Karen L. Wooley
Karen L. Wooley (* 1966 ) is an American chemist ( macromolecular chemistry , nanosciences , supramolecular chemistry , synthetic organic chemistry ).
Wooley graduated from Oregon State University with a bachelor's degree in 1988 and received his PhD from Cornell University in 1993 . She is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Texas A&M University (Distinguished Professor since 2011 and is WT Doherty-Welch Foundation Professor) and Director of the TAMU Laboratory for Synthetic-Biologic Interactions.
It deals with the incorporation of functional nanostructures and the functionalization of polymers and the targeted construction of special macromolecular structures. The functionality sought concerns, for example, biological activity (including artificial tissue, nanomedicine), imaging capabilities, biological and targeted degradability or resistance, for example, to putrefaction in the sea, sequestering of toxins , drug release, photo and electrical activity (e.g. photoresists in the Microelectronics, hybrid magnetic nanomaterials) and chemical reactivity. Among other things, she was a nanoscience advisor to the National Institutes of Health and was director of an excellence program in nanotechnology for the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute.
In 2014 she received the Centenary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry , of which she is a fellow. She received the ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry (2014), the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (2002), the Herman F. Mark Scholar Award from ACS (2009). She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences and is an Honorary Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society.
She is co-editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society and the Journal of Polymer Science A: Polymer Chemistry .
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- with Thomas H. Mourey, SR Turner, Michael Rubinstein, Jean Fréchet , Craig J. Hawker : Unique behavior of dendritic macromolecules: intrinsic viscosity of polyether dendrimers, Macromolecules, Volume 25, 1992, pp. 2401-2406
- with Craig J. Hawker, 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 K. Bruce Thurmond, Tomasz Kowalewski: Water-soluble knedel-like structures: the preparation of shell-cross-linked small particles, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 118, 1996, pp. 7239-7240
- with K. Bruce Thurmond, Tomasz Kowalewski: Shell cross-linked knedels: A synthetic study of the factors affecting the dimensions and properties of amphiphilic core-shell nanospheres, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 119, 1997, pp. 6656-6665
- with Haiyong Huang, Edward E. Remsen, Tomasz Kowalewski: Nanocages derived from shell cross-linked micelle templates, J. American Chemical Society, Volume 121, 1999, pp. 3805-3806
- with Qi Zhang, Edward E. Remsen: Shell cross-linked nanoparticles containing hydrolytically degradable, crystalline core domains, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 122, 2000, pp. 3642-3651
- Shell crosslinked polymer assemblies: nanoscale constructs inspired from biological systems, J. Polymer Science A, Volume 38, 2000, pp. 1397-1407
- with Darrin J Pochan, Zhiyun Chen, Honggang Cui, Kelly Hales, Kai Qi: Toroidal triblock copolymer assemblies, Science, Volume 306, 2004, pp. 94-97
- with Craig J. Hawker: The convergence of synthetic organic and polymer chemistries, Science, Volume 309, 2005, pp. 1200-1205
- with C. Gudipati a. a .: The antifouling and fouling-release perfomance of hyperbranched fluoropolymer (HBFP) - poly (ethylene glycol) (PEG) composite coatings evaluated by adsorption of biomacromolecules and the green fouling alga Ulva, Langmuir, Volume 21, 2005, p. 3044– 3053
- with RK O'Reilly, CJ Hawker: Cross-linked block copolymer micelles: functional nanostructures of great potential and versatility, Chemical Society Reviews, Volume 35, 2006, pp. 1068-1083
- with Rhiannon K. Iha, Andreas M. Nystrom, Daniel J. Burke, Matthew J. Kade, Craig J. Hawker: Applications of orthogonal “click” chemistries in the synthesis of functional soft materials, Chemical Reviews, Volume 109, 2009, p 5620-5686
- with Mahmood Elsabahy: Design of polymeric nanoparticles for biomedical delivery applications, Chemical Society Reviews, Volume 41, 2012, pp. 2545-2561
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wooley, Karen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wooley, Karen L. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |