Andrew LOWE Professor
	location	Room 813 F10
	telephone	9385 6031
	facsimile	9385 5966
	email	a.lowe@unsw.edu.au
	School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering The University of New South Wales UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia

Qualifications	BSc (Hons) Chemistry with Polymer Science, University of Sussex, UK, 1993 Dphil, University of Sussex, UK, 1998
Awards and Honours	Member, Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC) Member, Royal Australian Chemical Institute (MRACI) Chartered Chemist (Cchem) Chartered Scientist (Csci) Member, American Chemical Society 2005 Junior Faculty Research Award (awarded by USM Faculty Senate) 2003 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award in the Life Sciences
Employment	Professor, CAMD, School of chemical Sciences & Engineering, UNSW, 2009- University of Southern Mississippi: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, 2002-2006 Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, 2006-2007 Associate Professor, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, 2007-2008 Associate Professor, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering with tenure, 2008-2009
Research Interests	Synthesis and characterization of novel functional monomers and (co)polymers. Controlled (co)polymer synthesis via classical living techniques and controlled living free radical polymerization, with an emphasis on Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) radical Polymerization. Synthetic applications of the thiol-ene, thiol-yne and other thiol-based “click” reactions. Living Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (ROMP). Controlled alkyne metathesis polymerization. Transition metal-mediated polymerizations. Controlled synthesis of polyesters. Chemical modification of synthetic (co)polymers. Water-soluble/amphiphilic (co)polymers. Biomimetic (co)polymers for antiadherent/antimicrobial applications. Biologically active (co)polymers, and controlled drug release. ‘Smart’, stimuli-responsive polymers.
Selected Publications	Bing Yu, Andrew B. Lowe, Kazuhiko Ishihara ‘RAFT Synthesis and Stimulus-Induced Self-Assembly of Copolymers Based on the Biocompatible Monomer 2-(Methacryloyloxy)ethyl Phosphorylcholine’ Biomacromolecules 2009, 10, 950-958. Shawna L. Balof, Bing Yu, Andrew B. Lowe, Yan Ling, Yong Zhang, Hans-Jörg Schanz ‘Ru-Based Metathesis Catalysts Bearing pH-Responsive N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC) Ligands: Activity Control via Degree of Protonation’ European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2009, 13, 1717-1722. Justin W. Chan, Hui Zhou, Charles E. Hoyle, Andrew B. Lowe ‘Photopolymerization of Thiol-Alkynes: Polysulfide Networks’ Chemistry of Materials 2009, 21, 1579-1585. Justin W. Chan, Charles E. Hoyle, Andrew B. Lowe ‘Sequential Phosphine Catalyzed, Nucleophilic Thiol-Ene/Radical-Mediated Thiol-Yne Reactions and the Facile, Orthogonal Synthesis of Polyfunctional Materials’ Journal of the American Chemical Society 2009, 131, 5751-5753. Bing Yu, Justin W. Chan, Charles E. Hoyle, Andrew B. Lowe ‘Sequential Thiol-Ene/Thiol-Ene and Thiol-Ene/Thiol-Yne Reactions as a Route to Well-Defined Mono and Bis End-Functionalized Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)’ Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry 2009, 47, 3554-3557. Adam Roberts, Allison C. Cochran, David A. Rankin, Andrew B. Lowe, Hans-Jörg Schanz ‘Carbene-Functionalized Ruthenium-Based Olefin Metathesis Catalysts for Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization in Protic Media’ Organometallics 2007, 26, 6515-6518. David A. Rankin, Andrew B. Lowe ‘New Well-Defined Polymeric Betaines: First Report Detailing the Synthesis and ROMP of Salt-Responsive Sulfopropylbetaine-and Carboxyethylbetaine-exo-7-oxanorbornene Monomers’ Macromolecules 2008, 41, 614-622. Justin W. Chan, Bing Yu, Charles E. Hoyle, Andrew B. Lowe ‘Convergent Synthesis of 3-Arm Star Polymers from RAFT-Prepared Poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide) via a Thiol-Ene Click Reaction’ Chemical Communications 2008, 4959-4961. Andrew B. Lowe, Ran Wang, Venkataswarup Tiriveedhi, Peter Butko, Charles L. McCormick ‘RAFT Synthesis and Aqueous Solution Properties of pH-Responsive AB Diblock Styrenic-Based Copolymers of 4-Vinylbenzyltrimethylphosphonium Chloride with N,N-Dimethylbenzylvinylamine’ Macromolecular Chemistry & Physics 2007, 208, 2339-2347. Andrew B. Lowe, Marry Torres, Ran Wang ‘A Doubly Responsive AB Diblock Copolymer: RAFT Synthesis and Aqueous Solution Properties of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-block-4-vinylbenzoic acid)’ Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry 2007, 45, 5864-5871. David A. Rankin, Hans-Jörg Schanz, Andrew B. Lowe ‘Observations on the Effect of the Halide Counterion in the ROMP of the exo-7-Oxanorbornene Derivatives exo-Benzyl-[2-(3,5-dioxo-10-oxa-4-aza-tricyclo[5.2.1.02,6]dec-8-en-4-yl)-ethyl]dimethyl ammonium Bromide/Chloride in 2,2,2-Trifluoroethanol/Methylene Chloride’ Macromolecular Chemistry & Physics 2007, 208, 2389-2395. Andrew B. Lowe and Charles L. McCormick ‘Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) Radical Polymerization and The Synthesis of Water-Soluble (Co)Polymers Under Homogeneous Conditions in Organic and Aqueous Media’ Progress in Polymer Science 2007, 32, 283-351. Andrew B. Lowe and Ran Wang ‘Controlled-Structure Glycopolymers: AB Diblock Copolymers of 3-O-Methacryloyl-1,2:3,4-di-O-isopropylidene-D-galactopyranose with 2-(Dimethylamino)-ethyl Methacrylate’ Polymer 2007, 48, 2221-2230. David A. Rankin, Steven J. P’Pool, Hans-Jörg Schanz, Andrew B. Lowe ‘The Controlled, Homogeneous Organic Solution Polymerization of New Hydrophilic Cationic exo-7-Oxanorbornenes via ROMP with RuCl2(PCy3)2CHPh in a Novel 2,2,2-Trifluoroethanol/Methylene Chloride Solvent Mixture’ Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry 2007, 45, 2113-2128. David B. Thomas, Anthony J. Convertine, Roger D. Hester, Andrew B. Lowe, Charles L. McCormick ‘Hydrolytic Susceptibility of Dithioester Chain Transfer Agents and Implications in Aqueous RAFT Polymerizations’ Macromolecules 2004, 37, 1735-1741. Charles L. McCormick and Andrew B. Lowe ‘Synthesis of Water-Soluble (Co)Polymers with Precisely Controlled Structures Utilizing Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) Polymerization in Aqueous Media’ Accounts of Chemical Research 2004, 37, 312-325. Andrew B. Lowe, Brent S. Sumerlin, Michael S. Donovan and Charles L. McCormick ‘Facile Preparation of Transition Metal Nanoparticles Stabilized by Well-defined (Co)polymers Synthesized via Aqueous RAFT’ Journal of the American Chemical Society 2002, 124, 11562-11563. Vural Bütün, Andrew B. Lowe, Norman C. Billingham and Steven P. Armes ‘Synthesis of Zwitterionic Shell Cross-Linked Micelles’ Journal of the American Chemical Society 1999, 121(17), 4288-4289.