Key publications
"Effect of Macromolecular Structure on Phase SeparationRegime in 3D Printed Materials"
Yuan Xiu, Valentin A. Bobrin, Nathaniel Corrigan, Jin Zhang, and Cyrille Boyer
Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2023, 44, 2300236 (doi: 10.1002/marc.202300236)

"3D Printed Solid Polymer Electrolytes with Bicontinuous Nanoscopic Domains for Ionic Liquid Conduction and Energy Storage"
Daniele Melodia, Abhirup Bhadra, Kenny Lee, Rhiannon Kuchel, Dipan Kundu, Nathaniel Corrigan, Cyrille Boyer
Small. 2023, 19, 2206639 (doi: 10.1002/smll.202206639)

"Customized Nanostructured Ceramics via Microphase Separation 3D Printing"
Valentin A. Bobrin, Haira G. Hackbarth, Yin Yao, Nicholas M. Bedford, Jin Zhang, Nathaniel Corrigan, Cyrille Boyer
Adv. Sci. 2023,10, 2304734 (doi: 10.1002/advs.202304734)

"Exploiting NIR Light-Mediated Surface-Initiated PhotoRAFT Polymerization for Orthogonal Control Polymer Brushes and Facile Postmodification of Complex Architecture through Opaque Barriers"
Gervase Ng, Zilong Wu, Tong Zhang, Anh Phong Dang, Yin Yao, Andrew R. J. Nelson, Stuart W. Prescott, Almar Postma, Graeme Moad, Craig J. Hawker, and Cyrille Boyer
Macromolecules 2023, 56, 19, 7898–7908 (doi: 10.1021/acs.macromol.3c01469)

"Design of an Oxygen-Tolerant Photo-RAFT System for Protein-Polymer Conjugation Achieving High Bioactivity"
Tong Zhang, Zilong Wu, Dr. Gervase Ng, Prof. Cyrille Boyer
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e2023095 (doi: 10.1002/anie.202309582)

"Polymerization Induced Microphase Separation for the Fabrication of Nanostructured Materials"
Kenny Lee, Nathaniel Corrigan, Cyrille Boyer
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e2023073 (doi: 10.1002/anie.202307329)

"Polymerization Induced Microphase Separation of ABC Triblock Copolymers for 3D Printing Nanostructured Materials"
Xiaobing Shi, Yin Yao, Jin Zhang, Nathaniel Corrigan, Cyrille Boyer
Small 2023, 2305268 (doi: 10.1002/smll.202305268)

"Photo-RAFT Polymerization for Hydrogel Synthesis through Barriers and Development of Light-Regulated Healable Hydrogels under NIR Irradiation"
Zilong Wu, Tong Zhang, Xiaobing Shi, Dr. Nathaniel Corrigan, Dr. Gervase Ng, Prof. Cyrille Boyer
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e2023024 (doi: 10.1002/anie.202302451)

"3D Printing Nanostructured Solid Polymer Electrolytes with High Modulus and Conductivity"
Kenny Lee, Yuan Shang, Valentin A. Bobrin, Rhiannon Kuchel, Dipan Kundu, Nathaniel Corrigan, Cyrille Boyer
Adv. Mater. 2022, 34, 2204816 (doi: 10.1002/adma.202204816)

"Designing Nanostructured 3D Printed Materials by Controlling Macromolecular Architecture"
Xiaobing Shi, Dr. Valentin A. Bobrin, Dr. Yin Yao, Dr. Jin Zhang, Dr. Nathaniel Corrigan, Prof. Dr. Cyrille Boyer
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e2022062 (doi: 10.1002/anie.202206272)

"Nano- to macro-scale control of 3D printed materials via polymerization induced microphase separation"
Valentin A. Bobrin, Yin Yao, Xiaobing Shi, Yuan Xiu, Jin Zhang, Nathaniel Corrigan & Cyrille Boyer
Nat. Commun. 2022, 13, 3577 (doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-31095-9)

"A Photoinduced Dual-Wavelength Approach for 3D Printing and Self-Healing of Thermosetting Materials"
Zhiheng Zhang, Dr. Nathaniel Corrigan, Prof. Dr. Cyrille Boyer
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e2021141 (doi: 10.1002/anie.202114111)

"Selective Photoactivation of Trithiocarbonates Mediated by Metal Naphthalocyanines and Overcoming Activation Barriers Using Thermal Energy"
Zilong Wu, Kenward Jung, Chenyu Wu, Gervase Ng, Lei Wang, Jingquan Liu, and Cyrille Boyer
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 2, 995–1005 (doi: 10.1021/jacs.1c11700)

"Rational Design of Photocatalysts for Controlled Polymerization: Effect of Structures on Photocatalytic Activities"
Chenyu Wu, Nathaniel Corrigan, Chern-Hooi Lim, Wenjian Liu, Garret Miyake, and Cyrille Boyer
Chem. Rev. 2022, 122, 6, 5476–5518 (doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00409)

"Photo-Enhanced Antimicrobial Activity of Polymers Containing an Embedded Photosensitiser"
Peter R. Judzewitsch, Dr. Nathaniel Corrigan, Dr. Edgar H. H. Wong, Prof. Cyrille Boyer
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 24248–24256 (doi: 10.1002/anie.202110672)

"Wavelength-selective light-matter interactions in polymer science"
Pengtao Lu, Dowon Ahn, Ruhamah Yunis, Laura Delafresnaye, Nathaniel Corrigan, Cyrille Boyer, Christopher Barner-Kowollik, and Zachariah A. Page
Matter 2021, 4, 2172–2229 (doi: 10.1016/j.matt.2021.03.021)

"Rational Design of an Antifungal Polyacrylamide Library with Reduced Host-Cell Toxicity"
Sebastian Schaefer, Thi Thu Phuong Pham, Sascha Brunke, Bernhard Hube, Kenward Jung, Megan Denise Lenardon, and Cyrille Boyer
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13, 23, 27430–27444 (doi: 10.1021/acsami.1c05020)

"Porphyrinic Zirconium Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) as Heterogeneous Photocatalysts for PET-RAFT Polymerization and Stereolithography"
Liwen Zhang, Xiaobing Shi, Zhiheng Zhang, Dr. Rhiannon P Kuchel, Dr. Rashin Namivandi-Zangeneh, Dr. Nathaniel Corrigan, Dr. Kenward Jung, Dr. Kang Liang, Prof. Cyrille Boyer
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 5489–5496 (doi: 10.1002/anie.202014208)
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"Unravelling an oxygen-mediated reductive quenching pathway for photopolymerisation under long wavelengths"
Chenyu Wu, Kenward Jung, Yongtao Ma, Wenjian Liu & Cyrille Boyer
Nat. Commun. 2021,12, 478 (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-20640-z)

"Rapid High-Resolution 3D Printing and Surface Functionalization via Type I Photoinitiated RAFT Polymerization"
Kenny Lee, Dr. Nathaniel Corrigan, Prof. Dr. Cyrille Boyer
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 8839–8850 (doi: 10.1002/anie.202016523)

"Mediating Reaction Orthogonality in Polymer and Materials Science"
Dr. Nathaniel Corrigan, Dr. Mustafa Ciftci, Dr. Kenward Jung, Prof. Dr. Cyrille Boyer
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 1748–1781 (doi: 10.1002/anie.201912001)

"Designing with Light: Advanced 2D, 3D, and 4D Materials"
Kenward Jung, Nathaniel Corrigan, Mustafa Ciftci, Jiangtao Xu, Soyoung E. Seo, Craig J. Hawker, Cyrille Boyer
Adv. Mater. 2020, 32, 1903850 (doi: 10.1002/adma.201903850A)

"Effective utilization of NIR wavelengths for photo‐controlled polymerization–penetration through thick barriers and parallel solar syntheses"
Zilong Wu,Kenward Jung, and Cyrille Boyer
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 2013–2017 (doi: 10.1002/anie.201912484)

"A Versatile 3D and 4D Printing System through Photocontrolled RAFT Polymerization"
Zhiheng Zhang, Dr. Nathaniel Corrigan, Dr. Ali Bagheri, Dr. Jianyong Jin, Prof. Dr. Cyrille Boyer
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 17954–17963 (doi: 10.1002/anie.201912608)

"An Oxygen Paradox: Catalytic Use of Oxygen in Radical Photopolymerization"
Liwen Zhang, Chenyu Wu, Dr. Kenward Jung, Prof. Yun Hau Ng, Prof. Cyrille Boyer
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 16811–16814 (doi: 10.1002/anie.201909014)

"Computer-Guided Discovery of a pH-Responsive Organic Photocatalyst and Application for pH and Light Dual-Gated Polymerization"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 8207−8220 (doi: 10.1021/jacs.9b01096)

"Up in the air: oxygen tolerance in controlled/living radical polymerisation"
Jonathan Yeow, Robert Chapman, Adam J. Gormley and Cyrille Boyer
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2018, 47, 4357 (doi: 10.1039/C7CS00587C)

"Discrete and Stereospecific Oligomers Prepared by Sequential and Alternating Single Unit Monomer Insertion"
Zixuan Huang, Benjamin B. Noble, Nathaniel Corrigan, Yingying Chu, Kotaro Satoh, Donald S. Thomas, Craig J. Hawker, Graeme Moad, Masami Kamigaito, Michelle L. Coote, Cyrille Boyer, and Jiangtao Xu
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 13392−13406 (doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b08386)

"A Self‐Reporting Photocatalyst for Online Fluorescence Monitoring of High Throughput RAFT Polymerization"
Dr. Jonathan Yeow, Dr. Sanket Joshi, Dr. Robert Chapman, Prof. Cyrille Boyer
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 10102–10106 (doi: 10.1002/anie.201802992)

"Towards Sequence-Controlled Antimicrobial Polymers: Effect of Polymer Block Order on Antimicrobial Activity"
Peter R. Judzewitsch, Dr. Thuy-Khanh Nguyen, Dr. Sivaprakash Shanmugam, Dr. Edgar H. H. Wong, Prof. Cyrille Boyer
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 4559–4564 (doi: 10.1002/anie.201713036)

"Synthesis of Discrete Oligomers by Sequential PET-RAFT Single-Unit Monomer Insertion"
Dr. Jiangtao Xu, Dr. Changkui Fu, Sivaprakash Shanmugam, Prof. Craig J. Hawker, Dr. Graeme Moad, Prof. Cyrille Boyer
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 8376–8383 (doi: 10.1002/anie.201610223)

"Selective Photoactivation: From a Single Unit Monomer Insertion Reaction to Controlled Polymer Architectures"
Jiangtao Xu, Sivaprakash Shanmugam, Changkui Fu, Kondo-Francois Aguey-Zinsou, and Cyrille Boyer
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 9, 3094–3106 (doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b12408)

"Organic photocatalysts for cleaner polymer synthesis"
Sivaprakash Shanmugam and Cyrille Boyer
Science 2016, 352, 6289, 1053–1054 (doi: 10.1126/science.aaf7465)

"Light-Regulated Polymerization under Near-Infrared/Far-Red Irradiation Catalyzed by Bacteriochlorophyll a"
Sivaprakash Shanmugam, Jiangtao Xu, and Cyrille Boyer
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 1036–1040 (doi: 10.1002/anie.201510037)

"Copper-Mediated Living Radical Polymerization (Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization and Copper(0) Mediated Polymerization): From Fundamentals to Bioapplications"
Cyrille Boyer, Nathaniel Corrigan, Kenward Jung, Diep Nguyen, Thuy-Khanh Nguyen, Nik Nik M. Adnan, Susan Oliver, Sivaprakash Shanmugam, and Jonathan Yeow
Chem. Rev. 2016, 116, 4, 1803–1949 (doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00396)

"Photocatalysis in organic and polymer synthesis"
Nathaniel Corrigan, Sivaprakash Shanmugam, Jiangtao Xu and Cyrille Boyer
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2016, 45, 6165-6212 (doi: 10.1039/C6CS00185H)

"Co-delivery of nitric oxide and antibiotic using polymeric nanoparticles"
Thuy-Khanh Nguyen, Ramona Selvanayagam, Kitty K. K. Ho, Renxun Chen, Samuel K. Kutty, Scott A. Rice, Naresh Kumar, Nicolas Barraud, Hien T. T. Duong and Cyrille Boyer
Chem. Sci., 2016, 7, 1016-1027 (doi: 10.1039/C5SC02769A)

"Stereo-, Temporal and Chemical Control through Photoactivation of Living Radical Polymerization: Synthesis of Block and Gradient Copolymers"
Sivaprakash Shanmugamand Cyrille Boyer
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 31, 9988–9999 (doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b05903)

"Exploiting Metalloporphyrins for Selective Living Radical Polymerization Tunable over Visible Wavelengths"
Sivaprakash Shanmugam, Jiangtao Xu, and Cyrille Boyer
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 28, 9174–9185 (doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b05274)

"Utilizing the electron transfer mechanism of chlorophyll a under light for controlled radical polymerization"
Sivaprakash Shanmugam, Jiangtao Xu and Cyrille Boyer
Chem. Sci. 2015, 6, 1341-1349 (doi: 10.1039/C4SC03342F)

"A robust and versatile photoinduced living polymerization of conjugated and unconjugated monomers and its oxygen tolerance"
Jiangtao Xu, Kenward Jung, Amir Atme, Sivaprakash Shanmugam, and Cyrille Boyer
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 14, 5508–5519 (doi: 10.1021/ja501745g)

"Aqueous photoinduced living/controlled polymerization: tailoring for bioconjugation"
Jiangtao Xu, Kenward Jung, Nathaniel Corrigan and Cyrille Boyer
Chem. Sci. 2014, 5, 3568-3575 (doi: 10.1039/C4SC01309C)
