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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

Supramolecular hydrogels prepared from fluorescent alkyl pyridinium acrylamide monomers and CB[8]

DJ Whitaker, Z Huang, BW Longbottom, RL Sala, G Wu, OA Scherman

– Polymer Chemistry

(2021)

12,

519

(doi: 10.1039/d0py01374a)

Toward Understanding CB[7]-Based Supramolecular Diels-Alder Catalysis

D Berta, I Szabó, OA Scherman, E Rosta

– Front Chem

(2020)

8,

587084

(doi: 10.3389/fchem.2020.587084)

Eliminating irreproducibility in SERS substrates

DB Grys, R Chikkaraddy, M Kamp, OA Scherman, JJ Baumberg, B de Nijs

– Journal of Raman Spectroscopy

(2020)

52,

412

(doi: 10.1002/jrs.6008)

Single-site binding of pyrene to poly(ester-imide)s incorporating long spacer-units: prediction of NMR resonance-patterns from a fractal model

M Knappert, T Jin, SD Midgley, G Wu, OA Scherman, R Grau-Crespo, HM Colquhoun

– Chem Sci

(2020)

11,

12165

(doi: 10.1039/D0SC03730C)

Breaking the Selection Rules of Spin-Forbidden Molecular Absorption in Plasmonic Nanocavities

OS Ojambati, WM Deacon, R Chikkaraddy, C Readman, Q Lin, Z Koczor-Benda, E Rosta, OA Scherman, JJ Baumberg

– ACS Photonics

(2020)

7,

2337

(doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c00732)

Contact angle as a powerful tool in anisotropic colloid synthesis

M Kamp, B de Nijs, JJ Baumberg, OA Scherman

– Journal of colloid and interface science

(2020)

581,

417

(doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2020.07.074)

Applying support-vector machine learning algorithms toward predicting host-guest interactions with cucurbit[7]uril.

A Tabet, T Gebhart, G Wu, C Readman, M Pierson Smela, VK Rana, C Baker, H Bulstrode, P Anikeeva, DH Rowitch, OA Scherman

– Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP

(2020)

22,

14976

(doi: 10.1039/c9cp05800a)

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)

Quantitative Supramolecular Heterodimerization for Efficient Energy Transfer

G Wu, Z Huang, OA Scherman

– Angewandte Chemie

(2020)

132,

16097

(doi: 10.1002/ange.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)