What do you aim to achieve with your work?

Question: What do you aim to achieve with your work?
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Asked by Rosie to Alan, Ciorsdaidh, Lauren, Leonie, Martin, Neil, Shuo on 6 Mar 2018.
- Lauren Webster answered on 6 Mar 2018:
  
  WCAIR aims to come up with new medicines for neglected tropical diseases and deliver these in a way that everyone can have access to. The people mostly affected do not have the means to get or even buy their medicine they need, so WCAIR aims to make it affordable for all.
- Alan McCue answered on 9 Mar 2018:
  
  I would like to design new catalysts which help us use renewable resources instead of oil.
- Martin McCoustra answered on 12 Mar 2018:
  
  I’d like to understand the role of chemistry in the evolving Universe and show how the universality of chemistry and physics might point to there being the possibility of life elsewhere in space.
- Neil Keddie answered on 13 Mar 2018:
  
  We’re trying to make new molecules that can be used in liquid crystal displays to make better screens that are more responsive and can use less power. We’re doing this by making a new molecule that contains several fluorine atoms attached to a 3 membered carbon ring. If you imagine a tripod for heating things in the lab – our fluorine atoms are like the legs, where one side of the ring has all the fluorines and the other side (above the mesh on the tripod) just had hydrogens or carbon on it. The two faces of our molecule mean that it will react to electric fields and align with them (as it behaves a bit like a battery with a +ve and -ve end) – this is called polarity. We can use this polarity to make liquid crystal molecules that react faster when smaller electric currents are applied – leading to better screens that are faster to refresh.

Question: What do you aim to achieve with your work?

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