Prof. Nicholas Ballard
Dr. Nicholas Ballard is Ikerbasque Research Associate Professor at the Basque Center for Macromolecular Design and Engineering, POLYMAT Fundazioa. He obtained a scholarship to attend the University of Warwick (United Kingdom) and was awarded a bachelor degree with first class honours in Chemistry in 2008. He earned a PhD in Chemistry with Industrial Collaboration in the group of Dr. Stefan Bon at the University of Warwick, graduating in 2013. Following the completion of his doctoral studies he moved to the Basque Center for Macromolecular Design & Engineering where he worked as a postdoctoral researcher before beginning his independent scientific career in 2018 with an Ikerbasque research fellowship. In 2024 he was promoted to Ikerbasque research associate professor. The main focus of his research is polymer reaction engineering, with a particular focus on polymerization processes in dispersed media and the development of knowledge-guided machine learning methods.
Publicaciones
A Mechanistic Study of the Influence of Oxygen on Free Radical Polymerization of Styrene
A. Sladojevic, S. Hamzehlou, N. Ballard and J.R. Leiza
Microfluidic Reactor for Studying Aqueous Phase Polymerization Events of Relevance to Emulsion Polymerization: Methyl Methacrylate
J. Hincapie, E. Gonzalez de San Roman, C. Castor Jr, H. Vale, Z. Zeng, B. Reck, N. Ballard and J. Asua
Exploration of the High-Capacity Tetrahydroxybenzene Materials for Organic Batteries
K. Pirnat, U. Javornik, N. Casado, N. Ballard, J. Santos, D. Mecerreyes and R. Dominko
Recent Advances in Combining Waterborne Acrylic Dispersions with Biopolymers
J. Solera-Sendra, N. Ballard, L. del Valle and L. Franco
High Biobased Content Coatings and Pressure Sensitive Adhesives through Blends of Natural Rubber Latex and Tailored Acrylic Dispersions
M. Estany, R. Bentata, C. Moussard and N. Ballard
Depolymerizing off-the-shelf polymethacrylates with visible light
N. Ballard and H. Sardon
Introduction of 9-Bromo-9-Borafluorene Scaffold Into Deep Blue Emitting p-Conjugated Polymers
J. Teotonico, D. Mantione, K. Hollister, H. Sardon, N. Ballard, F. Ruipérez, R. Gilliard and F. Vidal
Rapid training of neural networks as accelerated, differentiable surrogates of kinetic Monte Carlo polymerization models
N. Ballard
Adding machine learning to the polymer reaction engineering toolbox
K. Farajzadehahary, S. Hamzehlou and N. Ballard
Designing acrylic latexes for pressure-sensitive adhesives: a review
N. Ballard
