Dr Almar Postma

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1. 
   Radical ring-opening polymerization-induced self-assembly for the synthesis of degradable particles incorporating ethyl lipoate

   Article • Polymer Chemistry, January 2026, Royal Society of Chemistry

   Dr Almar Postma, Jacinta Frances White

2. 
   Enhancing photothermal depolymerization with metalloporphyrin catalyst

   Article • Journal of Polymer Science, May 2024, Wiley

   Dr Almar Postma, Dr Graeme Moad

3. 
   Strategies for Achieving Oxygen Tolerance in Reversible Addition–Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization

   Article • Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, October 2023, Wiley

   Dr Almar Postma

4. 
   Exploiting NIR Light-Mediated Surface-Initiated PhotoRAFT Polymerization for Orthogonal Control Polymer Brushes and Facile Postmodification of Complex Architecture through Opaque Barriers

   Article • Macromolecules, September 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

   Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

5. 
   RAFT polymerization in presence of air

   Article • Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, July 2023, Wiley

   Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

6. 
   Solid State Li Metal/LMO Batteries based on Ternary Triblock Copolymers and Ionic Binders

   Article • ACS Applied Energy Materials, April 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

   Dr Almar Postma

7. 
   High-throughput concurrent synthesis of core-crosslinked star-polydimethylsiloxane using an arm-first approach

   Article • Polymer Chemistry, January 2023, Royal Society of Chemistry

   Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

8. 
   RAFT synthesis of thioether-based, AB diblock copolymer nanocarriers for reactive oxygen species–triggered release

   Article • Materials Today Chemistry, June 2021, Elsevier

   Dr Almar Postma

9. 
   Printability and bio-functionality of a shear thinning methacrylated xanthan–gelatin composite bioink

   Article • Biofabrication, April 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

   Dr Almar Postma

10. 
    Initiation of RAFT Polymerization: Electrochemically Initiated RAFT Polymerization in Emulsion (Emulsion eRAFT), and Direct PhotoRAFT Polymerization of Liquid Crystalline Monomers

    Article • Australian Journal of Chemistry, January 2021, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

11. 
    Fully synthetic injectable depots with high drug content and tunable pharmacokinetics for long-acting drug delivery

    Article • Journal of Controlled Release, January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Almar Postma

12. 
    Anthraquinone-Mediated Reduction of a Trithiocarbonate Chain-Transfer Agent to Initiate Electrochemical Reversible Addition–Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization

    Article • Macromolecules, November 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

13. 
    A Comprehensive Platform for the Design and Synthesis of Polymer Molecular Weight Distributions

    Article • Macromolecules, October 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

14. 
    Lipid Nanodiscs via Ordered Copolymers

    Article • Chem, October 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Almar Postma

15. 
    An ultrafast insulin formulation enabled by high-throughput screening of engineered polymeric excipients

    Article • Science Translational Medicine, July 2020, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Almar Postma

16. 
    Bacterial membrane permeability of antimicrobial polymethacrylates: Evidence for a complex mechanism from super-resolution fluorescence imaging

    Article • Acta Biomaterialia, May 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Almar Postma

17. 
    Polymerized Ionic Liquid Block Copolymer Electrolytes for All-Solid-State Lithium-Metal Batteries

    Article • Journal of The Electrochemical Society, January 2020, The Electrochemical Society

    Dr Almar Postma

18. 
    PET-RAFT SUMI into trithiocarbonate

    Article • Macromolecular Rapid Communications, November 2019, Wiley

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

19. 
    Electrochemical Behavior of Thiocarbonylthio Chain Transfer Agents for RAFT Polymerization

    Article • ACS Macro Letters, September 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

20. 
    Kinetics and mechanism for thermal and photochemical decomposition of 4,4′-azobis(4-cyanopentanoic acid) in aqueous media

    Article • Polymer Chemistry, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

21. 
    Experimental evaluation of RAFT-based Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) kinetic hydrate inhibitors

    Article • Fuel, January 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Almar Postma

22. 
    Engineering the Biointerface of Electrospun 3D Scaffolds with Functionalized Polymer Brushes for Enhanced Cell Binding

    Article • Biomacromolecules, December 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Almar Postma

23. 
    High yield RAFT single unit monomer insertion with visible light photoinitiation

    Article • Macromolecular Rapid Communications, June 2018, Wiley

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

24. 
    Synthesis of sequence defined polymers by RAFT

    Article • January 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

25. 
    Optimisation of grafting of low fouling polymers from three-dimensional scaffolds via surface-initiated Cu(0) mediated polymerisation

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry B, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Almar Postma

26. 
    Radiant star nanoparticle prodrugs for the treatment of intracellular alveolar infections

    Article • Polymer Chemistry, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Almar Postma

27. 
    Editorial piece discussing the issues around disulfide conjugation strategies.

    Article • Therapeutic Delivery, June 2017, Future Science

    Dr Almar Postma

28. 
    Temperature-responsive methacrylamide polyampholytes

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Almar Postma

29. 
    Surface modification of electrospun fibres for biomedical applications: A focus on radical polymerization methods

    Article • Biomaterials, November 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Almar Postma

30. 
    Antiviral agents based on RAFT-synthesized polymers

    Article • Molecular Pharmaceutics, July 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

31. 
    Tannic acid and cholesterol-dopamine as building blocks in composite coatings for substrate-mediated drug delivery

    Article • Polymer International, April 2016, Wiley

    Dr Almar Postma

32. 
    Vaccine delivery: where polymer chemistry meets immunology

    Article • Therapeutic Delivery, April 2016, Future Science

    Dr Almar Postma

33. 
    Antiviral agents based on RAFT-synthesized polymers

    Article • Polymer Chemistry, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

34. 
    Multi-responsive (diethylene glycol)methyl ether methacrylate (DEGMA)-based copolymer systems

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Almar Postma

35. 
    Synthesis of zwitterionic, hydrophobic, and amphiphilic polymers via RAFT polymerization induced self-assembly (PISA) in acetic acid

    Article • Polymer Chemistry, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Almar Postma

36. 
    RAFT preparation and the aqueous self-assembly of amphiphilic poly(octadecyl acrylate)-block-poly(polyethylene glycol methyl ether acrylate) copolymers

    Article • Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, April 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Almar Postma

37. 
    Macromolecular prodrugs of ribavirin: towards a treatment for co-infection with HIV and HCV

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Almar Postma, Alexander Zelikin

38. 
    pH-Responsive, Endosomolytic Polymer Nanoparticles

    Article • The AAPS Journal, December 2014, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS)

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

39. 
    Continuous Flow Aminolysis of RAFT Polymers Using Multistep Processing and Inline Analysis

    Article • Macromolecules, December 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Almar Postma

40. 
    Liposomal Drug Deposits in Poly(Dopamine) Coatings: Effect of Their Composition, Cell Type, Uptake Pathway Considerations, and Shear Stress

    Article • Macromolecular Bioscience, September 2014, Wiley

    Dr Almar Postma

41. 
    Drug Delivery: Macromolecular Prodrugs of Ribavirin: Concerted Efforts of the Carrier and the Drug (Adv. Healthcare Mater. 9/2014)

    Article • Advanced Healthcare Materials, September 2014, Wiley

    Dr Almar Postma

42. 
    Polymers Fight HIV: Potent (Pro)Drugs Identified Through Parallel Automated Synthesis

    Article • Advanced Healthcare Materials, May 2014, Wiley

    Dr Almar Postma

43. 
    Antimicrobial Polymethacrylates Synthesized as Mimics of Tryptophan-Rich Cationic Peptides

    Article • ACS Macro Letters, April 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Almar Postma

44. 
    Sequential flow process for the controlled polymerisation and thermolysis of RAFT-synthesised polymers

    Article • Polymer, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Almar Postma

45. 
    Macromolecular Prodrugs of Ribavirin: Concerted Efforts of the Carrier and the Drug

    Article • Advanced Healthcare Materials, January 2014, Wiley

    Dr Almar Postma

46. 
    Synthesis of RAFT polymers as bivalent inhibitors of cholera toxin

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Almar Postma

47. 
    RAFT-derived antimicrobial polymethacrylates: elucidating the impact of end-groups on activity and cytotoxicity

    Article • Polymer Chemistry, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Almar Postma

48. 
    Novel RAFT amphiphilic brush copolymer steric stabilisers for cubosomes: poly(octadecyl acrylate)-block-poly(polyethylene glycol methyl ether acrylate)

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Calum John Drummond, Dr Almar Postma

49. 
    RAFT for the Control of Monomer Sequence Distribution – Single Unit Monomer Insertion (SUMI) into Dithiobenzoate RAFT Agents

    Article • January 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

50. 
    Layer-by-Layer Polymer Coating on Discrete Particles of Cubic Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Dispersions (Cubosomes)

    Article • Langmuir, October 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Almar Postma

51. 
    Highly-Branched Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) as a Component in Poly(dopamine) Films

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, September 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Almar Postma

52. 
    Thermally cross-linkable copolymer and its evaluation as a hole transport layer in organic light-emitting diode devices

    Article • Journal of the Society for Information Display, April 2013, Wiley

    Dr Almar Postma

53. 
    Liposomal Templating, Association with Mammalian Cells, and Cytotoxicity of Poly(vinyl alcohol) Physical Hydrogel Nanoparticles

    Article • Particle & Particle Systems Characterization, March 2013, Wiley

    Dr Almar Postma

54. 
    Cholesterol – a biological compound as a building block in bionanotechnology

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Almar Postma

55. 
    Myoblast Cell Interaction with Polydopamine Coated Liposomes

    Article • Biointerphases, December 2012, American Vacuum Society

    Dr Almar Postma

56. 
    Drug Delivery: Surface-Adhered Composite Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Physical Hydrogels: Polymersome-Aided Delivery of Therapeutic Small Molecules (Adv. Healthcare Mater. 6/2012)

    Article • Advanced Healthcare Materials, November 2012, Wiley

    Dr Almar Postma

57. 
    Surface-Adhered Composite Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Physical Hydrogels: Polymersome-Aided Delivery of Therapeutic Small Molecules

    Article • Advanced Healthcare Materials, August 2012, Wiley

    Dr Almar Postma

58. 
    Immobilization and Intracellular Delivery of an Anticancer Drug Using Mussel-Inspired Polydopamine Capsules

    Article • Biomacromolecules, August 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Almar Postma

59. 
    Macromol. React. Eng. 6-7/2012

    Article • Macromolecular Reaction Engineering, July 2012, Wiley

    Dr Almar Postma

60. 
    A Continuous Flow Process for the Radical Induced End Group Removal of RAFT Polymers

    Article • Macromolecular Reaction Engineering, June 2012, Wiley

    Dr Almar Postma

61. 
    Photoinitiated Alkyne–Azide Click and Radical Cross-Linking Reactions for the Patterning of PEG Hydrogels

    Article • Biomacromolecules, March 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Silvia Marchesan, Dr Almar Postma

62. 
    Macromolecule Functionalization of Disulfide-Bonded Polymer Hydrogel Capsules and Cancer Cell Targeting

    Article • ACS Nano, February 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Almar Postma

63. 
    Macromolecular design of poly(vinyl alcohol) by RAFT polymerization

    Article • Polymer Chemistry, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Almar Postma

64. 
    Solution Processable Phosphorescent Red Luminescent Polymer for OLED Devices

    Article • The Journal of The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, January 2012, Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers

    Dr Almar Postma

65. 
    Poly(vinyl alcohol) Physical Hydrogels: Noncryogenic Stabilization Allows Nano- and Microscale Materials Design

    Article • Langmuir, August 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Almar Postma

66. 
    Capsosomes with “Free-Floating” Liposomal Subcompartments

    Article • Advanced Materials, July 2011, Wiley

    Dr Almar Postma

67. 
    Dopamine-Mediated Continuous Assembly of Biodegradable Capsules

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, July 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Almar Postma

68. 
    New Insights into the Substrate–Plasma Polymer Interface

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, May 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Almar Postma

69. 
    Polydopamine—a nature-inspired polymer coating for biomedical science

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Almar Postma

70. 
    Functional polymers for optoelectronic applications by RAFT polymerization

    Article • Polymer Chemistry, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

71. 
    Noncovalent Liposome Linkage and Miniaturization of Capsosomes for Drug Delivery

    Article • Biomacromolecules, December 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Almar Postma

72. 
    Monodisperse Polymer Capsules: Tailoring Size, Shell Thickness, and Hydrophobic Cargo Loading via Emulsion Templating

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, May 2010, Wiley

    Dr Almar Postma

73. 
    Surface “Click” Chemistry on Brominated Plasma Polymer Thin Films

    Article • Langmuir, March 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Almar Postma

74. 
    Fabrication of asymmetric “Janus” particles via plasma polymerization

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Almar Postma

75. 
    Cholesterol-mediated anchoring of enzyme-loaded liposomes within disulfide-stabilized polymer carrier capsules

    Article • Biomaterials, October 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Almar Postma

76. 
    Self-Polymerization of Dopamine as a Versatile and Robust Technique to Prepare Polymer Capsules

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, July 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Almar Postma

77. 
    A Microreactor with Thousands of Subcompartments: Enzyme-Loaded Liposomes within Polymer Capsules

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, June 2009, Wiley

    Dr Almar Postma

78. 
    Assembly and Functionalization of DNA−Polymer Microcapsules

    Article • ACS Nano, January 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Almar Postma

79. 
    Microfluidic polymer multilayer adsorption on liquid crystal droplets for microcapsule synthesis

    Article • Lab on a Chip, January 2008, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Almar Postma

80. 
    Poly(vinylpyrrolidone) for Bioconjugation and Surface Ligand Immobilization

    Article • Biomacromolecules, September 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Almar Postma

81. 
    Ultrathin, Responsive Polymer Click Capsules

    Article • Nano Letters, June 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Almar Postma

82. 
    An ESR Approach to the Estimation of the Rate Constants of the Addition and Fragmentation Processes Involved in the RAFT Polymerization of Styrene

    Article • Helvetica Chimica Acta, October 2006, Wiley

    Dr Almar Postma

83. 
    RAFT Copolymerization and Its Application to the Synthesis of Novel Dispersants—Intercalants—Exfoliants for Polymer—Clay Nanocomposites

    Article • September 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

84. 
    Synthesis of Well-Defined Polystyrene with Primary Amine End Groups through the Use of Phthalimido-Functional RAFT Agents

    Article • Macromolecules, August 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

85. 
    RAFT Polymerization with Phthalimidomethyl Trithiocarbonates or Xanthates. On the Origin of Bimodal Molecular Weight Distributions in Living Radical Polymerization

    Article • Macromolecules, July 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Thomas Davis, Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

86. 
    A simple method for determining protic end-groups of synthetic polymers by 1H NMR spectroscopy

    Article • Polymer, March 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

87. 
    Approaches to phthalimido and amino end-functional polystyrene by atom transfer radical polymerisation (ATRP)

    Article • Reactive and Functional Polymers, January 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

88. 
    Binary Copolymerization with Catalytic Chain Transfer. A Method for Synthesizing Macromonomers Based on Monosubstituted Monomers

    Article • Macromolecules, November 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

89. 
    Advances in RAFT polymerization: the synthesis of polymers with defined end-groups

    Article • Polymer, September 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

90. 
    A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Use of Pyridinyl Dithioesters and TheirN-Oxides as CTAs in the RAFT Polymerization of Styrene. Not the Chronicle of a Failure Foretold

    Article • Macromolecules, September 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Almar Postma

91. 
    Thermolysis of RAFT-Synthesized Polymers. A Convenient Method for Trithiocarbonate Group Elimination

    Article • Macromolecules, June 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

92. 
    Chain Transfer Activity of ω-Unsaturated Methacrylic Oligomers in Polymerizations of Methacrylic Monomers

    Article • Macromolecules, June 2004, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

93. 
    Effect of R, leaving, group on RAFT agent activity

    Article • Macromolecules, April 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

94. 
    Effect of Z, activating, Group on RAFT agent activity

    Article • Macromolecules, March 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

95. 
    Initiating free radical polymerization

    Article • Macromolecular Symposia, June 2002, Wiley

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

96. 
    Living free radical polymerization with reversible addition - fragmentation chain transfer (the life of RAFT)

    Article • Polymer International, January 2000, Wiley

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma

97. 
    Living Polymers by the Use of Trithiocarbonates as Reversible Addition−Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) Agents:  ABA Triblock Copolymers by Radical Polymerization in Two Steps

    Article • Macromolecules, January 2000, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Graeme Moad, Dr Almar Postma