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Videos

Faraday Institution STEM Outreach Award (2024)
World record lemon battery (2021)
Royal Institution Discourse Lecture (2019)
Humanists UK conference talk (2018)
Ignite talk (five minutes) at University of Bath (2013)

Photos

Recent group and conference photos
Past group and conference photos
Energy Materials Symposium at the University of Bath
Photos from Energy Materials Symposia and Ri lectures in Japan

Chemistry-Related Music

Chart Hits 1960-1990s (Singles)

  • Animal Nitrate — Suede
  • Any Old Iron — Harry Champion
  • Atomic — Blondie
  • Bunsen Burner — John Otway
  • Chain Reaction — Diana Ross
  • Chemistry — The Nolans
  • Cocaine — JJ Cale/Eric Clapton
  • Electrolite — R.E.M.
  • Fools Gold — The Stone Roses
  • Glycerine — Bush
  • Gold — Spandau Ballet
  • Golden Brown — The Stranglers
  • Golden Years — David Bowie
  • Goldfinger — Shirley Bassey
  • Heart of Gold — Neil Young
  • Hi Ho Silver Lining — Jeff Beck
  • Iron Man — Black Sabbath
  • Lithium — Nirvana
  • Love is Like Oxygen — Sweet
  • Man on the Silver Mountain — Rainbow
  • Metal Guru — T-Rex
  • Milk and Alcohol — Dr Feelgood
  • Neon Lights — Kraftwerk
  • Oxygène — Jean-Michel Jarre
  • Radioactive — Imagine Dragons
  • Radioactivity — Kraftwerk
  • Silver Dream Machine — David Essex
  • Silver Lady — David Soul
  • Silver Machine — Hawkwind
  • Silver — Echo and the Bunnymen

Chart Hits 2000s-Now (Singles)

  • Chemistry — Arcade Fire
  • Chemistry — Semisonic
  • Fluorescent Adolescence — Arctic Monkeys
  • Crystalised — The XX
  • Formaldehyde — Editors
  • Gold Digger — Kanye West
  • Iron — Calvin Harris & Nicky Romero
  • Mercury — Bloc Party
  • Radioactive — Kings of Leon
  • Radioactive — Rita Ora
  • Titanium — David Guetta
  • The Chemicals Between Us — Bush

Album Titles

  • Advanced Chemistry — Beginner
  • After the Goldrush — Neil Young
  • All About Chemistry — Chemistry
  • Atom Heart Mother — Pink Floyd
  • Atomic Anarchy — Leucine Zipper & the Zinc Fingers
  • Better Living Through Chemistry — Fatboy Slim
  • Catalyst — New Found Glory
  • Chemistry — Girls Aloud
  • Elements — Mike Oldfield
  • Gold — ABBA
  • Gold — Parliament
  • Goldmother — James
  • H2O — Hall and Oates
  • Heathen Chemistry — Oasis
  • Hot Chemistry — Chemistry
  • How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb — U2
  • Iron Fist — Motorhead
  • Long John Silver — Jefferson Airplane
  • Metal Works — Judas Priest
  • Neon Bible — Arcade Fire
  • New Gold Dream — Simple Minds
  • Origin Of Symmetry — Muse
  • Osmium — Parliament
  • Rhenium — Parliament
  • Radioactivity — Kraftwerk
  • Silver and Gold — Neil Young
  • The 2nd Law — Muse
  • The Periodic Table — Reagenz
  • Throwing Copper — Live
  • Volta — Björk
  • 7800° Fahrenheit — Bon Jovi

Well-known Bands/Singers

  • Atoms For Peace
  • Atomic Kitten
  • Chemical Brothers
  • Crystal Gayle
  • Electronic
  • Freddie Mercury
  • Iron Maiden
  • Lead Belly
  • Mercury Rev
  • Metallica
  • My Chemical Romance
  • Neon Neon
  • New Radicals
  • Nickelback
  • Orbital
  • Philip Glass
  • Poly Styrene
  • We Are Scientists
  • X-Ray Spex

Not-so-well-known Bands/Singers

  • Alkaline Trio
  • Atomic Rooster
  • Atomic Swing
  • Carbon Leaf
  • Chlorine Free
  • Crystal Castles
  • Diamond Head
  • EMF
  • H2O
  • Iron and Wine
  • Iron Butterfly
  • King Creosote
  • Leucine Zipper & the Zinc Fingers
  • Lisa Carbon
  • Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
  • Neon Judgement
  • Neon Trees
  • Nickel Creek
  • Peter and the Test Tube Babies
  • Radical Face
  • Radio Iodine
  • Silicon Scally
  • Silver Apples
  • Sister Iodine
  • The Crystal Method
  • The Faraday Concept
  • The Pipettes
  • Tin Tin Out

For a bit of fun in 2013 we started these lists of chemistry songs, band names and album titles. (Other suggestions welcome. Email: saiful.islam@materials.ox.ac.uk)