Soft Matter Chemistry Research Group

Stuart was fortunate to attend the IUPAC World Polymer Congress (MACRO18) at the Cairns Convention Centre. Stuart gave an invited lecture on the topic of "Polymer-Silica Colloidal Nanocomposites vis Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly and Sol Gel Chemistry", which det...

May has been a successful month for publications with our wonderful colleagues and friends at UNSW!

Firstly, Dr Florent Jasinski has recently seen his work published on using pendant drop tensiometry to validate interfacial tension values of various copolymers with wate...

In our groups' first foray into chemical education research, Stuart has teamed up with Dr Alex Bissember (University of Tasmania) and Dr Reyne Pullen (now UNSW) to investigate the design and implementation of a crtierion-based assessment model for first-year undergradu...

2018 has started with a BANG! for the Soft Matter Chemistry Group! 

Two new publications are now available online from work performed by former group member Dr Amin Khodabandeh (now UniSA) and current group member Guo Hui Teo.

Amin's PhD work was recently published in th...

We love the Journal of Polymer Science Part A here at the Soft Matter Chemistry Group, as we have recently had two more manuscripts published in the journal! 

In work that was conducted by PhD candidate Yasemin Fadil at UNSW, we report a method of preparing homogeneous...

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...

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...

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...

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...