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George R. Whittell is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, focusing primarily on research within the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their work involves an interdisciplinary approach that bridges subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Organic Chemistry, Biomaterials, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's research topics include crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, molecular junctions and nanostructures, organic electronics and photovoltaics, supramolecular self-assembly in materials, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, and photoreceptor and optogenetics research.

George R. Whittell has contributed to multiple recent papers in notable journals. These include:

  • "Efficient energy transport in an organic semiconductor mediated by transient exciton delocalization," 2021, Science Advances
  • "Seeded Self-Assembly of Charge-Terminated Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Amphiphiles Based on the Energy Landscape," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Solid-State Donor-Acceptor Coaxial Heterojunction Nanowires via Living Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Heavier Alkaline-Earth Catalyzed Dehydrocoupling of Silanes and Alcohols for the Synthesis of Metallo-Polysilylethers," 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • "Bottom-up device fabrication via the seeded growth of polymer-based nanowires," 2020, Chemical Science

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Ian Manners, Louis J. Morris, Michael S. Hill, Fred S. McMenamy, and Mary F. Mahon.

Their work has appeared primarily in the following publication venues:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Science Advances
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Chemical Science

Best Publications

  • Functional soft materials from metallopolymers and metallosupramolecular polymers

    George R. Whittell;Martin D. Hager;Ulrich S. Schubert;Ian Manners

  • Monodisperse cylindrical micelles by crystallization-driven living self-assembly

    Joe B. Gilroy;Torben Gädt;George R. Whittell;Laurent Chabanne

  • Transition Metal−Boryl Compounds: Synthesis, Reactivity, and Structure

    Geoffrey J. Irvine;M. J. Gerald Lesley;Todd B. Marder;Nicholas C. Norman

  • Metallopolymers: New Multifunctional Materials

    George R. Whittell;Ian Manners

  • 50th Anniversary Perspective: Functional Nanoparticles from the Solution Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers

    Ulrich Tritschler;Sam Pearce;Jessica Gwyther;George R. Whittell

  • Long-range exciton transport in conjugated polymer nanofibers prepared by seeded growth

    Xu-Hui Jin;Michael B. Price;John R. Finnegan;Charlotte E. Boott

  • Polyferrocenylsilanes: synthesis, properties, and applications

    Rebekah L. N. Hailes;Alex M. Oliver;Jessica Gwyther;George R. Whittell

  • Metallopolymers with emerging applications

    Jean-Charles Eloi;Laurent Chabanne;George R. Whittell;Ian Manners

  • Highly efficient colloidal cobalt- and rhodium-catalyzed hydrolysis of H3N.BH3 in air.

    Timothy J. Clark;George R. Whittell;Ian Manners

  • Cylindrical Micelles of Controlled Length with a π-Conjugated Polythiophene Core via Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly

    Sanjib K. Patra;Rumman Ahmed;George R. Whittell;David J. Lunn

  • Mechanistic Studies of the Dehydrocoupling and Dehydropolymerization of Amine-Boranes Using a [Rh(Xantphos)](+) Catalyst

    Heather C. Johnson;Erin M. Leitao;George R. Whittell;Ian Manners

  • Uniform Biodegradable Fiber-Like Micelles and Block Comicelles via "Living" Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly of Poly(l-lactide) Block Copolymers: The Importance of Reducing Unimer Self-Nucleation via Hydrogen Bond Disruption.

    Yunxiang He;Jean Charles Eloi;Robert L. Harniman;Robert M. Richardson

  • Stimulus-Responsive Self-Assembly: Reversible, Redox-Controlled Micellization of Polyferrocenylsilane Diblock Copolymers

    Jean-Charles Eloi;David A. Rider;Graeme Cambridge;George R. Whittell

  • Dimensional control of block copolymer nanofibers with a π-conjugated core: crystallization-driven solution self-assembly of amphiphilic poly(3-hexylthiophene)-b-poly(2-vinylpyridine).

    Jessica Gwyther;Joe B. Gilroy;Joe B. Gilroy;Paul A. Rupar;Paul A. Rupar;David J. Lunn

  • Efficient energy transport in an organic semiconductor mediated by transient exciton delocalization.

    Alexander J. Sneyd;Tomoya Fukui;Tomoya Fukui;David Paleček;Suryoday Prodhan

  • Metalloblock Copolymers: New Functional Nanomaterials

    Jiawen Zhou;George R. Whittell;Ian Manners

  • Probing the structure of the crystalline core of field-aligned, monodisperse, cylindrical polyisoprene-block-polyferrocenylsilane micelles in solution using synchrotron small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering.

    Joe B. Gilroy;Paul A. Rupar;George R. Whittell;Laurent Chabanne

  • Iron-Catalyzed Dehydrocoupling/Dehydrogenation of Amine-Boranes

    James R. Vance;André Schäfer;Alasdair P. M. Robertson;Kajin Lee

  • Length control of supramolecular polymeric nanofibers based on stacked planar platinum(II) complexes by seeded-growth

    Matthew E Robinson;David J Lunn;Ali Nazemi;George R Whittell

  • Aminoborylene Complexes of Group 6 Elements and Iron: A Synthetic, Structural, and Quantum Chemical Study

    Benoît Blank;Miriam Colling-Hendelkens;Carsten Kollann;Krzysztof Radacki

  • Gradient crystallization-driven self-assembly: cylindrical micelles with "patchy" segmented coronas via the coassembly of linear and brush block copolymers.

    John R. Finnegan;David J. Lunn;David J. Lunn;Oliver E. C. Gould;Zachary M. Hudson

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian Manners
Ian Manners University of Victoria
Mitchell A. Winnik
Mitchell A. Winnik University of Toronto
Robert M. Richardson
Robert M. Richardson Harvard University
Nicholas C. Norman
Nicholas C. Norman University of Bristol
Holger Braunschweig
Holger Braunschweig University of Würzburg
Richard H. Friend
Richard H. Friend University of Cambridge
Akshay Rao
Akshay Rao University of Cambridge
Manfred Scheer
Manfred Scheer University of Regensburg
David Beljonne
David Beljonne University of Mons
Krzysztof Radacki
Krzysztof Radacki University of Würzburg

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