Gibson Group News

The MIG group has this week moved into dedicated laboratory and office space. We can be found in C221 (second floor chemistry) and office C202.

From Monday 24th October, MIG can be found in his new office in A107

Mat wins the prize for best poster at the Macrogroup/RAPS conference on controlled radical polymerization

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2011/cc/c1cc15171a

Rob has recieved a bursary to attend the Chemical Tools and Challenges in Systems Biology Conference in London, later this year. Well done!

From today, 5 new PhD candidates join the MIG group. Dan Phillips, Caroline Moore, Sarah-Jane Richards, Thomas Congdon and Alaina Emmanuella.

They will be working on a huge range of projects from fundemental polymer synthesis, pathogenic diagnostic tools, cryopreservation mechanisms all the way to molecular modelling of polymers at interfaces!

Good luck to everyone!

Collaborative work with the O'Reilly Group here at Warwick has been accepted for publication in Chemical Communications. This work describes the effect of nanoparticle size on its Lower Critical Solution Temperature (LCST) behaviour. Critically, we show that increased nanoparticle size leads to a large decrease in the observerd transition temperature for both hard (gold nanoparticle) and soft (block copolymer micelles) nanoparticles, coated with different thermoresponsive polymers. This is signifcant as it shows that polymers on nanoparticle surfaces do not behaviour as they do free in solution and has implications for the design of 'smart' nanoarticles particularly for biological applications

Ajit and Yussif handed in their final AS:MIT reports today. They both completed challenging projects at the Chem/bio interface and their results will guide some of our future studies. Good luck to both of them in the future!