Staff | Adolphe Merkle Institute | Université de Fribourg

RIFAIE GRAHAM Omar

Alumni

Postdoctoral researcher, Macromolecular Chemistry

0000-0003-1403-0537

Projects team

Force-responsive polymersomes

Changing the permeability of block copolymer vesicle membranes by mechanical forces

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Light-responsive polymersome nanoreactors

Responsive polymersomes for drug production on demand or to release active compounds

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Theses

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Cell inspired force and light responsive polymersome nanoreactors and polymerisation based diagnostics, 2018
Publications

Differences in Human Plasma Protein Interactions between Various Polymersomes and Stealth Liposomes as Observed by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
Adrian Najer, Omar Rifaie‐Graham, Jonathan Yeow, Christopher Adrianus, Mohamed Chami, Molly M. Stevens
Macromolecular Bioscience , 2200424 (2022)

Assembly of Fillable Microrobotic Systems by Microfluidic Loading with Dip Sealing
Rujie Sun, Xin Song, Kun Zhou, Yuyang Zuo, Richard Wang, Omar Rifaie‐Graham, David J. Peeler, Ruoxiao Xie, Yixuan Leng, Hongya Geng, Giulia Brachi, Yun Ma, Yutong Liu, Lorna Barron, Molly M. Stevens
Advanced Materials , 2207791 (2022)

Photoswitchable gating of non-equilibrium enzymatic feedback in chemically communicating polymersome nanoreactors
Omar Rifaie-Graham, Jonathan Yeow, Adrian Najer, Richard Wang, Rujie Sun, Kun Zhou, Tristan N. Dell, Christopher Adrianus, Chalaisorn Thanapongpibul, Mohamed Chami, Stephen Mann, Javier Read de Alaniz, Molly M. Stevens
Nature Chemistry (2022)

Microliter Scale Synthesis of Luciferase‐Encapsulated Polymersomes as Artificial Organelles for Optogenetic Modulation of Cardiomyocyte Beating
Hyemin Kim, Jonathan Yeow, Adrian Najer, Worrapong Kit‐Anan, Richard Wang, Omar Rifaie‐Graham, Chalaisorn Thanapongpibul, Molly M. Stevens
Advanced Science , 2200239 (2022)

Potent Virustatic Polymer–Lipid Nanomimics Block Viral Entry and Inhibit Malaria Parasites In Vivo
Adrian Najer, Joshua Blight, Catherine B. Ducker, Matteo Gasbarri, Jonathan C. Brown, Junyi Che, Håkon Høgset, Catherine Saunders, Miina Ojansivu, Zixuan Lu, Yiyang Lin, Jonathan Yeow, Omar Rifaie-Graham, Michael Potter, Renée Tonkin, Jelle Penders, James J. Doutch, Athina Georgiadou, Hanna M. G. Barriga, Margaret N. Holme, Aubrey J. Cunnington, Laurence Bugeon, Margaret J. Dallman, Wendy S. Barclay, Francesco Stellacci, Jake Baum, Molly M. Stevens
ACS Central Science (2022)

Photoswitchable gating of non-equilibrium enzymatic feedback in chemically communicating polymersome nanoreactors
Omar Rifaie-Graham, Jonathan Yeow, Adrian Najer, Richard Wang, Rujie Sun, Kun Zhou, Tristan Dell, Christopher Adrianus, Chalaisorn Thanapongpibul, Stephen Mann, Javier Read de Alaniz, Molly Stevens
preprint (2022)

Shear Stress-Responsive Polymersome Nanoreactors Inspired by the Marine Bioluminescence of Dinoflagellates
Omar Rifaie‐Graham, Nikolas F. B. Galensowske, Charlie Dean, Jonas Pollard, Sandor Balog, Micael G. Gouveia, Mohamed Chami, Antoine Vian, Esther Amstad, Marco Lattuada, Nico Bruns
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 60 , 904-909 (2021)

Rapid quantification of the malaria biomarker hemozoin by improved biocatalytically initiated precipitation atom transfer radical polymerizations
Samuel Raccio, Jonas Pollard, Ashley Djuhadi, Sandor Balog, Michela M. Pellizzoni, Kyle J. Rodriguez, Omar Rifaie-Graham, Nico Bruns
Analyst (2020)

Shear Stress‐Responsive Polymersome Nanoreactors Inspired by the Marine Bioluminescence of Dinoflagellates
Omar Rifaie‐Graham, Nikolas F. B. Galensowske, Charlie Dean, Jonas Pollard, Sandor Balog, Micael G. Gouveia, Mohamed Chami, Antoine Vian, Esther Amstad, Marco Lattuada, Nico Bruns
Angewandte Chemie (2020)

Biocatalytically Initiated Precipitation Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP) as a Quantitative Method for Hemoglobin Detection in Biological Fluids
Jonas Pollard, Omar Rifaie-Graham, Samuel Raccio, Annabelle Davey, Sandor Balog, Nico Bruns
Analytical Chemistry (2019)

Hemozoin-catalyzed precipitation polymerization as an assay for malaria diagnosis
Omar Rifaie-Graham, Jonas Pollard, Samuel Raccio, Sandor Balog, Sebastian Rusch, María Andrea Hernández-Castañeda, Pierre-Yves Mantel, Hans-Peter Beck, Nico Bruns
Nature Communications (2019)

Bio-Inspired Polymersome Nanoreactors.
Omar Rifaie-Graham, Edward A. Apebende, Nico Bruns
Chimia (2019)

Wavelength-Selective Light-Responsive DASA-Functionalized Polymersome Nanoreactors
Omar Rifaie-Graham, Sebastian Ulrich, Nikolas F. B. Galensowske, Sandor Balog, Mohamed Chami, Daniel Rentsch, James R. Hemmer, Javier Read de Alaniz, Luciano F. Boesel, Nico Bruns
Journal of the American Chemical Society (2018)

Self‐Reporting Fiber‐Reinforced Composites That Mimic the Ability of Biological Materials to Sense and Report Damage
Omar Rifaie-Graham, Edward A. Apebende, Livia K. Bast, Nico Bruns
Advanced Materials (2018)

The Kinetics of beta-Hematin Crystallization Measured by Depolarized Light Scattering.
Omar Rifaie-Graham, Xiao Hua, Nico Bruns, Sandor Balog
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (2018)

Chapter 11 Self-reporting Polymeric Materials with Mechanochromic Properties
Jose V. Araujo, Omar Rifaie-Graham, Edward A. Apebende, Nico Bruns
Bio-inspired Polymers (2017)

Self-reporting Polymeric Materials with Mechanochromic Properties

RSC Polymer Chemistry Series (2017)

Visible Light-Responsive DASA-Polymer Conjugates
Sebastian Ulrich, James R. Hemmer, Zachariah A. Page, Neil D. Dolinski, Omar Rifaie-Graham, Nico Bruns, Craig J. Hawker, Luciano F. Boesel, Javier Read de Alaniz
Acs Macro Letters (2017)

Laccase-catalyzed controlled radical polymerization of N-vinylimidazole
Csaba Fodor, Bernadetta Gajewska, Omar Rifaie-Graham, Edward A. Apebende, Jonas Pollard, Nico Bruns
Polymer Chemistry (2016)