Erik Jan Cornel
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Email: ej.cornel@yahoo.com
Office location: 443 Decai Building,Tongji University
Phone number: 18918461056
Research ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9688-2711
Research interests：
1. Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly (PISA)
2. Biodegradable/Biocompatible Nanoparticles
3. Ring Opening Polymerization
Education background/Work experience：
2019/12— Now Tongji University (Shanghai, China) School of Materials Science and Engineering, Du Research group, Postdoctoral Research Associate
2019/4— 2019/10 Universityof Sheffield (Sheffield, United Kingdom) Department of Chemistry, ArmesResearch Group, Postdoctoral Research Associate
2015/10— 2019/4 Universityof Sheffield (Sheffield, United Kingdom) Department of Chemistry, ArmesResearch Group, PhD Student
Selected publication:
1. Cornel, E. J.; O’Hora P.S.; Smith T.; Growney, D. J.; Mykhaylyk O. O.; Armes S. P.*, SAXS studies of the thermally-induced fusion of diblock copolymer spheres: formation of hybrid nanoparticles of intermediate size and shape, Chem. Sci. 2020, 11, 4312-4321.
2. Cornel, E. J.; Smith, G. N.; Mykhaylyk, O. O.;Growney, D. J.; Grillo, I;Rogers S. E.; Hallett J. E.;Smith, T.; O’Hora, P. S.; Armes S. P.*, Time-resolved small-angle neutron scattering studies of the thermally-induced exchange of copolymer chains between spherical diblock copolymer nanoparticles prepared via polymerization-induced self-assembly, Soft Matter 2020, 16, 3657-3668.
3. Cornel, E. J.*; Jiang, J. H.; Chen, S.; Du, J. Z.*, Principles and Characteristics of Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly (PISA) with Various Polymerization Techniques, CCS Chem. 2020, 2, 2104-2125.
4. Cornel, E. J.; Van Meurs, S.; Smith, T.; O’Hora, P. S.; Armes, S. P.*, In Situ Spectroscopic Studies of Highly Transparent Nanoparticle Dispersions Enable Assessment of Trithiocarbonate Chain-End Fidelity during RAFT Dispersion Polymerization in Nonpolar Media. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 12980-12988.
5. Liu, D. Q.; Cornel, E. J.; Du, J. Z.*, Renoprotective Angiographic Polymersomes, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2021, 31, 2007330.
6. Zhou, X.; Yan, N.; Cornel, E. J.; Cai, H. D.; Xue, S. B.; Xi, H.; Fan, Z.*; He, S. S.*; Du, J. Z.*, Bone-targeting polymer vesicles for simultaneous imaging and effective malignant bone tumor treatment, Biomaterials 2021, 269, 120345.
7. György, C.; Derry, M. J.; Cornel, E. J.; Armes, S. P.*, Synthesis of Highly Transparent Diblock Copolymer Vesicles via RAFT Dispersion Polymerization of 2,2,2-Trifluoroethyl Methacrylate in n-Alkanes. Macromolecules 2021, 54, 3, 1159-1169.
8. Jennings, J.; Cornel, E. J.; Derry, M. J.; Beattie, D. L.; Rymaruk, M. J.; Deane, O. J.; Ryan, A. J.; Armes ,S. P.*, Synthesis of High χ - Low N Diblock Copolymers via Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 10848-10853.
9. Liu, D. Q.; Sun. H.; Xiao, Y. F.; Chen, S.; Cornel, E. J.; Zhu, Y. Q.*; Du, J. Z.*, Design principles, synthesis and biomedical applications of polymer vesicles with inhomogeneous membranes, J. Controlled Release 2020, 326, 365-386.
10. Gibson, R. R.; Cornel, E. J.; Musa, O. M.; Fernyhough, A.; Armes ,S. P.*, RAFT dispersion polymerisation of lauryl methacrylate in ethanol–water binary mixtures: synthesis of diblock copolymer vesicles with deformable membranes, Polym. Chem. 2020, 11, 1785-1796.
11. Hunter, S.J.; Cornel E. J.; Mykhaylyk, O.O.; Armes ,S. P.*, Effect of Salt on the Formation and Stability of Water-in-Oil Pickering Nanoemulsions Stabilized by Diblock Copolymer Nanoparticles, Langmuir 2020, 36, 15523-15535.
12. Brotherton E. E.; Hatton F. L.; Cockram A. A.; Derry M. D.; Czajka A.; Cornel E. J.; Topham P. D.; Mykhaylyk O. O.; Armes ,S. P.*, In situ small-angle X ray scattering studies during reversible addition−fragmentation chain transfer aqueous emulsion polymerization, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 13664-3675.
13. Stalling,T.; Harker, W. R. R.; Auvinet, A. L.; Cornel E. J.; Harrity, J. P. A. Investigation of alkyne regioselectivity in the Ni-catalyzedbenzannulation of cyclobutenones, Chem. - Eur. J. 2015, 21, 2701.
