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Dr. Charlotte Petit

Visiting Research Fellow

QUT Contact Details
  • P803, P Block, Level 8, Gardens Point Campus (QUT)

Brief Curriculum Vitae
12/18 – 10/21 Postdoctoral researcher under supervision of Prof. Christopher Barner-Kowollik, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane
11/16 – 11/18 Postdoctoral researcher in a cooperative project between Prof. Barner-Kowollik and Prof. Manfred Wilhelm (Polymeric Materials) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
09/13 – 10/16 PhD in Polymer chemistry under supervision of Prof. Bruno Grassl and Dr. Stéphanie Reynaud, Cationic ring-opening polymerization of oxazoline: microwave-assisted and continuous flow processes for a greener chemistry at the laboratory IPREM – Physics and Chemistry of Polymers team, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France (ANR fundings).
08/14 – 09/14 Research project at the Anton Paar company under supervision of Dr. Alexander Stadler (Anton Paar GmbH) and Dr. Frank Wiesbrock (Polymer Competence Center of Leoben), Microwave-assisted syntheses in recyclable ionic liquids: photoresists based on renewable resources, Anton Paar GmbH, Graz, Austria.
06/14- 07/14 Research project under supervision of Dr. Frank Wiesbrock (Polymer Competence Center of Leoben), Poly(2-oxazoline) networks with peg- and polyester-crosslinkers as enzymatically degradable drug depots, Polymer Competence Center of Leoben and Technical University of Graz, Austria.
09/11 – 07/13 Master degree in Chemistry and Physical Chemistry of Materials, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France.
01/13 – 07/13 Internship under supervision of Prof. Jacques Desbrières and Dr. Stéphanie Reynaud, Amphiphilic derivatives of chitosan using microwave irradiation. Toward an eco-friendly process to chitosan derivatives, at the laboratory IPREM – Physics and Chemistry of Polymers team, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France.
04/12 – 07/12 Internship under supervision of Prof. Bruno Grassl and Dr. Stéphanie Reynaud, Microwave-assisted synthesis of nanoparticles and characterization, for the Spin-off Natycs at the laboratory IPREM – Physics and Chemistry of Polymers team, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France.
09/08 – 07/11 B. Sc. degree in Chemistry, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France.

Advanced Synthetic Tools
  • Advanced Light-Induced Reactions and Photochemistry for Macromolecular Design
  • Wavelength Resolved Photochemistry and Action Plots
  • Synthetic Photochemical Methods
  • Ambient Temperature Ligation Methods
  • RAFT Agent Design, RAFT Polymer Design
  • Efficient Bonding/Debonding Polymer Systems, Understanding Dynamic Bonding in Polymer Systems, Photochemical Reversible Bonding Systems
Kinetics and Mechanisms
  • Advanced Photochemical Reaction Systems
  • Controlled Radical Polymerization
  • Polymer Stability Assays
  • Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT), and ATRP Processes
Polymer Characterization
  • High Resolution Mass Spectrometry (ESI-MS, MALDI-TOF) of Synthetic Polymers; Hyphenated Techniques (HPLC-ESI, SEC-ESI)
  • Size Exclusion Chromatography with Multiple Detectors

2019 Best Poster Award: Stability of ligation points in macromolecules, Frontiers in Polymer Science 2019, Budapest, HU.
[05] Stability of Ligation Points in Macromolecules

C. Petit, M. Abbasi, T. Fischer, L.D. Bangert, M. Wilhelm, A.S. Goldmann, C. Barner-Kowollik, Frontiers in Polymer Science 2019, Budapest, HU. Poster contribution
[04] Elaboration of a new process coupling a microwave reactor and a fluidic device: Poly(2-oxazoline)s synthesis for biomedical applications

C. Petit, B. Grassl, S. Reynaud, BiPoCo conference, Szeged, HU, Aug. 2016. Oral communication
[03] Click Chemistry-Mediated Synthesis of Novel Drug Depots Based on Copoly(ester 2-oxazoline)s and Their Characterization

K.P. Luef, C. Petit, B. Grassl, S. Reynaud, F. Wiesbrock, European Polymer Federation 2015, Dresden, GE. Oral communication
[02] Copoly(ester 2-oxazoline)s as novel drug depots

K.P. Luef, C. Petit, B. Grassl, S. Reynaud, F. Wiesbrock, Danube Vltava Sava Polymer Meeting 2015, Gmunden, AT. Oral communication
[01] Microwave-Assisted CROP in Ionic Liquids: Photoresists Based on Polyoxazoline

C. Petit, K.P. Luef, B. Grassl, F. Wiesbrock, S. Reynaud, Ionic Polymerization 2015, Bordeaux, FR. Oral communication

2021
[682] Chain Length Dependent Photolysis of ortho-Nitrobenzyl-centered Polymers

Bachmann, J.; Petit, C.; Michalek, L.; Catel, Y.; Blasco, E.; Blinco, J.; Unterreiner, A.-N.; Barner-Kowollik, C. ACS Macro Lett. 2021, 10, 447–452. 
[678] UV-induced Photolysis of Polyurethanes

Petit, C.; Bachmann, J.; Michalek, L.; Catel, Y.; Blasco, E.; Blinco, J.P.; Unterreiner, A.-N.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Chem. Commun. 2021, 57, 2911 – 2914. 
2020
[661] Visible-Light Reversible Photopolymerisation: Insights via Online Photoflow – Electrospray Ionisation – Mass Spectrometry

Van De Walle, M.; Petit, C.; Blinco, J. P.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Polym. Chem. 2020, 11, 6435 – 6440.
2019
[581] Comb Polymers with Triazole Linkages under Thermal and Mechanical Stress

Petit, C.; Abbasi, M.; Fischer, T.; Wilhelm, M.; Goldmann, A. S.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Macromolecules 2019, 52, 420-431.
2018
[561] Stability of Diels–Alder Photoadducts in Macromolecules

Petit, C.; Bangert, L. D.; Abbasi, M.; Wilhelm, M.; Goldmann, A. S.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Polym. Chem. 2018, 9, 3850-3854.
[550] A Subtractive Photoresist Platform for Micro- and Macroscopic 3D Printed Structures

Zieger, M. M.; Müller, P.; Blasco, E.; Petit, C.; Hahn, V.; Michalek, L.; Mutlu, H.; Wegener, M.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1801405.

2018
[07] Using Microwaves to Extract and Functionalize Natural or Bio-based Molecules
J. Desbrières, B. Grassl, C. Petit, S. Reynaud, L´actualité Chimique 2018, 427, 87-90.
2017
[06] Living Cationic Ring-Opening Polymerization of 2-Ethyl-2-Oxazoline Following Sustainable Concepts: Microwave-Assisted and droplet-based millifluidic Processes in Ionic Liquid Medium.
Petit, C.; Grassl, B.;. Mignard, E.; Luef, K. P.; Wiesbrock, F.; Reynaud, S. Polym. Chem. 2017, 8, 5910-5917.
[05] UV-Mediated Thiol-Ene Click Reactions for the Synthesis of Drug-Loadable and Degradable Gels Based on Copoly(2-oxazoline)s
Luef, K. P., Petit, C., Ottersböck, B., Oreskia, G., Ehrenfeld, F., Grassl, B., Reynaud, S., Wiesbrock, F. Eur. Polym. J. 2017, 88, 701-712.
[04] Droplet-based millifluidic device under microwave irradiation: temperature measurement and polymer particle synthesis
Garagalza, O., Petit, C., Mignard, E., Sarrazin, F., Reynaud, S., Grassl, B. Chem. Eng. J. 2017, 308, 1105-1111.
2015
[03] Microwave-assisted syntheses in recyclable ionic liquids: photoresists based on renewable resources
Petit, C., Luef, K.P., Edler, M., Griesser, T., Kremsner, J., Stadler, A., Grassl, B., Reynaud, S., Wiesbrock, F., ChemSusChem 2015, 8, 3401-3404.
[02] Amphiphilic derivatives of chitosan using microwave irradiation. Toward an eco-friendly process to chitosan derivatives
Petit, C.; Reynaud, S.; Desbrières, J. Carbohydrate Polymers 2015, 116, 26-33.
2014
[01] Microwave assisted modifications of polysaccharides
Desbrières, J.; Petit, C.; Reynaud, S. Pure and Applied Chemistry 2014, 86, 1695-1706.

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