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 Strathclyde Chancellor’s Fellow.
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
- Climate Education (Fresk) Workshop for EACU Scotland Conference 2023
- Organiser
- 8/2/2023
- Facilitation of Climate Fresk workshop for 2YR UG course in PAC
- Recipient
- 17/10/2022
- University Of Strathclyde (Organisational unit)
- Member
- 10/10/2022
- Invited departmental seminar (The 72nd CMS International Seminar): “Solar fuel production from water using polymer photocatalysts” R. S. Sprick, Center for Molecular Systems, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
- Speaker
- 9/9/2022
- Invited departmental seminar: “Solar fuel production from water using polymer photocatalysts” R. S. Sprick, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Speaker
- 8/9/2022
- Invited departmental seminar: “Solar fuel production from water using polymer photocatalysts” R. S. Sprick, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan
- Speaker
- 7/9/2022
More professional activities
Projects
- Conjugated polymers bearing on-chain metal complexes for photoelectrochemical carbon dioxide reduction
- Sprick, Seb (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2022
- Solution-processible conjugated polymers for photoelectrochemical carbon dioxide reduction (International Exchanges 2021)
- Sprick, Seb (Principal Investigator)
- 11-Jan-2022 - 10-Jan-2024
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | McQueen, Ewan
- Sprick, Seb (Principal Investigator) Bruns, Nico (Co-investigator) Cormack, Peter (Co-investigator) McQueen, Ewan (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2025
- Polymer photocatalyst films for carbon dioxide reduction
- Sprick, Seb (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
- Nickel and Palladium bearing Conjugated Polymers and Spectator Ligands for Photo-Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction
- Sprick, Seb (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 28-Jan-2022
- Development of linear polymers for photoanodic water oxidation (International Exchanges NSFC)
- Sprick, Seb (Principal Investigator)
- 30-Jan-2021 - 29-Jan-2024
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Thomas Graham
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