Question: does your work involve new products

Robert Woolfson answered on 11 Mar 2015:

Yes. One of the big aims of my work is to make new molecules. Hopefully, these new molecules will have some really interesting properties that we can use to make into a computer that one day will be for sale.

However, in science it takes a long time to develop new things as we have to be really really careful to get it right. Probably, we’re years away from using any of the molecules my research group makes in any kind of product for sale.