Soft Matter Chemistry Research Group

Two new publications co-authored by SMC Group Leader Dr Stuart Thickett have recently appeared in press.

• Photo-driven synthesis of polymer-coated platinized ZnO nanoparticles with enhanced photoelectrochemical charge transportation - this recent publication appeared...

Soft Matter Chemistry group research leader Stuart Thickett has been awarded as part of a multi-disciplinary team a $630,000 research grant from the Australian Research Council Linkage Grants scheme. The proposal, led by Professor Michael Breadmore from the Australian...

Happy New Year and welcome to 2017!

2017 has started with a bang for the SMC group as group leader Stuart Thickett has been promoted to Senior Lecturer within the School of Physical Sciences at the University of Tasmania. This promotion is in recognition of Stuart's wor...

A big congratulations to post-doctoral research associate Dr Florent Jasinski (UNSW) who has had recent work from his project published in the RSC journal Polymer Chemistry. The article, entitled "Synthesis and characterisation of gradient polymeric nanoparticles" is t...

The Soft Matter Chemistry group has had a big presence at the 36th Australasian Polymer Symposium (36APS), held at the Mantra Lorne, Victoria, Australia. We had contributions from:

• Stuart Thickett - 2 talks, one on high glass transition temperature fluoropolymers, t...

We're on the cover of Polymer Chemistry!

Congratulations to PhD candidate Chris Teo for the publication of the first article from his degree, "Polymer-Inorganic Hybrid Nanoparticles of Various Morphologies via Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly and Sol-Gel Chemistry."

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Stuart has just presented an invited lecture entitled "Utilizing Reversible Deactivation Radical Polymerization for the Design of Structured Polymer Interfaces" at the Emerging Polymer Technologies Summit (EPTS16) in Melbourne. In this lecture Stuart spoke of the body...

One of the most exceptional Honours years has been capped off by publication of a journal article in Australian Journal of Chemistry. Molly Rowe (UNSW Honours 2015), who received the RACI Treloar Prize and CRC for Polymers Prize for her work on highly hydrophobic polym...

Well done and congratulations to Russell Wilson (Honours 2016 UTAS), who has successfully defended his submitted thesis on the 'Polymerization of Cyclic Ketene Acetals in a Miniemulsion.' This was a demanding project that ultimately yielded exciting new results. All th...

Big congratulations to PhD candidates Amin Khodabandeh (UTAS) and Masayoshi Tokuda (Kobe) for their recently published work in the RSC journals Polymer Chemistry and Soft Matter respectively.

Amin's paper, 'Preparation of inverse polymerized high internal phase emulsion...