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Overview

Almar Postma is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields, including Chemistry, Engineering, and Materials Science, with a particular focus on Organic Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Polymers and Plastics.

Their scholarly work addresses several key topics such as Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization, Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation, Photopolymerization Techniques and Applications, Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies, Advancements in Battery Materials, Click Chemistry and Applications, and Conducting Polymers and Applications.

Among their recent publications are:

  • An ultrafast insulin formulation enabled by high-throughput screening of engineered polymeric excipients, 2020, Science Translational Medicine
  • Lipid Nanodiscs via Ordered Copolymers, 2020, Chem
  • A Comprehensive Platform for the Design and Synthesis of Polymer Molecular Weight Distributions, 2020, Macromolecules
  • Printability and bio-functionality of a shear thinning methacrylated xanthan-gelatin composite bioink, 2021, Biofabrication
  • Polymerized Ionic Liquid Block Copolymer Electrolytes for All-Solid-State Lithium-Metal Batteries, 2020, Journal of The Electrochemical Society

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Graeme Moad (8 joint publications)
  • Cyrille Boyer (5 joint publications)
  • Gervase Ng (4 joint publications)
  • Stuart W. Prescott (4 joint publications)
  • Craig J. Hawker (4 joint publications)

Common publication venues for their work include Macromolecules, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, Science Translational Medicine, Chem, and Biofabrication.

Best Publications

  • Living free radical polymerization with reversible addition : fragmentation chain transfer (the life of RAFT)

    Graeme Moad;John Chiefari;Y K Chong;Julia Krstina

  • Advances in RAFT polymerization: the synthesis of polymers with defined end-groups

    Graeme Moad;Y.K. Chong;Almar Postma;Ezio Rizzardo

  • Polydopamine—a nature-inspired polymer coating for biomedical science

    Martin E. Lynge;Rebecca van der Westen;Almar Postma;Brigitte Städler

  • Thiocarbonylthio Compounds [SC(Ph)S−R] in Free Radical Polymerization with Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT Polymerization). Role of the Free-Radical Leaving Group (R)

    Y. K. Chong;Julia Krstina;Tam P. T. Le;Graeme Moad

  • Thiocarbonylthio Compounds (SC(Z)S−R) in Free Radical Polymerization with Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT Polymerization). Effect of the Activating Group Z

    John Chiefari;Roshan T. A. Mayadunne;Catherine L. Moad;Graeme Moad

  • Living Polymers by the Use of Trithiocarbonates as Reversible Addition−Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) Agents: ABA Triblock Copolymers by Radical Polymerization in Two Steps

    Roshan T. A. Mayadunne;Ezio Rizzardo;John Chiefari;Julia Krstina

  • Self-Polymerization of Dopamine as a Versatile and Robust Technique to Prepare Polymer Capsules

    Almar Postma;Almar Postma;Yan Yan;Yajun Wang;Alexander N. Zelikin

  • Immobilization and intracellular delivery of an anticancer drug using mussel-inspired polydopamine capsules.

    Jiwei Cui;Yan Yan;Georgina K. Such;Kang Liang

  • Monodisperse Polymer Capsules: Tailoring Size, Shell Thickness, and Hydrophobic Cargo Loading via Emulsion Templating

    Jiwei Cui;Jiwei Cui;Yajun Wang;Almar Postma;Jingcheng Hao

  • A Microreactor with Thousands of Subcompartments: Enzyme‐Loaded Liposomes within Polymer Capsules

    Brigitte Städler;Rona Chandrawati;Andrew D. Price;Siow-Feng Chong

  • RAFT polymerization with phthalimidomethyl trithiocarbonates or xanthates. On the origin of bimodal molecular weight distributions in living radical polymerization

    Almar Postma;Thomas P. Davis;Guoxin Li;Graeme Moad

  • Ultrathin, responsive polymer click capsules.

    Georgina K. Such;Elvira Tjipto;Almar Postma;and Angus P. R. Johnston

  • Synthesis of well-defined polystyrene with primary amine end groups through the use of phthalimido-functional RAFT agents

    Almar Postma;Thomas P. Davis;Richard A. Evans;Guoxin Li

  • Functional polymers for optoelectronic applications by RAFT polymerization

    Graeme Moad;Ming Chen;Matthias Häussler;Almar Postma

  • Thermolysis of RAFT-synthesized polymers. A convenient method for trithiocarbonate group elimination

    Almar Postma;Thomas P. Davis;Graeme Moad;Michael S. O'Shea

  • Cholesterol – a biological compound as a building block in bionanotechnology

    Leticia Hosta-Rigau;Yan Zhang;Yan Zhang;Boon M. Teo;Almar Postma

  • Surface modification of electrospun fibres for biomedical applications: A focus on radical polymerization methods

    Lina Duque Sánchez;Narelle Brack;Almar Postma;Paul J. Pigram

  • Assembly and functionalization of DNA-polymer microcapsules.

    Francesca Cavalieri;Almar Postma;Lillian Lee;Frank Caruso

  • Dopamine-Mediated Continuous Assembly of Biodegradable Capsules

    Christopher J. Ochs;Tam Hong;Georgina K. Such;Jiwei Cui

  • Microfluidic polymer multilayer adsorption on liquid crystal droplets for microcapsule synthesis.

    Craig Priest;Anthony Quinn;Almar Postma;Alexander N. Zelikin

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Caruso
Frank Caruso University of Melbourne
Graeme Moad
Graeme Moad Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
San H. Thang
San H. Thang Monash University
Brigitte Städler
Brigitte Städler Aarhus University
Ezio Rizzardo
Ezio Rizzardo Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Georgina K. Such
Georgina K. Such University of Melbourne
Thomas P. Davis
Thomas P. Davis University of Queensland
Paul Mccormick
Paul Mccormick Columbia University
Patrick S. Stayton
Patrick S. Stayton University of Washington
Calum J. Drummond
Calum J. Drummond RMIT University

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