Steven Armes
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| Born | Steven Peter Armes |
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| Awards | FRS (2014),[1] Tilden Prize |
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| Thesis | Colloidal forms of conducting polymers (1987) |
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Steven Peter Armes, FRS is a Professor of Polymer Chemistry and Colloid Chemistry at the University of Sheffield.[2][3]
Education
Armes was educated at Whitley Abbey Comprehensive School[4] in Coventry and the University of Bristol where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science in 1983 and a PhD in 1987.[5]
Career
After a postdoctoral research at Los Alamos National Laboratory Armes became a lecturer at the University of Sussex in 1989 where he worked until 2004. He moved to Sheffield to become Professor of Polymer and Colloid Chemistry in 2004.[citation needed]
Research
Armes group does research on polymer chemistry and colloid chemistry. Using polymerisation techniques such as Reversible addition−fragmentation chain-transfer polymerization (RAFT) and Atom-transfer radical-polymerization (ATRP) his laboratory synthesises a wide range of polymers.[6][7][8][9][10][11]
Awards and honours
Armes was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014. His nomination reads:
Steven Armes has developed robust new synthetic routes to controlled-structure water-soluble polymers. He optimised the living radical polymerisation of hydrophilic methacrylates, discovered a new class of 'schizophrenic' diblock copolymers whose amphiphilicity can be switched on or off, and has designed a range of novel biocompatible block copolymer gels and vesicles. His work on water-borne polymer colloids has led to novel shell cross-linked micelles and nanocomposite particles, with applications in paints, anti-reflective coatings and as stimulus-responsive Pickering emulsifiers.[citation needed] More recently, he has pioneered polymerisation-induced self-assembly to produce a range of bespoke spherical, worm-like and vesicular nano-objects via RAFT dispersion polymerisation.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Professor Steven Armes FRS". London, UK: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 8 June 2014.
- ^ Steven Armes publications indexed by Microsoft Academic
- ^ Steven Armes's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ "Whitley Academy Alumni: Professor Steven Armes". Archived from the original on 7 June 2014.
- ^ Armes, Steven (1987). Colloidal forms of conducting polymers (PhD thesis). University of Bristol. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
- ^ Blanazs, A.; Armes, S. P.; Ryan, A. J. (2009). "Self-Assembled Block Copolymer Aggregates: From Micelles to Vesicles and their Biological Applications". Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 30 (4–5): 267–77. doi:10.1002/marc.200800713. PMID 21706604.
- ^ Liu, S.; Weaver, J. V. M.; Tang, Y.; Billingham, N. C.; Armes, S. P.; Tribe, K. (2002). "Synthesis of Shell Cross-Linked Micelles with pH-Responsive Cores Using ABC Triblock Copolymers". Macromolecules. 35 (16): 6121–6131. doi:10.1021/ma020447n.
- ^ Wang, X. -S.; Armes, S. P. (2000). "Facile Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization of Methoxy-Capped Oligo(ethylene glycol) Methacrylate in Aqueous Media at Ambient Temperature". Macromolecules. 33 (18): 6640–6647. doi:10.1021/ma000671h.
- ^ Bütün, V.; Armes, S. P.; Billingham, N. C. (2001). "Synthesis and aqueous solution properties of near-monodisperse tertiary amine methacrylate homopolymers and diblock copolymers". Polymer. 42 (14): 5993–6008. doi:10.1016/S0032-3861(01)00066-0.
- ^ Du, J.; Tang, Y.; Lewis, A. L.; Armes, S. P. (2005). "PH-Sensitive Vesicles Based on a Biocompatible Zwitterionic Diblock Copolymer". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 127 (51): 17982–3. doi:10.1021/ja056514l. PMID 16366531.
- ^ Liu, S.; Armes, S. P. (2002). "Polymeric Surfactants for the New Millennium: A pH-Responsive, Zwitterionic, Schizophrenic Diblock Copolymer". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 41 (8): 1413–1416. doi:10.1002/1521-3773(20020415)41:8<1413::AID-ANIE1413>3.0.CO;2-K.
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