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Professor Howard Colquhoun

Professor of Materials Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
University of Reading
United Kingdom

Biography

Following degrees in Cambridge (St Catharine's College, MA 1975) and London (Westfield College, PhD 1975), Howard carried out research at the University of Warwick and then at the ICI Corporate Laboratory in Cheshire before moving to Manchester University in 1994 as a Royal Society Industry Fellow. He was appointed to the Chair of Materials Chemistry at the University of Reading in October 2000. He has published about 180 research papers, thirty patent specifications and two books. Awards for his research include the RSC Medal and Prize for Materials Chemistry (2006), the Royal Society Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship (2007), the Wilsmore Fellowship of the University of Melbourne (2007), the degree of Doctor of Science (ScD) of the University of Cambridge (2008), the MacroGroup UK Medal for contributions to polymer science (2012), and the Royal Society Brian Mercer Feasibility Award (2013). From 2012 to 2016 he was President of the Materials Chemistry Division of the RSC.

Research Interest

Current Research Programmes 1.Information processing at the molecular leve 2.Self-healing supramolecular polymer systems 3.Membrane chemistry for fuel cells and hydrogen generation 4.Polynucleation in transition metal chemistry

Publications

  • Hart LR, Harries JL, Greenland BW, Colquhoun HM, Hayes W. Healable supramolecular polymers. Polymer Chemistry. 2013;4(18):4860-70.

  • Burattini S, Greenland BW, Merino DH, Weng W, Seppala J, Colquhoun HM, Hayes W, Mackay ME, Hamley IW, Rowan SJ. A healable supramolecular polymer blend based on aromatic π− π stacking and hydrogen-bonding interactions. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010 Aug 10;132(34):12051-8.

  • Burattini S, Greenland BW, Chappell D, Colquhoun HM, Hayes W. Healable polymeric materials: a tutorial review. Chemical Society Reviews. 2010;39(6):1973-85.

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