Rate My Professor Idriss Blakey

Blakey's research centers on the rational design, synthesis, and self-assembly of functional polymers and nanomaterials, employing advanced material characterization techniques to explore structure-performance relationships in applications such as nanofabrication, sensors, and biomedical imaging agents. His key interests encompass polymers for semiconductor manufacture, hybrid inorganic-polymer materials and their self-assembly, generation of biodegradable polymers, modification of polymer surfaces, applications of 129Xe NMR for materials analysis, and MRI contrast agents. Notable publications include "Galactose-based block copolymers with switchable χ parameters for tuning phase separated morphology" (Macromolecules, 2023), "Macroscale superlubricity induced by film-forming polymer brush-grafted colloidal additives" (Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2023), "Utilizing PET and MALDI imaging for discovery of a targeted probe for brain endocannabinoid α/β-hydrolase domain 6 (ABHD6)" (Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2022), "Diagnostic prospects and preclinical development of optical technologies using gold nanostructure contrast agents to boost endogenous tissue contrast" (Chemical Science, 2020), and "Using directed self assembly of block copolymer nanostructures to modulate nanoscale surface roughness: towards a novel lithographic process" (Advanced Functional Materials, 2013). He holds six fully granted patents with four under licensing agreements and maintains extensive industry collaborations with partners like Tokyo Electron, Intel, Sematech, Dow Chemical Company, and the ARC Research Hub for Advanced Manufacture of Targeted Radiopharmaceuticals (AMTAR), alongside international academic partnerships across the USA, UK, Japan, Sweden, Belgium, Finland, Germany, France, and the Netherlands.