Steven Armes

Steve Armes
Born Steven Peter Armes
Institutions
Alma mater
Thesis Colloidal forms of conducting polymers (1987)
Doctoral students
  • Vicki Cunningham
  • Matt Derry
  • Dave Growney
  • Amanda Harvey
  • Lizzy Jones
  • Joe Lovett
  • Charlotte Mable
  • Yin Ning
  • Nick Penfold
Notable awards FRS (2014)[1]

Website

Steven Peter Armes FRS is a Professor of Polymer Chemistry and Colloid Chemistry at the University of Sheffield.[2][3]

Education

Armes was educated at Whitley Abbey Comprehensive School[4] in Coventry and the University of Bristol where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1983 and a PhD in 1987.[5]

Career

After a postdoctoral research at Los Alamos National Laboratory Armes became a lecturer at the University of Sussex in 1989 where he worked until 2004. He moved to Sheffield to become Professor of Polymer and Colloid Chemistry in 2004.

Research

Armes group does research on polymer chemistry and colloid chemistry. Using polymerisation techniques such as Reversible addition−fragmentation chain-transfer polymerization (RAFT) and Atom-transfer radical-polymerization (ATRP) his laboratory synthesises a wide range of polymers.[6][7][8][9][10][11]

Awards and honours

Armes was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014. His nomination reads:

“ Steven Armes has developed robust new synthetic routes to controlled-structure water-soluble polymers. He optimised the living radical polymerisation of hydrophilic methacrylates, discovered a new class of ‘schizophrenic’ diblock copolymers whose amphiphilicity can be switched on or off, and has designed a range of novel biocompatible block copolymer gels and vesicles. His work on water-borne polymer colloids has led to novel shell cross-linked micelles and nanocomposite particles, with applications in paints, anti-reflective coatings and as stimulus-responsive Pickering emulsifiers. More recently, he has pioneered polymerisation-induced self-assembly to produce a range of bespoke spherical, worm-like and vesicular nano-objects via RAFT dispersion polymerisation.[1] ”

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Professor Steven Armes FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2014-06-08.
  2. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  3. ↑ Steven Armes's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  4. ↑ "Whitley Academy Alumni: Professor Steven Armes". Archived from the original on 2014-06-07.
  5. ↑ Armes, Steven (1987). Colloidal forms of conducting polymers (PhD thesis). University of Bristol.
  6. ↑ Blanazs, A.; Armes, S. P.; Ryan, A. J. (2009). "Self-Assembled Block Copolymer Aggregates: From Micelles to Vesicles and their Biological Applications". Macromolecular Rapid Communications 30 (4–5): 267–77. doi:10.1002/marc.200800713. PMID 21706604.
  7. ↑ Liu, S.; Weaver, J. V. M.; Tang, Y.; Billingham, N. C.; Armes, S. P.; Tribe, K. (2002). "Synthesis of Shell Cross-Linked Micelles with pH-Responsive Cores Using ABC Triblock Copolymers". Macromolecules 35 (16): 6121. doi:10.1021/ma020447n.
  8. ↑ Wang, X. -S.; Armes, S. P. (2000). "Facile Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization of Methoxy-Capped Oligo(ethylene glycol) Methacrylate in Aqueous Media at Ambient Temperature". Macromolecules 33 (18): 6640. doi:10.1021/ma000671h.
  9. ↑ Bütün, V.; Armes, S. P.; Billingham, N. C. (2001). "Synthesis and aqueous solution properties of near-monodisperse tertiary amine methacrylate homopolymers and diblock copolymers". Polymer 42 (14): 5993. doi:10.1016/S0032-3861(01)00066-0.
  10. ↑ Du, J.; Tang, Y.; Lewis, A. L.; Armes, S. P. (2005). "PH-Sensitive Vesicles Based on a Biocompatible Zwitterionic Diblock Copolymer". Journal of the American Chemical Society 127 (51): 17982–3. doi:10.1021/ja056514l. PMID 16366531.
  11. ↑ Liu, S.; Armes, S. P. (2002). "Polymeric Surfactants for the New Millennium: A pH-Responsive, Zwitterionic, Schizophrenic Diblock Copolymer". Angewandte Chemie International Edition 41 (8): 1413. doi:10.1002/1521-3773(20020415)41:8<1413::AID-ANIE1413>3.0.CO;2-K.