Highly-branched Poly(N-isopropylacrylamides) in Protein binding Studies
Post Doctoral Research Fellow working with Dr. S Rimmer, funded by the EPSRC [2004-2009]. Returned to group September 2018 – present. Continue reading Dr Steven Robert Carter
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EuCheMS 2018
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 Ryan Rees
Research Technician (2018 – 2019)
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.
Dr Pavintorn Teratanatorn
Binding of bacteria by antibiotics functionalised polymer: mechanism of resction and developing of detection systems
PhD project supervised by Prof. S. Rimmer (Department of Chemistry) and Prof. C. W. I. Douglas (Department of Dentistry). Gained her doctorate in 2018.
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Paper: Antibiotic functionalised polymers reduce bacterial biofilm and bioburden in a simulated infection of the cornea
Today online a new advanced access article is online at Biomaterials Science, launched following our recent collaboration with the team at the University of Sheffield. This paper shows the efficacy of our recent highly branched polymer materials to disturb or prevent the formation of bacterial biofilms.
Publication: Segmental Mobility Studies of Poly(N‐isopropyl acrylamide) Interactions with Gold Nanoparticles and Its Use as a Thermally Driven Trapping System
Published online as early access today, a brand new communication has been published in Macromolecular Rapid Communications, by Dr Swift and collaborator Dr Hickey. This article shows a first examination of the interaction between gold nanoparticles and linear PNIPAM polymer chains and can be read at the MRC website here.
Publication: A self-healable fluorescence active hydrogel based on ionic block copolymers prepared via ring opening polymerization and xanthate mediated RAFT polymerization
We are delighted to publish the first of several collaborations with our colleagues in IIT Kharagpur has been accepted for publication with RSC journal Polymer Chemistry. This publication, outlining a self healing fluorescent hydrogel, is a functional demonstration of new material types we have been actively developing for several years. Read the article at the RSC Polymer chemistry website.
Dr Beverly Stewart
Computational Chemistry
Lecturer in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1455-8462
Article: Poly(acrylic acid) Interpolymer Complexes
Today we were delighted to hear from RSC Soft Matter that they are publishing one of our articles on “Polyacrylic acid interpolymer Complexation”. This paper is written by Drs Thomas Swift, Colin Seaton and Stephen Rimmer, and can be found at the Soft Matter website. This is the latest in a series of articles studying interpolymer complexation carried out by the group in recent years.
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Event – Polymers for Advanced Technologies
Doctor Thomas Swift will be representing the Polymer Biomaterials group at this years international Polymers for Advanced Technologies, hosted at the University of Manchester.
Doctor Swift will present some of the recent work on Poly(acrylic acid) carried out by the group, focusing on our recent discovery about its molar mass dependency.
Find out more about the PAT conference here.
