Junior Professor Chair (Chaire de Professeur Junior)
Our Team
Dr. Hatice Mutlu
QUT Contact Details
- University Haute de Alsace (UHA), Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M), UMR 7361 CNRS/UHA, 15 rue Jean Starcky, 68057 Mulhouse Cedex, France
mailto:hatice.mutlu@uha.fr
Brief Curriculum Vitae
Professional Experience
| 10/19 – present | Senior Scientist, SML, IBG 3, KIT, Germany and affiliated senior researcher at the Soft Matter Materials Laboratory, QUT, Brisbane |
| 01/18 – 09/19 | Young faculty member, Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry – Research Group of Prof. P. Theato, KIT, Germany |
| 08/14 – 12/17 | Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher under supervision of Prof. Barner-Kowollik, KIT, Germany |
| 02/13 – 07/14 | CNRS Post-Doctoral Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Institute Charles Sadron, Strasbourg, France |
| 01/11 – 01/13 | Research Assistant (Res. Ass.), KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 09/09 – 12/10 | Res. Ass., University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany |
| 07/08 – 08/09 | Res. Ass., Hochschule Emden/Leer, Emden, Germany |
| 08/04–09/04 | Department of Chemistry Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Istanbul, Turkey |
Research Interests and Opportunities
Advanced Synthetic Tools
- Advanced Light-Induced Reactions, λ-Orthogonal Photoswitches and Photochemistry for Macromolecular Design
- Reading Sequence Defined Polymers
- Synthetic Approaches to Complex Macromolecules
- Self-Reporting Reaction Systems for Structural Readout
- Ambient Temperature Ligation Methods
- Complex Folding Processes of Polymers into Biomimetic Structures
- Metathesis Polymerization
Hybrid Materials
• Biomimetic Synthetic Molecules, Dynamic Photoresponsive Single Chain Nanoparticles (Towards Synthetic Proteins/Biomimetic Adhesives)
• Spatially Resolved Dynamic Covalent Polymer Surfaces
• Self-Healing Materials
• Self-Reporting Materials
• Macromolecular Responsive Nano-Containers
• Novel Sulfur-Based Polymers
• Redox Polymers
• Polymers For Energy (Batteries)
• Novel (Bio)Degradable Polymers
Kinetics and Mechanisms
- Complex Polymer Architecture Formation Processes
Polymer Characterization
• High Resolution Mass Spectrometry (ESI-MS, MALDI-TOF) of Synthetic Polymers
• Size Exclusion Chromatography with Multiple Detectors
• High Resolution FT-IR Imaging/Microscopy
Awards and Prizes
| 01/2020 | Polymer Chemistry Emerging Investigators 2020″ by Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom |
| 02/13 – 07/14 | CNRS Post-Doctoral Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Institute Charles Sadron, University of Strasbourg, France |
| 10/2012 | PhD graduation award, Sustainable Chemistry (Fachgruppe Nachhaltige Chemie), German Chemical Society (GDCh), supported by Evonik Industries AG, Germany |
| 10/2012 | PhD graduation award “Wolff-&-Sohn Price”, Institute for Organic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany |
| 06/2011 | Fellowship, Sustainable Chemistry (Fachgruppe Nachhaltige Chemie), German Chemical Society (GDCh), Germany |
| 10/07 – 06/08 | Scholarship of the Institute of Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering Scholarship, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Chemistry Department, Institute of Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, Bogazici University, Turkey |
| 10/04 – 07/05 | Scholarship of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Chemistry Department, Marmara University, Turkey |
Presentations
| 04/2017 | Invited Lecture, Materials Research and Technology Department (MRT), Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg,
“From renewable to function: synthesis of novel polymeric materials” |
| 08/2016 | Invited Lecture, Department of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry Research Group, University of Ghent, Belgium,
“Azobenzene vs. -Benzyl Bisimines: who will be the winner in the “stimuli-responsiveness?” |
Publications
| [767] |
Access to Main-chain Photoswitching Polymers via Hydroxyl-yne Click Polymerization
Thai, L. D.; Kammerer, J. A.; Théato, P.; Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. 2024, submitted. |
| [754] |
Photo- and halochromism of spiropyran-based main-chain polymers
Thai, L. D.; Kammerer, J. A.; Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Chem. Sci. 2024, 15, 3687-3697. |
| [750] |
Main-chain Macromolecular Hydrazone Photoswitches
Thai, L. D.; Fanelli, J.; Munaweera, R.; O´Mara, M. L.; Barner-Kowollik, C.; Mutlu, H. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202315887. |
| [737] |
Molecular Photoswitching of Main-chain α-bisimines in Solid-State Polymers
Thai, L. D.; Guimarães, T. R.; Chambers, L. C.; Kammerer, J. A.; Golberg, D.; Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 14748-14755. |
| [722] |
Synergistic, Orthogonal and Antagonistic Photochemistry for Light-Induced 3D Printing
Hobich, J.; Blasco, E.; Wegener, M.; Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Macromol. Chem. Phys. 2023, 224, 2200318. |
| [719] |
Photoswitchable Block Copolymers Based on Main Chain α-Bisimines
Thai, L. D.; Guimarães, T. R.; Spann, S.; Goldmann, A. S.; Golberg, D.; Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Polym. Chem. 2022, 13, 5625-5635. |
| [686] |
Passerini Multicomponent Reactions Enabling Self-Reporting Photosensitive Tetrazole Polymers
Geiselhart, C. M.; Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. ACS Macro Lett. 2021, 10, 1159-1166. |
| [679] |
Untapped Toolbox of Luminol Based Polymers
Geiselhart, C. M.; Barner-Kowollik, C.; Mutlu, H. Polym. Chem. 2021, 12, 1732-1748. |
| [675] |
Degradable Redox-Responsive Polyolefins
Geiselhart, C. M.; Xue, W.; Barner-Kowollik, C.; Mutlu, H. Macromolecules 2021, 54, 1775-1782. |
| [664] |
Prevent or Cure – The Unprecedented Need for Self-Reporting Materials
Geiselhart, C. M.; Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 17290-17313. |
| [634] |
Chemiluminescent Self-Reporting Supramolecular Transformations on Macromolecular Scaffolds
Geiselhart, C. M.; Mutlu, H.; Tzvetkova, P.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Polym. Chem. 2020, 11, 4213-4220. |
| [569] |
Contemporary Photoligation Chemistry: The Visible Light Challenge
Offenloch, J. T.; Gernhardt, M.; Blinco, J. P.; Frisch, H.; Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 3700-3709. |
| [577] |
A Guanidine-Based Superbase as Efficient Chemiluminescence Booster
Geiselhart, C. M.; Schmitt, C. W.; Joeckle, P.; Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Sci. Rep. 2019, 9, 14519. |
| [582] |
Pyrene-Tagged Chloro Oximes as Ambient-Light-Accelerated Ligation Agents
Offenloch, J. T.; Bastian, S.; Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. ChemPhotoChem 2019, 3, 66-70. |
| [595] |
Fully Independent Photochemical Reactivity in One Molecule
Marschner, D.; Franck, C. O.; Abt, D.; Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 9877-9880. |
| [609] |
Self-reporting visible light-induced polymer chain collapse
Offenloch, J.; Blasco, E.; Bastian, S.; Barner-Kowollik, C.; Mutlu, H. Polym. Chem. 2019, 10, 4513-4518. |
| [560] |
Light Induced Polyethylene Ligation
Offenloch, J. T.; Norsic, S.; Mutlu, H.; Taam, M.; Boyron, O.; Boisson, C.; D´Agosto, F.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Polym. Chem. 2018, 9, 3633-3637. |
| [553] |
Self-Reporting Refoldable Profluorescent Single-Chain Nanoparticles
Fischer, T. S.; Spann, S.; An, Q.; Luy, B.; Tsotsalas, M.; Blinco, J. P.; Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Chem. Sci. 2018, 9, 4696-4702. |
| [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. |
| [548] |
Interrupted CuAAC Ligation: An Efficient Approach to Fluorescence Labeled Three-Armed Mikto Star Polymers
Offenloch, J. T.; Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Macromolecules 2018, 51, 2682-2689. |
| [540] |
Light-Induced Step-Growth Polymerization of AB-Type Photo-Monomers at Ambient Temperature
Hurrle, S.; Goldmann, A. S.; Gliemann, H.; Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. ACS Macro Lett. 2018, 7, 201-207. |
| [478] |
Dynamic Covalent Single Chain Nanoparticles based on Hetero Diels-Alder Chemistry
Wedler-Jasinski, N.; Lueckerath, T.; Mutlu, H.; Goldmann, A. S.; Walther, A.; Stenzel, M. H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Chem. Commun. 2017, 53, 157-160. |
| [485] |
Degradable Fluorescent Single-Chain Nanoparticles Based on Metathesis Polymers
Offenloch, J. T.; Willenbacher, J.; Tzvetkova, P.; Heiler, C.; Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Chem. Commun. 2017, 53, 775-778. |
| [492] |
Dual-Gated Supramolecular Star Polymers in Aqueous Solution
Schmidt, B. V. K. J.; Kugele, D.; von Irmer, J.; Steinkoenig, J.; Mutlu, H.; Rüttiger, C.; Hawker, C.; Gallei, M.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Macromolecules 2017, 50, 2375-2386. |
| [510] |
Dual-Gated Chain Shattering Based on Light Responsive Benzophenones and Thermally Responsive Diels-Alder Linkages
Steinkoenig, J.; Zieger, M. M.; Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Macromolecules 2017, 50, 5385-5391. |
| [511] |
Stepwise Light-induced Dual Compaction of Single-Chain Nanoparticles
Claus, T. K.; Zhang, J.; Martin, L.; Hartlieb, M.; Mutlu, H.; Perrier, S.; Delaittre, G.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2017, 38, 1700264. |
| [520] |
Spin Fluorescence Silencing Enables an Efficient Thermally Driven Self-Reporting Polymer Release System
Mutlu, H.; Schmitt, C. W.; Wedler-Jasinski, N.; Woehlk, H.; Fairfull-Smith, K. E.; Blinco, J. P.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Polym. Chem. 2017, 8, 6199-6203. |
| [476] |
Polybutadiene Functionalization via an Efficient Avenue
Geiselhart, C. M.; Offenloch, J. T.; Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. ACS Macro Lett. 2016, 5, 1146-1151. |
| [444] |
Photo- and Metallo-Responsive N-alkyl α-Bisimines as Orthogonally Addressable Main-Chain Functional Groups in Metathesis Polymers
Greb, L.; Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C.; Lehn, J. M. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 1142-1145. (see journal cover) |
| [433] |
Green Chain-Shattering Polymers Based on a Self-Immolative Azobenzene Motif
Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Polym. Chem. 2016, 7, 2272-2279. |
Other Publications
2020
| [09] | Making the Best of Polymers with Sulfur–Nitrogen Bonds: From Sources to Innovative Materials
H. Mutlu, P. Theato, Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2020, 41, 2000181. |
| [08] | The unrevealed potential of elemental sulfur for the synthesis of high sulfur content bio-based aliphatic polyesters
M. E. Duarte, B. Huber, P.Theato, H. Mutlu, Polym. Chem. 2020, 11, 241-248 (journal back cover). |
| [07] | Post-polymerization modification of polymeric active esters towards tempo containing polymers: A systematic study
W. Xue, H. Mutlu, P. Theato, Eur. Polym. J. 2020, 130, 109660. |
| [06] | Post-polymerization modification of poly(vinylcyclopropanes): A potential route to periodic copolymers
D. H. S. Ntoukam, H. Mutlu, P. Theato, Eur. Polym. J. 2020, 122, 109319. |
| [05] | A bio-inspired hierarchical underwater superoleophobic surface with reversible pH response
X. Huang. H. Mutlu, P. Theato, Adv. Mater. Interfaces. 2020, 7, 2000101. |
| [04] | Dynamic covalent polymer networks via combined nitroxide exchange reaction and nitroxide mediated polymerization
Y. Jia, Y. Matt, Q. An, I. Wessely, H. Mutlu, P. Theato, S. Bräse, A. Llevot, M. Tsotsalas, Polym. Chem. 2020, 11, 2502-2510. |
2019
| [03] | Sulfur chemistry in polymer and materials science
H. Mutlu, E. B. Ceper, X. Li, J. Yang, W. Dong, M. M. Ozmen, P. Theato, Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2019, 40, 1800650. |
| [02] | Soft matter technology at KIT: Chemical perspective from nanoarchitectures to microstructures
S. Grosjean, M. Wawryszyn, H. Mutlu, S. Bräse, J. Lahann, P. Theato, Adv. Mater. 2019, 1806334. |
| [01] | Intercalating electron dyes for TEM visualization of DNA at the single-molecule level
Y. Kabiri, A. Angelin, I. Ahmed, H. Mutlu, J. Bauer, C. M. Niemeyer, H. Zandbergen, C. Dekker, ChemBioChem 2019, 20, 1-10. |
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