Dr Lee Durndell
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Dr Lee Durndell

Lecturer in Chemistry

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)

Biography

Biography

Lecturer in Materials Chemistry
PhD Supervisor
Undergraduate Chemistry Stage 1 Lead
Teaching on the following modules:
  • CHM1011 - Practice of Chemistry 
  • CHM1014 - Solving Chemical Problems
  • CHM1017 - Inorganic Chemistry 
  • CHM2011 - Inorganic Chemistry
  • CHM2014 - Analytical Chemistry 1
  • CHM2016 - Research Skills
  • CHM3018/9 - Chemistry Project
  • CHM3014 - Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

Qualifications

  • 2015 - PhD in Surface Science and Heterogeneous Catalysis from Cardiff/Aston University - “An investigation into support effects on the Pt-catalysed selective transformation of α,β-unsaturated substrates.” 
  • 2011 - MChem in Chemistry with Industrial experience, Cardiff University

Professional membership

Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry Member of the Society of Chemical Industry

Roles on external bodies

Secretary for the Royal Society of Chemistry Analytical Division (Southwest Region)
Research

Research

Research interests

  • Functionalisation and characterisation of hierarchical nanomaterials
  • Biomass conversion and "drop in" fuel synthesis
  • Tracking and analysing the degradation pathways of microplastics in the environment 
  • Electric vehicle battery deployment and recycling
  • Decarbonisation of the marine sector

Grants & contracts

'Innovate UK Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition Round 2 - Feasibility (2023) "Virtual Bunkering for Electric Vessels (VBEV)" L. J. Durndell (PI), £315,630
NERC Highlight Topics (2020-2024), "Biodegradable Bioplastics - Assessing Environmental Risk (BIO-PLASTIC-RISK)," R. Thompson (PI), L. J. Durndell (Co-I), £1,082,438
NERC (2019-2022), "Current and Future Effects of Microplastics on Marine Shelf Ecosystems (MINIMISE)," R. Thompson (PI), L. J. Durndell (Co-I), £723,951
RSC Researcher Mobility Grant (M19-1518 - 2020-1), L. J. Durndell (PI), £5,000
RSC Research Fund Grant (R19-2791 - 2020-1), L. J. Durndell (PI), £4,000 
Publications

Publications

Key publications

Key publications are highlighted

Journals
Articles
Boisseaux P, Rauert C, Dewapriya P, Delignette-Muller M-L, Barrett R, Durndell L, Pohl F, Thompson R, Thomas KV & Galloway T (2024) 'Deep dive into the chronic toxicity of tyre particle mixtures and their leachates' Journal of Hazardous Materials 466, 133580-133580 , DOI
Clark NJ, Fischer AC, Durndell L, Galloway TS & Thompson RC (2023) 'Translocation of 14C-polystyrene nanoplastics into fish during a very-low concentration dietary exposure' Chemosphere , DOI Open access
De Falco F, Nacci T, Durndell L, Thompson RC, Degano I & Modugno F (2023) 'A thermoanalytical insight into the composition of biodegradable polymers and commercial products by EGA-MS and Py-GC-MS' Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis , DOI Open access
dos Santos-Durndell VC, Durndell LJ, Isaacs MA, Lee AF & Wilson K (2023) 'WOx/ZrOx functionalised periodic mesoporous organosilicas as water-tolerant catalysts for carboxylic acid esterification' Sustainable Energy & Fuels 7, (7) 1677-1686 , DOI
dos Santos-Durndell VC, Durndell LJ, Isaacs MA, Lee AF & Wilson K (2023) 'Correction: WO<sub><i>x</i></sub>/ZrO<sub><i>x</i></sub> functionalised periodic mesoporous organosilicas as water-tolerant catalysts for carboxylic acid esterification' Sustainable Energy &amp; Fuels 7, (9) 2308-2308 , DOI
Ziarko A, Slater T, Isaacs MA, Durndell L & Parlett C (2023) 'Isolated PdO sites on SiO2-supported NiO nanoparticles as active sites for allylic alcohol selective oxidation' Catalysis Science &amp; Technology , DOI Open access
Parlett CMA, Arandiyan H, Durndell LJ, Isaacs MA, Lopez AT, Wong RJ, Wilson K & Lee AF (2022) 'Continuous-flow synthesis of mesoporous SBA-15' Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 329, 111535-111535 , DOI Open access
Osatiashtiani A, Orr SA, Durndell LJ, García IC, Merenda A, Lee AF & Wilson K (2022) 'Liquid phase catalytic transfer hydrogenation of ethyl levulinate to γ-valerolactone over ZrO<sub>2</sub>/SBA-15' Catalysis Science &amp; Technology 12, (18) 5611-5619 , DOI
Isaacs MA, Parlett CMA, Robinson N, Durndell LJ, Manayil JC, Beaumont SK, Jiang S, Hondow NS, Lamb AC & Jampaiah D (2020) 'Publisher Correction: A spatially orthogonal hierarchically porous acid–base catalyst for cascade and antagonistic reactions' Nature Catalysis 3, (11) 960-960 , DOI
Isaacs MA, Parlett CMA, Robinson N, Durndell LJ, Manayil JC, Beaumont SK, Jiang S, Hondow NS, Lamb AC & Jampaiah D (2020) 'A spatially orthogonal hierarchically porous acid–base catalyst for cascade and antagonistic reactions' Nature Catalysis 3, (11) 921-931 , DOI
Shivhare A, Hunns JA, Durndell LJ, Parlett CMA, Isaacs MA, Lee AF & Wilson K (2020) 'Hydrodeoxygenation of anisole over Pt/Al‐SBA‐15: metal‐acid synergy' ChemSusChem , DOI Open access
Parlett CMA, Durndell LJ, Isaacs MA, Liu X & Wu C (2020) 'Ethanol Steam Reforming for Hydrogen Production Over Hierarchical Macroporous Mesoporous SBA-15 Supported Nickel Nanoparticles' Topics in Catalysis , DOI Open access
Durndell LJ, Cucuzzella C, Parlett CMA, Isaacs MA, Wilson K & Lee AF (2019) 'Platinum catalysed aerobic selective oxidation of cinnamaldehyde to cinnamic acid' Catalysis Today 333, 161-168 , DOI
Durndell LJ, Isaacs MA, LI C, Parlett C, Wilson K & Lee AF (2019) 'Cascade aerobic selective oxidation over contiguous dual catalyst beds in continuous flow' ACS Catalysis , DOI Open access
Durndell L, Zou G, Shangguan W, Lee A & Wilson K (2019) 'Structure‐reactivity relations in Ru catalysed furfural hydrogenation' ChemCatChem , DOI Open access
Isaacs MA, Robinson N, Barbero B, Durndell LJ, Manayil JC, Parlett CMA, D'Agostino C, Wilson K & Lee AF (2019) 'Unravelling mass transport in hierarchically porous catalysts' Journal of Materials Chemistry A , DOI Open access
Rabee AIM, Durndell LJ, Fouad NE, Frattini L, Isaacs MA, Lee AF, Mekhemer GAH, Santos VCD, Wilson K & Zaki MI (2018) 'Citrate-mediated sol–gel synthesis of Al-substituted sulfated zirconia catalysts for α-pinene isomerization' Molecular Catalysis 458, 206-212 , DOI
Karthikeyan S, Kumar S, Durndell LJ, Isaacs MA, Parlett CMA, Coulson B, Douthwaite RE, Jiang Z, Wilson K & Lee AF (2018) 'Size‐Dependent Visible Light Photocatalytic Performance of Cu<sub>2</sub>O Nanocubes' ChemCatChem 10, (16) 3554-3563 , DOI
Isaacs M, Barbero B, Durndell L, Hilton A, Olivi L, Parlett C, Wilson K & Lee A (2018) 'Tunable Silver-Functionalized Porous Frameworks for Antibacterial Applications' Antibiotics 7, (3) 55-55 , DOI Open access
Rabee A, Manayil J, Isaacs M, Parlett C, Durndell L, Zaki M, Lee A & Wilson K (2018) 'On the Impact of the Preparation Method on the Surface Basicity of Mg–Zr Mixed Oxide Catalysts for Tributyrin Transesterification' Catalysts 8, (6) 228-228 , DOI
Tai Z, Isaacs MA, Durndell LJ, Parlett CMA, Lee AF & Wilson K (2018) 'Magnetically-separable Fe3O4@SiO2@SO4-ZrO2 core-shell nanoparticle catalysts for propanoic acid esterification' Molecular Catalysis 449, 137-141 , DOI
Kumar S, Durndell LJ, Manayil JC, Isaacs MA, Parlett CMA, Karthikeyan S, Douthwaite RE, Coulson B, Wilson K & Lee AF (2017) 'Delaminated CoAl‐Layered Double Hydroxide@TiO<sub>2</sub> Heterojunction Nanocomposites for Photocatalytic Reduction of CO<sub>2</sub>' Particle &amp; Particle Systems Characterization 35, (1) , DOI
Manayil JC, Osatiashtiani A, Mendoza A, Parlett CMA, Isaacs MA, Durndell LJ, Michailof C, Heracleous E, Lappas A & Lee AF (2017) 'Impact of Macroporosity on Catalytic Upgrading of Fast Pyrolysis Bio‐Oil by Esterification over Silica Sulfonic Acids' ChemSusChem 10, (17) 3506-3511 , DOI
Hashemzadeh A, Amini MM, Tayebee R, Sadeghian A, Durndell LJ, Isaacs MA, Osatiashtiani A, Parlett CMA & Lee AF (2017) 'A magnetically-separable H 3 PW 12 O 40 @Fe 3 O 4 /EN-MIL-101 catalyst for the one-pot solventless synthesis of 2H-indazolo[2,1- b ] phthalazine-triones' Molecular Catalysis 440, 96-106 , DOI
Kumar S, Isaacs MA, Trofimovaite R, Durndell L, Parlett CMA, Douthwaite RE, Coulson B, Cockett MCR, Wilson K & Lee AF (2017) 'P25@CoAl layered double hydroxide heterojunction nanocomposites for CO2 photocatalytic reduction' Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 209, 394-404 , DOI
Parlett CMA, Aydin A, Durndell LJ, Frattini L, Isaacs MA, Lee AF, Liu X, Olivi L, Trofimovaite R & Wilson K (2017) 'Tailored mesoporous silica supports for Ni catalysed hydrogen production from ethanol steam reforming' Catalysis Communications 91, 76-79 , DOI
Bennett JA, Parlett CMA, Isaacs MA, Durndell LJ, Olivi L, Lee AF & Wilson K (2017) 'Acetic Acid Ketonization over Fe<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub>/SiO<sub>2</sub> for Pyrolysis Bio‐Oil Upgrading' ChemCatChem 9, (9) 1648-1654 , DOI
Isaacs MA, Durndell LJ, Hilton AC, Olivi L, Parlett CMA, Wilson K & Lee AF (2017) 'Tunable Ag@SiO<sub>2</sub> core–shell nanocomposites for broad spectrum antibacterial applications' RSC Advances 7, (38) 23342-23347 , DOI
dos Santos VC, Durndell LJ, Isaacs MA, Parlett CMA, Wilson K & Lee AF (2016) 'A new application for transition metal chalcogenides: WS2 catalysed esterification of carboxylic acids' Catalysis Communications 91, 16-20 , DOI
Zhang X, Durndell LJ, Isaacs MA, Parlett CMA, Lee AF & Wilson K (2016) 'Platinum-Catalyzed Aqueous-Phase Hydrogenation of <scp>d</scp>-Glucose to <scp>d</scp>-Sorbitol' ACS Catalysis 6, (11) 7409-7417 , DOI
Taylor MJ, Durndell LJ, Isaacs MA, Parlett CMA, Wilson K, Lee AF & Kyriakou G (2016) 'Highly selective hydrogenation of furfural over supported Pt nanoparticles under mild conditions' Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 180, 580-585 , DOI
Osatiashtiani A, Durndell LJ, Manayil JC, Lee AF & Wilson K (2016) 'Influence of alkyl chain length on sulfated zirconia catalysed batch and continuous esterification of carboxylic acids by light alcohols' Green Chemistry 18, (20) 5529-5535 , DOI
Reche MT, Osatiashtiani A, Durndell LJ, Isaacs MA, Silva Â, Lee AF & Wilson K (2016) 'Niobic acid nanoparticle catalysts for the aqueous phase transformation of glucose and fructose to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural' Catalysis Science &amp; Technology 6, (19) 7334-7341 , DOI
Jiang Z, Zhang Z, Shangguan W, Isaacs MA, Durndell LJ, Parlett CMA & Lee AF (2016) 'Photodeposition as a facile route to tunable Pt photocatalysts for hydrogen production: on the role of methanol' Catalysis Science &amp; Technology 6, (1) 81-88 , DOI
Durndell LJ, Parlett CMA, Hondow NS, Isaacs MA, Wilson K & Lee AF (2015) 'Selectivity control in Pt-catalyzed cinnamaldehyde hydrogenation' Scientific Reports 5, (1) , DOI Open access
Durndell LJ, Wilson K & Lee AF (2015) 'Platinum-catalysed cinnamaldehyde hydrogenation in continuous flow' RSC Advances 5, (97) 80022-80026 , DOI
Durndell LJ, Lee AF, Bailie DS & Muldoon MJ (2015) 'Selective palladium-catalysed aerobic oxidation of alcohols' RSC Green Chemistry 2015-January, (28) 92-132
Parlett CMA, Durndell LJ, Machado A, Cibin G, Bruce DW, Hondow NS, Wilson K & Lee AF (2014) 'Alumina-grafted SBA-15 as a high performance support for Pd-catalysed cinnamyl alcohol selective oxidation' Catalysis Today 229, 46-55 , DOI
Parlett CMA, Durndell LJ, Wilson K, Bruce DW, Hondow NS & Lee AF (2014) 'Selective oxidation of allylic alcohols over highly ordered Pd/meso-Al2O3 catalysts' Catalysis Communications 44, 40-45 , DOI
Durndell LJ, Parlett CMA, Hondow NS, Wilson K & Lee AF (2013) 'Tunable Pt nanocatalysts for the aerobic selox of cinnamyl alcohol' Nanoscale 5, (12) 5412-5412 , DOI
Chapters
Crocker (2020) 'Chemical Catalysts for Biomass Upgrading'
Zhang X, Tai Z, Osatiashtiani A, Durndell L, Lee AF & Wilson K (2019) 'Catalytic Upgrading of Holocellulose‐Derived <scp>C</scp> <sub>5</sub> and <scp>C</scp> <sub>6</sub> Sugars' Wiley 145-205 , DOI
Durndell LJ, Lee AF, Bailie DS & Muldoon MJ (2014) 'Selective Palladium-Catalysed Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols' Transition Metal Catalysis in Aerobic Alcohol Oxidation The Royal Society of Chemistry 92-132 , DOI
Durndell L, Lee A, Wilson K, Muldoon M & Bailie D (2014) 'Selective Palladium-Catalysed Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols' in Cardona F; Parmeggiani C Transition Metal Catalysis in Aerobic Alcohol Oxidation Royal Society of Chemistry 92-132 , DOI
Other Publications
Shivhare A, Hunns JA, Durndell LJ, Parlett CMA, Isaacs MA, Lee AF & Wilson K (2020) Metal–Acid Synergy: Hydrodeoxygenation of Anisole over Pt/Al‐SBA‐15. Wiley , DOI
Metal–Acid Synergy: Hydrodeoxygenation of Anisole over Pt/Al‐SBA‐15. , DOI
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