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หน้าหลัก >  บุคลากร > Dr.Nattawut Yuntawattana

Dr.Nattawut Yuntawattana

fscinwy@ku.ac.th

email:

fscinwy@ku.ac.th and nattawut.yu@ku.ac.th

Education:

  • B.S. (Chemistry, Second Class Honours), Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
  • M.S. (Chemistry), Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
  • DPhil (Inorganic Chemistry), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States

Award and Funding:

  • 2020 Graduate prize from Trinity college, Uiversity of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  • 2019 20 UK Semi-finalists for Dopper Change Maker Challenge 2019
  • 2016 2nd Best Poster Presentation Award at the 11th conference on science and technology for youths, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 2010-2020 Development and Promotion of Science and Technology Talents Project
  • 2009-2010 Academic Achievement from Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

Research Interests:

1) Biodegradable Polymers
2) Polymerization Catalysis
3) Advanced Polymers

One of the biggest challenges facing our society at the moment is the waste problem from conventional plastics. As scientists, we should ask ourselves how could we help solve this problem?

Our group research focuses on using both top-down and bottom-up approaches to help tackle this issue. For the top-down method, we are working on the development of new alternative materials, showing similar properties to commodity plastics that we use nowadays, that can control their end-of-life and are degradable. For example, we are using various polymerization methods including ring-opening polymerization (ROP) and ring-opening copolymerization (ROCOP) to make new materials from bio-renewable resources, biomass, and greenhouse gas. In the case of bottom-up approach, we are focusing on upcycling conventional plastic wastes from commodity plastics to make high value-added materials/chemicals. With these two promising approaches we hope to make our world greener and better.

Selected publications

  1. Hancock, S. N.†, Yuntawattana, N.†, Valdez, S. M., Michaudel, Q. Ring-opening metathesis polymerization of pyridinonorbornenes synthesized from 2,3-pyridines, preprint available at Chemrxiv, 2022, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-xn8dq
    († these authors contribute equally)
  2. Yuntawattana, N., Gregory, G. L., Carrodeguas, L. P., Williams, C. K., Switchable polymerization catalysis using a tin(II) catalyst and commercial monomers to toughen poly(L-lactide), ACS Macro Lett., 2021, 10, 774─779.
  3. Yuntawattana, N., McGuire, T. M., Durr, C.B., Williams, C. K., Indium phosphasalen catalysts showing high isoselectivity and activity in racemic lactide and lactone ring-opening polymerization, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, 10, 7226─7239.
  4. Yuntawattana, N., Nakornkhet, C., Nanok, T., Upitak, K., Hormnirun, P., Dinuclear aluminum complexes bearing methylene-bridged bis phenoxy-imine ligands and their application in the ring-opening polymerization of rac-lactide, New J. Chem., 2020, 44, 6965─6978.
  5. Lim, J. Y. C., Yuntawattana, N., Beer, P. D., Williams, C. K., Isoselective lactide ring-opening polymerisation using [2] rotaxane catalysts, Angrew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 6007─6011.