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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

Quantitative Supramolecular Heterodimerization for Efficient Energy Transfer
G Wu, Z Huang, OA Scherman
– Angewandte Chemie
(2020)
132,
16097
(doi: 10.1002/ange.202006530)
Quantitative Supramolecular Heterodimerization for Efficient Energy Transfer.
G Wu, Z Huang, OA Scherman
– Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
(2020)
59,
15963
(doi: 10.1002/anie.202006530)
Stimulus-Mediated Ultrastable Radical Formation
JA McCune, MF Kuehnel, E Reisner, OA Scherman
– Chem
(2020)
6,
1819
(doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2020.05.005)
Citrate Coordination and Bridging of Gold Nanoparticles: The Role of Gold Adatoms in AuNP Aging.
D-B Grys, B de Nijs, AR Salmon, J Huang, W Wang, W-H Chen, OA Scherman, JJ Baumberg
– ACS nano
(2020)
14,
8689
(doi: 10.1021/acsnano.0c03050)
Cascaded nanooptics to probe microsecond atomic-scale phenomena.
M Kamp, B de Nijs, N Kongsuwan, M Saba, R Chikkaraddy, CA Readman, WM Deacon, J Griffiths, SJ Barrow, OS Ojambati, D Wright, J Huang, O Hess, OA Scherman, JJ Baumberg
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
(2020)
117,
14819
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1920091117)
Viscoelastic Hydrogel Microfibers Exploiting Cucurbit[8]uril Host-Guest Chemistry and Microfluidics
Z-J Meng, J Liu, Z Yu, H Zhou, X Deng, C Abell, OA Scherman
– ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
(2020)
12,
17929
(doi: 10.1021/acsami.9b21240)
Host-Enhanced Phenyl-Perfluorophenyl Polar-Ď€Interactions
Z Huang, X Chen, G Wu, P Metrangolo, D Whitaker, JA McCune, OA Scherman
– J Am Chem Soc
(2020)
142,
7356
(doi: 10.1021/jacs.0c02275)
Design Principles for Aqueous Interactive Materials: Lessons from Small Molecules and Stimuli-Responsive Systems.
JA McCune, S Mommer, CC Parkins, OA Scherman
– Advanced Materials
(2020)
32,
e1906890
(doi: 10.1002/adma.201906890)
Light-triggered syneresis of a water insoluble peptide-hydrogel effectively removes small molecule waste contaminants
BK Das, B Pramanik, S Chowdhuri, OA Scherman, D Das
– Chemical Communications
(2020)
56,
3393
(doi: 10.1039/c9cc09225k)
Transparent Films Made of Highly Scattering Particles.
T Erdem, L Yang, P Xu, Y Altintas, T O'Neil, A Caciagli, C Ducati, E Mutlugun, OA Scherman, E Eiser
– Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
(2020)
36,
911
(doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b01014)
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Telephone number

01223 334372 (shared)
31797

Email address

oas23@cam.ac.uk

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Jesus College

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