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Australia
2022

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Materials Science

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69

Chemistry

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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Australia Leader Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

Overview

Graeme Moad is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on Chemistry and Materials Science, with a specialization in Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. Additional subfields include Spectroscopy, Biomedical Engineering, and Polymers and Plastics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to polymers and advanced synthesis techniques, including:

  • Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization
  • Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography
  • Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis
  • Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry
  • Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation
  • Polymer Surface Interaction Studies
  • Radioactive Element Chemistry and Processing

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Graeme Moad include:

  • Christopher M. Fellows
  • Karl-Heinz Hellwich
  • Michel Vert
  • Stefano V. Meille
  • Tamaki Nakano

Publications by the scientist have appeared regularly in several venues, notably:

  • IUPAC Standards Online
  • Macromolecules
  • Pure and Applied Chemistry
  • Polymer Chemistry
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Reversible-deactivation radical polymerization (Controlled/living radical polymerization): From discovery to materials design and applications," 2020, Progress in Polymer Science
  • "Terminology for chain polymerization (IUPAC Recommendations 2021)," 2022, Pure and Applied Chemistry
  • "High-Throughput Process for the Discovery of Antimicrobial Polymers and Their Upscaled Production via Flow Polymerization," 2020, Macromolecules
  • "Multiblock copolymer synthesis via RAFT emulsion polymerization," 2023, Chemical Society Reviews
  • "RAFT Emulsion Polymerization for (Multi)block Copolymer Synthesis: Overcoming the Constraints of Monomer Order," 2021, Macromolecules

Graeme Moad was recognized as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Living free-radical polymerization by reversible addition - Fragmentation chain transfer: The RAFT process

    John Chiefari;Y. K. Chong;Frances Ercole;Julia Krstina

  • Living radical polymerization by the RAFT process

    Graeme Moad;Ezio Rizzardo;San H. Thang

  • Living Radical Polymerization by the RAFT Process - A Second Update

    Graeme Moad;Ezio Rizzardo;San H. Thang

  • The Chemistry of Radical Polymerization

    Graeme Moad;David H. Solomon

  • Radical addition-fragmentation chemistry in polymer synthesis

    Graeme Moad;Ezio Rizzardo;San H. Thang

  • A more versatile route to block copolymers and other polymers of complex architecture by living radical polymerization : The RAFT process

    Y. K. Chong;Tam P. T. Le;Graeme Moad;and Ezio Rizzardo

  • 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

  • Toward living radical polymerization.

    Graeme Moad;Ezio Rizzardo;San H. Thang

  • Reversible-deactivation radical polymerization (Controlled/living radical polymerization): From discovery to materials design and applications

    Nathaniel Corrigan;Kenward Jung;Graeme Moad;Craig J. Hawker

  • The synthesis of polyolefin graft copolymers by reactive extrusion

    Graeme Moad

  • 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

  • Living Radical Polymerization with Reversible Addition−Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT Polymerization) Using Dithiocarbamates as Chain Transfer Agents

    Roshan T. A. Mayadunne;Ezio Rizzardo;John Chiefari;Yen Kwong Chong

  • Definitions of terms relating to the structure and processing of sols, gels, networks, and inorganic-organic hybrid materials (IUPAC Recommendations 2007)

    J. Aleman;Alan V. Chadwick;J. He;M. Hess

  • Polymerization with living characteristics

    Tam Phuong Le;Graeme Moad;Ezio Rizzardo;San Hoa Thang

  • RAFT Agent Design and Synthesis

    Daniel J. Keddie;Graeme Moad;Ezio Rizzardo;San H. Thang

  • 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

  • Terminology for reversible-deactivation radical polymerization previously called "controlled" radical or "living" radical polymerization (IUPAC Recommendations 2010)

    Aubrey D. Jenkins;Richard G. Jones;Graeme Moad

  • Mechanism and kinetics of dithiobenzoate-mediated RAFT polymerization. I. The current situation

    Christopher Barner-Kowollik;Michael Buback;Bernadette Charleux;Michelle L. Coote

  • The chemistry of free radical polymerization

    Graeme Moad;D. H. Solomon

Frequent Co-Authors

Ezio Rizzardo
Ezio Rizzardo Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
San H. Thang
San H. Thang Monash University
David H. Solomon
David H. Solomon University of Melbourne
Almar Postma
Almar Postma Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Sébastien Perrier
Sébastien Perrier University of Warwick
Cyrille Boyer
Cyrille Boyer University of New South Wales
Richard A. Evans
Richard A. Evans Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
George P. Simon
George P. Simon Monash University
Jiangtao Xu
Jiangtao Xu University of New South Wales
Christopher K. Ober
Christopher K. Ober Cornell University

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