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January 2021

  • Congratulations to Chenyu Wu, Nathaniel Corrigan, Chern-Hooi Lim, Wenjian Liu,* Garret Miyake,* Cyrille Boyer* on their review titled "Rational Design of Photocatalysts for Controlled Polymerization: Effect of Structures on Photocatalytic Activities" being published in Chemical ReviewsView paper.

  • Congratulations to Zilong Wu, Kenward Jung, Chenyu Wu, Gervase Ng, Lei Wang, Jingquan Liu*, and Cyrille Boyer* on their paper titled "Selective Photoactivation of Trithiocarbonates Mediated by Metal Naphthalocyanines and Overcoming Activation Barriers Using Thermal Energy" being published in Journal of the American Chemical SocietyView paper.

December 2021

  • Congratulations to Xiaobing Shi, Jin Zhang,* Nathaniel Corrigan* and Cyrille Boyer* on their paper titled "Controlling mechanical properties of 3D printed polymer composites through photoinduced reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization" being published in Polymer ChemistryView paper.

  • Congratulations to Zhiheng Zhang, Dr. Nathaniel Corrigan,* Prof. Dr. Cyrille Boyer* on their paper titled "A Photoinduced Dual-Wavelength Approach for 3D Printing and Self-Healing of Thermosetting Materials" being published in Angewandte ChemieView paper.

November 2021

  • Congratulations to Valentin A. Bobrin, Kenny Lee, Jin Zhang,* Nathaniel Corrigan,* Cyrille Boyer* on their paper titled "Nanostructure Control in 3D Printed Materials" being published in Advanced MaterialsView paper.

  • Congratulations to Peter R. Judzewitsch, Dr. Nathaniel Corrigan, Dr. Edgar H. H. Wong,* Prof. Cyrille Boyer* on their paper titled "Photo-Enhanced Antimicrobial Activity of Polymers Containing an Embedded Photosensitiser" being published in Angewandte ChemieView paper.

October 2021

  • Congratulations to Liwen Zhang, Gervase Ng, Natasha Kapoor-Kaushik, Xiaobing Shi, Dr. Nathaniel Corrigan, Dr. Richard Webster, Dr. Kenward Jung, Prof. Cyrille Boyer* on their paper titled "2D Porphyrinic Metal–Organic Framework Nanosheets as Multidimensional Photocatalysts for Functional Materials" being published in Angewandte ChemieView paper.

  • Congratulations to Wanjie Xie, Francois-Marie Allioux, Rashin Namivandi-Zangeneh, Mohammad B. Ghasemian, Jialuo Han, Md. Arifur Rahim, Jianbo Tang, Jiong Yang, Maedehsadat Mousavi, Mohannad Mayyas, Zhenbang Cao, Franco Centurion, Michael J. Christoe, Chengchen Zhang, Yifang Wang, Salma Merhebi, Mahroo Baharfar, Gervase Ng, Dorna Esrafilzadeh, Cyrille Boyer*, and Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh* on their paper titled "Polydopamine Shell as a Ga3+ Reservoir for Triggering Gallium–Indium Phase Separation in Eutectic Gallium–Indium Nanoalloys" being published in ACS NanoView paper.

  • Congratulations to Kenward Jung, Nathaniel Corrigan, Edgar H. H. Wong, Cyrille Boyer* on their review titled "Bioactive Synthetic Polymers" being published in Advanced MaterialsView paper.

September 2021

  • Congratulations to Frederik R. Wurm,* Cyrille Boyer,* Brent S. Sumerlin* on their review titled "Progress on Stimuli-Responsive Polymers" being published in Macromolecular Rapid CommunicationsView paper.

  • Congratulations to Susan Oliver,* Lei Lei, Ka Wai Fan, Cheng Wang, Juan-Carlos Baena, Phuong Pham, Qianlan Lin, Imrana I Kabir, Edgar HH Wong, Anthony Chun Yin Yuen, Cyrille Boyer,* Guan Heng Yeoh* on their paper titled "Wet or dry multifunctional coating prepared by visible light polymerisation with fire retardant, thermal protective, and antimicrobial properties" being published in CelluloseView paper.

July 2021

  • Congratulations to Edgar HH Wong,* Ka Wai Fan, Lei Lei, Cheng Wang, Juan Carlos Baena, Henry Okoye, Winny Fam, Dewen Zhou, Susan Oliver, Arslan Khalid, Guan Heng Yeoh, Chun H Wang and Cyrille Boyer* on their paper titled "Fire-Resistant Flexible Polyurethane Foams via Nature-Inspired Chitosan-Expandable Graphite Coatings" being published in ACS Applied Polymer MaterialsView paper.

  • Congratulations to Pengtao Lu, Dowon Ahn, Ruhamah Yunis, Laura Delafresnaye, Nathaniel Corrigan, Cyrille Boyer,* Christopher Barner-Kowollik* and Zachariah A Page* on their paper titled "Wavelength-Selective Light-Matter Interactions in Polymer Science" being published in MatterView paper.

June 2021

  • Congratulations to Sihao Xu, Francisco J Trujillo, Jiangtao Xu, Cyrille Boyer* and Nathaniel Corrigan* on their paper titled "Influence of Molecular Weight Distribution on the Thermoresponsive Transition of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)" being published in Macromolecular Rapid CommunicationsView paper.

  • Congratulations to Sebastian Schaefer, Thi Thu Phuong Pham, Sascha Brunke, Bernhard Hube, Kenward Jung, Megan Denise Lenardon* and Cyrille Boyer* on their paper titled "Rational Design of an Antifungal Polyacrylamide Library with Reduced Host-Cell Toxicity" being published in ACS Applied Materials & InterfacesView paper.

April 2021

  • Congratulations to Gervase Ng, Peter Judzewitsch, Mingxiao Li, Christian W Pester, Kenward Jung* and Cyrille Boyer* on their paper titled "Synthesis of Polymer Brushes Via SI-PET-RAFT for Photodynamic Inactivation of Bacteria" being published in Macromolecular Rapid CommunicationsView paper.

March 2021

  • Congratulations to Nathaniel Corrigan, Francisco J Trujillo, Jiangtao Xu, Graeme Moad,* Craig J Hawker,* Cyrille Boyer* on their review titled "Divergent Synthesis of Graft and Branched Copolymers through Spatially Controlled Photopolymerization in Flow Reactors" being published in MacromoleculesView paper.

January 2021

  • Congratulations to Ali Bagheri,* Christopher M. Fellows and Cyrille Boyer* on their review titled "Reversible Deactivation Radical Polymerization: From Polymer Network Synthesis to 3D Printing" being published in Advanced ScienceView paper.

  • Congratulations to Zhiheng Zhang, Nathaniel Corrigan* and Cyrille Boyer* on their paper titled "Effect of Thiocarbonylthio Compounds on Visible-Light-Mediated 3D Printing" being published in MacromoleculesView paper.

December 2020

  • Congratulations to Sihao Xu for graduating with his PhD. Well done!

  • Congratulations to Chenyu Wu, Kenward Jung, Yongtao Ma, Wenjian Liu* and Cyrille Boyer* on their paper titled "Unravelling an Oxygen Mediated Reductive Quenching Pathway for Photopolymerisation under Long Wavelengths" being published in Nature CommunicationsView paper.

November 2020

  • Congratulations to Gervase Ng, Mingxiao Li, Jonathan Yeow, Kenward Jung, Christian W Pester* and Cyrille Boyer* on their paper titled "Benchtop Preparation of Polymer Brushes by SI-PET-RAFT: The Effect of the Polymer Composition and Structure on Inhibition of a Pseudomonas Biofilm" being published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Pham Thu Phuong, Susan Oliver, Junchen He, Edgar HH Wong, Robert T Mathers* and Cyrille Boyer* on their paper titled "Effect of Hydrophobic Groups on Antimicrobial and Hemolytic Activity: Developing a Predictive Tool for Ternary Antimicrobial Polymers" being published in Biomacromolecules. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Liwen Zhang, Xiaobing Shi, Zhiheng Zhang, Rhiannon P Kuchel, Rashin Namivandi-Zangeneh, Nathaniel Corrigan, Kenward Jung, Kang Liang* and Cyrille Boyer* on their paper titled "Porphyrinic Zirconium MOFs as Heterogeneous Photocatalysts for PET-RAFT Polymerization and Stereolithography" being published in Angewandte Chemie. View paper.

October 2020

  • Congratulations to Nathaniel Corrigan, Kenward Jung, Graeme Moad,* Craig J Hawker,* Krzysztof Matyjaszewski,* Cyrille Boyer* on their paper titled "Reversible-Deactivation Radical Polymerization (Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization): From Discovery to Materials Design and Applications" being published in Progress in Polymer Science. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Ke Liu, Nathaniel Corrigan,* Almar Postma, Graeme Moad, Cyrille Boyer* on their paper titled "A Comprehensive Platform for the Design and Synthesis of Polymer Molecular Weight Distributions" being published in Macromolecules. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Mitchell D Nothling, Qiang Fu, Amin Reyhani, Stephanie Allison‐Logan, Kenward Jung, Jian Zhu, Masami Kamigaito,* Cyrille Boyer* and Greg G Qiao* on their review article titled "Progress and Perspectives Beyond Traditional RAFT Polymerization" being published in Advanced Science. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Yingying Chu, Zixuan Huang, Ruizhe Liu, Cyrille Boyer* and Jiangtao Xu* on their paper titled "Scalable and Recyclable Heterogeneous Organo‐photocatalysts on Cotton Threads for Organic and Polymer Synthesis" being published in ChemPhotoChem. View paper.

September 2020

  • Congratulations to Max Weston, Mustafa Ciftci, Rhiannon P Kuchel, Cyrille Boyer* and Rona Chandrawati* on their paper titled "Polydiacetylene for the Detection of α-Hemolysin in Milk toward the Diagnosis of Bovine Mastitis" being published in ACS Applied Polymer Materials. View paper.

August 2020

  • Congratulations to Dr. Chenyu Wu for receiving the UNSW 2020 Dean's Award for Outstanding PhD Theses!

  • Congratulations to Dr. Zahra Sadrearhami for receiving the UNSW 2020 Dean's Award for Outstanding PhD Theses!

 

July 2020

  • Congratulations to Liwen Zhang, Lisi Xie, Sihao Xu, Rhiannon P Kuchel, Yunlu Dai, Kenward Jung and Cyrille Boyer* on their paper titled "Dual Role of Doxorubicin for Photopolymerization and Therapy" being published in Biomacromolecules. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Laura Delafresnaye, Kenward Jung, Cyrille Boyer* and Christopher Barner-Kowollik* on their paper titled "Two colours of light drive PET–RAFT photoligation" being published in Polymer Chemistry. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Susan Oliver, Thi Thu Phuong Pham, Yang Li, Fu-Jian Xu and Cyrille Boyer* on their paper titled "More than skin deep: using polymers to facilitate topical delivery of nitric oxide" being published in Biomaterials Science. View paper.

June 2020

  • Congratulations to Chenyu Wu for graduating with his PhD. Well done! 

  • Congratulations to Rashin Namivandi-Zangeneh for graduating with her PhD. Well done! 

  • Congratulations to Nathaniel Corrigan, Kenward Jung and Cyrille Boyer* on their review article titled "Merging New Organoborane Chemistry with Living Radical Polymerization" being published in Chem. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Nathaniel Corrigan and Cyrille Boyer* on their review article titled "In the Limelight: 2D and 3D Materials via Photo-Controlled Radical Polymerization" being published in Trends in Chemistry. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Nida Nauman, Neomy Zaquen, Cyrille Boyer* and Per B Zetterlund* on their paper titled "Miniemulsion photopolymerization in a continuous tubular reactor: particle size control via membrane emulsification" being published in Polymer Chemistry. View paper.

March 2020

  • Congratulations to Zahra Sadrearhami for graduating with her PhD. Well done! 

Feburary 2020

  • Congratulations to Dongdong Liu, Weibin Cai, Li Zhang, Cyrille Boyer* and Jianbo Tan* on their paper titled "Efficient Photoinitiated Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly with Oxygen Tolerance through Dual-Wavelength Type I Photoinitiation and Photoinduced Deoxygenation" being published in Macromolecules. View paper.

January 2020

  • Congratulations to Ali Bagheri, Chris William Anderson Bainbridge, Kyle Edward Engel, Greg G Qiao, Jiangtao Xu, Cyrille Boyer and Jianyong Jin on their paper titled "Oxygen Tolerant PET-RAFT Facilitated 3D Printing of Polymeric Materials under Visible LEDs" being published in ACS Applied Polymer Materials. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Peter R Judzewitsch, Nathaniel Corrigan, Francisco Trujillo, Jiangtao Xu, Graeme Moad, Craig J Hawker, Edgar HH Wong and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "High-Throughput Process for the Discovery of Antimicrobial Polymers and Their Upscaled Production via Flow Polymerization" being published in Macromolecules. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Ali Bagheri,  Kyle Edward Engel, Chris William Anderson Bainbridge, Jiangtao Xu, Cyrille Boyer and Jianyong Jin on their paper titled "3D printing of polymeric materials based on photo-RAFT polymerization" being published in Polymer Chemistry. View paper.

December 2019

  • Congratulations to Zhiheng Zhang, Nathaniel Corrigan, Ali Bagheri, Jianyong Jin and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "A Versatile 3D and 4D Printing System through Photocontrolled RAFT Polymerization" being featured on the frontispiece of Angewandte Chemie International Edition. View cover

  • Congratulations to Kenward Jung, Nathaniel Corrigan, Mustafa Ciftci, Jiangtao Xu, Soyoung E Seo, Craig J Hawker and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "Designing with Light: Advanced 2D, 3D, and 4D Materials" being published in Advanced Materials. View paper.

November 2019

  • Congratulations to Sihao Xu, Tong Zhang, Rhiannon P Kuchel, Jonathan Yeow and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "Gradient Polymerization–Induced Self‐Assembly: A One‐Step Approach" being published in Macromolecular rapid communications. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Zilong Wu, Kenward Jung and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "Effective utilization of NIR wavelengths for photo‐controlled polymerization–penetration through thick barriers and parallel solar syntheses" being published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. View paper.

October 2019

  • Congratulations to Nathaniel Corrigan, Mustafa Ciftci, Kenward Jung and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "Mediating Reaction Orthogonality in Polymer and Materials Science" being published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Rashin Namivandi-Zangeneh, Yiling Yang, Sihao Xu, Edgar HH Wong and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "An Antibiofilm Platform based on the Combination of Antimicrobial Polymers and Essential Oils" being published in Biomacromolecules. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Zhiheng Zhang, Nathaniel Corrigan, Ali Bagheri, Jianyong Jin and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "A Versatile 3D and 4D Printing System through Photocontrolled RAFT Polymerization" being published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. View paper.

September 2019

  • Congratulations to Kenward Jung, Cyrille Boyer in collaboration with Aitang Zhang, Aihua Lia and Prof Jingquan Liu from Qingdao University, on their review article titled "Recent advances in stimuli-responsive polymer systems for remotely controlled drug release" being published in Progress in Polymer Science. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Zahra Sadrearhami, Rashin Namivandi-Zangeneh, Emily Price, Marta Krasowska, Sameer A Al-Bataineh, Jason Whittle, Edgar HH Wong, Anton Blencowe, Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "S-Nitrosothiol Plasma-Modified Surfaces for the Prevention of Bacterial Biofilm Formation" being published in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Cyrille Boyer in collaboration with Prof Greg Qiao from the University of Melbourne on their review article titled "An Exciting Time for Polymer Chemists in Australia" being published in Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Liwen Zhang, Chenyu Wu, Kenward Jung, Yun Hau Ng and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "An Oxygen Paradox: Catalytic Use of Oxygen in Radical Photopolymerization" being published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. View paper.

  • Dr Nik Nik Mohd Adnan, who graduated from our group in 2018, has come back to visit us. He is now working for the PETRONAS Global Company in Malaysia. A dinner was held to welcome him. See photos of the dinner.

July 2019

  • Congratulations to Tong Zhang, Jonathan Yeow and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "A Cocktail of Vitamins for Aqueous RAFT Polymerization in an Open-to-Air Microtiter Plate" being published in Polymer Chemistry. View paper.

June 2019

  • Congratulations to Nathaniel Corrigan and Cyrille Boyer on their review article titled "100th Anniversary of Macromolecular Science Viewpoint: Photochemical Reaction Orthogonality in Modern Macromolecular Science" being published in Polymer. View paper.

May 2019

  • Chenyu Wu gave a talk as an invited speaker in the 3rd International Symposium on Molecular Design of Opto-Electronic Materials held by Tsinghua University and Chinese Academy of Sciences, about our recent publication on "Computer-Guided Discovery of A pH/Light Dual-Responsive Organic Photocatalyst". Download slides.

  • Congratulations to Neomy Zaquen, Huijie Zhu, Ak Mohammed Najib Bin Pg Hj Abd Kadir, Tanja Junkers, Per B. Zetterlund, and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "Scalable Aqueous RAFT Photo Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly of Acrylamides for Direct Synthesis of Polymer Nanoparticles for Potential Drug Delivery Applications" being accepted by ACS Applied Polymer MaterialsView paper.

April 2019

  • Congratulations to Chenyu Wu, Hengqi Chen, Nathaniel Corrigan, Kenward Jung, Xiaonan Kan, Zhibo Li, Wenjian Liu, Jiangtao Xu and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "Computer-Guided Discovery of a pH-Responsive Organic Photocatalyst and Application for pH and Light Dual-Gated Polymerization" being published in Journal of American Chemical Society. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Peter Judzewitsch, Lily Zhao, Edgar Wong and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "High-Throughput Synthesis of Antimicrobial Copolymers and Rapid Evaluation of their Bioactivity" being published in Macromolecues.

  • Congratulations to Rashin Namivandi-Zangeneh, Zahra Sadrearhami, Debarun Dutta, Mark Willcox, Edgar H. H. Wong, and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "Synergy between Synthetic Antimicrobial Polymer and Antibiotics: A Promising Platform To Combat Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria" being published in ACS Infectious Diseases. View paper.

March 2019

  • Congratulations to Neomy Zaquen, Wan A. A. W. Azizia, Jonathan Yeowab, Rhiannon P. Kucheld, Tanja Junkers, Per B. Zetterlund and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "Alcohol-based PISA in batch and flow: exploring the role of photoinitiators" being published in Polymer Chemistry. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Haiqiao Wang, Per B. Zetterlund, Cyrille Boyer and Patrick T. Spicer on their paper titled "Polymerization of cubosome and hexosome templates to produce complex microparticle shapes" being published in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Nathaniel Corrigan, Leonid Zhernakov, Muhammad Hazim Hashim, Jiangtao Xu and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "Flow mediated metal-free PET-RAFT polymerisation for upscaled and consistent polymer production" being published in Reaction Chemistry & Engineering. View paper.

Feburary 2019

  • Congratulations to Neomy Zaquen, Ak M. N. B. P. H. A. Kadir, Afiq Iasa, Nathaniel Corrigan, Tanja Junkers, Per B. Zetterlund, and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "Rapid Oxygen Tolerant Aqueous RAFT Photopolymerization in Continuous Flow Reactors" being published in Macromolecules. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Nathaniel Corrigan, Jiangtao Xu, Cyrille Boyer and Xavier Allonas on their paper titled "Exploration of the PET‐RAFT Initiation Mechanism for Two Commonly Used Photocatalysts" being published in ChemPhotoChem. View paper.

January 2019

  • Congratulations to Zahra Sadrearhami, Farah Nabilah Shafiee, Kitty K. K. Ho, Naresh Kumar, Marta Krasowska, Anton Blencowe, Edgar H. H. Wong, and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "Antibiofilm Nitric Oxide-Releasing Polydopamine Coatings" being published in ACS Applied Materials & Interface. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Zixuan Huang, Nathaniel Corrigan, Shiyang Lin, Cyrille Boyer and Jiangtao Xu on their paper titled "Upscaling single unit monomer insertion to synthesize discrete oligomers" being published in Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Susan Oliver, Lily Zhao, Adam Gormley, Robert Chapman and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "Living in the Fast Lane—High Throughput Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization" being featured on the front cover of Macromolecules. View cover

  • Dr Lei Lei has joined our group as a Research Associate on the FSI project.

December 2018

  • Congratulations to Susan Oliver, Lily Zhao, Adam Gormley, Robert Chapman and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "Living in the Fast Lane—High Throughput Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization" being published in Macromolecules and selected as an ACS Editors' Choice article. View paper.

  • Congratulations to Chenyu Wu, Nathaniel Corrigan, Chern-Hooi Lim, Kenward Jung, Jian Zhu, Garret Miyake, Jiangtao Xu, and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "Guiding the Design of Organic Photocatalyst for PET-RAFT Polymerization: Halogenated Xanthene Dyes" being published in Macromolecules. View paper

November 2018

  • Congratulations to Sihao Xu, Jonathan Yeow and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "Exploiting Wavelength Orthogonality for Successive Photoinduced Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly and Photo-Crosslinking" being published in ACS Macro Letters. View paper

October 2018

  • Dr Jonathan Yeow has been back to us as a postdoc scholar from Harvard University, USA.

  • Dr Kenward Jung has received a postdoctral writing fellowship.

  • Dr Winny Fam has joined our group as a Research Associate on the FSI project.

September 2018

  • Congratulations to Kenward Jung for graduating with his PhD. Well done! 

  • Congratulations to Gervase Ng, Jonathan Yeow, Robert Chapman, Naatasha Isahak, Ernst Wolvetang, Justin J Cooper-White and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "Pushing the Limits of High Throughput PET-RAFT Polymerization" being published in Macromolecules. View paper

  • Congratulations to Zixuan Huang, Benjamin B Noble, Nathaniel Corrigan, Yingying Chu, Kotaro Satoh, Donald S Thomas, Craig J Hawker, Graeme Moad, Masami Kamigaito, Michelle L Coote, Cyrille Boyer and Jiangtao Xu on their paper titled "Discrete and Stereospecific Oligomers Prepared by Sequential and Alternating Single Unit Monomer Insertion" being published in Journal of the American Chemical Society. View Paper

  • Congratulations to Yingying Chu, Nathaniel Corrigan, Chenyu Wu, Cyrille Boyer and Jiangtao Xu on their paper titled "A Process for Well-Defined Polymer Synthesis through Textile Dyeing Inspired Catalyst Immobilization" being published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. View paper

  • Congratulations to Ali Bagheri, Cyrille Boyer and May Lim on their paper titled "Synthesis of Light‐Responsive Pyrene‐Based Polymer Nanoparticles via Polymerization‐Induced Self‐Assembly" being published in Macromolecular rapid communications. View paper

  • Dr Susan Oliver has joined our group as Team Leader and Senior Research Fellow on the FSI project.

August 2018

  • Dr Nathaniel Corrigan has joined our group as a postdoc scholar.

  • Congratulations to Nathaniel Corrigan for graduating with his PhD. Well done! 

  • Congratulations to Ali Bagheri, Zahra Sadrearhami, Nik Nik M Adnan, Cyrille Boyer and May Lim on their paper titled "Surface functionalization of upconversion nanoparticles using visible light-mediated polymerization" being published in Polymer. View paper

July 2018

  • Congratulations to Nathaniel Corrigan, Jonathan Yeow, Peter Judzewitsch, Jiangtao Xu and Cyrille Boyer on their review article titled "Seeing the Light: Advancing Materials Chemistry through Photopolymerization" being published in Angewandte Chemie. View paper Angewandte Chemie International Edition. View paper

  • Congratulations to Susan Oliver for graduating with her PhD. Well done! 

  • Congratulations to Neomy Zaquen, Jonathan Yeow, Tanja Junkers, Cyrille Boyer and Per B. Zetterlund on their paper titled "Visible Light-Mediated Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly Using Continuous Flow Reactors" being published in Macromolecules. View paper

  • Congratulations to the Boyer Group for being awarded the Polymer International - IUPAC Award for Creativity in Applied Polymer Science or Polymer Technology.

  • Congratulations to the Boyer Group for being presented the 2018 Polymer Chemistry Lectureship at World Polymer Congress, MACRO2018.

June 2018

  • Peter R Judzewitsch's paper has been highlighted in Chemistry in Australia magazine.

  • Congratulations to Nathaniel Corrigan, Rodrigo Manahan, Ze Thong Lew, Jonathan Yeow, Jiangtao Xu and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "Copolymers with Controlled Molecular Weight Distributions and Compositional Gradients through Flow Polymerization" being published in Macromolecules. View paper

May 2018

  • Congratulations to Nik Nik M Adnan, Zahra Sadrearhami, Ali Bagheri, Thuy‐Khanh Nguyen, Edgar HH Wong, Kitty KK Ho, May Lim, Naresh Kumar and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "Exploiting the Versatility of Polydopamine‐Coated Nanoparticles to Deliver Nitric Oxide and Combat Bacterial Biofilm" being published in Macromolecular rapid communications. View paper

  • Congratulations to Rashin Namivandi-Zangeneh, Zahra Sadrearhami, Ali Bagheri, Maeva Sauvage-Nguyen, Kitty Ka Kit Ho, Naresh Kumar, Edgar HH Wong and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "Nitric Oxide-Loaded Antimicrobial Polymer for the Synergistic Eradication of Bacterial Biofilm" being published in ACS Macro Letters. View paper

  • Congratulations to Jonathan Yeow, Robert Chapman, Adam J Gormley and Cyrille Boyer on their review article titled "Up in the air: oxygen tolerance in controlled/living radical polymerisation" being published in Chemical Society Reviews. View paper

  • Congratulations to Susan Oliver, Harsha Wagh, Yuanli Yang, Shuang Yang and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "Enhancing the antimicrobial and antibiofilm effectiveness of silver nanoparticles prepared by green synthesis" being published in Journal of Materials Chemistry B. View paper

April 2018

  • Congratulations to Jonathan Yeow, Sanket Joshi, Robert Chapman and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "A Self‐Reporting Photocatalyst for Online Fluorescence Monitoring of High Throughput RAFT Polymerization" being published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. View paper

  • Congratulations to Peter R Judzewitsch, Thuy‐Khanh Nguyen, Sivaprakash Shanmugam, Edgar HH Wong and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "Towards Sequence‐Controlled Antimicrobial Polymers: Effect of Polymer Block Order on Antimicrobial Activity" being published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. View paper

  • Congratulations to Susan Oliver, Eugene Yee, Maria Kavallaris, Orazio Vittorio and Cyrille Boyer on their paper titled "Water Soluble Antioxidant Dextran–Quercetin Conjugate with Potential Anticancer Properties" being published in Macromolecular Bioscience. View paper

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