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SCHOLTEN Philip

Alumni

Polymer Chemistry & Materials

Adolphe Merkle Institute Chemin des Verdiers 4 CH-1700 Fribourg Switzerland

Office:	C113
Phone:	+41 26 300 9123
Email:	philip.scholten@unifr.ch
	0000-0001-5187-7003

Philip studied chemistry at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, and obtained his master degree in 2015 studying ring-opening polymerisations of macrolactones under the supervision of Prof. Andrew P. Dove. He then undertook a PhD within the Marie Curie EJD-FunMat programme under the supervision of Dr. Christophe Detrembleur (Université de Liège, Belgium) and Prof. Michael Meier (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany). Within this EU-funded program Philip investigated the synthesis of novel copolymers based on renewable resources and ethylene using reversible deactivation radical polymerisation, as well as novel pathways towards the combination of cellulose and industrial polyethylene using renewable compatibilisers.

Philip then joined the Adolphe Merkle Institute in 2019 as a Post-doctoral researcher as part of the NCCR, investigating polymersome-based nanocarriers for drug delivery.

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Publications

Large-area, self-healing block copolymer membranes for energy conversion
Christian C. M. Sproncken, Peng Liu, Justin Monney, William S. Fall, Carolina Pierucci, Philip B. V. Scholten, Brian Van Bueren, Marcos Penedo, Georg Ernest Fantner, Henricus H. Wensink, Ullrich Steiner, Christoph Weder, Nico Bruns, Michael Mayer, Alessandro Ianiro
Nature (2024)

Tuning the Mechanical Properties of Poly(butylene xylosediglyoxylate) via Compounding Strategies
Mariella Vieli, Maxime A. Hedou, Philip B. V. Scholten, Adrien Demongeot, Lorenz P. Manker, Raymond Buser, Jeremy S. Luterbacher, Véronique Michaud, Florent Héroguel
ACS Applied Polymer Materials 5 , 9732-9741 (2023)

Polymersome-based protein drug delivery – quo vadis?
Micael G. Gouveia, Justus P. Wesseler, Jobbe Ramaekers, Christoph Weder, Philip B. V. Scholten, Nico Bruns
Chemical Society Reviews (2023)

Bioplastics for Food Packaging: Environmental Impact, Trends and Regulatory Aspects
Rui M. S. Cruz, Victoria Krauter, Simon Krauter, Sofia Agriopoulou, Ramona Weinrich, Carsten Herbes, Philip B. V. Scholten, Ilke Uysal-Unalan, Ece Sogut, Samir Kopacic, Johanna Lahti, Ramune Rutkaite, Theodoros Varzakas
Foods 11 , 3087 (2022)

Changes towards more sustainable food packaging legislation and practices. A survey of policy makers and stakeholders in Europe
Anna Trubetskaya, Philip Benjamin Vincent Scholten, Milena Corredig
Food Packaging and Shelf Life 32 , 100856 (2022)

Back to the Future with Biorefineries: Bottom‐Up and Top‐Down Approaches toward Polymers and Monomers
Philip B. V. Scholten, Monique B. Figueirêdo
Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics , 2200017 (2022)

The Green Lean Amine Machine: Harvesting Electric Power While Capturing Carbon Dioxide from Breath
Trevor J. Kalkus, Anirvan Guha, Philip B.V. Scholten, Dmitrii Nagornii, Ali Coskun, Alessandro Ianiro, Michael Mayer
Advanced Science 8 , 2100995 (2021)

Functional Polyethylenes by Organometallic-Mediated Radical Polymerization of Biobased Carbonates
Philip B. V. Scholten, Grégory Cartigny, Bruno Grignard, Antoine Debuigne, Henri Cramail, Michael A. R. Meier, Christophe Detrembleur
ACS Macro Letters 10 , 313-320 (2021)

Rheological and mechanical properties of cellulose/LDPE composites using sustainable and fully renewable compatibilisers
Philip Benjamin Vincent Scholten, Mürüvvet Begüm Özen, Zafer Söyler, Jean‐Michel Thomassin, Manfred Wilhelm, Christophe Detrembleur, Michael Andreas Robert Meier
Journal of Applied Polymer Science (2020)

Progress Toward Sustainable Reversible Deactivation Radical Polymerization
Philip B. V. Scholten, Dafni Moatsou, Christophe Detrembleur, Michael A. R. Meier
Macromolecular Rapid Communications (2020)

Functional Polyethylene (PE) and PE-Based Block Copolymers by Organometallic-Mediated Radical Polymerization
Jérémy Demarteau, Philip B. V. Scholten, Anthony Kermagoret, Julien De Winter, Michael A. R. Meier, Vincent Monteil, Antoine Debuigne, Christophe Detrembleur
Macromolecules (2019)

Plant-Based Nonactivated Olefins: A New Class of Renewable Monomers for Controlled Radical Polymerization
Philip B. V. Scholten, Christophe Detrembleur, Michael A. R. Meier
ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering (2019)

Merging CO2-Based Building Blocks with Cobalt-Mediated Radical Polymerization for the Synthesis of Functional Poly(vinyl alcohol)s
Philip B. V. Scholten, Jérémy Demarteau, Sandro Gennen, Julien De Winter, Bruno Grignard, Antoine Debuigne, Michael A. R. Meier, Christophe Detrembleur
Macromolecules (2018)

Dual Catalysis for Selective Ring-Opening Polymerization of Lactones: Evolution toward Simplicity
Stefan Naumann, Philip B. V. Scholten, James A. Wilson, Andrew P. Dove
Journal of the American Chemical Society (2015)