Roger Davey joined the department in 1993 as Professor of Molecular Engineering. He previously worked as a Research Associate for Zeneca and prior to that with ICI. In 2001 Roger was awarded an EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship to pursue his research on nucleation of molecular materials. In 2002 he founded the Molecular Materials Centre and in now a key figure in the Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry funded through the NWDA.

Crystal nucleation from solutions, Crystal Polymorphism, the preparation and pysical properties of molecular salts and cocrystals, formulation of pharmaceutical materials, solution chemistry and moelcular self assembly, crystallisation as means of enatiomer separation.

Davey, R. J., Cruz Cabeza, A., Woutersen, S., Yin, Q., & Du, W. (2015). Can the study of self-assembly in solution lead to a good model for the nucleation pathway? The case of tolfenamic acid.Chemical Science, 6, 3515-3524. . Publication link: 8668424b-8383-43cb-93f4-ec3aaccba5ed Sullivan, R. A., & Davey, R. J. (2015). Concerning the crystal morphologies of the α and β polymorphs of p-aminobenzoic acid. CrystEngComm, 17, 1015-1023. DOI: 10.1039/C4CE01857E. Publication link: 5e4fbeac-aec3-4c65-b4ee-fabee937bcf2 Davey, R., & Gilks, S. (2015). Crystallization from a water-in-oil emulsion as a route to enantiomer separation: the case of DL-threonine. Chemistry: A European Journal, 22. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201503061. Publication link: 792307ce-88aa-41bd-b47f-b7d7e51acbe8 Black, J. F. B., Davey, R., Gowers, R., & Yeoh, A. (2015). Ostwald's rule and enantiotropy: polymorph appearance in the crystallisation of p-aminobenzoic acid. CrystEngComm, 17(28), 5139-5142. DOI: 10.1039/C5CE00353A. Publication link: 0d5d94ef-8442-4fab-b546-7387fd0bac99 Davey, R. J., Back, K. R., & Sullivan, R. A. (2015). Crystal nucleation from solutions – transition states, rate determining steps and complexity. Unknown Journal, 179, 9 – 26, 9-26. . Publication link: a6f71154-06fb-4b12-befc-1237b61d978b