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We have just written an article for the British Journal of Nursing commenting on developments of the use of silicone polymer technology in stoma care. This article, written by Thomas Swift, Gillian Westgate, Julie Van Onselen and Stewart Lee reports on the background theory behind the development of a new silicone product due to launch later this year that we hope to report on soon.
Doctor Thomas Swift, lecturer in Polymer Characterisation, will be curating the RealScientists_Nano twitter account this week, focusing on all aspects of polymer science. He will be running it from March 22nd 2020 to midnight March 29th.
A podcast interview where the Real Scientists Nano team interview Dr Swift is available on their website here.
We’re delighted that we have just published an article in the journal Langmuir. This study, written by Fateh El-Taboni, Emily Caseley, Maria Katsikogianni, Linda Swanson, Thomas Swift and Maria E. Romero-González reports our work on studying Liposaccharide’s produced by bacteria in the formation of biofilms. The full paper can be read at the journal Langmuir
Today a paper from our collaborators at the University of Newcastle has just been released for viewing in the journal Composite Science and Materials. This is written by Priscila Melo from the Dalgarno research group, and features the contributions of Dr Thomas Swift to characterise the materials.
Dr Thomas Swift will be presenting a talk at the 20th RAPS meeting at the University of Leeds, an event running from the 4th to the 6th of September 2019.
His talk is entitled ‘Some Advantages of Disperse (in size and branching) Polymer Systems’ and features contributions from G. Orton and R. Hoskins.
Dr Thomas Swift is representing our group at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego, providing several selected presentations and posters highlighting the diversity of our research.
A new paper showcasing our collaborative work with Dr Shepherd in the University of Sheffield has just been published in ChemComm. This work, writing by Joey Shepherd, Tom Swift, Chien-Yi Chang, James R Boyne, Stephen Rimmer and William Martin showcases how HB-PNIPAM-HL can act as a quorum sensing antagonist and modulate how bacterial organisms communicate with one another.
Today a paper from our collaborators at the University of Newcastle has just been released for viewing online. This is written by Priscila Melo from the Dalgarno research group, and features the contributions of Dr Thomas Swift to characterise the materials.
We are delighted to announce a new publication released today is our latest work in the area of bacterial diagnostics. We have attached Nile Red as a pendant dye to our highly branched PNIPAM polymers to create a diagnostic infection sensor, and our latest results are published in Acta Biomateriala.
A new paper has been published today in the Royal Society of Chemistry purchased Journal of Materials Chemistry B. This paper is the second following the visit from Sovan Banerjee from IIT Kharagpur to Bradford in 2016 and we are delighted that our collaboration with Prof Singha’s group is continuing to bear fruit.
Read the full paper at the J Mat Chem B website here.
The Royal Society of Chemistry has just published our latest work; a collaboration between University of Bradford, University of Sheffield and Domino UK ltd. This paper, written by Dr Sarah Canning, with Professors Rimmer and Geoghen, shows the use of block poly butyl-methacrylate-co-acrylic acid to create uniform, onion forming micelles at the nanoscale.
The Polymer Biomaterials group is highly involved in hosting the 19th RAPS meeting at the University of Bradford, an event running from the 5th – 7th September 2018
Dr Beverly Stewart is providing a talk titled ‘Polymers and Theoretical Chemistry’ whilst RAPS committee member Dr Maria Katsikogianni is chairing a session. Dr Thomas Swift is also organising evening social activities after the dinner sessions.
We look forward to an exciting conference.
Post Doctoral Research Fellow working with Dr. S Rimmer, funded by the EPSRC [2004-2009]. Returned to group September 2018 – present.
Dr Tom Swift is presenting at EuCheMS 2018 with two talks and a poster covering recent research within our group. This international conference is being held in Liverpool 26th – 30th August.
Dr Rees joined our group for 9 months in summer 2018 to bring his considerable industrial experience (Akzonobel, PPG) and assist us fulfilling commercial contracts.
He was responsible for upgrading our GPC systems and oversaw several laboratory renovations. He departed in March 2019 to pursue a career in the civil service.