Craig J. Hawker

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Craig Jon Hawker (born January 11, 1964 in Australia ) is an Australian chemist ( macromolecular chemistry ).

Hawker studied from 1981 Chemistry at the University of Queensland with a Bachelor's degree and at the University of Cambridge , where he at Alan Battersby with a thesis on the biosynthesis of vitamin B 12 doctorate was. As a post-doctoral student he was with Jean Fréchet at Cornell University and, from 1990, a Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. From 1993 he was at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San José and from 2004 he was professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara . There he is director of the California Nanosystem Institute and is co-director of the Materials Research Lab. He holds the Alan and Ruth Heeger Chair in Interdisciplinary Science and is a Clarke Professor .

His group developed, among other things, a metal-free atom transfer radical polymerization (an organic photoactive substance is used instead of a metallic catalyst, so that it is also possible to build up three-dimensional structures with photo masks), metal-free end chain modification processes for polymers, functional polyethers , catalyzed by light . Polymers for drug delivery and novel non-planar building blocks for polymers in electronics.

In 2013 he received the ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry and in 2012 the Centenary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry . He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2015), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018), the National Academy of Inventors, Fellow of the American Chemical Society and the Royal Society (2010). From 1994 to 2004 he was one of the top 100 most cited chemists at Thomson Reuters.

He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Polymer Science A: Polymer Chemistry .

Fonts

  • with Jean Frechet: Preparation of polymers with controlled molecular architecture. A new convergent approach to dendritic macromolecules, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 112, 1990, pp. 7638-7647
  • with R. Lee, J. Frechet: One-step synthesis of hyperbranched dendritic polyesters, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 113, 1991, pp. 4583-4588
  • with Thomas H. Mourey, SR Turner, Michael Rubinstein, Jean Fréchet , Karen L. Wooley : Unique behavior of dendritic macromolecules: intrinsic viscosity of polyether dendrimers, Macromolecules, Volume 25, 1992, pp. 2401-2406
  • with Karen Wooley, Jean Frechet: Unimolecular micelles and globular amphiphiles: dendritic macromolecules as novel recyclable solubilization agents, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Transactions 1, 1993, pp. 1287-1297
  • with P. Mansky a. a .: Controlling polymer-surface interactions with random copolymer brushes, Science, Volume 275, 1997, pp. 1458-1460
  • with Didier Benoit u. a .: Development of a universal alkoxyamine for “living” free radical polymerizations, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 121, 1999, pp. 3904-3920
  • with Marc Husseman a. a .: Controlled synthesis of polymer brushes by “living” free radical polymerization techniques, Macromolecules, Volume 32, 1999, pp. 1424-1431
  • with Thomas Thurn-Albrecht a. a .: Nanoscopic templates from oriented block copolymer films, Advanced Materials, Volume 12, 2000, pp. 787-791
  • with Anton W. Bosman, Eva Harth: New polymer synthesis by nitroxide mediated living radical polymerizations, Chemical Reviews, Volume 101, 2001, pp. 3661-3688
  • with Peng Wu, J. Frechet, K. Barry Sharpless, Valery Fokin u. a .: Efficiency and Fidelity in a Click ‐ Chemistry Route to Triazole Dendrimers by the Copper (I) ‐Catalyzed Ligation of Azides and Alkynes, Angewandte Chemie, Int. Ed., Vol. 116, 2004, pp. 4018-4022
  • with Karen L. Wooley: The convergence of synthetic organic and polymer chemistries, Science, Volume 309, 2005, pp. 1200-1205
  • with RK O'Reilly, Karen Wooley: Cross-linked block copolymer micelles: functional nanostructures of great potential and versatility, Chemical Society Reviews, Volume 35, 2006, pp. 1068-1083
  • with Kato Killops, Luis Campos: Robust, efficient, and orthogonal synthesis of dendrimers via thiol-ene “click” chemistry, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 130, 2008, pp. 5062-5064
  • with Rhiannon K. Iha, Andreas M. Nystrom, Daniel J. Burke, Matthew J. Kade, Karen Wooley: Applications of orthogonal “click” chemistries in the synthesis of functional soft materials, Chemical Reviews, Volume 109, 2009, p. 5620 -5686
  • with CY Chiu u. a .: Twisted but Conjugated: Building Blocks for Low Bandgap Polymers, Angewandte Chemie, Int. Ed., Volume 53, 2014, pp. 3996-4000.
  • with NJ Treat u. a .: Metal-free atomic transfer radical polymerization, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Volume 136, 2014, pp. 16096-16101
  • with AJ McGrath u. a .: Synthetic strategy for preparing chiral double-semicrystalline polyether block copolymers, Polymer Chem., Volume 6, 2014, pp. 1465–1473
  • with J. Niu u. a .: Engineering live cell surfaces with functional polymers via cytocompatible controlled radical polymerization, Nature Chemistry 2017
  • with DJ Lunn u. a .: Established and emerging strategies for polymer chain-end modification, J. Polymer Science A, 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Craig J. Hawker in academictree.org, accessed on February 9, 2018th
personal data
SURNAME Hawker, Craig J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hawker, Craig Jon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian chemist (macromolecular chemistry)
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Australia