Craig J. Hawker, FRS
@HawkerNation
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Polymer Chemist. UCSB ๐ฆ๐บ๐บ๐ธ Either Craig or a bad Australian impersonator (most likely the latter)
Santa Barbara, CA
Joined August 2018
๐ฅ Missed Prof. @ReadAlanizteam talk on automated biomaterials synthesis? Catch the recording now! Learn how @BioPACIFICMIP & @Chemspeed empower high-throughput discovery with tools like ISYNTH BIOMAT. โถ๏ธ Watch: https://t.co/h38RDLvR6m
#Chemistry #Automation #MaterialsScience
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Donโt miss the BioPACIFIC MIP-sponsored session at #ACSSpring2025! ๐Advancing Polymer Science: High-Throughput & Digital Tools for Sustainability ๐๏ธ Sunday, Mar 23 | ๐ 8โ12 & 2โ6 ๐Pacific Ballroom Sec. 23, Marriott Marquis Explore how automation & AI are reshaping polymer R&D!
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๐ #ACSSpring2025 starts today! Catch BioPACIFIC MIP researchers on Day 1 sharing work in automation, sustainable polymers & biomaterials. ๐Join us in San Diego & check the schedule for BPM talks all week! #PolymerScience #Automation #Sustainability #MaterialsScience
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Congratulations to our very own Dr. Elizabeth Murphy!
๐ Congrats to @elizabethm1239, 2025 Henkel Award winner! Her achievements include: ๐ NSF Graduate Fellowship ๐ Edward J. Kramer Prize ๐ BioPACIFIC MIP Fellowship, supporting high-throughput polymer discovery Soon joining Dow Chemical! ๐ Celebrate at ACS Fall 2025 in DC!
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๐ข Winter 2025 Newsletter ๐ฌ CAPS Fellowships Underway โ $10K fellowships supporting high-throughput polymer discovery. ๐ ACS Fall 2025 Symposia โ Join us for discussions on automation & sustainable materials. ๐ Summer School 2025 โ Registration Open! ๐ https://t.co/wV3SOHaEJL
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New in @JPolymSci! ๐ A novel method uses lipoic acid to enhance vinyl polymer degradation, addressing plastic waste while maintaining performance. โป๏ธ @ReadAlanizteam, @HawkerNation , Bates groups ๐ Read more: https://t.co/aPZtGk2l93
#Sustainability #PolymerScience #Innovation
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The introduction of degradable units into the backbone of commodity vinyl polymers represents a major opportunity to address the societal challenge of plastic waste and polymer recycling. Previousl...
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Check out the new paper from the Bates and Lodge groups in #UMN in collaboration with BioPACIFIC MIP's @elizabethm1239 on ABC bottlebrush block terpolymer self-assembly! Read it here:
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Bottlebrush block polymers, characterized by densely grafted side chains extending from a backbone, have recently garnered significant attention. A particularly attractive feature is the accessibil...
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๐ Researchers from the @ReadAlanizteam, @HawkerNation and Bates' groups develop telechelic dithiol polymers for tunable multiblock copolymers, enabling custom properties & degradability. ๐ Read: https://t.co/WIhYU8EeCk
@JPolymSci
#PolymerScience #Sustainability #Innovation
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A new strategy is reported to access ฮฑ,ฯ-dithiol polymer building blocks with tunable molecular weights and compositions for the preparation of random multiblock copolymers based on styrenic,...
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POLY is happy to announce @HawkerNation, Craig Hawker, University of California, Santa Barbara, as the 2025 Herman F. Mark Polymer Chemistry Awardee! Join POLY at #ACSFall2025Fall in Washington D.C. to celebrate Craig's achievements!
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New from @BioPACIFICMIP! ๐Researchers from @HawkerNation and Segalman groups use DLP #3Dprinting to create hydrogel devices for high-throughput testing of #membrane permeability & ion selectivity. Published at ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. @ACS_AMI ๐ Read:
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Developing a fundamental understanding of the effects of varying ligand chemistries on mass transport rates is key to designing membranes with solute-specific selectivity. While permeation cells...
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Chris Cueto (now Dr. Chris Cueto) defending his Ph.D. thesis on polymer-perovskite NC composite materials in @UMassPSE. Congrats to Chris as he is off to @HawkerNation!!!
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New from @HawkerNation, Valentine and @professor_meh groups! ๐ HOPO-functionalized materials show enhanced stability, metal-ion chelation, & tunable properties for cutting-edge applications like sensors & robotics. ๐ Read more: https://t.co/j5zIEvOmlb
#PolymerScience
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Bioinspired hydroxypyridinone (HOPO)functionalized materials are shown to display a remarkable capacity for stability and for chelating a wide array of metal ions. This allows for the synthesis of...
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Fantastic research from Dr. Shannon!
Happy to say this project from my PhD in the Hawker group (@HawkerNation) has been published! [open access] Bioinspired MetalโLigand Networks with Enhanced Stability and Performance: Facile Preparation of Hydroxypyridinone (HOPO)-Functionalized Materials https://t.co/YIj7rVnPqE
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Check out this great research from Mizhi Xu and @banruo_huang using diazarine-containing polymers as crosslinkers!
New research from BioPACIFIC MIP #Macromolecules! ๐ @HawkerNation group demonstrated efficient CโH bond cross-linking in commodity polymers using diazirine-based methodsโunlocking new potential in sustainable materials. ๐ Read more: https://t.co/8PBZ1rUOAE
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Scalable Synthesis of Degradable Copolymers Containing ฮฑ-Lipoic Acid via Miniemulsion Polymerization | Journal of the American Chemical Society @ucsantabarbara @HawkerNation #Degradable #Copolymers #LipoicAcid #Miniemulsion #Polymerization
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A robust method is described to synthesize degradable copolymers under aqueous miniemulsion conditions using ฮฑ-lipoic acid as a cheap and scalable building block. Simple formulations of ฮฑ-lipoic acid...
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New from @BioPACIFICMIP! Researchers demonstrate selective electrochemical degradation of bottlebrush elastomers using redox-active disulfide bondsโoffering new methods for recycling polymers. ๐Read more: https://t.co/ZrYEeU6StT
#Polymers #Materials #Sustainability @JPolymSci
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Great collaboration combining theory and experiments with the Fredrickson group @ucsantabarbara
Accelerated Prediction of Phase Behavior for Block Copolymer Libraries Using a Molecularly Informed Field Theory | Journal of the American Chemical Society @HawkerNation @ucsantabarbara #Prediction #Phase #BlockCoPolymer #FieldTheory #MolecularlyInformed
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Facile Preparation of Tunable Polyborosiloxane Networks via Hydrosilylation By @HawkerNation, Christopher M. Bates et al. @ucsantabarbara @DowNewsroom Read the paper ๐ https://t.co/VyQDuElRrh
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Had a great time presenting my research at the @Po_W_E_R conference at Northwestern University!
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