Prof Hamley's research interests are focussed on soft materials including polymers, colloids and biomaterials. Activities range from peptide and block copolymer synthesis through to physico-chemical characterisation of self-assembly mechanisms and structures in these and related systems and fabrication of nanostructured materials. His group perform x-ray scattering and circular dichroism experiments at Diamond and neutron scattering experiments at ISIS, along with other major facilities internationally.

Silva, E. R., Cooney, G., Hamley, I. W., Alves, W. A., Lee, S., O'Connor, B. F., Reza, M., Ruokolainen, J. and Walls, D. (2016) Structural behaviour and gene delivery in complexes formed between DNA and arginine-containing peptide amphiphiles. Soft Matter, 12 (45). pp. 9158-9169. ISSN 1744-683X doi: 10.1039/C6SM01618A Hamley, I. W., Hutchinson, J., Kirkham, S., Castelletto, V., Kaur, A., Reza, M. and Ruokolainen, J. (2016) Nanosheet formation by an anionic surfactant-like peptide and modulation of self-assembly through ionic complexation. Langmuir, 32 (40). pp. 10387-10393. ISSN 0743-7463 doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b02180 Echue, G. , Hamley, I., Lloyd Jones, G. C. and Faul, C. F. J. (2016) Chiral perylene materials by ionic self-assembly. Langmuir, 32 (35). pp. 9023-9032. ISSN 0743-7463 doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b02201 Kirkham, S., Castelletto, V., Hamley, I., Inoue, K. , Rambo, R., Reza, M. and Ruokolainen, J. (2016) Self-assembly of the cyclic lipopeptide daptomycin: spherical micelle formation does not depend on the presence of calcium chloride. ChemPhysChem, 17 (14). pp. 2118-2122. ISSN 1439-7641 doi: 10.1002/cphc.201600308 Feula, A., Tang, X., Giannakopoulos, I., Chippindale, A. M. , Hamley, I. W., Greco, F., Buckley, C.P., Siviour, C. R. and Hayes, W. (2016) An adhesive elastomeric supramolecular polyurethane healable at body temperature. Chemical Science, 7 (7). pp. 4291-4300. ISSN 2041-6539 doi: 10.1039/C5SC04864H Hamley, I. W. and Castelletto, V. (2016) Self-assembly of peptide bioconjugates: selected recent research highlights. Bioconjugate Chemistry. ISSN 1043-1802 doi: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.6b00284