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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

– Angewandte Chemie

(2015)

127,

5473

(doi: 10.1002/ange.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

– Angewandte Chemie International Edition

(2015)

54,

5383

(doi: 10.1002/anie.201410570)

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

S Sonzini, ST Jones, Z Walsh, OA Scherman

– 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 Appl Mater 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)

Surface-immobilised micelles via cucurbit[8]uril-rotaxanes for solvent-induced burst release

C Hu, Y Zheng, Z Yu, C Abell, OA Scherman

– Chem Commun (Camb)

(2015)

51,

4858

(doi: 10.1039/c5cc00121h)

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 Discussions

(2015)

178,

185

(doi: 10.1039/c4fd00195h)

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)