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Professor of Supramolecular & Polymer Chemistry / Director of the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis

What we do

Our research interests include the synthesis of functional nanosystems, controlled polymer architectures and dynamic supramolecular assemblies through molecular recognition processes.

The underlying theme of our research lies at the interface between synthetic organic efforts on small molecules and macroscopic properties at the materials level, developing a macro-organic approach to chemistry. Dynamic supramolecular self-assembly of materials will be an area of great importance in the coming years, allowing for innovations in nanotechnology and at the biological and chemical interfaces.

We are particularly interested in exploring topics such as water-soluble and stimuli-responsive materials, template and imprinting technologies of functional polymers for use in chiral separations and enantioselective catalysis, and controlling material morphologies and architectures both in solution and in the solid state through rational design and a multi-step, hierarchical self-assembly process.

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Publications

Theory and practice: Bulk synthesis of C₃B and its H₂- and Li-storage capacity

TC King, PD Matthews, H Glass, JA Cormack, JP Holgado, M Leskes, JM Griffin, OA Scherman, PD Barker, CP Grey, SE Dutton, RM Lambert, G Tustin, A Alavi, DS Wright

– Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)

(2015)

54,

5919

(doi: 10.1002/anie.201412200)

Hybrid Supramolecular and Colloidal Hydrogels that Bridge Multiple Length Scales

E-R Janeček, JR McKee, CSY Tan, A Nykänen, M Kettunen, J Laine, O Ikkala, OA Scherman

– Angew Chem Int Ed Engl

(2015)

54,

5383

(doi: 10.1002/anie.201410570)

Hybrid Supramolecular and Colloidal Hydrogels that Bridge Multiple Length Scales

E-R Janeček, JR McKee, CSY Tan, A Nykänen, M Kettunen, J Laine, O Ikkala, OA Scherman

– Angew Chem Weinheim Bergstr Ger

(2015)

127,

5473

(doi: 10.1002/ange.201410570)

Simple fluorinated moiety insertion on Aβ 16-23 peptide for stain-free TEM imaging.

S Sonzini, ST Jones, Z Walsh, OA Scherman

– The Analyst

(2015)

140,

2735

(doi: 10.1039/c4an02278e)

A facile method for the stain‐free visualization of hierarchical structures with electron microscopy

PE Williams, EA Appel, ST Jones, JD Barrio, Y Lan, OA Scherman

– Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry

(2015)

53,

842

(doi: 10.1002/pola.27517)

Gold–Oxoborate Nanocomposites and Their Biomedical Applications

K Wybrańska, J Paczesny, K Serejko, K Sura, K Włodyga, I Dzięcielewski, ST Jones, A Śliwa, I Wybrańska, R Hołyst, OA Scherman, M Fiałkowski

– ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

(2015)

7,

3931

(doi: 10.1021/am508979y)

Synthesis of Conducting Polymer-Metal Nanoparticle Hybrids Exploiting RAFT Polymerization.

PE Williams, ST Jones, Z Walsh, EA Appel, EK Abo-Hamed, OA Scherman

– ACS macro letters

(2015)

4,

255

(doi: 10.1021/mz500645c)

Supramolecular polymer networks based on cucurbit[8]uril host–guest interactions as aqueous photo-rheological fluids

CSY Tan, J Del Barrio, J Liu, OA Scherman

– Polymer Chemistry

(2015)

6,

7652

(doi: 10.1039/c5py01115a)

Functionalization of nanocelluloses by supramolecular motifs to combine competing properties

J Mckee, E Appel, E-R Janacek, H Tenhu, E Kontturi, O Scherman, O Ikkala

– ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

(2015)

249,

(link to publication)

Unfolding the contents of sub-nm plasmonic gaps using normalising plasmon resonance spectroscopy.

B de Nijs, RW Bowman, LO Herrmann, F Benz, SJ Barrow, J Mertens, DO Sigle, R Chikkaraddy, A Eiden, A Ferrari, OA Scherman, JJ Baumberg

– Faraday Discuss

(2015)

178,

185

(doi: 10.1039/c4fd00195h)