Professor Neil R. Cameron

Department of Chemistry, University of Durham, South Road, Durham, U.K., DH1 3LE

Tel. +44 191 3342008

Fax. +44 191 3844737

Email n.r.cameron@durham.ac.uk

Keywords: polymers; porous materials; PolyHIPE; emulsions; controlled radical polymerisation; glycopolymers; bioactive polymers

 

 
 News

23/04/2013: A collaboration with the group of Fred Claeyssens at the University of Sheffield on emulsion-templated porous polymers by microstereolithography has produced a publication in Advanced Materials. David Johnson and Matt Didsbury from our group were involved.

07/03/2013: Congratulations to Lauren Cowie on passing her PhD viva!

18/02/2013: Linda Kircher's paper on pentafluorophenyl-functionalised polyHIPEs published in Polymer. Well done Linda!

03/01/2013: Read Paul Thornton's paper on elastase degradable polypeptide hydrogels in Macromol. Rapid Commun. Well done.

17/12/2012: Review written by Ahmed Eissa on glycopolymer conjugates published in Advances in Polymer Science.

13/10/2012: Olivier Lagrille's (ex Post-doc) work on nitroxide mediated polymerisation has just been published in ACS Macro Lett. Well done Olivier!

01/10/2012: Welcome to Caitlin Langford (Research MSc student) and Jingyi Zong (PhD student).

11/09/2012: Welcome to Timo Stukenkemper and Ali Abdulkarim, visiting Masters students from Radboud University Nijmegen and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

10/09/2012: Welcome to Erdem Yavuz, visiting researcher from Istanbul Technical University.

10/08/2012: Mike's paper on analysing polymers using the ASAP mass spectrometry technique is out in Analyst!. Well done Mike.

10/08/2012: Sally, David and Matt's paper on thiol-ene scaffolds for tissue engineering is out in Soft Matter! Well done all.

06/08/2012: Welcome to Kristina Zentel, visiting summer project student from University of Darmstadt, Germany.

04/08/2012: Scott Kimmins' (ex PhD student) paper on photopolymerised GMA polyHIPEs now out in React. Funct. Polym.! Well done Scott.

23/07/2012: Group summer trip to Once Brewed (Hadrian's Wall).

16/07/2012: Sander Groenen won a Polymer Chemistry poster prize at the Macro Group UK International Conference on Polymer Synthesis at Warwick University last week. Well done Sander! A team from our group also won the 5-a-side football competition at the same conference.

03/04/2012: Welcome to Paul Thornton, DIFeREns/Shell Research Fellow.

Recent publications

D.W. Johnson, C. Sherborne, M.P. Didsbury, C. Pateman, N.R. Cameron, F. Claeyssens, "Macrostructuring of Emulsion-templated Porous Polymers by 3D Laser Patterning", Adv. Mater. (2013). DOI: 10.1002/adma.201300552. Frontispiece article.

L. Kircher, P. Theato, N.R. Cameron, "Reactive Thiol-ene Emulsion-templated Porous Polymers Incorporating Pentafluorophenyl Acrylate", Polymer, 54, (2013). DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2013.01.024

A.M. Eissa, N.R. Cameron, "Glycopolymer Conjugates", Adv. Polym. Sci., 253, 71-114 (2013).

P.D. Thornton, S.M.R. Billah, N.R. Cameron, "Enzyme-Degradable Self-Assembled Hydrogels from Polyalanine-Modified Poly(ethylene glycol) Star Polymers", Macromol. Rapid Commun., 34, (2013). DOI: 10.1002/marc.201200649.

N.R. Cameron, O. Lagrille, P.A. Lovell, B. Thongnuanchan, "A Nitroxide for Effecting Controlled Nitroxide-Mediated Radical Polymerization at Temperatures <90 °C", ACS Macro Lett., 1, 1262-1265 (2012).

M.J.P. Smith, N.R. Cameron, J.A. Mosely, "Evaluating Atmospheric pressure Solids Analysis Probe (ASAP) mass spectrometry for the analysis of low molecular weight synthetic polymers", Analyst, 137, 4524-4530 (2012).

S. Caldwell, D.W. Johnson, M.P. Didsbury, B.A. Murray, J. Wu, S.A. Przyborski, N.R. Cameron, "Degradable emulsion-templated scaffolds for tissue engineering from thiol–ene photopolymerisation", Soft Matter, 8, 10344-10351 (2012).

L. Kircher, P. Theato, N.R. Cameron, "Functionalization of Porous Polymers from High Internal Phase Emulsions and Their Applications", in: "Functional Polymers by Post-Polymerization Modification: Concepts, Practical Guidelines and Applications", P. Theato & H.-A. Klok (eds.), Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2012.

S.D. Kimmins, P. Wyman, N.R. Cameron, "Photopolymerised Methacrylate-based Emulsion-templated Porous Polymers", React. Funct. Polym., 72, 947-954 (2012).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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