Soft Matter Materials Laboratory - Shining Light on Soft Matter

Established in 2008, and now calling Brisbane home, the MACROARC lab houses over 40 active researchers in the field of synthetic and physical polymer material science.

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Celebrating a year of beautiful (photo)chemistry at our end of year group party. Thank you all for an amazing year! Happy holidays to all our friends and collaborators!
We have a PhD position opening between AStar’s Institute for Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) and our team. If you are interested in fusing machine learning and photochemistry in an exciting project, get in touch at any time!

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Our Mission

The Soft Matter Materials Laboratory at QUT is situated at the interface of organic, macromolecular and materials science. We focus on a wide range of interdisciplinary, polymer-related research including but not limited to:

The real world applications of these fundamental investigations span a number of fields, from use as inks and photoresists in 3D printing and lithography to precisely folded single strand polymers for catalysis and biomimetic applications and everything in between.

Latest Publications

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Cooperative Network Formation via Two Colour Light Activated λ-Orthogonal Chromophores

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The Power of Action Plots: Unveiling Reaction Orthogonality of Light-Stabilized Dynamic Covalent Chemistry

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A Focus on How Latent “Codons” are Unravelled in Synthetic Copolymers

738

Visible Light Induced Control over Single Chain Nanoparticle Folding

Distinguished Prof. Christopher Barner-Kowollik

ARC Laureate Fellow, Deputy Vice Chancellor Research (DVCR) and Vice President

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A/Prof. James Blinco

Head of the Soft Matter Materials Laboratory, Associate Professor

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Dr. Hendrik Frisch

DECRA Fellow

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Dr. Bryan Tuten

DECRA Fellow

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Christopher Synatschke

Universität Bayreuth, Germany, 08/08 – 09/08

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Bart Dervaux

Ghent University, Belgium, 11/08 – 12/08

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Edgar Espinosa

CNRS Lyon, France, 02/10

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Kristian Kempe

Universität Jena, Germany, 06/10

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