Gibson Group News

To read about our work on synthesising sequentially modified gold nanoparticle libaries, go to http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/co100099r

We have received funding from the URSS to allow an undergraduate student to join us over the summer.

The Leverhulme trust have awarded a signficant research grant to Matthew Gibson in collaboration with Rebecca Notman (Warwick Chemistry/Centre for Scientific Computing) for a combined experimental and theoretical study on the behaviour of bio-mimetic polymers. More information including vacancies arising will apppear shortly.

We have been awared a research grant from the Royal Society, joint with Giovanni Constantini (Warwick Chemistry).

Matt was interviewed during the IUPAC World Polymer Congress 2011 (Glasgow), to discuss his review paper on the the use of polymers as synthetic mimics of Antifreeze Proteins.

This is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlUquvuJ0QU

Kostis' paper describing the influence of concentration and the dissolved solutes on the thermoresponsive behaviour of PPEGMA polymers and their protein conjugates is now available online. http://xlink.rsc.org/?doi=C0PY00408A. This was conducted in collaboration with Mat Jones and Dave Haddleton

Work conducted with Harm-Anton Klok at EPFL Switzerland has been accepted in ACS Combinatorial Chemistry. This work describes the synthesis of diverse libraries of polymer-coated gold nanoparticles in a highly effecient, convergent, manner. The unique optical properties of the gold nanoparticles were used to investigate the importance of polymer coating on the aggregation behaviour of the nanoparticles, which is essential if they are to be used for biological applications

From October 2011, Matt has been promoted to Senior Research Fellow.