A unique example of supramolecular polymerisation in water based on monomers with nanomolar affinities, which yield rod-like materials with extraordinarily high thermodynamic stability, yet of finite length, is reported. A small library of charge-neutral dendritic peptide amphiphiles was prepared, with a branched nonaphenylalanine-based core that was conjugated to hydrophilic dendrons of variab...

A series of modified solid polymethylaluminoxane (sMAO) catalyst supports have been developed for slurry phase ethylene polymerisation, using aryl di-ol modifier groups.

Highly processable hydrogels loaded with active components for localised drug delivery and/or live cells regenerative medicine are an attractive target biotechnology research. We describe a single-pot precipitation polymerisation of poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) (pNIPAM) from the surface dispersed Laponite® platelets in aqueous media above its lower critical solution temperature (LCST), yielding...

Photoinitiated polymerisation is efficiently and rapidly carried out to immobilise ultrathin electrochemiluminescent redox hydrogel films. Microscale patterns are fabricated on an electrode surface by a simple photolithographic procedure and revealed by ECL imaging.

Direct bioconjugation onto hair fibers, monitored by confocal laser scanning microscopy and differential scanning calorimetry, has been performed using NHS alpha-functional fluorescently tagged polymers synthesised by living radical polymerisation.

The first radical polymerisation of styrene in porous coordination polymers has been carried out, providing stable propagating radicals (living radicals), and a specific space effect of the host frameworks on the monomer reactivity is demonstrated.

Stable commercial primary ammonium chlorides were combined with tertiary amines to initiate the controlled ring opening polymerisation of amino acid N-carboxyanhydrides to yield polypeptides with defined end group structure, predetermined molar mass and narrow molar mass distribution.

A new monomer, which incorporates both aniline and methacrylamide functional groups, was shown to possess orthogonal polymerisation behaviour to produce conjugated polyaniline suitable for a wide range of applications.