We are delighted to announce Professor Haritz Sardon (University of the Basque Country) as the recipient of the 2024 Polymer Chemistry lectureship!   This award, now in its tenth year, honours an early-career researcher who has made significant contribution to the polymer field. The recipient is selected by the Polymer Chemistry Editorial Board from a list of candidates nominated by the community.   Haritz Sardon is an Associate Professor at the University of the Basque Country since 2021 and Group leader at POLYMAT. He graduated from the University of the Basque C ..read more

Maciek received his MEng degree in Polymer Chemistry and Technology from Cracow University of Technology in 2009, followed by a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Jagiellonian University and Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow, Poland in 2014. During his Ph.D. he spent six months as a Fulbright Scholar at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA working with Kris Matyjaszewski and Tomek Kowalewski, where he returned as a postdoc in 2014. From 2016 to 2018 he was a Research Fellow in the Materials Science and Technology of Polymers department at the University of Twente in Enschede, the N ..read more

Zhanhua Wang received his doctorate in polymer chemistry and physics from Jilin University under the supervision of Professor Bai Yang in 2011. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Marek Urban at the University of Southern Mississippi and Clemson University. He moved to Wageningen University as a postdoctoral researcher and worked with Professor Han Zuilhof until 2016. He is a professor at the Polymer Research Institute of Sichuan University. His scientific interests focus on bio-inspired anti-fouling coatings, covalent adaptive networks, self-healing and 3D printing of polyme ..read more

Beth received her B.S. Degree in Chemistry and Biology from Le Moyne College where her research focused on the total synthesis of natural products. She spent a year at SUNY-Environmental Science and Forestry at the Michael Szwarc Polymer Research Institute, then went to the University of Iowa. Beth worked in the research group of Leonard R. MacGillivray, and received her Ph.D. in 2012. After graduation, Beth started as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at New York University working alongside Marcus Weck at New York University from 2013 – 2017. In 2017, she joined the faculty at Penn Sta ..read more

Junpeng Wang received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2010 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry (advisor: Prof. Stephen Craig) from Duke University in 2015. He then worked with Prof. Luping Yu at the University of Chicago and Prof. Jeremiah Johnson at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Postdoc before joining the University of Akron as an Assistant Professor of Polymer Science in 2019. Currently, his research is focused on how molecular information like molecular structures and intermolecular and intramolecular interactions impact macroscopic ma ..read more

Call for papers: Polymers for Gene Delivery Guest Edited by Professors Sébastien Perrier, Todd Emrick, Marxa Figueiredo, Youqing Shen and Zhuxian Zhou   The Royal Society of Chemistry journal Polymer Chemistry has announced an open call to submit your research to a themed collection on Polymers for Gene Delivery.   This themed collection is Guest Edited by: Professor Sébastien Perrier, University of Warwick Professor Todd Emrick, University of Massachusetts Amherst Professor Marxa Figueiredo, Purdue University Professor Youqing Shen, Zhejiang University Professor Zhuxian Zhou, Zhej ..read more

Annalisa Chiappone is Assistant Professor in Industrial Chemistry in the Department of Chemical Science and Geology of the University of Cagliari since October 2021. With a background on materials engineering, she obtained her Ph.D. in Materials Science from Politecnico di Torino in 2012 with a Thesis on photocured polymer electrolytes membranes reinforced with natural fibers for Li-ion batteries. Afterwards, she moved to the Italian Institute of Technology, Center for Sustainable Future Technologies. She worked on the development of functional polymeric materials for different applicati ..read more

Alex studied chemistry at the University of Heidelberg (B. Sc. 2015) and the University of Cambridge (M. Phil. 2016). As a Cambridge Trust Vice Chancellor scholar, he studied the supramolecular realm of main group chemistry under the supervision of Prof. D. S. Wright and received his PhD in 2020. After post-doctoral research supported by a Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 research fellowship at the University of Oxford, he started his independent career at the Free University of Berlin in the fall of 2021 as a Liebig fellow. In 2024 he will move to the University of Bayreuth to ..read more

We are very pleased to announce the Polymer Chemistry themed collection on Chalcogen Containing Polymers!   Chalcogen-based polymers have seen a resurgence in interest over the last several years. Due to the versatile and intriguing chemistry of sulfur, selenium and tellurium, polymers containing these elements have found diverse applications in polymer and material science. This collection includes studies on the synthesis and applications of these polymers, as well as fundamental theoretical and mechanistic studies. The Guest Editors for this collection are: Professor Justin M. Chalker ..read more

Do you know an early-career researcher who deserves recognition for their contribution to the polymer chemistry field?   Polymer Chemistry is pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for its 2024 Lectureship award and will close on 31 January 2024. This annual award was established in 2015 to honour an early-stage career scientist who has made a significant contribution to the polymer field.     Eligibility To be eligible for the lectureship, candidates should meet the following criteria: Be an independent researcher – PhD students and postdoctoral ..read more