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Alper Nese

Carnegie Mellon University
4400 Fifth Avenue
Mellon Institute Box #16
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(412) 268-3208
anese@andrew.cmu.edu


EDUCATION
Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
August 2004

B.S. Chemistry

Areas of Concentration: Polymer Characterization, Biochemistry, Hydrogel Preperation

Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Sept. 2006
M.S. Chemistry
Areas of Concentration: Nanocomposite Preperation, Polymer Synthesis

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Imagination and Realization of Macromolecular Materials

EXPERIENCE
Secretary, ACS, Polymer Division, Pittsburgh Section
May 2008—Present
   
Chemistry Department Representative, Graduate Student Assembly (GSA)
2007—2008
   
Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Chemistry
Aug. 2006—Present

    • IT Manager (Computers, WEB, Server)

Graduate Student, Bogazici University, Department of Chemistry
Aug. 2004—Sept. 2006
  • Advisor: Professor Nihan Nugay
    • Synthesis and Characterization of Polymeric Nanocomposites Prepared by In-situ Photopolymerization, Joint Project with Yusuf Yagci Research Group
Graduation work, Hacettepe University, Department of Chemistry
May 2002—Sept. 2002
    • Correlation of the Three Given Methods in the Calculation of Molecular Weight Between Crosslinks of P(VP/EGDMA) Hydrogels

AWARDS

2008

Elected as the Secretary of Polymer Group, Pittsburgh Section, ACS
2005 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Bogazici University, Istanbul

AFFILIATIONS

• American Chemical Society (ACS)
• The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)

PRESENTATIONS

• The 239th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA. March 21-25, 2010.
• The 238th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, USA. August 16-20, 2009.
• The 236th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, USA. August 17-21, 2008.
• 8th International Symposium, Polymers for Advanced Technologies, Budapest, Hungary
September 13-16, 2005.

PUBLICATIONS

• Alper Nese, Yungwan Kwak, Renaud Nicolay, Michael Barrett, Sergei S. Sheiko, and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski "Synthesis of Poly(vinyl acetate) Molecular Brushes by a Combination of Controlled Radical Polymerization Techniques" to be submitted.
• Alper Nese, Jaroslav Mosnacek, Azhar Juhari, Jeong Ae Joon, Kaloian Koynov, Tomasz Kowalewski, and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski "Synthesis, characterization and properties of star-like PBA-b-PMMA block copolymers" submitted.
• Sherryl Y. Yu-Su, Sergei S. Sheiko, Hyung-il Lee, Wojciech Jakubowski, Alper Nese, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Denis Anokhin, and Dimitri A. Ivanov "Crystallization of Molecular Brushes with Block Copolymer Side Chains" Macromolecules, 2009, 42 (22), 9008.
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Metin Sitti, Brian Cusick, Burak Aksak, Alper Nese, Hyung-il Lee, Hongchen Dong, Tomasz Kowalewski, and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski "Dangling Chain Elastomers as Repeatable Fibrillar Adhesives" Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2009, 1 (10), 2277.
• Shigeki Ohno, Alper Nese, Brian Cusick, Tomasz Kowalewski, and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski "Polymer Micelles from Tadpole-Shaped Amphiphilic Block-Graft Copolymers Prepared by "Grafting- through" ATRP"Polymer Science (special issue dedicated to Nikolay Plate) 2009, 51 (11), 1.
• Insun Park, Sergei S. Sheiko, Alper Nese, and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski "Breaking a Specific Covalent Bond by Adsorption-Induced Tension of Brush-like Macromolecules" Macromolecules 2009, 42 (6), 1805.
• Hyung-il Lee, Jamie R. Boyce, Alper Nese, Sergei S. Sheiko, and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski "pH-Induced Conformational Changes of Loosely-Grafted Molecular Brushes Containing Poly(acrylic acid) Side Chains" Polymer 2008, 49, 5490.
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Alper Nese, Sinan Sen, Mehmet Atilla Tasdelen, Nihan Nugay, and Yusuf Yagci "Clay-PMMA Nanocomposites by Photoinitiated Radical Polymerization Using Intercalated Phenacyl Pyridinium Salt Initiators" Macromol. Chem. Phys. 2006, 207, 820.

PATENTS

• Burak Aksak, Brian Cusick, Hyung-il Lee, Alper Nese, Tomasz Kowalewski, Metin Sitti, and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski "Rate Sensitive Dry Adhesive" patent application submitted (2008).

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