Knox, S. T.; Wu, K. E.; Islam N.; O'Connell, R.; Pittaway, P. M.; Chingono, K, E.; Oyekan, J.; Panoutsos, G.; Chamberlain, T. W.; Bourne, R. A.; Warren, N. J. Self-driving laboratory platform for manyobjective self-optimisation of polymer nanoparticle synthesis with cloud-integrated machine learning and orthogonal online analytics Polymer Chemistry, 2025,
Pittaway, P, M; Chingono, K. E.; Knox, S. T.; Martin, E.; Bourne, R. A.; Cayre, O. J.; Kapur, N.; Booth, J.; Capomaccio, R.;
Pedge, N,; Warren, N. J. Exploiting Online Spatially Resolved Dynamic Light Scattering and Flow-NMR for Automated
Size Targeting of PISA-Synthesized Block Copolymer Nanoparticles ACS Polymer Au 2025, 5, 1
Pittaway, P, M; Knox, S. T.; Cayre, O. J.; Kapur, N.; Golden, L.; Drillieres. S.; Warren, N. J. Self-driving laboratory for emulsion polymerization Chemical Engineering Journal 2025, 160700
Hilton, E. M.; Jhons, Y.; Warren, N. J.; Wilson, A. J.; Polymers with quadruple hydrogen-bonding end groups: controlling molecular weight using a small molecule photoswitch Polymer Chemistry 2024, 15, 4115
Dixon, T. M.; Williams, J.; Besenhard, M.; Howard, R. M; MacGregor, J.; Peach, P.; Clayton, A. D.; Warren, N. J.; Bourne, R. A.; Operator-free HPLC automated method development guided by Bayesian optimization Digital Discovery 2024, 8, 1591
Hilton, E. M.; Jinks; M. A.; Burnett, A. D.; Warren, N. J.; Wilson, A. J.; Visible-light driven control over oligomerization of triple and quadruply hydrogen-bonded ditopic self-assemblies Chem Eur J. 2024, e202304033
Pugsley, C.; Isaac, E.; Warren, N.; Stacey, M.; Cappelle, K.; Dominguez-Espinosa, R.; Cayre, O., Effective delivery and selective insecticidal activity of double-stranded RNA via complexation with diblock copolymer varies with polymer block composition. Pest Management Science 2024 80, 669
Morrell, A.; Warren, N.J.; Thornton, P.,The Production of Polysarcosine‐Containing Nanoparticles by Ring‐Opening Polymerization‐Induced Self‐Assembly. Macromolecular Rapid Communications 2024, 2400103
Lockwood, A. P. G.; Wadsley, G.; Warren, N. J.; Peakall, J.; Webber, G. B. Wanless, E. J.; Rhodes, D,; Barnes, M.; Harbottle, D.; Hunter, T. N.; Amphiphilic block copolymers as dual flocculation-flotation agents for rapid solid-liquid separation of radioactive wastes Separation and Purification Technology 2023, 124387
Guild, J. D.; Knox, S. T.; Burholt, S. B.; Hilton, E. M.; Terrill, N. J.; Schroeder, S. L. M.; Warren, N. J. Continuous-Flow Laboratory SAXS for In Situ Determination of the Impact of Hydrophilic Block Length on Spherical Nano-Object Formation during Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly. Macromolecules 2023, 56, 6426
Wilding, C. Y. P.; Knox, S. T.; Bourne, R. A.; Warren, N. J., Development and Experimental Validation of a Dispersity Model for In Silico RAFT Polymerization. Macromolecules 2023, 56 , 1581.
Pittaway, P. M.; Ghasemi, G.; Knox, S. T.; Cayre, O. J.; Kapur, N.; Warren, N. J. Continuous synthesis of block copolymer nanoparticles via telescoped RAFT solution and dispersion polymerisation in a miniature CSTR cascade. Reaction Chemistry & Engineering 2023, 8 , 707
Dent, F. J.; Harbottle, D.; Warren, N. J.; Khodaparast, S., Exploiting breath figure reversibility for in situ pattern modulation and hierarchical design. Soft Matter 2023, 19, 2737.
Kershaw, O. J.; Clayton, A. D.; Manson, J. A.; Barthelme, A.; Pavey, J.; Peach, P.; Mustakis, J.; Howard, R. M.; Chamberlain, T. W.; Warren, N. J.; Bourne, R. A., Machine learning directed multi-objective optimization of mixed variable chemical systems. Chemical Engineering Journal 2023, 451, 138443.
Pugsley, C. E.; Isaac, R. E.; Warren, N. J.; Cayre, O. J., Linear ABC amphiphilic triblock copolymers for complexation and protection of dsRNA. Polymer Chemistry 2022, 13, 5707.
Pugsley, C. E.; Isaac, R. E.; Warren, N. J.; Behra, J. S.; Cappelle, K.; Dominguez-Espinosa, R.; Cayre, O. J., Protection of Double-Stranded RNA via Complexation with Double Hydrophilic Block Copolymers: Influence of Neutral Block Length in Biologically Relevant Environments. Biomacromolecules 2022, 23, 2362.
Czubak, B.; Warren, N. J.; Nagaraj, M., Steroid-Based Liquid Crystalline Polymers: Responsive and Biocompatible Materials of the Future. Crystals 2022, 12, 1000.
Dent, F. J.; Harbottle, D.; Warren, N. J.; Khodaparast, S., Temporally Arrested Breath Figure. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2022, 14, 27435.
Knox, S. T.; Parkinson, S. J.; Wilding, C. Y. P.; Bourne, R. A.; Warren, N. J.,* Autonomous polymer synthesis delivered by multi-objective closed-loop optimisation. Polymer Chemistry 2022, 13, 1576-1585.
Brotherton E. E; Jesson C.P.; , Warren N.J.; Smallridge M. J., Armes S. P., New Aldehyde‐Functional Methacrylic Water‐Soluble Polymers Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2021, 133,12139-12144
Pugsley, C. E.; Isaac, R. E.; Warren, N. J.; Cayre, O. J., Recent Advances in Engineered Nanoparticles for RNAi-Mediated Crop Protection Against Insect Pests. 2021, 3
Lockwood, A. P. G.; Peakall, J.; Warren, N. J.; Randall, G.; Barnes, M.; Harbottle, D.; Hunter, T. N., Structure and sedimentation characterisation of sheared Mg(OH)2 suspensions flocculated with anionic polymers. Chemical Engineering Science 2021, 231, 116274.
Kaskiewicz, P. L.; Rosbottom, I.; Hammond, R. B.; Warren, N. J.; Morton, C.; Dowding, P. J.; George, N.; Roberts, K. J., Understanding and Designing Tailor-Made Additives for Controlling Nucleation: Case Study of p-Aminobenzoic Acid Crystallizing from Ethanolic Solutions. Crystal Growth & Design 2021, 21, 1946-1958.
Nahi O., Cayre O. J.; Kim, Y-Y., Smith, A. J., Warren, N. J., Meldrum, F. C., A Facile Method for Generating Worm-like Micelles with Controlled Lengths and Narrow Polydispersity Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 7463
Parkinson, S..; Knox, S. T.; Bourne, R. A.; Warren, N. J*.; Rapid Production of Block Copolymer Nano-Objects via Continuous-Flow Ultrafast RAFT Dispersion Polymerisation, Polymer Chemistry 2020 11, 3465-3474
Spelat, R.; Ferro, F.; Contessotto, P.; Warren, N. J.; Marsico, G.; Armes, S. P.; Pandit, A., A worm gel-based 3D model to elucidate the paracrine interaction between multiple myeloma and mesenchymal stem cells. Materials Today Bio 2020, 5, 100040
Knox, S. Warren, N. J.* Enabling technologies in polymer synthesis: accessing a new design space for advanced polymer materials Reaction Chemistry & Engineering., 2020, 5, 405-423
Knox, S. ; Stone, R.; Parkinson, S.; and Warren, N. J.* Online Monitoring of Radical Polymerisation using low-field Flow-NMR; Polymer Chemistry, 2019, 10, 4774-4778
Kaskiewicz, P. L.; Xua, G.; Lai, X.; Warren, N. J, Roberts, K J., Morton, C.; Dowding, P.; George, N.; An accelerated approach to the prediction of the crystallisability of slowly nucleating systems Organic Process Research and Development, 2019 23 (9), 1948
Yua, H.; Ingram, N.; Rowley, J. V.; Parkinson, S.; Green, D. C.; Warren, N. J and Thornton, P. D., Thermoresponsive Polysarcosine-Based Nanoparticles Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2019, 7, 4217-4223
Parkinson, S.; Hondow N. S.; Conteh, J.S.; Bourne, R. A,; Warren, N. J.* All-aqueous continuous-flow RAFT dispersion polymerisation for efficient preparation of diblock copolymer spheres, worms and vesicles. Reaction Chemistry & Engineering 2019. 4, 852-861
Warren, N. J.*; Derry, M. J.; Mykhaylyk, O. O.; Lovett, J. R.; Ratcliffe, L. P. D.; Ladmiral, V.; Blanazs, A.; Fielding, L. A.; Armes, S. P. Critical Dependence of Molecular Weight on Thermoresponsive Behavior of Diblock Copolymer Worm Gels in Aqueous Solution. Macromolecules 2018, 51 (21), 8357-8371
Madsen, J.; Madden, G.; Themistou, E.; Warren, N. J.; Armes, S. P. pH-Responsive diblock copolymers with two different fluorescent labels for simultaneous monitoring of micellar self-assembly and degree of protonation. Polymer Chemistry 2018, 9 (21), 2964-2976
Lovett, J. R.; Derry, M. J.; Yang, P.; Hatton, F. L.; Warren, N. J.; Fowler, Patrick W.; Armes, S. P. Can percolation theory explain the gelation behavior of diblock copolymer worms? Chemical Science 2018, 9 (35), 7138-7144
Doherty, S.; Knight, J. G.; Backhouse, T.; Abood, E.; Al-shaikh, H.; Clemmet, A. R.; Ellison, J. R.; Bourne, R. A.; Chamberlain, T. W.; Stones, R.; Warren, N. J.; Fairlamb, I. J. S.; Lovelock, K. R. J. Heteroatom Donor-Decorated Polymer-Immobilized Ionic Liquid Stabilized Palladium Nanoparticles: Efficient Catalysts for Room-Temperature Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling in Aqueous Media. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis 2018, 360, 1–17
Steinschulte, A. A.; Scotti, A.; Rahimi, K.; Nevskyi, O.; Oppermann, A.; Schneider, S.; Bochenek, S.; Schulte, M. F.; Geisel, K.; Jansen, F.; Jung, A.; Mallmann, S.; Winter, R.; Richtering, W.; Wöll, D.; Schweins, R.; Warren, N. J.*; Plamper, F. A., Stimulated Transitions of Directed Nonequilibrium Self-Assemblies. Advanced Materials, 2017, 1703495 (Joint final and corresponding author)
Ratcliffe, L. P. D.; Bentley, K. J.; Wehr, R.; Warren, N. J.*; Saunders, B. R. Armes, S. P.; Cationic disulfide-functionalized worm gels Polymer Chemistry, 2017,8, 5962-5971
Jesson C. P.; Pearce C. M.; Simon H.; Werner A.; Cunningham V. J.; Lovett J. R.; Smallridge M. J.; Warren N. J.*, and Armes S. P.; H2O2 Enables Convenient Removal of RAFT End-Groups from Block Copolymer Nano-Objects Prepared via Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly in Water. Macromolecules, 2017, 50 (1), 182–191
Zhang, Z. J.; Madsen, J.; Warren, N. J.; Mears, M.; Leggett, G. J.; Lewis, A. L.; Geoghegan, M,; Influence of Salt on the Solution Dynamics of a Phosphorylcholine-Based Polyzwitterion. European Polymer Journal, 2017, 87, 449–457
Rymaruk M. J.; Thompson K. L.; Derry M. J.; Warren N. J.; Ratcliffe L. P. D.; Williams C. N.; Brown S. L.; Armes S. P. Bespoke contrast-matched diblock copolymer nanoparticles enable the rational design of highly transparent Pickering double emulsions. Nanoscale 2016, 8, (30), 14497-14506
Mykhaylyk, O. O.; Warren, N. J.; Parnell, A. J.; Pfeifer, G.; Laeuger, J. Applications of shear-induced polarized light imaging (SIPLI) technique for mechano-optical rheology of polymers and soft matter materials. Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 2016, 54 (21), 2151-2170.
Derry, M. J.; Fielding, L. A.; Warren, N. J.; Mable, C. J.; Smith, A. J.; Mykhaylyk, O. O.; Armes, S. P. In situ small-angle X-ray scattering studies of sterically-stabilized diblock copolymer nanoparticles formed during polymerization-induced self-assembly in non-polar media. Chemical Science 2016, 7 (8), 5078-5090.
Williams, M.; Penfold, N. J. W.; Lovett, J. R.; Warren, N. J.; Douglas, C. W. I.; Doroshenko, N.; Verstraete, P.; Smets, J.; Armes, S. P. Bespoke cationic nano-objects via RAFT aqueous dispersion polymerisation. Polymer Chemistry 2016, 7 (23), 3864-3873.
Penfold, N. J. W.; Lovett, J. R.; Warren, N. J.; Verstraete, P.; Smets, J.; Armes, S. P. pH-Responsive non-ionic diblock copolymers: protonation of a morpholine end-group induces an order-order transition. Polymer Chemistry 2016, 7 (1), 79-88.
Lovett, J. R.; Warren, N. J.; Armes, S. P. Order-Order Morphological Transitions for Dual Stimulus Responsive Diblock Copolymer Vesicles. Macromolecules 2016, 49 (3), 1016-1025.
Lovett, J. R.; Ratcliffe, L. P. D.; Warren, N. J.; Armes, S. P.; Smallridge, M. J.; Cracknell, R. B.; Saunders, B. R. A Robust Cross-Linking Strategy for Block Copolymer Worms Prepared via Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly. Macromolecules 2016, 49 (8), 2928-2941.
Canton, I.; Warren, N. J.; Chahal, A.; Amps, K.; Wood, A.; Weightman, R.; Wang, E.; Moore, H.; Armes, S. P. Mucin-Inspired Thermoresponsive Synthetic Hydrogels Induce Stasis in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells and Human Embryos. ACS Central Science 2016, 2 (2), 65-74.
Warren, N. J.; Mykhaylyk, O. O.; Ryan, A. J.; Williams, M.; Doussineau, T.; Dugourd, P.; Antoine, R.; Portale, G.; Armes, S. P. Testing the vesicular morphology to destruction: birth and death of diblock copolymer vesicles prepared via polymerization-induced self-assembly. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2015, 137 (5), 1929-37.
Simon, K. A.; Warren, N. J.; Mosadegh, B.; Mohammady, M. R.; Whitesides, G. M.; Armes, S. P. Disulfide-Based Diblock Copolymer Worm Gels: A Wholly-Synthetic Thermoreversible 3D Matrix for Sheet-Based Cultures. Biomacromolecules 2015, 16 (12), 3952–3958
Mable, C. J.; Warren, N. J.; Thompson, K. L.; Mykhaylyk, O. O.; Armes, S. P. Framboidal ABC triblock copolymer vesicles: a new class of efficient Pickering emulsifier. Chemical Science 2015, 6 (11), 6179-6188.
Lovett, J. R.; Warren, N. J.; Ratcliffe, L. P. D.; Kocik, M. K.; Armes, S. P. pH-Responsive Non-Ionic Diblock Copolymers: Ionization of Carboxylic Acid End-Groups Induces an Order–Order Morphological Transition. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2015, 54 (4), 1279-1283.
Lopez-Oliva, A. P.; Warren, N. J.*; Rajkumar, A.; Mykhaylyk, O. O.; Derry, M. J.; Doncom, K. E. B.; Rymaruk, M. J.; Armes, S. P. Polydimethylsiloxane-Based Diblock Copolymer Nano-objects Prepared in Nonpolar Media via RAFT-Mediated Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly. Macromolecules 2015, 48 (11), 3547-3555.
Doncom, K. E. B.; Warren, N. J.; Armes, S. P. Polysulfobetaine-based diblock copolymer nano-objects via polymerization-induced self-assembly. Polymer Chemistry 2015, 6 (41), 7264-7273
Williams, M.; Warren, N. J.; Fielding, L. A.; Armes, S. P.; Verstraete, P.; Smets, J. Preparation of Double Emulsions using Hybrid Polymer/Silica Particles: New Pickering Emulsifiers with Adjustable Surface Wettability. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2014, 6 (23), 20919-20927.
Warren, N. J.; Armes, S. P. Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly of Block Copolymer Nano-objects via RAFT Aqueous Dispersion Polymerization. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014, 136 (29), 10174-10185.
Thompson, K. L.; Mable, C. J.; Cockram, A.; Warren, N. J.; Cunningham, V. J.; Jones, E. R.; Verber, R.; Armes, S. P. Are block copolymer worms more effective Pickering emulsifiers than block copolymer spheres? Soft Matter 2014, 10 (43), 8615-8626.
Pegoraro, C.; Cecchin, D.; Madsen, J.; Warren, N. J.; Armes, S. P.; MacNeil, S.; Lewis, A.; Battaglia, G. Translocation of flexible polymersomes across pores at the nanoscale. Biomaterials Science 2014, 2 (5), 680-692.
Cunningham, V. J.; Ratcliffe, L. P. D.; Blanazs, A.; Warren, N. J.; Smith, A. J.; Mykhaylyk, O. O.; Armes, S. P. Tuning the critical gelation temperature of thermo-responsive diblock copolymer worm gels. Polymer Chemistry 2014, 5 (21), 6307-6317.
Colley, H. E.; Hearnden, V.; Avila-Olias, M.; Cecchin, D.; Canton, I.; Madsen, J.; MacNeil, S.; Warren, N. J.; Hu, K.; McKeating, J. A.; Armes, S. P.; Murdoch, C.; Thornhill, M. H.; Battaglia, G. Polymersome-Mediated Delivery of Combination Anticancer Therapy to Head and Neck Cancer Cells: 2D and 3D in Vitro Evaluation. Molecular Pharmaceutics 2014, 11 (4), 1176-1188.
Wayakanon, K.; Thornhill, M. H.; Douglas, C. W. I.; Lewis, A. L.; Warren, N. J.; Pinnock, A.; Armes, S. P.; Battaglia, G.; Murdoch, C. Polymersome-mediated intracellular delivery of antibiotics to treat Porphyromonas gingivalis-infected oral epithelial cells. The FASEB Journal 2013, 27 (11), 4455-4465.
Warren, N. J.*; Mykhaylyk, O. O.; Mahmood, D.; Ryan, A. J.; Armes, S. P. RAFT Aqueous Dispersion Polymerization Yields Poly(ethylene glycol)-Based Diblock Copolymer Nano-Objects with Predictable Single Phase Morphologies. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2013, 136 (3), 1023-1033.
Pegoraro, C.; Cecchin, D.; Gracia, L. S.; Warren, N. J.; Madsen, J.; Armes, S. P.; Lewis, A.; MacNeil, S.; Battaglia, G. Enhanced drug delivery to melanoma cells using PMPC-PDPA polymersomes. Cancer Letters 2013, 334 (2), 328-337.
Pearson, R. T.; Warren, N. J.; Lewis, A. L.; Armes, S. P.; Battaglia, G. Effect of pH and Temperature on PMPC–PDPA Copolymer Self-Assembly. Macromolecules 2013, 46 (4), 1400-1407.
Madsen, J.; Canton, I.; Warren, N. J.; Themistou, E.; Blanazs, A.; Ustbas, B.; Tian, X.; Pearson, R.; Battaglia, G.; Lewis, A. L.; Armes, S. P. Nile Blue-Based Nanosized pH Sensors for Simultaneous Far-Red and Near-Infrared Live Bioimaging. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2013, 135 (39), 14863-14870.
Canton, I.; Massignani, M.; Patikarnmonthon, N.; Chierico, L.; Robertson, J.; Renshaw, S. A.; Warren, N. J.; Madsen, J. P.; Armes, S. P.; Lewis, A. L.; Battaglia, G. Fully synthetic polymer vesicles for intracellular delivery of antibodies in live cells. The FASEB Journal 2013, 27 (1), 98-108.
Warren, N. J.; Muise, C.; Stephens, A.; Armes, S. P.; Lewis, A. L. Near-Monodisperse Poly(2-(methacryloyloxy)ethyl phosphorylcholine)-Based Macromonomers Prepared by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization and Thiol–Ene Click Chemistry: Novel Reactive Steric Stabilizers for Aqueous Emulsion Polymerization. Langmuir 2011, 28 (5), 2928-2936.
Madsen, J.; Warren, N. J.; Armes, S. P.; Lewis, A. L. Synthesis of Rhodamine 6G-Based Compounds for the ATRP Synthesis of Fluorescently Labeled Biocompatible Polymers. Biomacromolecules 2011, 12 (6), 2225-2234.
LoPresti, C.; Massignani, M.; Fernyhough, C.; Blanazs, A.; Ryan, A. J.; Madsen, J.; Warren, N. J.; Armes, S. P.; Lewis, A. L.; Chirasatitsin, S.; Engler, A. J.; Battaglia, G. Controlling Polymersome Surface Topology at the Nanoscale by Membrane Confined Polymer/Polymer Phase Separation. ACS Nano 2011, 5 (3), 1775-1784.
Blanazs, A.; Warren, N. J.; Lewis, A. L.; Armes, S. P.; Ryan, A. J. Self-assembly of double hydrophilic block copolymers in concentrated aqueous solution. Soft Matter 2011, 7 (14), 6399-6403.
Battaglia, G.; LoPresti, C.; Massignani, M.; Warren, N. J.; Madsen, J.; Forster, S.; Vasilev, C.; Hobbs, J. K.; Armes, S. P.; Chirasatitsin, S.; Engler, A. J. Wet Nanoscale Imaging and Testing of Polymersomes. Small 2011, 7 (14), 2010-2015.
Lomas, H.; Du, J.; Canton, I.; Madsen, J.; Warren, N. J.; Armes, S. P.; Lewis, A. L.; Battaglia, G. Efficient Encapsulation of Plasmid DNA in pH-Sensitive PMPC–PDPA Polymersomes: Study of the Effect of PDPA Block Length on Copolymer–DNA Binding Affinity. Macromolecular Bioscience 2010, 10 (5), 513-530.
Bradley, M.; Vincent, B.; Warren, N. J.; Eastoe, J.; Vesperinas, A. Photoresponsive Surfactants in Microgel Dispersions. Langmuir 2005, 22 (1), 101-105.