The goal of the group is the synthesis and molecular level understanding of new supramolecular,B_Greenland_Profile_Pic functional materials with applications in biomedical science. The highly interdisciplinary research covers many areas including: Healable supramolecular materials, novel hydrogels for water purification and drug delivery, sensors for the detection of volatile compounds including explosives and biomarkers and the production of synthetic drug and gene delivery vectors.

Baker, B. C., Higgins, C. L., Ravishankar, D., Colquhoun, H. M., Stevens, G. C., Greco, F., Greenland, B. W. and Hayes, W. (2016) Multifunctional, biocompatible, non-peptidic hydrogels: from water purification to drug delivery. Chemistry Select, 1 (8). pp. 1641-1649. ISSN 2365-6549 doi: 10.1002/slct.201600249 Chen, L., Willcock, H., Wedge, C. J., Hartl, F., Colquhoun, H. M. and Greenland, B. W. (2016) Efficient access to conjugated 4,4’-bipyridinium oligomers using the Zincke reaction: synthesis, spectroscopic and electrochemical properties. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 14 (3). pp. 980-988. ISSN 1477-0520 doi: 10.1039/c5ob02211h Sinclair, F., Chen, L., Greenland, B. W. and Shaver, M. P. (2016) Installing multiple functional groups on biodegradable polyesters via post-polymerization olefin cross-metathesis. Macromolecules, 49 (18). pp. 6826-6834. ISSN 0024-9297 doi: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01571 Hart, L., Harries, J., Greenland, B., Colquhoun, H. and Hayes, W. (2015) Supramolecular materials for inkjet printing: self-assembling polymer networks. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 7 (16). pp. 8906-8914. ISSN 1944-8244 doi: 10.1021/acsami.5b01569 MacDonald, J. P. , Parker, M. P., Greenland, B. W., Hermida-Merino, D., Hamley, I. W. and Shaver, M. P. (2015) Tuning thermal properties and microphase separation in aliphatic polyester ABA copolymers. Polymer Chemistry, 6 (9). pp. 1445-1453. ISSN 1759-9954 doi: 10.1039/c4py01459f