01/11/2011: Welcome to new PhD student Tatiana Lovato.

06/10/2011: Welcome to this year's MChem & MSci students: David Lomax, Eleanor Humphrey and Kerstin Buecker.

03/10/2011: Welcome to new PhD students Artur Kubilis and Fanny Joubert.

21/07/2011: Congratulations to Greg Hunt on passing his PhD viva!

11/07/2011: Group summer trip to the Lake District from 8th-10th July was a great success, remarkably it rained only on Fri evening. Photos can be seen here.

24/06/2011: Congratulations to Adam Hayward (1st year PhD student) on winning the prize for the best poster presented during the BSI poster session to mark the visit of Prof Jacob Israelachvilli as Durham Lecturer 2011.

14/06/2011: Welcome to Dr Reduwan Billah who has joined the group as a post-doc.

01/06/2011: Congratulations to Sally Caldwell (MChem student) on winning the Chemistry Department final year poster prize!

12/05/2011: Welcome to Jose Garcia, a visiting PhD student from the Spanish National Research Council in Madrid. Jose will be with us for around 6 months.

10/05/2011: Congratulations to Scott Kimmins on passing his PhD viva!

05/05/2011: Welcome (back!) to Linda Kircher, who will be with us until Dec 2011. Linda is a Diplom (=Masters) student in Mainz; she was with us in 2009 as an Erasmus student.

03/05/2011: Welcome to Dr Ahmed Eissa who has joined the group as a post-doc.

04/03/2011: Congratulations to Caroline Zeyfert on passing her PhD viva!

Recent publications

X. Xue, G. Pasparakis, N. Halliday, K. Winzer, S.M. Howdle, C.J. Cramphorn, N.R. Cameron, P.M. Gardner, B.G. Davis, F. Fernandez-Trillo, C. Alexander, "Synthetic Polymers for Simultaneous Bacterial Sequestration and Quorum Sense Interference", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 50, 9852-9856 (2011).

S.G. Spain, N.R. Cameron, "The binding of polyvalent galactosides to the lectin Ricinus communis agglutinin 120 (RCA120): an ITC and SPR study", Polym. Chem., 2, 1552-1560 (2011).

S.C. Baker, G. Rohman, J. Hinley, J. Stahlschmidt, N.R. Cameron, J. Southgate, "Cellular Integration and Vascularisation Promoted by a Resorbable, Particulate-leached, Cross-linked Poly(eta-caprolactone) Scaffold", Macromol. Biosci., 11, 618-627 (2011).

N.R. Cameron, P. Krajnc, M.S. Silverstein, "Colloidal Templating", in: "Porous Polymers", M.S. Silverstein, N.R. Cameron, M.A. Hillmyer (Eds.), Wiley & Sons, 2011.

E. Lovelady, S.D. Kimmins, J. Wu, N.R. Cameron, "Preparation of emulsion-templated porous polymers using thiol–ene and thiol–yne chemistry", Polym. Chem., 2, 559-562 (2011).

M.S. Silverstein, N.R. Cameron, "PolyHIPEs - Porous Polymers from High Internal Phase Emulsions", Enclyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology, 2011. DOI: 10.1002/0471440264.pst571.

S.D. Kimmins, N.R. Cameron, “Functional Porous Polymers by Emulsion Templating: Recent Advances”, Adv. Funct. Mater., 21, 211-225 (2011) (invited Feature Article).

S.G. Spain, N.R. Cameron, “A spoonful of sugar: the application of glycopolymers in therapeutics”, Polym. Chem., 2, 60-68 (2011)

I. Pulko, J. Wall, P. Krajnc, N. R. Cameron, “Ultra-high Surface Area Functional Porous Polymers by Emulsion Templating and Hypercrosslinking: Efficient Nucleophilic Catalyst Supports”, Chem. Eur. J., 16, 2350-2354 (2010).