Summary
Charlotte Williams is Professor of Catalysis and Polymer Chemistry. Her group is multidisciplinary and currently consists of 7 postdocs and 11 PhD students. Research in polymer chemistry within her group includes the synthesis of polymerisation catalysts, controlled polymerisations, catalytic activation of renewable resources, synthesis of biodegradable and biocompatible polymers for applications in medicine and the synthesis of electroactive polymers for applications in electronics.
She was worked at Imperial since 2003 (2003-7: Lecturer; 2007-9: Senior Lecturer; 2009-2012: Reader; 2012: Professor). Before this, she was a postdoctoral research associate at Cambridge University, working with Professor Andrew Holmes and Professor Richard Friend on the synthesis of electroactive polymers, and at the University of Minnesota, working with Marc Hillmyer and Bill Tolman in zinc catalysis. She did her PhD research at Imperial College in catalysis working with Vernon Gibson and Nick Long.
She has been recognised for her research by the BEPS Oustanding Early Career Academic Award 2011, the RSC Energy, Environment and Sustainability Award (2009), the Meldola Medal (2005) and the Young Researcher Award (2001).
Recent News
London Design Museum Exhibition Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things (Interview in the Plastics section):
http://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/2013/extraordinary-stories
Charlotte Promoted to Professor in 2012:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_20-9-2012-11-45-37
Macromolecules discussion guest on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4, 29/12/12
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018grhm
the Bio-Environmental Polymer Society Award (2011):
http://www.beps.org/vienna.html
(Award Address at the BEPS meeting in Vienna, September 2011)
Royal Society of Chemistry Energy, Environment and Sustainability Award Symposium (10 March 2010, York)
Read about our recent developments in preparing degradable polymers:
- Financial Times (5 March 2010):
- Daily Telegraph (18 February 2010)
- EPSRC Press Release (18 February 2010)
- Imperial News (18 February 2010)
PhD Studentships available for October 2014 in Catalysis and Polymer Synthesis
For more details please email c.k.williams@imperial.ac.uk
Publications
Journals
Diment WT, Rosetto G, Ezaz-Nikpay N, et al., 2023, A highly active, thermally robust iron(iii)/potassium(i) heterodinuclear catalyst for bio-derived epoxide/anhydride ring-opening copolymerizations, Green Chemistry, ISSN:1463-9262
Gregory GL, Sulley GS, Kimpel J, et al., 2022, Block Poly(carbonate-ester) Ionomers as High-Performance and Recyclable Thermoplastic Elastomers, Angewandte Chemie-international Edition, Vol:61, ISSN:1433-7851
Deacy AC, Phanopoulos A, Lindeboom W, et al., 2022, Insights into the mechanism of carbon dioxide and propylene oxide ring-opening copolymerization using a Co(III)/K(I) heterodinuclear catalyst, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol:144, ISSN:0002-7863, Pages:17929-17938
McGuire TM, Deacy AC, Buchard A, et al., 2022, Solid-State Chemical Recycling of Polycarbonates to Epoxides and Carbon Dioxide Using a Heterodinuclear Mg(II)Co(II) Catalyst, Journal of the American Chemical Society, ISSN:0002-7863
Gregory GL, Gao H, Liu B, et al., 2022, Buffering Volume Change in Solid-State Battery Composite Cathodes with CO2-Derived Block Polycarbonate Ethers, Journal of the American Chemical Society, ISSN:0002-7863