Staff profile

• biomaterials
• crystal growth control
• electroactive polymers
• polymer synthesis and characterisation
• polymers with novel topologies, hyperbranched and dendritic systems
• ring opening metathesis polymerisation

Conference Paper

• Narrainen, A., Hutchings, L., Feast, W., Thompson, R., Ansari, I., & Clarke, N. (2006, December). Fluorocarbon end-functionalized polymers from poly(arylether) dendritic initiators. Presented at 8th Conference on Macromolecules - Polymers for Africa, La Pirogue, MAURITANIA
• Feast, W. (2006, December). Synthesis and self assembly of chiral oligothiophenes: Recent developments in the Durham-Eindhoven collaboration. Presented at 231st National Meeting of the American-Chemical-Society, Atlanta, GA

Journal Article

• Kunamaneni, S., Buzza, D., Read, D., Parker, D., Kenwright, A., Feast, W., & Larsen, A. (2006). Entanglement transition of randomly branched polymers in the hyperbranched class. Macromolecules, 39(19), 6720-6736. https://doi.org/10.1021/ma0603276
• Stickler, D., Lear, J., Morris, N., Macleod, S., Downer, A., Cadd, D., & Feast, W. (2006). Observations on the adherence of Proteus mirabilis onto polymer surfaces. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 100(5), 1028-1033. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2672.2006.02840.x
• Feast, W., Gimeno, M., & Kenwright, A. (2006). Synthesis and radical polymerization of 1,1-difluoro-2-vinylcyclopropane : a reexamination and structural reassignment. Macromolecules, 39(12), 4076-4080. https://doi.org/10.1021/ma0527348
• Westenhoff, S., Abrusci, A., Feast, W., Henze, O., Kilbinger, A., Schenning, A., & Silva, C. (2006). Supramolecular electronic coupling in chiral oligothiophene nanostructnres. Advanced Materials, 18(10), 1281-1285. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.200502134
• Surin, M., Leclere, P., de Feyter, S., Abdel-Mottaleb, M., de Schryver, F., Henze, O., Feast, W., & Lazzaroni, R. (2006). Molecule-molecule versus molecule-substrate interactions in the assembly of oligothiophenes at surfaces. Journal of Physical Chemistry B (Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysical Chemistry), 110(15), 7898-7908. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp056824q
• Feast, W., Gimeno, M., & Kenwright, A. (2006). Synthesis and radical ring opening behaviour of 1,1-difluoro-2-heptyl-2-vinylcyclopropane and some of its isomers. Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 127(12), 1533-1539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluchem.2006.07.008
• Henze, O., Parker, D., & Feast, W. (2003). The synthesis and characterisation of amphiphilic alpha,alpha-linked sexithiophenes with substituents at the terminal alpha-positions. Journal of materials chemistry, 13(6), 1269-1273
• Feast, W., Goldoni, F., Kilbinger, A., Meijer, E., Petty, M., & Schenning, A. (2001). Synthesis and properties of self organising semiconducting and luminescent polymers and model compounds. Macromolecular Symposia, 175, 151-158