Arancha Delcampo
Research interests:
- Bionanotechnology
o Magnetic carriers: surface activation of magnetic nanoparticles for
biomedical applications
- Synthesis of novel functionalised alkoxysilanes and surface modification
o Novel photoactivable silanes for chemical micro- and nanopatterning
- Self-assembly
o Site-selective colloidal assembly onto chemically patterned SAMs
- Liquid Crystals
o Synthesis of new geometries of LCP: Polyoxetanes carrying LC dimers
in the side chain
CV
1996 - 2000: PhD in Chemistry at the Instituto de CyT
de Polímeros in Madrid (Spain) (www.ictp.csic.es). Dissertation:
"Ferroelectric liquid crystalline polymers: synthesis and characterization
of thermal properties and molecular dynamics".
1995 - 1996: MSc in Polymer Science and Technology at the Instituto
de CyT de Polímeros in Madrid (www.ictp.csic.es).
1990 - 1995: MSc in Organic Chemistry at the Universidad Complutense
in Madrid (www.ucm.es)
Professional experience:
10/2003 - present: Research Fellow at the University
of Greenwich (London, UK) destinated at the University of Urbino (Italy)
in the group of Prof. I. Bruce.
06/2001 - 06/2003: Marie-Curie Research Fellow at Max Planck Institute
for Polymer Research in Mainz (Germany) at the group of Prof. H. W.
Spiess (www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de)
07/2000 - 05/2001: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Max Planck Institute
for Polymer Research in Mainz (Germany) at the group of Prof. H. W.
Spiess (www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de)
Research experience in other groups
10/2002 - 12/2002: Research stay at Berkeley National
Lab (USA) in the group of Prof. Miquel Salmerón.
04/1997, 04/1998, 10/1999: Research stais at DESY-HASYLAB in Hamburg
(Germany).
09/1998 - 11/1998: Research stay at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer
Research in Mainz (Germany) in the group of Prof. H. W. Spiess
10/1996 - 11/1996: Research stay at the University of Mainz (Germany),
in the group of Prof. Rudolf Zentel
List of publications in refereed journals
Surface science and nanotechnology:
- "Assembly Structures from Colloids at Patterned Surfaces",
A. del Campo, A. S. Dubez, Ch. A. Fustin, U. Jonas, invited contribution
to the Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, in press.
- "Colloidal assemblies on patterned silane layers", U. Jonas,
A. del Campo, C. Krüger, G. Glasser, D. Boos, PNAS 99, 5034-5039
(2002)
Liquid crystalline polymers:
- "Amorphous-Smectic Glassy Main Chain LCPs. II. Dielectric study
of the glass transition"; A. García-Bernabé, R. Díaz
Calleja, M. J. Sanchis, A. del Campo, A. Bello, E. Pérez, Polymer
45, 1533-1543 (2004)
- "Thermal properties of non-symmetric bibenzoate liquid crystalline
dimers"; A. del Campo, A. Bello, E. Pérez, A. Meyer, Liquid
Crystals 31, 109-118 (2004)
- "Synchrotron X-ray study of liquid crystalline polyoxetanes containing
two mesogenic groups connected by a flexible spacer in the side chain";
A. del Campo, A. Bello, E. Pérez, Macromol. Chem. Phys. 204,
682-691 (2003)
- "Amorphous-Smectic Glassy Main Chain LCPs. I. Polyetheresters
derived from hydroxybibenzoic acid and (R,S)- and (R)-2-methyl-1,3-propanediol";
A. del Campo, A. Bello, E. Pérez, A. García-Bernabé,
R. Díaz Calleja, Macromol. Chem. Phys. 203, 2508-2515 (2002)
- "Molecular dynaics of a series of nematic polyesters", A.
del Campo, T. A. Ezquerra, G. Wilbert, M. Paßman, R. Zentel. Macromol.
Chem. Phys. 203, 2089-2094 (2002)
- "Synthesis of new side chain liquid crystalline polyoxetanes
with two mesogenic groups connected by a flexible spacer in the side
chain"; A. del Campo, A. Bello, E. Pérez, Macromol. Chem.
Phys. 203, 975-984 (2002)
- "Liquid crystalline polyoxetanes with two mesogens in the side
chain separated by a flexible spacer", A. del Campo, A. Bello,
E. Pérez, R. Benavente. Ferroelectrics 243, 137-144 (2000)
- "Synchrotron X-ray study of the phase transitions in liquid crystal
polyesteres derived from p,p'-bibenzoic acid and racemic- and (R)-3-methyl-1,6-hexanediol",
E. Pérez, A. del Campo, A. Bello, R. Benavente. Macromolecules
33, 3023-3030 (2000)
- "NMR Study of Intramolecular Interactions between Aromatic Groups:
Van der Waals, Charge-Transfer, or Quadrupolar Interacions?", N.
J. Heaton, P. Bello, B. Herradón, A. del Campo, J. Jiménez-Barbero.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 120, 9632-9645 (1998)
- "Synthesis and phase behaviour of liquid crystalline polyester
derived from p,p'-bibenzoic acid and meso- and (R)-3-methylhexanodiol",
A. del Campo, R. Benavente, A. Bello, E. Pérez, J. M. Pereña.
Polymer 39, 3847-3852 (1998)