Prof Richard Evans

Martin Hetzer


 




Adjunct Professor
 



PhD Chemistry, University of Queensland (1992)
BSc (Hons 1), University of Queensland (1987)


Royal Australian Chemical Institute


The control of photochromism
High capacity optical data storage
The use of polymers to control molecular functions
Living radical polymerization
Low shrink free radical polymerization


[1] "The Generic Enhancement of Photochromic Dye Switching Speeds in Rigid Polymer Matrices" Evans, R.A., Hanley, T.L., Skidmore, M.A., Davis, T.P., Such, G.K., Yee, L.H., Ball, G.E., Lewis, D.A. Nature Materials. 2005 , 4, 294-253 Commentaries on the article have featured in Science (Editors choice of Highlights form the recent literature 4th March 2005 p 1379) and Nature Materials (News and Views March 2005 p193-194).

[2] "Rapid Photochromic Switching in a Rigid Polymer Matrix using Living Radical Polymerisation (ATRP)" Such, G.K., Evans, R.A., Davis, T.P, Macromolecules , 2006, 39, 1391-1396.

[3] "Rewritable polarization-encoded multi-layer data storage in 2,5-dimethyl-4-(p-nitrophenyl)anisole doped polymer" Li, X, Chon, J.W.M., Wu, S.,Evans, R.A., Gu, M., Optics Letters, 2006, accepted.

[4] "Copolymerization Behavior of 7-Methylene-2-methyl-1,5-dithiacyclooctane: Reversible Cross-Propagation" Harrison, S,; Davis, T.P.; Evans, R.A.; Rizzardo, E., Macromolecules; 2001, 34, 3869-3876.

[5] "Free-Radical Ring-Opening Polymerisation of Cyclic Allylic Sulfides" Evans, R.A., Rizzardo. E. Macromolecules, 1996, 29, 6983-6989.

[6] "HCN Dimers: Iminoacetonitrile and N-cyanomethanimine" Evans, R.A.; Lorencak, P; Ha, T-K.; Wentrup, C. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 1991, 113, 7261-76. This paper has been cited by the major workers in pre-biotic evolution and astrophysical chemistry including citation by Prof Carl Sagan . It has been cited in journals such as Planetary and Space Science, High Energy Chemistry, Journal of Biological Physics, Origin of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, etc. One of the more interesting recent citations was in Icarus, concerning irradiation of astrophysical ice analogs (i.e. comets models) containing hydrogen cyanide (2004).


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