Athina Anastasaki
Biography
Athina was born in Athens in 1988 and graduated from the University of Athens in 2011 with 1st Class Honours .The final year of her undergraduate study included a 6 month research project, under the supervision of professor Marinos Pitsikalis which resulted in her first publication.She is currently a third year PhD student working in the Haddleton Polymer group,sponsored by Lubrizol.The project is entitled " Functionalised Polymer Additives for Novel Lubricating Regimes "
Research interests
Controlled/living radical polymerisation, catalytic chain transfer and radical polymerisation for the synthesis of diverse polymeric architectures
Glycochemistry inlcuding binding and inhibition testing
Synthesis of polymer-protein conjugates
Photochemistry
Selected Publications
Christopher Waldron,a Athina Anastasaki,a Ronan McHale,a Paul Wilson,a
Zaidong Li,a Tim Smithb and David M. Haddleton*a
Polym. Chem., 2014, Advance Article
Christopher Waldron, Qiang Zhang, Zaidong Li, Vasiliki Nikolaou, Gabit Nurumbetov, Jamie Godfrey, Ronan McHale, Gokhan Yilmaz, Rajan K. Randev, Mony Girault,
Kayleigh McEwan, David M. Haddleton,*Martijn Droesbeke, Alice J. Haddleton,
Paul Wilson, Alexandre Simula, Jennifer Collins, Danielle J. Lloyd, James A. Burns,
Christopher Summers, Claudia Houben, Athina Anastasaki, Muxiu Li, C. Remzi Becer, Jenny K. Kiviaho and Nuttapol Risangud
Polym. Chem., 2014, Advance Article
(10) Self-activation and activation of Cu(0) wire for SET-LRP mediated by fluorinated alcohols
Shampa R. Samantaa, Hao-Jan Suna, Athina Anastasakiab, David M. Haddletonb and Virgil Percec*a
Polym. Chem., 2013, Advance Article
(9) SET-LRP of methacrylates in fluorinated alcohol
Shampa R. Samantaa, Athina Anastasakiab, Christopher Waldronab, David M. Haddletonb and Virgil Percec*a
Polym. Chem., 2013, Advance Article
(8) SET-LRP of hydrophobic and hydrophilic acrylates in tetrafluoropropanol
Shampa R. Samantaa, Athina Anastasakiab, Christopher Waldronab, David M. Haddletonb and Virgil Percec*a
Polym. Chem., 2013, Advance Article
(7) Poly(acrylates) via SET-LRP in a continuous tubular reactor
James A. Burnsa, Claudia Houbenab, Athina Anastasakia, Christopher Waldrona, Alexei A. Lapkinb and David M. Haddleton*a
Polym. Chem., 2013,4, 4809-4813
Athina Anastasaki, Christopher Waldron, Vasiliki Nikolaou, Paul Wilson, Ronan McHale, Timothy Smith and David M. Haddleton
Polym. Chem., 2013,4, 4113-4119
Qiang Zhang, Paul Wilson, Zaidong Li, Ronan McHale, Jamie Godfrey, Athina Anastasaki, Christopher Waldron, and David M. Haddleton
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135 (19), pp 7355–7363
(4) Sequence-Controlled Multi-Block Glycopolymers to Inhibit DC-SIGN-gp120 Binding
Qiang Zhang, Jennifer Collins, Athina Anastasaki, Russell Wallis, Daniel A. Mitchell, C. Remzi Becer, David M. Haddleton
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 4435 –4439
(3) The importance of ligand reactions in Cu(0)-mediated living radical polymerisation of acrylates
Athina Anastasaki, Christopher Waldron, Paul Wilson, Ronan McHale and David M. Haddleton
Polym. Chem., 2013,4, 2672-2675
(2) Copper(0)-mediated radical polymerisation in a self-generating biphasic system
Cyrille Boyer, Amir Atme, Christopher Waldron, Athina Anastasaki, Paul Wilson, Per B. Zetterlund, David Haddleton and Michael R. Whittaker
Polym. Chem., 2013,4, 106-112
Margarita Droulia, Athina Anastasaki, Alexandros Rokotas, Marinos Pitsikalis, Patrina Paraskevopoulou
J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 49: 3080–3089, 2011
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