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RAFT, Polydopamine, Polymer chemistry, RDRP polymerisation
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CSIRO: Clayton South, AU

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CSIRO : Clayton, VIC, AU

2008 to present | Senior Research Scientist / Project Leader (Manufacturing Flagship)
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Almar Postma

University of Melbourne: Melbourne, VIC, AU

2005 to 2008 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of New South Wales: Sydney, NSW, AU

2001 to 2005 | PhD (School of Chemical Engineering )
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University of Surrey: Guildford, Surrey, GB

1993 to 1997 | BSc Honours (Chemistry)
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Wells Cathedral School: Wells, Somerset, GB

1991 to 1993 | A Levels
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Professional activities (1)

University of Melbourne: Melbourne, VIC, AU

2010 to 2016 | Honorary Fellow (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
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Funding (1)

Antiviral Polymer Therapeutics via RAFT Polymerisation

2014 to 2017 | Award
OCE (Canberra, AU)
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Enhancing Photothermal Depolymerization with Metalloporphyrin Catalysts

2024-09-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Ng, Gervase; Prescott, Stuart; Almar Postma; Graeme Moad; Hawker, Craig; Anastasaki, Athina; Boyer, Cyrille
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Exploiting NIR Light-Mediated Surface-Initiated PhotoRAFT Polymerization for Orthogonal Control Polymer Brushes and Facile Postmodification of Complex Architecture through Opaque Barriers

Macromolecules
2023-10-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Gervase Ng; Zilong Wu; Tong Zhang; Anh Phong Dang; Yin Yao; Andrew R. J. Nelson; Stuart W. Prescott; Almar Postma; Graeme Moad; Craig J. Hawker et al.
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High-Throughput Concurrent Synthesis of Core-Crosslinked star-Polydimethylsiloxane Using an Arm-First Approach

2023-08-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Dan Eyckens; Shaun Howard; Graeme Moad; Benjamin Ward Muir; Almar Postma; Ranya Simons
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Strategies for Achieving Oxygen Tolerance in Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization

2023-07-20 | Journal article
Contributors: Ng, Gervase; Prescott, Stuart; Almar Postma; Graeme Moad; Craig Hawker; Boyer, Cyrille
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Solid State Li Metal/LMO Batteries based on Ternary Triblock Copolymers and Ionic Binders

ACS Applied Energy Materials
2023-05-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Maria Forsyth; Faezeh Makhlooghiazad; Tiago Mendes; Nicolas Goujon; Nino Malic; Almar Postma; John Chiefari; Patrick C. Howlett
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Initiation of RAFT Polymerization: Electrochemically Initiated RAFT Polymerization in Emulsion (Emulsion eRAFT), and Direct PhotoRAFT Polymerization of Liquid Crystalline Monomers

Australian Journal of Chemistry
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Caroline Bray; Guoxin Li; Almar Postma; Lisa T. Strover; Jade Wang; Graeme Moad
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Printability and bio-functionality of a shear thinning methacrylated xanthan–gelatin composite bioink

Biofabrication
2021-07-01 | Journal article
Contributors: M R Garcia-Cruz; A Postma; J E Frith; L Meagher
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RAFT Synthesis of Thioether-based, AB Diblock Copolymer Nanocarriers for Reactive Oxygen Species Triggered Release

2021-03-26 | Journal article
Contributors: Quek, Jing Yang; Dabare, Panthihage Ruvini Lakshika; Bright, Richard; Almar Postma; Vasilev, Krasimir
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Electrochemistry and polymers: A RAFT of possibilities

2021-02-26 | Conference abstract
Contributors: Strover, Lisa; Almar Postma; Wang, Jade; Horne, Mike; Graeme Moad
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Anthraquinone-Mediated Reduction of a Trithiocarbonate Chain-Transfer Agent to Initiate Electrochemical Reversible Addition–Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization

Macromolecules
2020-12-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Lisa T. Strover; Almar Postma; Michael D. Horne; Graeme Moad
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Fully synthetic injectable depots with high drug content and tunable pharmacokinetics for long-acting drug delivery

2020-11-18 | Journal article
Contributors: Ho, Duy-Khiet; LeGuyader, Clare; Srinivasan, Selvi; Roy, Debashish; Vlaskin, Vladimir; Chavas, Thomas; Lopez, Ciana; Snyder, Jessica; Almar Postma; Chiefari, John et al.
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A Comprehensive Platform for the Design and Synthesis of Polymer Molecular Weight Distributions

Macromolecules
2020-10-27 | Journal article
Contributors: Ke Liu; Nathaniel Corrigan; Almar Postma; Graeme Moad; Cyrille Boyer
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Lipid Nanodiscs via Ordered Copolymers

2020-09-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Smith, Anton; Autzen, Henriette; Faust, Bryan; Mann, Joseph; Muir, Ben; Shaun Howard; Almar Postma; Spakowitz, Andrew; Cheng, Yifan; Appel, Eric
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An ultrafast insulin formulation enabled by high-throughput screening of engineered polymeric excipients

2020-07-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Mann, Joseph; Maikawa, Caitlin; Smith, Anton; Grosskopf, Abigail; Baker, Sam; Roth, Gillie; Meis, Catherine; Gale, Emily; Liong, Celine; Correa, Santiago et al.
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Bacterial Membrane Permeability of Antimicrobial Polymethacrylates: Evidence for a Multimodal Mechanism from Super-Resolution Fluorescence Imaging

2020-03-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Michl, Thomas; Hibbs, Ben; Hyde, Lauren; Almar Postma; Dung Thuy Thi, Tran; Aigerim, Zhalgasbaikyzy; Vasilev, Krasimir; Meagher, Laurence; Griesser, Hans; Katherine Locock
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Polymerized Ionic Liquid Block Copolymer Electrolytes for All-Solid-State Lithium-Metal Batteries

2020-02-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Mendes, Tiago; Goujon, Nicolas; Malic, Nino; Almar Postma; Chiefari, John; Zhu, Haijin; Howlett, Patrick; Forsyth, Maria
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Selective and Rapid Light‐Induced RAFT Single Unit Monomer Insertion in Aqueous Solution

Macromolecular Rapid Communications
2020-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Yanyan Zhou; Zhengbiao Zhang; Cassandra M. Reese; Derek L. Patton; Jiangtao Xu; Cyrille Boyer; Almar Postma; Graeme Moad
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Kinetics and mechanism for thermal and photochemical decomposition of 4,4′-azobis(4-cyanopentanoic acid) in aqueous media

Polymer Chemistry
2019 | Journal article
Contributors: Yanyan Zhou; Zhengbiao Zhang; Almar Postma; Graeme Moad
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Electrochemical Behavior of Thiocarbonylthio Chain Transfer Agents for RAFT Polymerization

ACS Macro Letters
2019-10-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Lisa T. Strover; Alexis Cantalice; Jeff Y. L. Lam; Almar Postma; Oliver E. Hutt; Michael D. Horne; Graeme Moad
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Engineering the Biointerface of Electrospun 3D Scaffolds with Functionalized Polymer Brushes for Enhanced Cell Binding

Biomacromolecules
2019-02-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Lina Duque-Sanchez; Narelle Brack; Almar Postma; Laurence Meagher; Paul J. Pigram
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Optimisation of grafting of low fouling polymers from three-dimensional scaffolds via surface-initiated Cu(0) mediated polymerisation

Journal of Materials Chemistry B
2018 | Journal article
Contributors: Lina Duque-Sánchez; Narelle Brack; Almar Postma; Paul J. Pigram; Laurence Meagher
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Radiant star nanoparticle prodrugs for the treatment of intracellular alveolar infections

Polymer Chemistry
2018 | Journal article
Contributors: D. Das; S. Srinivasan; F. D. Brown; F. Y. Su; A. L. Burrell; J. M. Kollman; A. Postma; D. M. Ratner; P. S. Stayton; A. J. Convertine
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Light‐Induced RAFT Single Unit Monomer Insertion in Aqueous Solution—Toward Sequence‐Controlled Polymers

Macromolecular Rapid Communications
2018-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Annelore Aerts; Reece W. Lewis; Yanyan Zhou; Nino Malic; Graeme Moad; Almar Postma
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Elements of RAFT Navigation. RAFT 20 years later: RAFT-synthesis of uniform, sequence-defined (co)polymers

2018-08-13 | Book chapter
Contributors: Haven, Joris; Hendrikx, Matthew; Junkers, Thomas; Leenaers, Pieter; Almar Postma; Tsompanoglou, Theodora; Xu, Jiangtao; Boyer, Cyrille; Moad, Graeme; Nicolay Tsarevsky, Haifeng Gao, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Brent Sumerlin
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Temperature-responsive methacrylamide polyampholytes

RSC Advances
2017 | Journal article
Contributors: Lucy G. Weaver; Regine Stockmann; San H. Thang; Almar Postma
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Disulfide Conjugation Chemistry: A Mixed Blessing for Therapeutic Drug Delivery?

2017-05-22 | Journal article
Contributors: Danial, Maarten; Almar Postma
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Combination anti-HIV therapy via tandem release of prodrugs from macromolecular carriers

Polymer Chemistry
2016 | Journal article
Contributors: Maarten Danial; Sushama Telwatte; David Tyssen; Steffen Cosson; Gilda Tachedjian; Graeme Moad; Almar Postma
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Surface modification of electrospun fibres for biomedical applications: A focus on radical polymerization methods

2016-11-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Duque Sanchez, Lina; Brack, Narelle; Almar Postma; Pigram, Paul; Meagher, Laurence
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Tannic Acid and Cholesterol-Dopamine as Building Blocks in Composite Coatings for Substrate-Mediated Drug Delivery

2016-11-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Zhang, Yan; Baekgaard-Laursen, Marie; Mouritzen, Sidsel; Lynge, Martin; Schattling, Philipp; Danial, Maarten; Almar Postma; Stadler, Brigitte
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Multi-responsive (diethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate (DEGMA)-based copolymer systems

2016-09-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Weaver, Lucy; Stockmann, Regine; Almar Postma; Thang, San
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Synthesis of zwitterionic, hydrophobic, and amphiphilic polymers via RAFT polymerization induced self-assembly (PISA) in acetic acid

2016-09-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Das, Debobrato; Gerboth, Devin; Almar Postma; Srinivasan, Selvi; Kern, Hanna; Chen, Jasmin; Ratner, Daniel; Stayton, Patrick; Convertine, Anthony
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Triple activity of lamivudine releasing sulfonated polymers against HIV-1

2016-05-31 | Journal article
Contributors: Danial, Maarten; Andersen, Anna; Zuwala, Kaja; Cosson, Steffen; Smith, Anton; Riber, Camilla; Tolstrup, Martin; Graeme Moad; Zelikin, Alexander; Almar Postma
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Vaccine Delivery: Where Polymer Chemistry Meets Immunology

2016-03-24 | Journal article
Contributors: Shae, Dan; Almar Postma; Wilson, John
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Sequence control in RAFT polymerization

2015-12-14 | Conference abstract
Contributors: Graeme Moad; Danial, Maarten; Guerrero-Sanchez, Carlos; Haven, Joris; Hendrikx, Matthew; Almar Postma
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Sequence Control in RAFT Polymerization

2015-07-12 | Conference abstract
Contributors: Graeme Moad; Hendrikx, Matthew; Guerrero-Sanchez, Carlos; Haven, Joris; Danial, Maarten; Almar Postma; Amanda Ellis
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Polymers Fight HIV: Potent (Pro)Drugs Identified Through Parallel Automated Synthesis

2015-05-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Zuwala, Kaja; Smith, Anton; Almar Postma; Guerrero-Sanchez, Carlos; Ruiz-Sanchis, Pau; Melchjorsen, Jesper; Tolstrup, Martin; Zelikin, Alexander
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Enhancement of MHC-I Antigen Presentation via Architectural Control of pH-Responsive, Endosomolytic Polymer Nanoparticles

2015-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Wilson, John; Almar Postma; Keller, Salka; Convertine, Anthony; Moad, Graeme; Rizzardo, Ezio; Meagher, Laurence; Chiefari, John; Stayton, Patrick
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Mimicking peptides with polymers: Creating a new generation of antimicrobial agents

2015-02-09 | Conference abstract
Contributors: Katherine Locock; Almar Postma; Meagher, Laurence
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RAFT preparation and the aqueous self-assembly of amphiphilic poly(octadecyl acrylate)-block-poly(polyethylene glycol methyl ether acrylate) copolymers

2015-01-30 | Journal article
Contributors: Chong, Josephine; Keddie, Daniel; Almar Postma; Mulet, Xavier; Boyd, Ben; Drummond, Calum
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Drug delivery: macromolecular prodrugs of ribavirin: concerted efforts of the carrier and the drug (adv. Healthcare mater. 9/2014).

Advanced healthcare materials
2014 | Journal article
Contributors: Smith, Anton A A; Wohl, Benjamin M; Kryger, Mille B L; Hedemann, Natasha; Guerrero-Sanchez, Carlos; Postma, Almar; Zelikin, Alexander N
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Liposomal drug deposits in poly(dopamine) coatings: effect of their composition, cell type, uptake pathway considerations and shear stress

2014-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Lynge, Martin; Fernandez-Medina, Marina; Almar Postma; Städler, Brigitte
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Continuous Flow Aminolysis of RAFT Polymers Using Multistep Processing and Inline Analysis

2014-11-24 | Journal article
Contributors: Hornung, Christian; Martinez Botella, Ivan; Espiritu, Maria; Nguyen, Xuan; Almar Postma; Saubern, Simon; Chiefari, John; Thang, San
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Macromolecular prodrugs of ribavirin: Towards a treatment for co-infection with HIV and HCV

2014-09-16 | Journal article
Contributors: Smith, Anton; Zuwala, Kaja; Kryger, Mille B.L.; Wohl, Benjamin; Guerrero-Sanchez, Carlos; Tolstrup, Martin; Almar Postma; Zelikin, Alexander
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Novel RAFT amphiphilic brush copolymer steric stabilisers for cubosomes: poly(octadecyl acrylate)-block-poly(polyethylene glycol methyl ether acrylate).

2014-07-14 | Journal article
Contributors: Chong, Josephine; Mulet, Xavier; Almar Postma; Keddie, Daniel; Waddington, Lynne; Boyd, Ben; Drummond, Calum
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Polymers That Mimic Antimicrobial Host Defence Peptides

2014-06-26 | Lecture
Contributors: Katherine Locock; Michl, Thomas; Griesser, Hans; Almar Postma; Meagher, Laurence
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RAFT-derived antimicrobial polymethacrylates: Elucidating the impact of end-groups on activity and toxicity

2014-06-16 | Journal article
Contributors: Michl, Thomas; Locock, Katherine; Stevens, Natalie; Hayball, John; Almar Postma; Vasilev, Krasimir; Qu, Yue; Traven, Ana; Griesser, Hans; Haeussler, Matthias et al.
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Antimicrobial polymethacrylates synthesized as mimics of tryptophan-rich cationic peptides

2014-04-18 | Journal article
Contributors: Locock, Katherine; Michl, Thomas; Stevens, Natalie; Hayball, John; Vasilev, Krasimir; Almar Postma; Griesser, Hans; Meagher, Laurence; Haeussler, Matthias
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Sequential flow process for the controlled polymerisation and thermolysis of RAFT-synthesised polymers.

2014-03-24 | Journal article
Contributors: Hornung, Christian; Almar Postma; Saubern, Simon; Chiefari, John
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Synthesis of RAFT polymers as bivalent inhibitors of cholera toxin

2014-03-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Leaver, David; Hughes, Andrew; Dawson, Raymond; Almar Postma; Malic, Nino; Polyzos, Anastasios
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Macromolecular Prodrugs of Ribavirin: Concerted Efforts of the Carrier and the Drug

2014-01-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Smith, Anton; Wohl, Benjamin; Kryger, Mille B.L.; Hedemann, Natasha; Guerrero-Sanchez, Carlos; Almar Postma; Zelikin, Alexander
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