Polymers – topological polymers and confinement

Welcome

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Fabienne Barroso Bujans
Ikerbasque Research Professor - Donostia International Physics Center

Polymers and Soft Matter
Materials Physics Center
Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal, 5
E-20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
Tel.: +34 943 018 803    Fax: +34 943 015 800
email: fbarroso AT dipc.org
ORCID iD iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9591-5646


Our group, founded in 2016, is devoted to the study of TOPOLOGICAL POLYMERS AND CONFINEMENT

News


CONGRATULATIONS TO CARLO ANDREA PAGNACCO! He has completed his PhD dissertation!

PhD Thesis: "Toward Controlling the Topology of Branched Cyclic Polyglycerol: From the Monomer Approach to the Hypergrafting of Cyclic Polyglycidol"
Place: Materials Physics Center, UPV/EHU, San Sebastian
Date: December 5th, 2025


HIGHLIGHT

Our paper Vitrimeric behavior revealed by fast scanning calorimetry in branched polyglycerol networks crosslinked by reversible enamine bonds has been reviewed on Mapping Ignorance blog.


CONGRATULATIONS TO KATY DOMÍNGUEZ! She has completed her Master in Chemistry and Polymers!

Master Thesis: "Síntesis de macroiniciadores cíclicos basados en terc-butil glicidil éter"
Place: Materials Physics Center, UPV/EHU, San Sebastian
Date: September 26th, 2025


HIGHLIGHT

Our paper Kinetics of heterogeneous polymerization of glycidol with B(C6F5)3 in toluene in the absence and presence of water has been highlighted at the Scientific Newsletter of Sept 2024 at DIPC.


CONGRATULATIONS TO KATY DOMINGUEZ! She has completed her Bachelor tesis!

Thesis: "Redes poliméricas con enlaces enamina reversibles"
Place: Materials Physics Center, UPV/EHU, San Sebastian
Date: September 2024


CONGRATULATIONS TO MARTA ALDECOA! She has completed her Bachelor tesis!

Thesis: "Synthesis of crosslinked polymers with reversible enamine-type bonds"
Place: Materials Physics Center, UPV/EHU, San Sebastian
Date: June 2023


HIGHLIGHT

Our paper Macrocyclic Polymers: Synthesis, Purification, Properties and Applications has been highlighted at the Scientific Newsletter of Nov 2022 at DIPC.


WELCOME

We welcome the researcher, Chizoba Obele, from Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Nigeria, who was awarded a "Woman for Africa" grant to investigate on the "DEVELOPMENT OF NON-TOXIC MARINE ANTIFOULING EPOXY COATINGS"

September 21st, 2022 - March 19th, 2023


CONGRATULATIONS TO ERIC GÓMEZ URREIZTI! He has completed his Master in Chemistry and Polymers!

Master Thesis: "Pares de Lewis frustrados para la polimerización por apertura de anillos de epóxidos"
Place: Materials Physics Center, UPV/EHU, San Sebastian
Date: September 28th, 2022


CONGRATULATIONS TO JUNE AGUIRRE! She has completed her Master in Nanoscience!

Master Thesis: "Cyclic poly(ethylene glycol) as Nanoparticle Surface Ligand: Physisorption vs Chemisorption"
Place: Materials Physics Center, UPV/EHU, San Sebastian
Date: September 14th, 2022


WELCOME

We welcome the researcher, Laila Saad, from Beni-Suef University, Egypt, who was awarded a "Woman for Africa" grant to investigate on the "Fabrication and Characterization of developed Nanomaterials for Solar Energy Devices"

February 1st - July 31st, 2022


CONGRATULATIONS TO MOHAMMED ALI AL ASSIRI! He has completed his Master in Nanoscience!

Master Thesis: "Synthesis of cyclic and linear branched polyglycidols"
Place: Materials Physics Center, UPV/EHU, San Sebastian
Date: July 14th, 2021


CONGRATULATIONS TO ERIC GÓMEZ! He has completed his Bachelor thesis!

Thesis: "Estudio de redes poliméricas basadas en poliglicidol"
Place: Materials Physics Center, UPV/EHU, San Sebastian
Date: July 12th, 2021


CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. JORDAN OCHS! He has completed his PhD dissertation!

Thesis: "Synthesis and characterization of cyclic polyethers with controlled orientation of the dipolar moment along the chain contour"
Place: Materials Physics Center, UPV/EHU, San Sebastian
Date: September 9th, 2020


HIGHLIGHT in ADVANCES in ENGINEERING: Blocking the Intercalation of Cyclic Poly(ethylene oxide)s into Graphite Oxide for Separation Performance

by Fabienne Barroso-Bujans, Jürgen Allgaier and Angel Alegría

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Daniel Martinez-Tong has been awarded with a prize for poster presentation once again this year! Congratulations!
"Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy for evaluating cyclic and other complex polymer architectures"
in the 10th ECNP International Conference on Nanostructured Polymers and Nanocomposites, San Sebastian (Spain) 3-5/10 2018


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Daniel Martinez-Tong has been awarded with a prize for poster presentation!
"BDS as an analytical tool for the analysis of polyethers with different architectures"
in the 10th Conference on Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy and its Applications, Brussels (Belgium) 26/08-31/08 2018

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PhD student Jordan Ochs has been awarded with the Wiley-VCH prize for poster presentation!
"Synthesis of azide-terminated polyethers with tetrabutylammonium azide for generating pure rings"
in the BPC, Bordeaux, France, 2018

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