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Steve Armes
FRS
Steve Armes at the Royal Society admissions day in 2014
Born
Steven Peter Armes

1962 (age 61–62)[2]
EducationWhitley Abbey Comprehensive School[3]
Alma materUniversity of Bristol (BSc, PhD)
AwardsTilden Prize[when?]
Scientific career
Institutions
ThesisColloidal forms of conducting polymers (1987)
Doctoral advisorBrian Vincent[1]
Website

Steven Peter Armes (born 1962)[2] FRS[4] is a Professor of polymer chemistry and colloid chemistry at the University of Sheffield.[5][6]

Education

Armes was educated at

PhD in 1987 for research supervised by Brian Vincent.[1][3][8]

Career and research

After a

atom-transfer radical-polymerization
(ATRP) his laboratory synthesises a wide range of polymers.

His research focuses on the synthesis and application of polymers – long-chain molecules formed from many repeating units known as monomers. In particular, Steven's research group has developed new ways to make water-soluble or water-dispersible polymers based on methacrylic monomers.[10]

A powerful approach is to use polymerization-induced

hydrophobic chain leads to in situ self-assembly, forming copolymer nanoparticles of tuneable size and shape.[12] These nanoparticles have a wide range of potential applications, including as a long-term storage medium for stem cells, viscosity modifiers, novel microcapsules and nanoparticle lubricants.[10]

His other research interests include designing novel biocompatible copolymer gels and vesicles and developing microscopic nanocomposite particles, which have applications in paints and anti-reflective coatings. Steven also has a fruitful collaboration with

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.[4]

Awards and honours

Armes was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014.[10] 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.[4] In 2013, Armes was awarded the Tilden Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b Stephen Armes. "Polymerisation-Induced Self-Assembly" (PDF). Royalsociety.org. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  2. ^ a b c Anon (2016). "Steven Peter Armes: Farapack Polymers Limited (05063994)". London: Companies House. Archived from the original on 6 December 2016.
  3. ^
    doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U281967. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  4. ^ a b c Anon (2014). "Professor Steven Armes FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2 May 2014.
  5. ^ Steven Armes publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  6. ^ Armes, Steven (2016). "Armes lab group members". shef.ac.uk. Sheffield. Archived from the original on 27 January 2016.
  7. ^ Anon (2016). "Whitley Academy Alumni: Professor Steven Armes". Coventry: whitleyacademy.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
  8. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.483279
    .
  9. ^
    ORCID 0000-0002-8289-6351
  10. ^ a b c d Anon (2014). "Professor Steven Armes FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  11. PMID 21706604
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  12. PMID 16366531. Closed access icon
  13. ^ "Armes, FRS, Steven P., Professor". The University of Sheffield. 14 December 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2022.

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