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Matthew Davidson is Director of the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies (CSCT) at the University of Bath. He graduated in Chemistry from the University of Wales, Swansea in 1990 and received a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1993. He was elected to a Research Fellowship at St John’s College Cambridge in 1992 and held Lectureships in the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge (1995) and at Durham University (1995-1999) before being appointed to a Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Bath in 1999.He established the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies (CSCT) at Bath in 2008 and is currently Director of its EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre (DTC). Professor Davidson is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and is a previous recipient of the Harrison Memorial Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Royal Society Industry Fellowship.
His major current research interests include:
- Fundamental Structure and Bonding
- Reagents and Catalysts for Organic Transformations
- Applications in Sustainable Chemistry
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Making and Unmaking Multiblock Sustainable Polymers: An AI-Guided Automated Approach to Catalyst Discovery and Sequence Control
Chatterjee, S. (PI) & Davidson, M. (PI)
1/10/24 → 1/10/28
Project: Research-related funding
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Sustainable Chemicals and Materials Manufacturing Hub
Davidson, M. (PI), Allen, S. (CoI), Buchard, A. (CoI), Chatterjee, S. (CoI), Cooper, S. (CoI), Cresswell, A. (CoI), Freakley, S. (CoI), Hintermair, U. (CoI), Leese, H. (CoI), Lupton, R. (CoI), Mattia, D. (CoI), O'Malley, A. (CoI), Miao, Z. (Researcher) & Wang, J. (Researcher)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/09/24 → 31/08/31
Project: Research council
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Sustainable Chemicals and Materials Manufacturing Hub
Davidson, M. (PI), Allen, S. (CoI), Buchard, A. (CoI), Chatterjee, S. (CoI), Cooper, S. (CoI), Cresswell, A. (CoI), Freakley, S. (CoI), Hintermair, U. (CoI), Leese, H. (CoI), Lupton, R. (CoI), Mattia, D. (CoI), O'Malley, A. (CoI) & Xu, G. (Researcher)
1/09/24 → 31/08/31
Project: Research council
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Researcher in Residence fellowship - Alejandro Sanchez - Sustainable technologies for biomedical and bioprocess waste recycling to provide resilient, net zero and circular solutions
Davidson, M. (PI) & Sanchez Monsalve, A. (Researcher)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/07/23 → 30/04/26
Project: Research council
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Hub 'Science' 3: Catalysis for the Circular Economy and Sustainable Manufacturing - AP16: Alcohol oxidases to bioremediate the industrial production of surfactant ingredients
Davidson, M. (PI)
30/11/22 → 29/11/23
Project: Research council
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Bio-based, Degradable and Tunable Epoxy Thermosets from Homogenized Acids and Epoxidized Linseed Oil or Glycerol Triglycidyl Ether
Groombridge, B., Irvine, G., Jarkov, V., Husband, J., McCormick, S. & Davidson, M., 12 Jan 2026, In: ACS Sustainable Chemisty and Engineering . 14, 1, p. 586-594 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Zinc-Catalysed Depolymerization of Poly(Butylene Succinate) and Poly(Butylene Adipate-co-Terephthalate) and Enhanced Degradation of Catalyst-Polymer Composite Films
Burgevin, F., Stewart, J. A., May, A., Cullen, M. J., Buchard, A., Davidson, M. G. & Jones, M. D., 31 Jan 2026, In: ChemSusChem. 19, 1, e202502332.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Diversity in zwitterionic metal ammonium tris(phenolate)s for the controlled immortal polymerization of lactide: dramatic activity enhancement and mechanistic insight on expansion beyond zirconium
Davidson, M. G., Frankis, C. J., Jones, M. D., Kociok-Kohn, G., Marken, F., McCormick, S. N., Tipler, J. & Yang, P. B., 6 Jun 2025, In: ACS Catalysis. 15, 11, p. 9130-9149 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Imino‐Pyrrole Zn(II) Complexes for the Rapid and Selective Chemical Recycling of Commodity Polymers
Stewart, J. A., Powell, L. T. W., Cullen, M. J., Kociok-Kohn, G., Davidson, M. & Jones, M. D., 26 May 2025, In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64, 22, e202502845.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Photo-Initiated Depolymerization of Consumer Poly(methyl methacrylate): Chlorine Not Required
Husband, J., Irvine, G., Morris, C., Folli, A., Davidson, M. & Freakley, S., 11 Jun 2025, Research Square.Research output: Working paper / Preprint › Preprint
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Supplementary Dataset for Thesis: Bridging the Gap in Sustainable Continuous Chemicals Manufacture: Integrating Upstream Synthesis and Downstream Crystallisation - Chapter "Thermochromics"
Scott, D. (Creator), Wilson, C. (Creator) & Davidson, M. (Creator), University of Bath, 4 Nov 2020
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00731
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Aluminium Salalens vs. Salans: “Initiator Design” for the Isoselective Polymerisation of rac-Lactide
Jones, M. (Creator), Davidson, M. (Creator), McKeown, P. (Creator) & Kociok-Kohn, G. (Creator), University of Bath, 7 Jul 2016
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00220
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ROP of R-manOCA: DFT study
Buchard, A. (Creator), Davidson, M. (Project Leader) & Carbery, D. (Project Leader), Figshare, 3 Sept 2013
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.786543, http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.786543
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Dataset for "Comparison of Cyclic and Linear Poly(lactide)s Using Small Angle Neutron Scattering"
Yang, P. (Creator), Edler, K. (Creator), Davidson, M. (Creator), Brown, S. (Creator), McCormick, S. (Creator), Bathke, E. (Creator), Leaman, N. (Creator) & Matsarskaia, O. (Creator), University of Bath, 13 Dec 2022
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-01203
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