Real World Applications

Polymeric materials are essential for our everyday life. The Soft Matter Materials team aims to translate its chemistry into real-world applications through a number of ongoing ARC Linkage collaborations and direct bilateral funding agreements with our industrial partners.

Examples of these projects include:

  • The utilisation of high performance macromolecular photoresists. Underpinned by synthetic photochemical expertise, the team is developing light degradable adhesive materials for dental applications with collaboration partner Ivoclar Vivadent.
  • Tailor-made advanced column materials for size exclusion chromatography are being designed through linkages with the PSS Polymer Standards Service.
  • In the realm of Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs), high performance inks to improve resolution, contrast, and response times on flexible devices are being investigated with Cynora as an industrial partner.

In addition to these Linkage based projects, our team is supported through direct funding by a number of other industry collaborations ranging from next generation automotive foams (Evonik) to high performance inks for coating materials (Siegwerk).

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Macroarc@BarnerKowollik·
17 Jan

Join us in a workshop organized by @NatureComms and @Materials_MRS on Advances in Materials and Manufacturing https://www.mrs.org/workshop-on-advances-in-materials-and-manufacturing where Christopher explores 'Wavelength Orthogonal, Synergistic and Antagonistic Photochemical Materials Design' @QUT @QUTmaterials @Cluster3DMM2O

Macroarc@BarnerKowollik·
16 Jan

We turned our attention once more to dynamic photochemistry with hydrogels, this time exploring wavelength orthogonal stiffening with visible light, just out in @angew_chem https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.202113076 Brilliant work by @VinhXTruong and Julian @QUTmaterials @QUT @KITKarlsruhe

Macroarc@BarnerKowollik·
11 Jan

Australia's reputation on the international stage is once more at risk. No funding agency in a well-functioning democracy allows for ministerial interference on the expert selection of grant outcomes for political gain, personal belief or voter pleasing.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/eminent-researchers-condemn-government-s-political-and-short-sighted-funding-20220110-p59n2i.html

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