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Professor Oren A. Scherman

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

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)
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)
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)
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 Discuss
(2015)
178,
185
(doi: 10.1039/c4fd00195h)
Interfacial assembly of dendritic microcapsules with host-guest chemistry.
Y Zheng, Z Yu, RM Parker, Y Wu, C Abell, OA Scherman
– Nature communications
(2014)
5,
5772
(doi: 10.1038/ncomms6772)
Multifunctional supramolecular polymer networks as next-generation consolidants for archaeological wood conservation.
Z Walsh, E-R Janeček, JT Hodgkinson, J Sedlmair, A Koutsioubas, DR Spring, M Welch, CJ Hirschmugl, C Toprakcioglu, JR Nitschke, M Jones, OA Scherman
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(2014)
111,
17743
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1406037111)
Quantitative multiplexing with nano-self-assemblies in SERS.
S Kasera, LO Herrmann, J del Barrio, JJ Baumberg, OA Scherman
– Scientific reports
(2014)
4,
6785
(doi: 10.1038/srep06785)
The control of cargo release from physically crosslinked hydrogels by crosslink dynamics.
EA Appel, RA Forster, MJ Rowland, OA Scherman
– Biomaterials
(2014)
35,
9897
(doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2014.08.001)
Activation energies control the macroscopic properties of physically cross-linked materials
EA Appel, RA Forster, A Koutsioubas, C Toprakcioglu, OA Scherman
– Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
(2014)
53,
10038
(doi: 10.1002/anie.201403192)
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Telephone number

01223 334372 (shared)
31797

Email address

oas23@cam.ac.uk

College

Jesus College

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