Armes Research Group

Congrats to former postdocs Csilla Gyorgy and Saul Hunter @saul__hunter for their new Macromolecules paper: 'Effect of added salt on the RAFT polymerization of 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate in aqueous media'

Check out our new Leverhulme Trust-funded @LeverhulmeTrust JACS paper on synthetic mimics for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-based cosmic dust particles. This study involved a fruitful collaboration with scientists at @kentuniv , @sheffhallamuni and @Chiba_Univ_PR

@Macro2024 was an amazing opportunity to meet old friends and make new connections.... @LCPO_Bordeaux @ArmesGroup @MLBeckerGroup

Some photos today at the medal award with @helen_willcock @RemziBecer @ArmesGroup and Nick Turner. Really enjoyable lecture at a great conference. #MACRO2024 @MacroGroup_UK @Macro2024

Many congratulations to Ashland-sponsored @AshlandInc PhD student Matt Farmer for his new JACS paper on the synthesis of degradable diblock copolymer rods or platelets via aqueous reverse sequence PISA + CDSA. Check it out at pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Many congrats to 2nd-year PhD student Hubert Buksa @hubert_buksa ,who has just published his 1st PhD paper in Biomacromolecules. GEO Specialty Chemicals sponsors his PhD, which involves a collaboration with Dr. Rebecca Corrigan @corrigar1 Check it out at doi.org/10.1021/acs.bi…

Many congratulations to Priyanka Chohan on her poster prize at the Faculty of Science poster session today!

Congrats 👏🏼to newly minted Dr Rory McBride @Roryjmb who passed his PhD viva today with minor corrections. Thanks also to Dr Lee Fielding @lee_fielding and Dr Lance Twyman for acting as PhD examiners and to BASF @BASF for project sponsorship.

Delighted to recieve this award! Great work by @Pittaway_P !

@njwarren1 @Pittaway_P Many congratulations!

Congrats 👏🏼to BASF-sponsored Rory McBride @Roryjmb for the publication of his second PhD paper in Macromolecules. This study reports a 'low salt' RAFT aqueous dispersion polymerisation route to salt-responsive particles.

Delighted to announce that the Armes group recently received its 50,000 citation! Congrats to all its past and current members on this notable milestone. 👏🏼

Check out this amazing Collection from @ChemMater, curated by Shiyong Liu, on The Future of Radical Polymerization, including an Editorial from @MatyPolymerLab and contributions from @johnsonchem @tangpolymer Chris Bates @EmilyPentzer @ArmesGroup and many others!

We are delighted to announce that Steve has just been awarded the 2024 JCIS Darsh Wasan Award. For further details, see #steven-armes-winner-of-the-2024-jcis-darsh-wasan-award" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sciencedirect.com/journal/journa… He will give his keynote award lecture at the 13th International Colloid conference in Sitges, Spain on Jun 10th.

Congrats to BASF-sponsored PhD student Rory McBride @Roryjmb on his second Macromolecules paper. This study reports a 'low salt' route to high MW non-ionic water-soluble polymers in the form of low-viscosity latex particles. Check it out at: pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.10…

Congrats to former Armes group student Olly Deane @ojdeane1 for his final PhD paper on thermoplastic elastomers (sponsor: Ashland @AshlandInc) Check it out at pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Great seminar by Prof Steve Armes @ArmesGroup from @sheffielduni at our @UNSWChemEng school seminar in Sydney today. Excellent work highlighting the versatile use of block copolymer nano-objects fabricated by polymerisation-induced self-assembly (#PISA) #RAFT #polymers

@peterwich @sheffielduni @UNSWChemEng Thank you for being fantastic hosts and a great audience 👍🏻

Many congrats to our former intern student Sam Astier on the publication of his study of the chemical adsorption of nanoparticles on polymer brushes in Langmuir. Check out his article at pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…