Dr David August
Lecturer in Chemical Education
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 650 4818
- Email: David.August@ed.ac.uk
Address
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Room 282
University of Edinburgh
Joseph Black Building
David Brewster Road
Edinburgh
EH9 3FJ - City
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Postgraduate teaching
Postgraduate Taught (PGT) Academic Cohort Lead
Course Organiser: PGT Laboratory Techniques, PGT Research Techniques, PGT Research Projects & PGT Advanced Analytical and Characterisation Methods
Lecturer: PGT NMR Spectroscopy
Research summary
Chemical Education – lab and transferable skills, spatial skills and aphantasia, language & cultural inclusion, post-graduate taught masters.
Current research interests
My research is in Chemical Education and the development of new and innovative teaching methods – both for practical skills and chemical theory. My current focus is in three main areas: 1) practical chemistry teaching and transferable skills, 2) the link between spatial skills or aphantasia with understanding chemical principles and 3) international student inclusion.Past research interests
My previous work focused on supramolecular chemistry and the use of dynamic molecular interactions to design and develop large complex structures for a range of applications including molecular cages for catalysis; molecular knots to investigate folding at the molecular level; and the first example of a true molecularly woven fabric.In the press
Prizes and awards:
Shortlisted for Times Research Project of the Year: STEM 2021
Guinness World Record for World’s Finest Woven Fabric
2022 Foresight Fellow in Molecular Weaving
Runner Up - #RSCPoster 2021 #RSC Nano Category
Media:
- 18th February 2021, University of Manchester, Manchester scientists awarded Guinness World Record for finest woven fabric
- 4th February 2021, IOM3, IOM3 | Scientists win Guinness World Record for the ‘finest woven fabric’
- 20th January 2021, UPI, British scientists create the world's finest woven fabric - UPI.com
- 20th January 2021, Science Times, Researchers Set New Guinness World Record for Finest Woven Fabric | Science Times
- 19th January 2021, Phys.org, Scientists awarded a Guinness World Record for the finest woven fabric
- 8th January 2021, C&EN, Star of David catenane shines with both Ir and Zn
- 18th December 2020, Biocinematics, Designing Nanotechnology: Weaving Molecular Fabric - YouTube
- 17th December 2020, C&EN, Chemists weave molecular fabric
- 2nd September 2020, C&EN, Tying knots in a molecular string
Full details can be found on Google Scholar (David P. August - Google Scholar) or at https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4049-0759.
- “Molecular Weaving.” Z.-H. Zhang, B. J. Andreassen, D. P. August, D. A. Leigh and L. Zhang, Nat. Mater., 2022, 21, 275-283.
- “A Chiral Cyclometalated Iridium Star of David [2]Catenane. D. P. August, J. Jaramillo-Garcia, D. A. Leigh, A. Valero and I. J. Vitorica-Yrezabal, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 1154-1161.
- “Self-assembly of a layered two-dimensional molecularly woven fabric.” D. P. August, R. A. W. Dryfe, S. J. Haigh, P. R. C. Kent, D. A. Leigh, J.-F. Lemonnier, Z. Li, C. A. Muryn, L. I. Palmer, Y. Song, G. F. S. Whitehead and R. J. Young, Nature, 2020, 588, 429-435.
- “Transmembrane Ion Channels Formed by a Star of David [2]Catenane and a Molecular Pentafoil Knot.” D. P. August, S. Borsley, S. L. Cockroft, F. della Sala, D. A. Leigh and S. J Webb, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142, 18859-18865.
- “Tying different knots in a molecular strand.” D. A. Leigh, F. Schaufelberger, L. Pirvu, J. H. Stenlid, D. P. August and J. Segard, Nature, 2020, 584, 562-568.
- “Self-Sorting Assembly of Molecular Trefoil Knots of Single Handedness.” J. Zhong, L. Zhang, D. P. August, G. F. S. Whitehead and D. A. Leigh, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 14249-14256.
- “Molecular Trefoil Knot from a Trimeric Circular Helicate.” L. Zhang, D. P. August, J. Zhong, G. F. S. Whitehead, I. J. Vitorica-Yrezabal, D. A. Leigh, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140 (15), 4982–4985.
- “Maximizing Coordination Capsule–Guest Polar Interactions in Apolar Solvents Reveals Significant Binding.” D. P. August, G. S. Nichol and P. J. Lusby, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55 (48), 15022-15026.
- “Photochemical depolymerisation of dermatan sulfate and analysis of the generated oligosaccharides.” C. G. Panagos, D. P. August, C. Jesson and D. Uhrín, Carbohydrate Polymers, 2016, 140, 13–19.
- “Non-equilibrium cobalt(III) “click” capsules.” P. R. Symmers, M. J. Burke, D. P. August, P. I. T. Thomson, G. S. Nichol, M. R. Warren, C. J. Campbell and P. J. Lusby, Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 756.
- “An Improved Method of Preparing Buprenorphine.” N. Archer, D. August, M. Bease, B. Jamieson, R. S. Marmor. (2013). Patent WO 2013/050748 A2.