Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2022
Fellow, American Physical Society Fellow, Division of Polymer Physics, 2012
Mettler-Toledo Award, North American Thermal Analysis Society (NATAS), 2009
Advisory Board of ACS Macro Letters, Polymer, Frontiers in Soft Matter, Polymer Crystallization, Polymers, Crystals, Macromolecules, 2005 - 2008
Engineering Research Awards of the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, 2000 and 2008
Professional Development Award. FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, 2005
Member of the Advisory Council of WIMSE, 2001 - present
NSF Research Creativity Award, 2022
American Chemical Society
ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry
ACS Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering
American Physical Society
APS Division of Polymer Physics
North American Thermal Analysis Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Hamed Janani, Clay Kramer, Nickolas Boyd, Marcel Eck, Stefan Mecking, Rufina G. Alamo*, “Crystallization Rate Minima of Aliphatic Polyesters Type PE-X,Y in a Wide Range of Undercooling. Role of Sequence Length and Layered Crystallites” Macromolecules, 2025, (in press). doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.5c00614
Ryan W. Clarke, B. J. Carswell, Jason S. DesVeaux, Clarissa Lincoln, Vinod K. Konaganti, Rufina G. Alamo, Katrina M. Knauer*. “Re-Directing Mixed-Feed Deconstruction Products to Hybrid Polyesters: Tolerance Windows for Commodity Plastics Reconstruction” Resources, Conservation and Recycling (2025, in press)
Michael P. Blatt, Cecilia Hansen, Victoria Horton, Nam Nguyen, Justin G. Kennemur, Rufina G. Alamo, Daniel T. Hallinan Jr.*, “Phase Behavior and Thermal Properties of Precision Polyelectrolyte Blends – The Dilute Charge Regime” Macromolecules, 2025, 58, 5071–5079). doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.4c03231
Afiq Anuar, Mareen Schaller, Rufina G. Alamo, Kay Saalwachter* “Chain Dynamics of Halogenated Precision Polyethylenes in Different Crystal Polymorphs” Macromolecules, 2025, 58, 3849 – 3859. doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.5c00349
Hamed Janani, Stephanie F. Marxsen, Marcel Eck, Stefan Mecking, Kohji Tashiro, Rufina G. Alamo*, “Polymorphism and Stretch-Induced Transformations of Sustainable Polyethylene-Like Materials” ACS Macro Letters, 2024, 13, 201−206. doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.3c00639
Kohji Tashiro*, Gina A. Guillory, Stephanie F. Marxsen, Justin G. Kennemur and Rufina G. Alamo*, “Crystal Structures of Isotactic and Atactic Poly(1-pentamethylene alcohol)” Macromolecules 2023, 56, 5993−6002. doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.3c01060
Stephanie F. Marxsen, Manuel Häuβler, Marcel Eck, Stefan Mecking, Rufina G. Alamo*, “Effect of CH2 Run Length on Crystallization Kinetics of Sustainable Long-Spaced Aliphatic Polyesters” Polymer, 2023, 282, 126181 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2023.126181
Minqiao Ren*, Xuanbo Liu, Xuefei Jia, Chunxia Luo, Longgui Zhang, Rufina G. Alamo* “Memory of crystallization in the melt of commercial linear low density polyethylenes processed in an open twin-screw extruder” Thermochimica Acta 2023, 720, 179423 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tca.2022.179423
Gina A. Guillory, Stephanie F. Marxsen, Rufina G. Alamo, and Justin G. Kennemur*. “Precise Isotactic or Atactic Pendant Alcohols on a Polyethylene Backbone at Every Fifth Carbon: Synthesis, Crystallization, and Thermal Properties”. Macromolecules 2022, 55, 6841−6851. doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.2c01090
Stephanie F. Marxsen, Daokun Song, Xiaoshi Zhang, Irma Flores, Jorge Fernandez, Jose Ramon Sarasua, Alejandro J. Müller, Rufina G. Alamo*. “Crystallization Rate Minima of Polyethylene Brassylate at Temperatures Transitioning Between Quantized Crystal Thicknesses”. Macromolecules 2022, 55, 3958−3973 doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00308
Stephanie F. Marxsen, Manuel Häuβler, Stefan Mecking, Rufina G. Alamo*, “Unlayered-Layered Transition in Recyclable Long-Spaced Precision Polyesters” ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2021, 3, 5243 – 5256. doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.1c01025
Minqiao Ren, Xuejian Chen, Yuan Sang, Rufina G. Alamo*, “Comparative Effects on Recrystallization of Melt-Memory and Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in Ziegler-Natta and Metallocene Ethylene Copolymers with Bimodal Comonomer Composition Distribution” Ind. & Eng. Chem. Res. 2020, 59, 19260−19271 doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.0c03647
Xiaoshi Zhang, Stephanie F. Marxsen, Patrick Ortmann, Stefan Mecking, Rufina G. Alamo*, “Crystallization of Long-Spaced Precision Polyacetals II: Effect of Polymorphism on Isothermal Crystallization Kinetics” Macromolecules 2020, 53, 7899–7913 (dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.0c01443). Front cover of issue #18
Xiaoshi Zhang, Xiaobing Zuo, Patrick Ortmann, Stefan Mecking, Rufina G. Alamo*, “Crystallization of Long-Spaced Precision Polyacetals I: Melting and Recrystallization of Rapidly Formed Crystallites” Macromolecules 2019, 52, 4934-4948 (doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.9b00922)