and carbon monoxide) only using renewable resources and sunlight. For this we make organic materials that act as photocatalysts to drive reactions, such as water splitting and carbon dioxide reduction. We utilise a range of different materials, such as small oligomers, polymers, conjugated microporous polymers and conjugated organic frameworks. The modularity and structural diversity of the available building blocks allows for excellent fine tuning of the properties of these organic materials thus optimising their performance. Finally, we are interested in large scale application and working towards making demonstrator devices.

Professional Activities

Participant
1/9/2025
Speaker
21/7/2025
Speaker
18/7/2025
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14/7/2025
Speaker
25/6/2025
Speaker
25/6/2025

Projects

Sprick, Seb (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026
Devlin, Jon (Principal Investigator) Clift, Lee (Co-investigator) Dombi, Erzsebet (Co-investigator) Goodfellow, Martin (Co-investigator) Humphrey, Suzanne (Co-investigator) Huq, Molly (Co-investigator) Kirkpatrick, Ryan (Co-investigator) Murphy, Fiona (Co-investigator) Neves, Karla (Co-investigator) Sprick, Seb (Co-investigator) Wu, Yue (Co-investigator) Young, David (Co-investigator)
22-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2027
Sprick, Seb (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2025
Sprick, Seb (Principal Investigator) Chamberlain, Luke (Co-investigator) Majumdar, Apala (Co-investigator) Scott, Fraser (Co-investigator)
26-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2027
Sprick, Seb (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2026
Sprick, Seb (Principal Investigator) Ceniccola-Campos, Kristin (Co-investigator)
27-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025

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Contact

Doctor Sebastian Sprick
Chancellor'S Fellow - Senior Lecturer
Pure and Applied Chemistry

Email: sebastian.sprick@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted