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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2014 - Interdisciplinary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 2013 - Tilden Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

Steven P. Armes is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research mainly spans the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with a significant focus on Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry as subfields.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics including Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization, Polymer Surface Interaction Studies, Surfactants and Colloidal Systems, Block Copolymer Self-Assembly, Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization, Radioactive element chemistry and processing, and Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Steven P. Armes include Oleksandr O. Mykhaylyk, Derek H. H. Chan, Matthew J. Derry, Thomas J. Neal, and Osama M. Musa.

Steven P. Armes publishes frequently in several scientific journals with notable publication venues such as Polymer Chemistry, Langmuir, Macromolecules, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and Angewandte Chemie.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Steven P. Armes include:

  • In situ SAXS studies of a prototypical RAFT aqueous dispersion polymerization formulation: monitoring the evolution in copolymer morphology during polymerization-induced self-assembly, 2020, Chemical Science
  • Recent Advances in Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly (PISA) Syntheses in Non-Polar Media, 2023, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Pickering Emulsifiers Based on Block Copolymer Nanoparticles Prepared by Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly, 2020, Langmuir
  • Time-Resolved Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Studies during Aqueous Emulsion Polymerization, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Synthesis of poly(stearyl methacrylate)-poly(2-hydroxypropyl methacrylate) diblock copolymer nanoparticles via RAFT dispersion polymerization of 2-hydroxypropyl methacrylate in mineral oil, 2020, Polymer Chemistry

The scientist has been recognized with several awards, including the Fellowship of the Royal Society (United Kingdom) awarded in 2014, the Interdisciplinary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2014, and the Tilden Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Self-Assembled Block Copolymer Aggregates: From Micelles to Vesicles and their Biological Applications.

    Adam Blanazs;Steven P. Armes;Anthony J. Ryan

  • Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly of Block Copolymer Nano-objects via RAFT Aqueous Dispersion Polymerization

    Nicholas J. Warren;Steven P. Armes

  • A Critical Appraisal of RAFT-Mediated Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly.

    Sarah L. Canning;Gregory N. Smith;Steven P. Armes

  • Mechanistic Insights for Block Copolymer Morphologies: How Do Worms Form Vesicles?

    Adam Blanazs;Jeppe Madsen;Giuseppe Battaglia;Anthony J. Ryan

  • Lubrication at physiological pressures by polyzwitterionic brushes

    Meng Chen;Wuge H. Briscoe;Steven P. Armes;Steven P. Armes;Steven P. Armes;Jacob Klein;Jacob Klein;Jacob Klein

  • pH-sensitive vesicles based on a biocompatible zwitterionic diblock copolymer.

    Jianzhong Du;Yiqing Tang;and Andrew L. Lewis;Steven P. Armes

  • Synthesis and aqueous solution properties of near-monodisperse tertiary amine methacrylate homopolymers and diblock copolymers

    V Bütün;S.P Armes;N.C Billingham

  • Polymerization-induced self-assembly of block copolymer nanoparticles via RAFT non-aqueous dispersion polymerization

    Matthew J. Derry;Lee A. Fielding;Steven P. Armes

  • Emerging trends in polymerization-induced self-assembly

    Nicholas J. W. Penfold;Jonathan Yeow;Cyrille Boyer;Steven P. Armes

  • Recent advances in shell cross-linked micelles

    Elizabeth S. Read;Steven P. Armes

  • Synthesis of shell cross-linked micelles with pH-responsive cores using ABC triblock copolymers

    Shiyong Liu;Jonathan V. M. Weaver;Yiqing Tang;Norman C. Billingham

  • Biomimetic pH Sensitive Polymersomes for Efficient DNA Encapsulation and Delivery

    Hannah Lomas;Irene Canton;Sheila Macneil;Jianzhong Du

  • Facile Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization of Methoxy-Capped Oligo(ethylene glycol) Methacrylate in Aqueous Media at Ambient Temperature

    X.-S. Wang;S. P. Armes

  • Aqueous dispersion polymerization: a new paradigm for in situ block copolymer self-assembly in concentrated solution.

    Shinji Sugihara;Adam Blanazs;Steven P. Armes;Anthony J. Ryan

  • Synthesis of Well-Defined, Polymer-Grafted Silica Particles by Aqueous ATRP

    C. Perruchot;M. A. Khan;and A. Kamitsi;S. P. Armes

  • Predictive Phase Diagrams for RAFT Aqueous Dispersion Polymerization: Effect of Block Copolymer Composition, Molecular Weight, and Copolymer Concentration

    A. Blanazs;A. J. Ryan;S. P. Armes

  • RAFT synthesis of sterically stabilized methacrylic nanolatexes and vesicles by aqueous dispersion polymerization.

    Yuting Li;Steven P. Armes

  • Sterilizable Gels from Thermoresponsive Block Copolymer Worms

    Adam Blanazs;Robert Verber;Oleksandr O. Mykhaylyk;Anthony J. Ryan

  • RAFT Aqueous Dispersion Polymerization Yields Poly(ethylene glycol)-Based Diblock Copolymer Nano-Objects with Predictable Single Phase Morphologies

    Nicholas J. Warren;Oleksandr O. Mykhaylyk;Daniel Mahmood;Anthony J. Ryan

  • Optimum reaction conditions for the polymerization of pyrrole by iron(III) chloride in aqueous solution

    Steven P Armes

  • Polymeric Surfactants for the New Millennium: A pH‐Responsive, Zwitterionic, Schizophrenic Diblock Copolymer

    Shiyong Liu;Steven P. Armes

Frequent Co-Authors

Norman C. Billingham
Norman C. Billingham University of Sussex
Oleksandr O. Mykhaylyk
Oleksandr O. Mykhaylyk University of Sheffield
Andrew L. Lewis
Andrew L. Lewis BioCity Nottingham
Giuseppe Battaglia
Giuseppe Battaglia Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia
Anthony J. Ryan
Anthony J. Ryan University of Sheffield
Syuji Fujii
Syuji Fujii Osaka Institute of Technology
Fiona C. Meldrum
Fiona C. Meldrum University of Leeds
Maria Vamvakaki
Maria Vamvakaki University of Crete
Shiyong Liu
Shiyong Liu University of Science and Technology of China
Simon Biggs
Simon Biggs University of Western Australia

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