Dr Alisyn Nedoma
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Lecturer
UG Admissions Tutor

+44 114 222 7516
Full contact details
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Room F54
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
- Profile
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I graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida in 2004 with a bachelors of science in chemical engineering.
I completed my Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 2010, using small-angle scattering to measure the thermodynamics of block copolymer blends.
I procured a Junior Research Fellowship at Imperial College London (2011–2014) to pursue the development of block copolymer–based plastic solar cells and my website on polymer science, Ali's Random Walk, was launched in 2015.
I was appointed as lecturer in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Auckland from 2016–2018, during which time I co-founded Maemar Ltd., a start-up company developing technology to support medical professionals.
The department appointed me to a lectureship in 2019, where I will pursue research into applied polymer physics.
- Research interests
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Applied polymer physics:
- Organic electronics for alternative energy generation and storage
- Polymer photocatalysts for wastewater remediation
- Biopolymer-based food packaging
- Nanostructured plastic films for drug and flavour delivery
- Printable sensors for food quality
- Supercritical processing of nanomaterials
- Enhanced plastics recycling
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Perspectives for next generation lithium-ion battery cathode materials. APL Materials, 9(10), 109201.
- Functional initiators for the ring‐opening polymerization of polyesters and polycarbonates: An overview. Journal of Polymer Science, 58(14), 1911-1923.
- 2‐Methyltetrahydrofuran (
2‐MeTHF
) as a versatile green solvent for the synthesis of amphiphilic copolymers via
ROP
,
FRP
, and
RAFT
tandem polymerizations. Journal of Polymer Science, 58(11), 1571-1581.
- Influence of C60 fullerenes on the glass formation of polystyrene. Polymer, 68, 47-56.
- Rapid precipitation : an alternative to solvent casting for organic solar cells. ChemPhysChem, 16(6), 1231-1238. View this article in WRRO
- Cellulose nanopapers as tight aqueous ultra-filtration membranes. Reactive and Functional Polymers, 86, 209-214. View this article in WRRO
- Conformation and Interactions of Polystyrene and Fullerenes in Dilute to Semidilute Solutions. Macromolecules, 47(17), 6113-6120.
- Phase Diagrams of Blends of Polyisobutylene and Deuterated Polybutadiene as a Function of Chain Length. Macromolecules, 44(8), 3077-3084.
- Phase Behavior of Off-Critical A/B/A−C Blends. Macromolecules, 43(18), 7852-7859.
- Ionic Liquid Distribution in Ordered Block Copolymer Solutions. Macromolecules, 43(8), 3750-3756.
- Phase Behavior of Asymmetric Multicomponent A/B/A−C Blends with Unequal Homopolymer Molecular Weights. Macromolecules, 43(7), 3549-3555.
- Measurements of the Composition and Molecular Weight Dependence of the Flory−Huggins Interaction Parameter. Macromolecules, 41(15), 5773-5779.
- Measurements of the Flory−Huggins Interaction Parameter Using a Series of Critical Binary Blends. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 47(10), 3551-3553.
- Humidity-Induced Phase Transitions in Ion-Containing Block Copolymer Membranes. Macromolecules, 41(6), 2271-2277.
- Characterization of Micron-Sized Periodic Structures in Multicomponent Polymer Blends by Ultra-Small-Angle Neutron Scattering and Optical Microscopy. Macromolecules, 41(2), 471-477.
- A general mechanism for controlling thin film structures in all-conjugated block copolymer:fullerene blends. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2(35), 14711-14719. View this article in WRRO
Conference proceedings papers
- Perspectives for next generation lithium-ion battery cathode materials. APL Materials, 9(10), 109201.