Professor Emily Draper
- Professor of Soft Materials (School of Chemistry)
telephone:
0141 330 7738
email:
Emily.Draper@glasgow.ac.uk
A5-13, School of Chemistry, Joseph Black Building, Glasgow, Scotland, G12 8QQ
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3900-7934Research interests
We use self-assembled organic supramolecular materials in for devices. We have been focusing in particular on the alignment of these supramolecular assemblies to be used in flexible devices that can be worn on the skin as sensors for such things as pressure sensors, light sensors etc. My group are also researching new materials for electrochromic devices to be used in smart windows, they change colour upon the addition of a potential. This involves the design and synthesis of the new materials for the specific devices and then the processing of these materials to make them usable in the chosen device. We are also working with companies who are interested in our research, for example, making new materials for viscosurgical devices to be used in ophthalmic surgery such as cataract surgeries.
Research groups
Publications
2024
Ginesi, R. E. and Draper, E. R. (2024) Methods of changing low molecular weight gel properties through gelation kinetics. Soft Matter, 20(19), pp. 3887-3896. (doi: 10.1039/d4sm00238e) (PMID:38691131)
Orimolade, B. O. and Draper, E. R. (2024) Application of quasi solid electrolytes in organic based electrochromic devices: a mini review. Chemistry: A European Journal, 30(23), e202303880. (doi: 10.1002/chem.202303880) (PMID:38224310)
Sonani, R. R., Bianco, S. , Dietrich, B. , Doutch, J., Draper, E. R. , Adams, D. J. and Egelman, E. H. (2024) Atomic structures of naphthalene dipeptide micelles unravel mechanisms of assembly and gelation. Cell Reports Physical Science, 5(2), 101812. (doi: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2024.101812)
2023
Marshall, L. J., Bianco, S. , Ginesi, R. E., Doutch, J., Draper, E. R. and Adams, D. J. (2023) Investigating multigelator systems across multiple length scales. Soft Matter, 19(26), pp. 4972-4981. (doi: 10.1039/D3SM00521F) (PMID:37345406)
Ginesi, R. E., Murray, N. R., Dalgliesh, R., Doutch, J. and Draper, E. R. (2023) Using solution history to control hydrogel properties of a perylene bisimide. Chemistry: A European Journal, 29(37), e202301042. (doi: 10.1002/chem.202301042) (PMID:37067953)
Thomson, L., Ginesi, R. E., Osborne, D. D., Draper, E. R. and Adams, D. J. (2023) Photothermal perylene bisimide hydrogels. Chemistry: A European Journal, 29(37), e202300663. (doi: 10.1002/chem.202300663) (PMID:37074872)
Leigh, J. S., Smith, D. K., Blight, B. A., Lloyd, G. O., McTernan, C. T. and Draper, E. R. (2023) Listening to fathers in STEM. Nature Reviews Chemistry, 7(2), pp. 67-68. (doi: 10.1038/s41570-022-00459-6) (PMID:37117912)
Randle, R. I., Ginesi, R. E., Matsarskaia, O., Schweins, R. and Draper, E. R. (2023) Process dependent complexity in multicomponent gels. Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 44(4), 2200709. (doi: 10.1002/marc.202200709) (PMID:36177680)
2022
Au-Yong, S. et al. (2022) Electrochemically enhanced delivery of pemetrexed from electroactive hydrogels. Polymers, 14(22), 4953. (doi: 10.3390/polym14224953) (PMID:36433079)
Leigh, J. S., Busschaert, N., Haynes, C. J.E., Hiscock, J. R., Hutchins, K. M., von Krbek, L. K.S., McConnell, A. J., Slater, A. G., Smith, D. K. and Draper, E. R. (2022) Planning a family. Nature Reviews Chemistry, 6(10), pp. 673-675. (doi: 10.1038/s41570-022-00427-0) (PMID:37117498)
Randle, R. I., Fuentes-Caparrós, A. M., Cavalcanti, L., Schweins, R., Adams, D. J. and Draper, E. R. (2022) Investigating aggregation using in situ electrochemistry and small-angle neutron scattering. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 126(31), pp. 13427-13432. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c03210) (PMID:35983316) (PMCID:PMC9376955)
Randle, R. I., Cavalcanti, L., Sproules, S. and Draper, E. R. (2022) Aggregate dependent electrochromic properties of amino acid appended naphthalene diimides in water. Materials Advances, 3(7), pp. 3326-3331. (doi: 10.1039/D2MA00207H)
Cameron, J. , Adams, D. J. , Skabara, P. J. and Draper, E. R. (2022) Amino acid functionalised perylene bisimides for aqueous solution-deposited electron transporting interlayers in organic photovoltaic devices. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 10(10), pp. 3944-3950. (doi: 10.1039/D1TC04622E)
Caltagirone, C., Draper, E. R. , Leigh, J. S., Haynes, C. J. E., Hiscock, J. R. and McConnell, A. J. (2022) Editorial: International Women of Supramolecular Chemistry. Frontiers in Chemistry, 10, 854085. (doi: 10.3389/fchem.2022.854085) (PMID:35295973) (PMCID:PMC8918545)
Leigh, J. S. et al. (2022) Managing research throughout COVID-19: lived experiences of supramolecular chemists. Chem, 8(2), pp. 299-311. (doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2022.01.001) (PMID:35128144) (PMCID:PMC8808740)
2021
Welsh, T. A., Matsarskaia, O., Schweins, R. and Draper, E. R. (2021) Electronic and assembly properties of a water-soluble blue naphthalene diimide. New Journal of Chemistry, 45(31), pp. 14005-14013. (doi: 10.1039/D1NJ02557K)
Caltagirone, C., Draper, E. R. , Hardie, M. J., Haynes, C. J. E., Hiscock, J. R., Jolliffe, K. A., Kieffer, M., McConnell, A. J. and Leigh, J. S. (2021) An area‐specific, international community‐led approach to understanding and addressing equality, diversity, and inclusion issues within supramolecular chemistry. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 60(21), pp. 11572-11579. (doi: 10.1002/anie.202015297) (PMID:33682318) (PMCID:PMC8251517)
Fuentes-Caparrós, A. M., Canales-Galarza, Z., Barrow, M., Dietrich, B. , Läuger, J., Nemeth, M., Draper, E. R. and Adams, D. J. (2021) Mechanical characterization of multilayered hydrogels: a rheological study for 3D-printed systems. Biomacromolecules, 22(4), pp. 1625-1638. (doi: 10.1021/acs.biomac.1c00078) (PMID:33734666)
Welsh, T. A. and Draper, E. R. (2021) Water soluble organic electrochromic materials. RSC Advances, 11(9), pp. 5245-5264. (doi: 10.1039/D0RA10346B)
Draper, E. (2021) Women in Supramolecular Chemistry: Collectively Crafting the Rhythms of Our Work and Lives in STEM. Policy Press. ISBN 9781447365358 (Accepted for Publication)
Egan, J. G., Brodie, G., McDowall, D., Smith, A. J., Edwards-Gayle, C. J. C. and Draper, E. R. (2021) Impact of subtle change in branched amino acid on the assembly and properties of perylene bisimides hydrogels. Materials Advances, 2(15), pp. 5248-5253. (doi: 10.1039/d1ma00470k)
2020
McDowall, D. et al. (2020) Controlling photocatalytic activity by self-assembly – tuning perylene bisimide photocatalysts for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. Advanced Energy Materials, 10(46), 2002469. (doi: 10.1002/aenm.202002469)
White, L. J., Wark, C., Croucher, L., Draper, E. R. and Hiscock, J. R. (2020) High-throughput characterisation of supramolecular gelation processes using a combination of optical density, fluorescence and UV-Vis absorption measurements. Chemical Communications, 56(66), pp. 9557-9560. (doi: 10.1039/D0CC04033A) (PMID:32691764)
Adams, V., Cameron, J. , Wallace, M. and Draper, E. R. (2020) Mechanoresponsive self-assembled perylene bisimide films. Chemistry: A European Journal, 26(44), pp. 9879-9882. (doi: 10.1002/chem.202001805) (PMID:32484600) (PMCID:PMC7522684)
Fuentes, E., Boháčová, K., Fuentes-Caparrós, A. M., Schweins, R., Draper, E. R. , Adams, D. J. , Pujals, S. and Albertazzi, L. (2020) PAINT‐ing fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl (Fmoc)‐diphenylalanine hydrogels. Chemistry: A European Journal, 26(44), pp. 9869-9873. (doi: 10.1002/chem.202001560) (PMID:32428285)
Thomson, L., Schweins, R., Draper, E. R. and Adams, D. J. (2020) Creating transient gradients in supramolecular hydrogels. Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 41(10), 2000093. (doi: 10.1002/marc.202000093) (PMID:32297369)
McAulay, K., Thomson, L., Porcar, L., Schweins, R., Mahmoudi, N., Adams, D. J. and Draper, E. R. (2020) Using rheo-small-angle neutron scattering to understand how functionalised dipeptides form gels. Organic Materials, 2(2), pp. 108-115. (doi: 10.1055/s-0040-1708832)
Draper, E. R. et al. (2020) Using small angle scattering and contrast matching to understand molecular packing in low molecular weight gels. Matter, 2(3), pp. 764-778. (doi: 10.1016/j.matt.2019.12.028)
2019
Smith, C. L., Mears, L. L.E., Greeves, B. J., Draper, E. R. , Doutch, J., Adams, D. J. and Cowan, A. J. (2019) Gelation enabled charge separation following visible light excitation using self-assembled perylene bisimides. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21(48), pp. 26466-26476. (doi: 10.1039/C9CP05839G) (PMID:31774419)
Draper, E. R. , Wilbraham, L. , Adams, D. J. , Wallace, M., Schweins, R. and Zwijnenburg, M. A. (2019) Insight into the self-assembly of water-soluble perylene bisimide derivatives through a combined computational and experimental approach. Nanoscale, 11(34), pp. 15917-15928. (doi: 10.1039/C9NR03898A) (PMID:31414112)
McAulay, K. et al. (2019) Using chirality to influence supramolecular gelation. Chemical Science, 10(33), pp. 7801-7806. (doi: 10.1039/C9SC02239B) (PMID:31588329) (PMCID:PMC6761870)
Draper, E. R. and Adams, D. J. (2019) Controlling the assembly and properties of low-molecular-weight hydrogelators. Langmuir, 35(20), pp. 6506-6521. (doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b00716) (PMID:31038973)
2018
Lundy, R., Draper, E. R. and Walsh, J. J. (2018) Amino acid appended perylene bisimides: self-assembly, immobilization on nanocrystalline TiO2, and electrochromic properties. New Journal of Chemistry, 42(23), pp. 19020-19025. (doi: 10.1039/C8NJ04214D)
Gonzalez, L., Liu, C., Dietrich, B. , Su, H., Sproules, S. , Cui, H., Honecker, D., Adams, D. J. and Draper, E. R. (2018) Transparent-to-dark photo- and electrochromic gels. Communications Chemistry, 1, 77. (doi: 10.1038/s42004-018-0075-2)
Draper, E. R. , Wallace, M., Honecker, D. and Adams, D. J. (2018) Aligning self-assembled perylene bisimides in a magnetic field. Chemical Communications, 54(78), pp. 10977-10980. (doi: 10.1039/C8CC05968C) (PMID:30209449)
Draper, E. R. , Dietrich, B. , Brasnett, C., Sproules, S. , McDonald, T. O., Seddon, A. M. and Adams, D. J. (2018) P-type low-molecular-weight hydrogelators. Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 39(17), 1700746. (doi: 10.1002/marc.201700746) (PMID:29333741)
Lāce, I., Sproules, S. and Draper, E. R. (2018) Using sugar-based additives to prolong the lifetime of air-stable radicals in self-assembled perylene bisimides. ChemNanoMat, 4(8), pp. 776-780. (doi: 10.1002/cnma.201800153)
Cross, E. R., Sproules, S. , Schweins, R., Draper, E. R. and Adams, D. J. (2018) Controlled tuning of the properties in optoelectronic self-sorted gels. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140(28), pp. 8667-8670. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b05359) (PMID:29944359)
Draper, E. R. and Adams, D. J. (2018) How should multicomponent supramolecular gels be characterised? Chemical Society Reviews, 47(10), pp. 3395-3405. (doi: 10.1039/C7CS00804J) (PMID:29419826)
Akhtar, R., Draper, E. R. , Adams, D. J. and Hay, J. (2018) Oscillatory nanoindentation of highly compliant hydrogels: a critical comparative analysis with rheometry. Journal of Materials Research, 33(8), pp. 873-883. (doi: 10.1557/jmr.2018.62)
Draper, E. R. , Archibald, L. J., Nolan, M. C., Schweins, R., Zwijnenburg, M. A., Sproules, S. and Adams, D. J. (2018) Controlling photoconductivity in PBI films by supramolecular assembly. Chemistry: A European Journal, 24(16), pp. 4006-4010. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201800201) (PMID:29405458) (PMCID:PMC5887895)
McDougall, L., Draper, E. R. , Beadle, J. D., Shipman, M., Raubo, P., Jamieson, A. G. and Adams, D. (2018) Enzymatically-stable oxetane-based dipeptide hydrogels. Chemical Communications, 54(14), pp. 1793-1796. (doi: 10.1039/C7CC09701H) (PMID:29384155)
Fayter, A. E.R., Gibson, M. I. and Draper, E. R. (2018) Sub-zero temperature mechanically stable low molecular weight hydrogels. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 6, pp. 7274-7279. (doi: 10.1039/C8TB01668B) (PMID:30555698) (PMCID:PMC6238726)
Saberi Moghaddam, R., Draper, E. R. , Wilson, C. , Heidari, H. and Adams, D. J. (2018) Effect of electric field on the electrical properties of a self-assembled perylene bisimide. RSC Advances, 8(59), pp. 34121-34125. (doi: 10.1039/C8RA06870D)
2017
Mears, L. L.E. et al. (2017) Drying affects the fiber network in low molecular weight hydrogels. Biomacromolecules, 18(11), pp. 3531-3540. (doi: 10.1021/acs.biomac.7b00823) (PMID:28631478) (PMCID:PMC5686561)
Draper, E. R. and Adams, D. J. (2017) Low-molecular-weight gels: the state of the art. Chem, 3(3), pp. 390-410. (doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2017.07.012)
Castilla, A. M., Draper, E. R. , Nolan, M. C., Brasnett, C., Seddon, A., Mears, L. L.E., Cowieson, N. and Adams, D. J. (2017) Self-sorted oligophenylvinylene and perylene bisimide hydrogels. Scientific Reports, 7, 8380. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-08644-0) (PMID:28827598) (PMCID:PMC5566499)
Draper, E. , Su, H., Brasnett, C., Poole, R. J., Rogers, S., Cui, H., Seddon, A. and Adams, D. J. (2017) Opening a can of worm(-like micelle)s: the effect of temperature of solutions of functionalised dipeptides. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 56(35), pp. 10467-10470. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201705604) (PMID:28653804)
Ardoña, H. A. M., Draper, E. R. , Citossi, F., Wallace, M., Serpell, L. C., Adams, D. J. and Tovar, J. D. (2017) Kinetically controlled coassembly of multichromophoric peptide hydrogelators and the impacts on energy transport. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139(25), pp. 8685-8692. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.7b04006) (PMID:28578581)
Draper, E. R. , Greeves, B. J., Barrow, M., Schweins, R., Zwijnenburg, M. A. and Adams, D. J. (2017) pH-directed aggregation to control photoconductivity in self-assembled perylene bisimides. Chem, 2(5), pp. 716-731. (doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2017.03.022)
Colquhoun, C., Draper, E. R. , Schweins, R., Marcello, M., Vadukul, D., Serpell, L. C. and Adams, D. J. (2017) Controlling the network type in self-assembled dipeptide hydrogels. Soft Matter, 13(9), pp. 1914-1919. (doi: 10.1039/C6SM02666D) (PMID:28186211)
Draper, E. R. , Wallace, M., Schweins, R., Poole, R. J. and Adams, D. J. (2017) Nonlinear effects in multicomponent supramolecular hydrogels. Langmuir, 33(9), pp. 2387-2395. (doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b00326) (PMID:28191979)
Draper, E. R. , Dietrich, B. and Adams, D. J. (2017) Self-assembly, self-sorting, and electronic properties of a diketopyrrolopyrrole hydrogelator. Chemical Communications, 53(11), 1864. (doi: 10.1039/C6CC10083J) (PMID:28111678)
2016
Akhtar, R., Draper, E. R. , Adams, D. J. and Pfaff, H. (2016) Complex shear modulus of hydrogels using a dynamic nanoindentation method. In: Tekalur, S., Zavattieri, P. and Korach, C. (eds.) Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Volume 6. Springer, pp. 141-145. ISBN 9783319214542 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-21455-9_17)
Castilla, A. M., Wallace, M., Mears, L. L.E., Draper, E. R. , Doutch, J., Rogers, S. and Adams, D. J. (2016) On the syneresis of an OPV functionalised dipeptide hydrogel. Soft Matter, 12(37), pp. 7848-7854. (doi: 10.1039/C6SM01194B) (PMID:27714311)
Draper, E. R. and Adams, D. J. (2016) Photoresponsive gelators. Chemical Communications, 52(53), pp. 8196-8206. (doi: 10.1039/C6CC03485C) (PMID:27222364)
Draper, E. R. and Adams, D. J. (2016) Supramolecular fibres: Self-sorting shows its true colours. Nature Chemistry, 8(8), pp. 737-738. (doi: 10.1038/nchem.2539) (PMID:27442275)
Draper, E. R. , Lee, J. R., Wallace, M., Jäckel, F., Cowan, A. J. and Adams, D. J. (2016) Self-sorted photoconductive xerogels. Chemical Science, 7(10), pp. 6499-6505. (doi: 10.1039/C6SC02644C)
Draper, E. R. , Mykhaylyk, O. O. and Adams, D. J. (2016) Aligning self-assembled gelators by drying under shear. Chemical Communications, 52(42), pp. 6934-6937. (doi: 10.1039/C6CC02824A) (PMID:27146964)
Draper, E. R. , Schweins, R., Akhtar, R., Groves, P., Chechik, V., Zwijnenburg, M. A. and Adams, D. J. (2016) Reversible photoreduction as a trigger for photoresponsive gels. Chemistry of Materials, 28(17), pp. 6336-6341. (doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b02677)
Walsh, J. R., Lee, J. R., Draper, E. R., , King, S. M., Jäckel, F., Zwijnenburg, M. A., Adams, D. J. and Cowan, A. J. (2016) Controlling visible light driven photoconductivity in self-assembled perylene bisimide structures. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120(33), pp. 18479-18486. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b06222)
2015
Awhida, S., Draper, E. R. , McDonald, T. O. and Adams, D. J. (2015) Probing gelation ability for a library of dipeptide gelators. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 455, pp. 24-31. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2015.05.032) (PMID:26047582)
Draper, E. R. , Eden, E. G. B., McDonald, T. O. and Adams, D. J. (2015) Spatially resolved multicomponent gels. Nature Chemistry, 7(10), pp. 848-852. (doi: 10.1038/nchem.2347) (PMID:26391086)
Draper, E. R. , McDonald, T. O. and Adams, D. J. (2015) A low molecular weight hydrogel with unusual gel aging. Chemical Communications, 51(30), pp. 6595-6597. (doi: 10.1039/C5CC01334H) (PMID:25775220)
Draper, E. R. , McDonald, T. O. and Adams, D. J. (2015) Photodimerisation of a coumarin-dipeptide gelator. Chemical Communications, 51(64), pp. 12827-12830. (doi: 10.1039/C5CC03817K) (PMID:26165822)
2014
Colquhoun, C. et al. (2014) The effect of self-sorting and co-assembly on the mechanical properties of low molecular weight hydrogels. Nanoscale, 6(22), pp. 13719-13725. (doi: 10.1039/C4NR04039B)
Draper, E. R. , Walsh, J. J., McDonald, T. O., Zwijnenburg, M. A., Cameron, P. J., Cowan, A. J. and Adams, D. J. (2014) Air-stable photoconductive films formed from perylene bisimide gelators. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2(28), pp. 5570-5575. (doi: 10.1039/C4TC00744A)
2012
Slater, R. A., McDonald, T. O., Adams, D. J. , Draper, E. R. , Weaver, J. V. M. and Rannard, S. P. (2012) Architecture-driven aqueous stability of hydrophobic, branched polymer nanoparticles prepared by rapid nanoprecipitation. Soft Matter, 8(38), pp. 9816-9827. (doi: 10.1039/C2SM26355F)
Articles
Ginesi, R. E. and Draper, E. R. (2024) Methods of changing low molecular weight gel properties through gelation kinetics. Soft Matter, 20(19), pp. 3887-3896. (doi: 10.1039/d4sm00238e) (PMID:38691131)
Orimolade, B. O. and Draper, E. R. (2024) Application of quasi solid electrolytes in organic based electrochromic devices: a mini review. Chemistry: A European Journal, 30(23), e202303880. (doi: 10.1002/chem.202303880) (PMID:38224310)
Sonani, R. R., Bianco, S. , Dietrich, B. , Doutch, J., Draper, E. R. , Adams, D. J. and Egelman, E. H. (2024) Atomic structures of naphthalene dipeptide micelles unravel mechanisms of assembly and gelation. Cell Reports Physical Science, 5(2), 101812. (doi: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2024.101812)
Marshall, L. J., Bianco, S. , Ginesi, R. E., Doutch, J., Draper, E. R. and Adams, D. J. (2023) Investigating multigelator systems across multiple length scales. Soft Matter, 19(26), pp. 4972-4981. (doi: 10.1039/D3SM00521F) (PMID:37345406)
Ginesi, R. E., Murray, N. R., Dalgliesh, R., Doutch, J. and Draper, E. R. (2023) Using solution history to control hydrogel properties of a perylene bisimide. Chemistry: A European Journal, 29(37), e202301042. (doi: 10.1002/chem.202301042) (PMID:37067953)
Thomson, L., Ginesi, R. E., Osborne, D. D., Draper, E. R. and Adams, D. J. (2023) Photothermal perylene bisimide hydrogels. Chemistry: A European Journal, 29(37), e202300663. (doi: 10.1002/chem.202300663) (PMID:37074872)
Leigh, J. S., Smith, D. K., Blight, B. A., Lloyd, G. O., McTernan, C. T. and Draper, E. R. (2023) Listening to fathers in STEM. Nature Reviews Chemistry, 7(2), pp. 67-68. (doi: 10.1038/s41570-022-00459-6) (PMID:37117912)
Randle, R. I., Ginesi, R. E., Matsarskaia, O., Schweins, R. and Draper, E. R. (2023) Process dependent complexity in multicomponent gels. Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 44(4), 2200709. (doi: 10.1002/marc.202200709) (PMID:36177680)
Au-Yong, S. et al. (2022) Electrochemically enhanced delivery of pemetrexed from electroactive hydrogels. Polymers, 14(22), 4953. (doi: 10.3390/polym14224953) (PMID:36433079)
Leigh, J. S., Busschaert, N., Haynes, C. J.E., Hiscock, J. R., Hutchins, K. M., von Krbek, L. K.S., McConnell, A. J., Slater, A. G., Smith, D. K. and Draper, E. R. (2022) Planning a family. Nature Reviews Chemistry, 6(10), pp. 673-675. (doi: 10.1038/s41570-022-00427-0) (PMID:37117498)
Randle, R. I., Fuentes-Caparrós, A. M., Cavalcanti, L., Schweins, R., Adams, D. J. and Draper, E. R. (2022) Investigating aggregation using in situ electrochemistry and small-angle neutron scattering. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 126(31), pp. 13427-13432. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c03210) (PMID:35983316) (PMCID:PMC9376955)
Randle, R. I., Cavalcanti, L., Sproules, S. and Draper, E. R. (2022) Aggregate dependent electrochromic properties of amino acid appended naphthalene diimides in water. Materials Advances, 3(7), pp. 3326-3331. (doi: 10.1039/D2MA00207H)
Cameron, J. , Adams, D. J. , Skabara, P. J. and Draper, E. R. (2022) Amino acid functionalised perylene bisimides for aqueous solution-deposited electron transporting interlayers in organic photovoltaic devices. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 10(10), pp. 3944-3950. (doi: 10.1039/D1TC04622E)
Caltagirone, C., Draper, E. R. , Leigh, J. S., Haynes, C. J. E., Hiscock, J. R. and McConnell, A. J. (2022) Editorial: International Women of Supramolecular Chemistry. Frontiers in Chemistry, 10, 854085. (doi: 10.3389/fchem.2022.854085) (PMID:35295973) (PMCID:PMC8918545)
Leigh, J. S. et al. (2022) Managing research throughout COVID-19: lived experiences of supramolecular chemists. Chem, 8(2), pp. 299-311. (doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2022.01.001) (PMID:35128144) (PMCID:PMC8808740)
Welsh, T. A., Matsarskaia, O., Schweins, R. and Draper, E. R. (2021) Electronic and assembly properties of a water-soluble blue naphthalene diimide. New Journal of Chemistry, 45(31), pp. 14005-14013. (doi: 10.1039/D1NJ02557K)
Caltagirone, C., Draper, E. R. , Hardie, M. J., Haynes, C. J. E., Hiscock, J. R., Jolliffe, K. A., Kieffer, M., McConnell, A. J. and Leigh, J. S. (2021) An area‐specific, international community‐led approach to understanding and addressing equality, diversity, and inclusion issues within supramolecular chemistry. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 60(21), pp. 11572-11579. (doi: 10.1002/anie.202015297) (PMID:33682318) (PMCID:PMC8251517)
Fuentes-Caparrós, A. M., Canales-Galarza, Z., Barrow, M., Dietrich, B. , Läuger, J., Nemeth, M., Draper, E. R. and Adams, D. J. (2021) Mechanical characterization of multilayered hydrogels: a rheological study for 3D-printed systems. Biomacromolecules, 22(4), pp. 1625-1638. (doi: 10.1021/acs.biomac.1c00078) (PMID:33734666)
Welsh, T. A. and Draper, E. R. (2021) Water soluble organic electrochromic materials. RSC Advances, 11(9), pp. 5245-5264. (doi: 10.1039/D0RA10346B)
Egan, J. G., Brodie, G., McDowall, D., Smith, A. J., Edwards-Gayle, C. J. C. and Draper, E. R. (2021) Impact of subtle change in branched amino acid on the assembly and properties of perylene bisimides hydrogels. Materials Advances, 2(15), pp. 5248-5253. (doi: 10.1039/d1ma00470k)
McDowall, D. et al. (2020) Controlling photocatalytic activity by self-assembly – tuning perylene bisimide photocatalysts for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. Advanced Energy Materials, 10(46), 2002469. (doi: 10.1002/aenm.202002469)
White, L. J., Wark, C., Croucher, L., Draper, E. R. and Hiscock, J. R. (2020) High-throughput characterisation of supramolecular gelation processes using a combination of optical density, fluorescence and UV-Vis absorption measurements. Chemical Communications, 56(66), pp. 9557-9560. (doi: 10.1039/D0CC04033A) (PMID:32691764)
Adams, V., Cameron, J. , Wallace, M. and Draper, E. R. (2020) Mechanoresponsive self-assembled perylene bisimide films. Chemistry: A European Journal, 26(44), pp. 9879-9882. (doi: 10.1002/chem.202001805) (PMID:32484600) (PMCID:PMC7522684)
Fuentes, E., Boháčová, K., Fuentes-Caparrós, A. M., Schweins, R., Draper, E. R. , Adams, D. J. , Pujals, S. and Albertazzi, L. (2020) PAINT‐ing fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl (Fmoc)‐diphenylalanine hydrogels. Chemistry: A European Journal, 26(44), pp. 9869-9873. (doi: 10.1002/chem.202001560) (PMID:32428285)
Thomson, L., Schweins, R., Draper, E. R. and Adams, D. J. (2020) Creating transient gradients in supramolecular hydrogels. Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 41(10), 2000093. (doi: 10.1002/marc.202000093) (PMID:32297369)
McAulay, K., Thomson, L., Porcar, L., Schweins, R., Mahmoudi, N., Adams, D. J. and Draper, E. R. (2020) Using rheo-small-angle neutron scattering to understand how functionalised dipeptides form gels. Organic Materials, 2(2), pp. 108-115. (doi: 10.1055/s-0040-1708832)
Draper, E. R. et al. (2020) Using small angle scattering and contrast matching to understand molecular packing in low molecular weight gels. Matter, 2(3), pp. 764-778. (doi: 10.1016/j.matt.2019.12.028)
Smith, C. L., Mears, L. L.E., Greeves, B. J., Draper, E. R. , Doutch, J., Adams, D. J. and Cowan, A. J. (2019) Gelation enabled charge separation following visible light excitation using self-assembled perylene bisimides. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21(48), pp. 26466-26476. (doi: 10.1039/C9CP05839G) (PMID:31774419)
Draper, E. R. , Wilbraham, L. , Adams, D. J. , Wallace, M., Schweins, R. and Zwijnenburg, M. A. (2019) Insight into the self-assembly of water-soluble perylene bisimide derivatives through a combined computational and experimental approach. Nanoscale, 11(34), pp. 15917-15928. (doi: 10.1039/C9NR03898A) (PMID:31414112)
McAulay, K. et al. (2019) Using chirality to influence supramolecular gelation. Chemical Science, 10(33), pp. 7801-7806. (doi: 10.1039/C9SC02239B) (PMID:31588329) (PMCID:PMC6761870)
Draper, E. R. and Adams, D. J. (2019) Controlling the assembly and properties of low-molecular-weight hydrogelators. Langmuir, 35(20), pp. 6506-6521. (doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b00716) (PMID:31038973)
Lundy, R., Draper, E. R. and Walsh, J. J. (2018) Amino acid appended perylene bisimides: self-assembly, immobilization on nanocrystalline TiO2, and electrochromic properties. New Journal of Chemistry, 42(23), pp. 19020-19025. (doi: 10.1039/C8NJ04214D)
Gonzalez, L., Liu, C., Dietrich, B. , Su, H., Sproules, S. , Cui, H., Honecker, D., Adams, D. J. and Draper, E. R. (2018) Transparent-to-dark photo- and electrochromic gels. Communications Chemistry, 1, 77. (doi: 10.1038/s42004-018-0075-2)
Draper, E. R. , Wallace, M., Honecker, D. and Adams, D. J. (2018) Aligning self-assembled perylene bisimides in a magnetic field. Chemical Communications, 54(78), pp. 10977-10980. (doi: 10.1039/C8CC05968C) (PMID:30209449)
Draper, E. R. , Dietrich, B. , Brasnett, C., Sproules, S. , McDonald, T. O., Seddon, A. M. and Adams, D. J. (2018) P-type low-molecular-weight hydrogelators. Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 39(17), 1700746. (doi: 10.1002/marc.201700746) (PMID:29333741)
Lāce, I., Sproules, S. and Draper, E. R. (2018) Using sugar-based additives to prolong the lifetime of air-stable radicals in self-assembled perylene bisimides. ChemNanoMat, 4(8), pp. 776-780. (doi: 10.1002/cnma.201800153)
Cross, E. R., Sproules, S. , Schweins, R., Draper, E. R. and Adams, D. J. (2018) Controlled tuning of the properties in optoelectronic self-sorted gels. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140(28), pp. 8667-8670. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b05359) (PMID:29944359)
Draper, E. R. and Adams, D. J. (2018) How should multicomponent supramolecular gels be characterised? Chemical Society Reviews, 47(10), pp. 3395-3405. (doi: 10.1039/C7CS00804J) (PMID:29419826)
Akhtar, R., Draper, E. R. , Adams, D. J. and Hay, J. (2018) Oscillatory nanoindentation of highly compliant hydrogels: a critical comparative analysis with rheometry. Journal of Materials Research, 33(8), pp. 873-883. (doi: 10.1557/jmr.2018.62)
Draper, E. R. , Archibald, L. J., Nolan, M. C., Schweins, R., Zwijnenburg, M. A., Sproules, S. and Adams, D. J. (2018) Controlling photoconductivity in PBI films by supramolecular assembly. Chemistry: A European Journal, 24(16), pp. 4006-4010. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201800201) (PMID:29405458) (PMCID:PMC5887895)
McDougall, L., Draper, E. R. , Beadle, J. D., Shipman, M., Raubo, P., Jamieson, A. G. and Adams, D. (2018) Enzymatically-stable oxetane-based dipeptide hydrogels. Chemical Communications, 54(14), pp. 1793-1796. (doi: 10.1039/C7CC09701H) (PMID:29384155)
Fayter, A. E.R., Gibson, M. I. and Draper, E. R. (2018) Sub-zero temperature mechanically stable low molecular weight hydrogels. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 6, pp. 7274-7279. (doi: 10.1039/C8TB01668B) (PMID:30555698) (PMCID:PMC6238726)
Saberi Moghaddam, R., Draper, E. R. , Wilson, C. , Heidari, H. and Adams, D. J. (2018) Effect of electric field on the electrical properties of a self-assembled perylene bisimide. RSC Advances, 8(59), pp. 34121-34125. (doi: 10.1039/C8RA06870D)
Mears, L. L.E. et al. (2017) Drying affects the fiber network in low molecular weight hydrogels. Biomacromolecules, 18(11), pp. 3531-3540. (doi: 10.1021/acs.biomac.7b00823) (PMID:28631478) (PMCID:PMC5686561)
Draper, E. R. and Adams, D. J. (2017) Low-molecular-weight gels: the state of the art. Chem, 3(3), pp. 390-410. (doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2017.07.012)
Castilla, A. M., Draper, E. R. , Nolan, M. C., Brasnett, C., Seddon, A., Mears, L. L.E., Cowieson, N. and Adams, D. J. (2017) Self-sorted oligophenylvinylene and perylene bisimide hydrogels. Scientific Reports, 7, 8380. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-08644-0) (PMID:28827598) (PMCID:PMC5566499)
Draper, E. , Su, H., Brasnett, C., Poole, R. J., Rogers, S., Cui, H., Seddon, A. and Adams, D. J. (2017) Opening a can of worm(-like micelle)s: the effect of temperature of solutions of functionalised dipeptides. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 56(35), pp. 10467-10470. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201705604) (PMID:28653804)
Ardoña, H. A. M., Draper, E. R. , Citossi, F., Wallace, M., Serpell, L. C., Adams, D. J. and Tovar, J. D. (2017) Kinetically controlled coassembly of multichromophoric peptide hydrogelators and the impacts on energy transport. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139(25), pp. 8685-8692. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.7b04006) (PMID:28578581)
Draper, E. R. , Greeves, B. J., Barrow, M., Schweins, R., Zwijnenburg, M. A. and Adams, D. J. (2017) pH-directed aggregation to control photoconductivity in self-assembled perylene bisimides. Chem, 2(5), pp. 716-731. (doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2017.03.022)
Colquhoun, C., Draper, E. R. , Schweins, R., Marcello, M., Vadukul, D., Serpell, L. C. and Adams, D. J. (2017) Controlling the network type in self-assembled dipeptide hydrogels. Soft Matter, 13(9), pp. 1914-1919. (doi: 10.1039/C6SM02666D) (PMID:28186211)
Draper, E. R. , Wallace, M., Schweins, R., Poole, R. J. and Adams, D. J. (2017) Nonlinear effects in multicomponent supramolecular hydrogels. Langmuir, 33(9), pp. 2387-2395. (doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b00326) (PMID:28191979)
Draper, E. R. , Dietrich, B. and Adams, D. J. (2017) Self-assembly, self-sorting, and electronic properties of a diketopyrrolopyrrole hydrogelator. Chemical Communications, 53(11), 1864. (doi: 10.1039/C6CC10083J) (PMID:28111678)
Castilla, A. M., Wallace, M., Mears, L. L.E., Draper, E. R. , Doutch, J., Rogers, S. and Adams, D. J. (2016) On the syneresis of an OPV functionalised dipeptide hydrogel. Soft Matter, 12(37), pp. 7848-7854. (doi: 10.1039/C6SM01194B) (PMID:27714311)
Draper, E. R. and Adams, D. J. (2016) Photoresponsive gelators. Chemical Communications, 52(53), pp. 8196-8206. (doi: 10.1039/C6CC03485C) (PMID:27222364)
Draper, E. R. and Adams, D. J. (2016) Supramolecular fibres: Self-sorting shows its true colours. Nature Chemistry, 8(8), pp. 737-738. (doi: 10.1038/nchem.2539) (PMID:27442275)
Draper, E. R. , Lee, J. R., Wallace, M., Jäckel, F., Cowan, A. J. and Adams, D. J. (2016) Self-sorted photoconductive xerogels. Chemical Science, 7(10), pp. 6499-6505. (doi: 10.1039/C6SC02644C)
Draper, E. R. , Mykhaylyk, O. O. and Adams, D. J. (2016) Aligning self-assembled gelators by drying under shear. Chemical Communications, 52(42), pp. 6934-6937. (doi: 10.1039/C6CC02824A) (PMID:27146964)
Draper, E. R. , Schweins, R., Akhtar, R., Groves, P., Chechik, V., Zwijnenburg, M. A. and Adams, D. J. (2016) Reversible photoreduction as a trigger for photoresponsive gels. Chemistry of Materials, 28(17), pp. 6336-6341. (doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b02677)
Walsh, J. R., Lee, J. R., Draper, E. R., , King, S. M., Jäckel, F., Zwijnenburg, M. A., Adams, D. J. and Cowan, A. J. (2016) Controlling visible light driven photoconductivity in self-assembled perylene bisimide structures. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120(33), pp. 18479-18486. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b06222)
Awhida, S., Draper, E. R. , McDonald, T. O. and Adams, D. J. (2015) Probing gelation ability for a library of dipeptide gelators. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 455, pp. 24-31. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2015.05.032) (PMID:26047582)
Draper, E. R. , Eden, E. G. B., McDonald, T. O. and Adams, D. J. (2015) Spatially resolved multicomponent gels. Nature Chemistry, 7(10), pp. 848-852. (doi: 10.1038/nchem.2347) (PMID:26391086)
Draper, E. R. , McDonald, T. O. and Adams, D. J. (2015) A low molecular weight hydrogel with unusual gel aging. Chemical Communications, 51(30), pp. 6595-6597. (doi: 10.1039/C5CC01334H) (PMID:25775220)
Draper, E. R. , McDonald, T. O. and Adams, D. J. (2015) Photodimerisation of a coumarin-dipeptide gelator. Chemical Communications, 51(64), pp. 12827-12830. (doi: 10.1039/C5CC03817K) (PMID:26165822)
Colquhoun, C. et al. (2014) The effect of self-sorting and co-assembly on the mechanical properties of low molecular weight hydrogels. Nanoscale, 6(22), pp. 13719-13725. (doi: 10.1039/C4NR04039B)
Draper, E. R. , Walsh, J. J., McDonald, T. O., Zwijnenburg, M. A., Cameron, P. J., Cowan, A. J. and Adams, D. J. (2014) Air-stable photoconductive films formed from perylene bisimide gelators. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2(28), pp. 5570-5575. (doi: 10.1039/C4TC00744A)
Slater, R. A., McDonald, T. O., Adams, D. J. , Draper, E. R. , Weaver, J. V. M. and Rannard, S. P. (2012) Architecture-driven aqueous stability of hydrophobic, branched polymer nanoparticles prepared by rapid nanoprecipitation. Soft Matter, 8(38), pp. 9816-9827. (doi: 10.1039/C2SM26355F)
Books
Draper, E. (2021) Women in Supramolecular Chemistry: Collectively Crafting the Rhythms of Our Work and Lives in STEM. Policy Press. ISBN 9781447365358 (Accepted for Publication)
Book Sections
Akhtar, R., Draper, E. R. , Adams, D. J. and Pfaff, H. (2016) Complex shear modulus of hydrogels using a dynamic nanoindentation method. In: Tekalur, S., Zavattieri, P. and Korach, C. (eds.) Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Volume 6. Springer, pp. 141-145. ISBN 9783319214542 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-21455-9_17)
Supervision
- Rezig, Amina Omelbanine
Perylenebisimide hydrogels: optimisation of supramolecular systems for developing electrogenic tissue mimicry.
Teaching
Chem 5Y - 2nd year Organic Chemistry
Research datasets
2022
Cameron, J. , Skabara, P. , Adams, D. and Draper, E. (2022) Amino Acid Functionalised Perylene Bisimides for Aqueous Solution-deposited Electron Transporting Interlayers in Organic Photovoltaic Devices. [Data Collection]
2018
Moghaddam, R. S., Draper, E., Wilson, C. , Heidari, H. and Adams, D. (2018) Effect of electric field on the electrical properties of a self-assembled perylene bisimide. [Data Collection] (Unpublished)
Cross, E. , Sproules, S., Schweins, R., Draper, E. and Adams, D. (2018) Controlled Tuning of the Properties in Optoelectronic Self-Sorted Gels. [Data Collection] (Unpublished)
