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Durham Centre for Soft Matter

Recent Publications

  1. Alajarin, M.; Orenes, R.-A.; Howard, J. A. K.; Spencer, E. C.; Steed J. W.; Pastor A. “Novel Capsular Aggregates from Flexible Tripodal Triureas with Cs Symmetry” Chem. Eur. J., 2012, 18, 2389.

  2. Caldwell, S.; Johnson, D. W.; Didsbury, M. P.; Murray, B. A.; Wu, J.; Przyborski, S. A.;  Cameron, N. R. “Degradable Emulsion-templated Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering from Thiol-Ene Photopolymerisation” Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 10344. 

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

  4. Campos, R.; Kataky, R. “Electron Transport in Supported and Tethered Lipid Bilayers Modified with Bioelectroactive Molecules” Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2012, 116, 3909.

  5. Chakrabarti, B.; Piette, B.; Zakrzewski, W. J. “Spontaneous polaron transport in biopolymers” EPL 2012, 97.

  6. Fielding, S. M.; Larson, R. G.; Cates, M. E. “Simple Model for the Deformation-Induced Relaxation of Glassy Polymers” Physical Review Letters 2012, 108.

  7. Fucke, K.; McIntyre, G. J.; Wilkinson, C.; Henry, M.;  Howard, J. A. K.; Steed, J. W. “New insights into an old molecule: Interaction energies of Theophylline crystal forms” Cryst. Growth Des., 2012, 12, 1395.

  8. Fucke, K.; Howard, J. A. K.; Steed, J. W. “A new water…Na+ coordination motif in an unexpected diatrizoic acid disodium salt crystal form” Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 9822.

  9. Fucke, K.; Howard, J. A. K.; Steed, J. W. “Overcoming the solvation shell during the crystallisation of diatrizoic acid from dimethylsulfoxide” Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 12065.

  10. Griffiths, I. M.; Bain, C. D.; Breward, C. J. W.; Chapman, S. J.; Howell, P. D.; Waters, S. L. “An asymptotic theory for the re-equilibration of a micellar surfactant solution” Siam Journal on Applied Mathematics 2012, 72, 201.

  11. Fielding, S. M.; Moorcroft, R. L.; Larson, R. G.; Cates, M. E.  “Modeling the relaxation of polymer glasses under shear and elongational loads” Journal of Chemical Physics, 2012, in press.

  12. Hardman, S. J.; Hutchings, L. R.; Clarke, N.; Kimani, S. M.; Mears, L. L. E.; Smith, E. F.; Webster, J. R. P.; Thompson, R. L. “Surface Modification of Polyethylene with Multi-End-Functional Polyethylene Additives” Langmuir 2012, 28, 5125.

  13. Hutchings, L. R.; Kimani, S. M.; Hoyle, D. M.; Read, D. J.; Das, C.; McLeish, T. C. B.; Chang, T.; Lee, H.; Auhl, D.” In Silico Molecular Design, Synthesis, Characterization, and Rheology of Dendritically Branched Polymers: Closing the Design Loop” ACS Macro Letters 2012, 1, 404.

  14. Hutchings, L. R. “Complex Branched Polymers for Structure-Property Correlation Studies: The Case for Temperature Gradient Interaction Chromatography Analysis” Macromolecules, 2012, 45, 5621.

  15. Kimani, S. M.; Hardman, S. J.; Hutchings, L. R.; Clarke, N.; Thompson, R. L. “Synthesis and surface activity of high and low surface energy multi-end functional polybutadiene additives” Soft Matter 2012, 8, 3487.

  16. Kimmins, S. D.; Wyman, P.; Cameron, N. R. “Photopolymerised Methacrylate-based Emulsion-Templated Porous Polymers” React. Funct. Polym., 2012, 72, 947.

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

  18. Lloyd, G. O.; Piepenbrock, M.-O. M.; Foster, J. A.; Clarke, N.; Steed J. W.  “Anion Tuning of Chiral Bis(urea) Low Molecular Weight Gels” Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 204.

  19. Lopes, P.; Kataky, R. “Chiral Interactions of the Drug Propranolol and alpha(1)-Acid-Glycoprotein at a Micro Liquid-Liquid Interface” Analytical Chemistry 2012, 84, 2299.

  20. Lyons, P. B.; Clarke, N.; Groves, C. “The relative importance of domain size, domain purity and domain interfaces to the performance of bulk-heterojunction Organic Photovoltaics” Energy & Environmental Science, 2012, 5, 7657, DOI: 10.1039/C2EE21327C.

  21. Luria, J. L.; Hoepker, N.; Bruce, R.; Jacobs, A. R.; Groves, C.; Marohn, J. A. “Spectroscopic Imaging of Photopotentials and Potential Fluctuations in a Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cell Film” ACS Nano., 2012, 6, 9392.

  22. Smith, M. J. P.; Cameron, N. R.; Mosely, J. A. “Evaluating Atmospheric Pressure Solids Analysis Probe (ASAP) Mass Spectrometry for the Analysis of Low Molecular Weight Synthetic Polymers” Analyst, 2012, 137, 4524.

  23. Smithson, H. E.; Dinkova-Bruun, G.; Gasper, G. E. M.; Huxtable, M.; McLeish, T. C. B.; Panti, C. “A three-dimensional color space from the 13th century” Journal of the Optical Society of America A-Optics Image Science and Vision 2012, 29, A346.

  24. Sulaiman, Y.; Kataky, R. “Effect of Monomer Modifications on the Physical Properties of Electropolymerised PEDOT Films” Journal of the Electrochemical Society 2012, 159, F1.

  25. Sulaiman, Y.; Kataky, R. “Chiral acid selectivity displayed by PEDOT electropolymerised in presence of chiral molecules” Analyst 2012, 137, 2386.

  26. Talbot, E. L.; Berson, A.; Brown, P. S.; Bain, C. D. “Evaporation of picoliter droplets on surfaces with a range of wettabilities and thermal conductivities” Physical Review E, 2012, 85, 061604.

  27. Thornton, P. D.; Billah, S. M. R.; Cameron, N. R. “Enzyme-Degradable Self-Assembled Hydrogels from Polyalanine-Modified Poly(ethylene glycol) Star Polymers” Macromol. Rapid Commun., 2012, accepted.

  28. Wilson, M. R.; Duncan, P. D.; Dennison, M.; Masters, A. J. “Molecular dynamics simulation studies of platelets with square cross-sectional area: formation of a stable cubatic phase” Soft Matter 2012, 8, 3348.

  29. Wood, T. J.; Hurst, G. A.; Schofield, W. C. E.; Thompson, R. L.; Oswald, G.; Evans, J. S. O.; Sharples, G. J.; Pearson, C.; Petty, M. C.; Badyal, J. P. S. “Electroless deposition of multi-functional zinc oxide surfaces displaying photoconductive, superhydrophobic, photowetting, and antibacterial properties” J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 3859.

  30. Woods, D. A.; Bain, C. D. “Total internal reflection Raman spectroscopy” Analyst 2012, 137, 35.

  31. Wu, J. J.; Augustine, A.; Holland, J. P.; Deehan, D. J. “Oxidation and fusion defects synergistically accelerate polyethylene failure in knee replacement” Knee 2012, 19, 124.

For older publications, please see the 2011 Archive.