Charlotte Williams is Professor of Catalysis and Polymer Chemistry. Her group is multidisciplinary and currently consists of 3 postdocs, 6 PhD students and 2 MRes students.

Nanostructured Materials and Devices

Research in polymer chemistry within her group includes the synthesis of polymerisation catalysts, controlled polymerisations, catalytic activation of renewable resources, synthesis of biodegradable and biocompatible polymers for applications in medicine and the synthesis of electroactive polymers for applications in electronics.

Bakewell C, Fateh-Iravani G, Beh DW, et al., 2015, Comparing a series of 8-quinolinolato complexes of aluminium, titanium and zinc as initiators for the ring-opening polymerization of rac-lactide., Dalton Trans Paul S, Zhu Y, Romain C, et al., 2015, Ring-opening copolymerization (ROCOP): synthesis and properties of polyesters and polycarbonates., Chem Commun (camb) Winkler M, Romain C, Meier MAR, et al., 2015, Renewable polycarbonates and polyesters from 1,4-cyclohexadiene, Green Chemistry, Vol:17, ISSN:1463-9262, Pages:300-306 Bakewell C, White AJ, Long NJ, et al., 2015, Scandium and yttrium phosphasalen complexes as initiators for ring-opening polymerization of cyclic esters., Inorg Chem, Vol:54, Pages:2204-2212

Montrikittiphant T, Tang M, Lee K-Y, et al., 2014, Bacterial Cellulose Nanopaper as Reinforcement for Polylactide Composites: Renewable Thermoplastic NanoPaPreg, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Vol:35, ISSN:1022-1336, Pages:1640-1645