- Mar
- 2021
Our favourite group activity - what else but fun with lasers!
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.
Latest News
- Mar
- 2021
On the interface of polymer chemistry and mass spectrometry available at the Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia)/University of Mons (Belgium)
- Feb
- 2021
Well done Christina on your KIT PhD defense - we are very proud of you! Thanks for being part of QUTmaterials too!
Research
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Publications
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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 synthesis of complex macromolecular architectures with highly-defined functionality and composition via advanced polymerisation protocols
- Synthesis via polymer conjugation techniques and macromolecular transformations at ambient temperature with a particular emphasis on light driven chemical transformations
- Fundamental investigations into polymerisation mechanisms and kinetics as well as high resolution imaging and characterisation of macromolecular chain structures
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
688
A Self-Catalyzed Visible Light Driven Thiol Ligation
687
Light-gated Control of Conformational Changes in Polymer Brushes
686
Passerini Multi-Component Reactions as Handle towards Enabling Self-Reporting Photo-Sensitive Tetrazole-Polymers
685
Wavelength-Selective Softening of Hydrogel Networks
Members
Prof. Christopher Barner-Kowollik
ARC Laureate Fellow, Deputy Vice Chancellor Research (DVCR) and Vice President
A/Prof. James Blinco
Head of the Soft Matter Materials Laboratory, Associate Professor
We’ve partnered with 156 institutions & 26 countries.
