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Christopher Barner-Kowollik

Christopher Barner-Kowollik

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Chemistry
Australia
2025
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Materials Science
Australia
2022

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Materials Science

D-Index
115
Citations
49483
World Ranking
579
National Ranking
26

Chemistry

D-Index
114
Citations
49217
World Ranking
669
National Ranking
24

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Australia Leader Award
  • 2019 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
  • 2017 - Australian Laureate Fellow

Overview

Christopher Barner-Kowollik is affiliated with the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science, Chemistry, and Engineering, with a focus on several subfields including Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's work addresses multiple research topics such as Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry, Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization, Radical Photochemical Reactions, Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Photopolymerization Techniques and Applications, and Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies.

They have contributed to a wide range of publications, and some of the most recent papers include:

  • Rapid Assembly of Small Materials Building Blocks (Voxels) into Large Functional 3D Metamaterials, 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Action Plots in Action: In-Depth Insights into Photochemical Reactivity, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Computational prediction of the molecular configuration of three-dimensional network polymers, 2021, Nature Materials
  • Light-sheet 3D microprinting via two-colour two-step absorption, 2022, Nature Photonics
  • The Next 100 Years of Polymer Science, 2020, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics

Barner-Kowollik often collaborates with several frequent coauthors, including:

  • Hendrik Frisch
  • Florian Feist
  • James P. Blinco
  • Eva Blasco
  • Sarah L. Walden

Their scientific contributions are published across several prominent venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Polymer Chemistry
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chemical Communications
  • Advanced Functional Materials

Christopher Barner-Kowollik has received recognition in the form of two awards: the Australian Laureate Fellowship in 2017 and being named a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Handbook of RAFT polymerization

    Christopher Barner-Kowollik

  • "Clicking" Polymers or Just Efficient Linking: What Is the Difference?**

    Christopher Barner-Kowollik;Filip E. Du Prez;Pieter Espeel;Craig J. Hawker

  • RAFTing down under: Tales of missing radicals, fancy architectures, and mysterious holes

    Christopher Barner-Kowollik;Thomas P. Davis;Johan P. A. Heuts;Martina H. Stenzel

  • Mechanism and kinetics of dithiobenzoate-mediated RAFT polymerization. I. The current situation

    Christopher Barner-Kowollik;Michael Buback;Bernadette Charleux;Michelle L. Coote

  • Well-defined protein-polymer conjugates via in situ RAFT polymerization.

    Cyrille Boyer;Volga Bulmus;Jingquan Liu;Thomas P. Davis

  • Origin of Inhibition Effects in the Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) Polymerization of Methyl Acrylate

    Sébastien Perrier;Christopher Barner-Kowollik;John F. Quinn;Philipp Vana

  • Kinetic Investigations of Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerizations: Cumyl Phenyldithioacetate Mediated Homopolymerizations of Styrene and Methyl Methacrylate

    C. Barner-Kowollik;J. F. Quinn;T. L. U. Nguyen;J. P. A. Heuts

  • 50th Anniversary Perspective: Polymer Functionalization

    Eva Blasco;Michael B. Sims;Anja S. Goldmann;Anja S. Goldmann;Brent S. Sumerlin

  • Xanthate Mediated Living Polymerization of Vinyl Acetate: A Systematic Variation in MADIX/RAFT Agent Structure

    Martina H. Stenzel;Lyndal Cummins;G. Evan Roberts;Thomas P. Davis

  • Complex Macromolecular Architectures by Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer Chemistry: Theory and Practice

    Leonie Barner;Thomas P. Davis;Martina H. Stenzel;Christopher Barner-Kowollik

  • Modeling the reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer process in cumyl dithiobenzoate‐mediated styrene homopolymerizations: Assessing rate coefficients for the addition–fragmentation equilibrium

    Christopher Barner-Kowollik;John F. Quinn;David R. Morsley;Thomas P. Davis

  • Formation of honeycomb-structured, porous films via breath figures with different polymer architectures

    Martina Stenzel;Christopher Barner-Kowollik;Thomas Davis

  • Reversible Addition−Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization Initiated with Ultraviolet Radiation

    John F. Quinn;John F. Quinn;Leonie Barner;Christopher Barner-Kowollik;Ezio Rizzardo;Ezio Rizzardo

  • Kinetic Analysis of Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) Polymerizations: Conditions for Inhibition, Retardation, and Optimum Living Polymerization

    Philipp Vana;Thomas P. Davis;Christopher Barner-Kowollik

  • Current trends in the field of self-healing materials

    Nathalie K. Guimard;Kim K. Oehlenschlaeger;Jiawen Zhou;Stefan Hilf

  • The future of reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer polymerization

    Christopher Barner-Kowollik;Sébastien Perrier

  • Adaptable Hetero Diels-Alder Networks for Fast Self-Healing under Mild Conditions

    Kim K. Oehlenschlaeger;Jan O. Mueller;Josef Brandt;Stefan Hilf

  • Dynamic Macromolecular Material Design ‐ The Versatility of Cyclodextrin Based Host/Guest Chemistry

    Bernhard V. K. J. Schmidt;Christopher Barner-Kowollik;Christopher Barner-Kowollik

  • Single chain folding of synthetic polymers by covalent and non-covalent interactions: current status and future perspectives.

    Ozcan Altintas;Christopher Barner-Kowollik

  • RAFT and click chemistry: A versatile approach to well-defined block copolymers

    Damien Quémener;Thomas P. Davis;Christopher Barner-Kowollik;Martina H. Stenzel

  • Mass spectrometry in polymer chemistry: a state-of-the-art up-date

    Till Gruendling;Till Gruendling;Steffen Weidner;Jana Falkenhagen;Christopher Barner-Kowollik

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas P. Davis
Thomas P. Davis University of Queensland
Martina H. Stenzel
Martina H. Stenzel University of New South Wales
Tanja Junkers
Tanja Junkers Monash University
Martin Wegener
Martin Wegener Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Eva Blasco
Eva Blasco Heidelberg University
Bernhard V. K. J. Schmidt
Bernhard V. K. J. Schmidt University of Glasgow
Michelle L. Coote
Michelle L. Coote Flinders University
Michael Bruns
Michael Bruns Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Cesar Rodriguez-Emmenegger
Cesar Rodriguez-Emmenegger RWTH Aachen University
Philipp Vana
Philipp Vana University of Göttingen

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