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Professor Steven M Howdle

Professor of Chemistry

School of Chemistry
University of Nottingham
 University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)115 951 3386
Fax: +44 (0)115 951 3058
e-mail: steve.howdle@nottingham.ac.uk
www: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~pczctg/Index.htm

 

Polymer and Colloid Chemistry Research and Expertise

Polymer synthesis in supercritical carbon dioxide
  • Dispersion polymerizations in supercritical carbon dioxide
  • Controlled/living free radical polymerization in supercritical carbon dioxide
  • Enzyme catalyzed polymerization in supercritical carbon dioxide
  • Ring opening polymerizations in supercritical carbon dioxide
Microemulsions in supercritical carbon dioxide
Design and synthesis of novel CO2 soluble stabilizers
Living polymerizations for well-defined polymer structures
  • Block copolymers, graft copolymers and hyperbranched polymers
Biomaterials
  • Biodegradable porous scaffold for tissue engineering
  • Polymer-drug composite particles

Polymer and substrate modification using supercritical carbon dioxide
 

Facilities Available Include:

GPC

 

TGA

 

DSC