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Thomas joined the PNG to work on polymer brush self-assembly.
Read our latest paper on MPBs and tissue penetration in Polymer Chemistry. Thank you New Group for the collaboration!
May
April
Our paper in collaboration with the Groeschel Group on the "Self-assembly of diblock molecular brushes in the spherical confinement of nanoemulsions" has been accepted in Macromolecular Rapid Communications as part of a Special Issue on 'Australian-European Polymer Self-Assembly'.
March
Karen joined to do his Masters on designing new degradable molecular brushes.
February
Welcome to Cindy Tran and Celia Chen!!
Cindy will do her Honours year in the team working on new ways to target breast cancer.
Celia will work with us over the summer under the Denison Scholarship scheme.
January
2017
December
Olivia and Markus published a blog for Materials Horizons.
Welcome to Alison Campbell! Alison will work with us over the summer under the Denison Scholarship scheme.
November
Congratulations to Olivia and Vivian who have just received Class 1 for their Honours year. Well done !
Congratulations to Olivia who has taken out 2nd Prize at the RACI NSW Analytical and Environmental Chemistry Group Annual Honours and Master-by-Research Presentation Evening. Olivia presented her Honours work on the synthesis and use of tailor-made block copolymers for nanoscale structuring of battery electrodes.
October
Welcome back Antoine! Antoine joins us as a volunteer for the rest of 2017.
September
Welcome to Peter Truran! Peter joins us from York in the U.K. for his Masters studies. He will be working on smart molecular
brushes.
August
Funding success! We were successful in the recent Sydney Vital Seed Funding round with a project on triple negative breast cancer research.
Congratulations to Théophile! He has been awarded one of the inaugural Australian Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology (AINST) Postgraduate Top-Up Scholarships. Well done!
July
Welcome back, Eamonn Burke! Eamonn starts his Honours year in the group working on polymer brush spheroid penetration. Welcome to Stone Woo! Stone joins as a TSP student for Semester 2 working on drug delivery systems for breast cancer treatment.
Markus will spend the next six weeks in Professor Olli Ikkala's group at Aalto University as part of an ANN Overseas Travel Fellowship.
June
May
We all escaped the Escape Room challenge and tasted our first group batch brew.
March
Congratulations (again) to Olivia! She has been awarded the R.J.W. LE FÈVRE DAASN RAO PRIZE in Physical Chemistry for her outstanding performance in Physical Chemistry at the Senior Chemistry level.
Congratulations! Olivia has been awarded a 2017 Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) Honours Scholarship.
Welcome to Edie Griffin and Jin-Lee Michael Teoh! Edie joins us as part of her Talented Student Program. She is working with Clare on a polymer-focused research project. Michael joins us for his Engineering Honours in 2017. He will be studying the tumour penetration of polymers using confocal laser scanning microscopy.
Welcome back, Eamonn! He joins us for some volunteer work on self-assembly.
February
Theo, Olivia, Vivian and Markus enjoyed the 18th Australasian Polymer Summer School.
Welcome to Olivia McRae and welcome back Vivian Shang! Olivia joins us as an Honours Student working on hybrid materials for battery applications. Vivian was a former Summer student and joins us now for her Honours year working on polymer nanorods.
Welcome to Dr Clare Mahon! She joins us for 2 years as a Marie Curie Global Fellow. She will be working on using polymer brushes in sensing applications. Her project is in collaboration with the New Group.
We enjoyed having E/Prof Helmuth Möhwald in the School for 3
days.
January
Welcome to Antoine Niederberger! He joins us for five months as part of his Masters degree at the University of Maine, France. He will be working on SET-LRP polymerisations.
2016
December
Funding success! We have been granted beam time at ANSTO to investigate polymer nanorods in 2017.
November
Welcome to Lauren Minne! Lauren joins us for six weeks through her Summer Research Scholarship. She will be working on rod-like nanoparticles. Lauren wrote a piece about her experience in the group.
Markus has been appointed as a RSC Materials Horizons Community Board member.
Maria and Markus attend the 36 Australian Polymer Symposium at Lorne, Australia. Markus is an ECR speaker at the conference.
October
Funding success! Markus has been awarded a Overseas Travel Fellowship from the Australian Nanotechnology Network (ANN). As part of this, he will spend a few weeks researching in Finland in 2017.
September
Funding success! Markus has been awarded the 2016 Selby Research Award for his work on polymer nanorod drug delivery systems.
Welcome to Dominik Seeberger! Dominik joins us as a visiting student from Bayreuth University in Germany. He will be working on cylindrical polymer brushes.
August
Welcome to Maria Morits! Maria joins us as a visiting PhD student from Aalto University in Finland. She will be working on sustainable hybrid materials.
July
Welcome again to Saeel Momin! Saeel joins us for ten months to do his Graduate Diploma research. He will be working on polymer self-assemblies for therapeutic delivery.
June
May
Markus hosts DuPont Fellow Dr Alan English as part of the NSW 2016 Solomon Lecture series.
March
Our article on Passive tumour targeting and extravasation of cylindrical polymer brushes in mouse xenografts features in the 2016 Emerging Investigators Issue (Chem Commun).
Thank you to Chris, Dharmini and Cameron for collaborating.
Our article on Cylindrical Polymer Brushes – Anisotropic Building Blocks, Unimolecular Templates and Particulate Nanocarriers is on the cover of Polymer.
February
Welcome to Theophile Pelras! Theo joins as the first PhD student of the group. He will be working on novel compartmentalised polymer brushes.
Congratulations to Dr Clare Mahon! Clare will join us as a Marie Curie Global Fellow in January 2017. We will be working on Polymer brush sensing arrays for the identification of pathogens (GLYCOSENSE).
January
Funding success! Markus receives Seedfunding from the University to boost polymer brush research.
Welcome to Vivian Shang and Eamonn Burke! Eamonn joins us as part of the Summer Scholarship program. He will be working with us for six weeks. His project is looking at zwitterionic polymer brushes. Vivian joins us also as part of the Summer Scholarship program. She will be working with us for six weeks. Her project comprises telechelic RAFT polymers.
2015
December
Funding success! A proposal for a comprehensive polymer characterisation system led by Markus has been successful. We will be purchasing a new GPC and light scattering unit. The instrumentation will be located in the KCPC.
Markus wrote an article on his research for Chemistry News: 'Architectures of the nanoworld'
November
Markus joins the RACI NSW Polymer Group as an executive Committee Member.
September
Welcome to Saeel Momin and Leo Jiang! Saeel joins the group as a volunteer to learn more about the synthesis of RAFT agents. Leo joins the group as part of the Talented Student Program. He will be working on telechelic RAFT polymers.
June
Welcome to the Polymer Nanostructures Group! I am Markus Muellner, a new Lecturer in the School of Chemistry. I have recently started the
Polymer Nanostructures Group as part of the Key Centre for Polymers and Colloids
(KCPC).
Markus has left The University of Melbourne after relinquishing his McKenzie Fellowship in May 2015.