Dr Benjamin Ward
Projects as PI
- Empowering Circular Operations in the Automotive Plastics Value Chain (01/06/2025 - 31/05/2028)
- Exploring furans as new polymer bases for insulation foam (01/10/2024 - 30/09/2029)
- Luminescent materials for optoelectric devices (01/10/2017 - 31/03/2021)
- Next generation recyclable plastics (12/08/2019 - 31/01/2020)
- Novel group 3/lanthanide complexes and their application to intramolecular hydroamination and ring-openeing polymerisation. (01/10/2009 - 30/09/2012)
Projects as Co-Investigator
- Assessing The Risks To Freshwater Ecosystems From Water-Soluble Polymers (01/10/2021 - 29/09/2025)
- Circular approach for the manufacture of load bearing insulating foams from post consumer waste (01/01/2021 - 30/04/2022)
- Plastic Fish: assessing the scale, chemical properties and biological effects of petrochemical plastics and bioplastics on aquacentre fish (01/04/2023 - 31/03/2027)
- Understanding the role of paramagnetic organometallic redox centres in oligomerisation catalysis (01/01/2010 - 28/02/2013)
- Welsh Wastewater Programme Phase 3 (31/05/2021 - 30/11/2022)
Research Datasets
- Aluminium-catalysed isocyanate trimerization, enhanced by exploiting a eynamic coordination sphere - Bahili MA, Stokes EC, Amesbury RC, et al. (2019). Cardiff University. 10.17035/d.2019.0069570379. Co-ordination Chemistry Homogeneous Catalysis
- Copper(II) complexes of pyridine-oxazoline (Pyox) ligands: coordination chemistry, ligand stability and catalysis - Ward BD, Hallett AJ, Kariuki B (2016). Cardiff University. 10.17035/d.2015.100130. Chemical synthesis
- Metallocene catalysts for the ring-opening co-polymerisation of epoxides and cyclic anhydrides - data - Shaw MS, Ward BD, Jones MD (2022). Cardiff University. 10.17035/d.2022.0152098705. Co-polymers Transition metal complexes
- Scandium complexes bearing bis(oxazolinylphenyl)amide ligands: an analysis of their reactivity, solution-state structures and photophysical properties - Bennett S, Pope SJA, Jenkins R, et al. (2016). Cardiff University. 10.17035/d.2016.0008424132. Chemical Shifts Chemical X-ray Crystallography Crystal structure Isomers Single Crystal Diffraction Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) UV/Visible Spectroscopy
- Water-Soluble Polymers: Emerging Contaminants Detected, Separated and Quantified by a Novel GPC/MALDI-TOF Method - data - Tarring EC, Durance I, Harbottle MJ, et al. (2023). Cardiff University. 10.17035/d.2023.0292450822. Pollution/pollution control



