Polymer Chemistry Blog

We are delighted to announce Professor Eva Blasco (Heidelberg University, Germany) as the recipient of the 2026 Polymer Chemistry lectureship! This award, now in its twelfth year, honours an early-career researcher who has made a significant contribution to the polymer chemistry field. The recipient is selected by the Polymer Chemistry Editorial Board from a list of candidates nominated […]

We are delighted to welcome submissions to a Polymer Chemistry themed collection on Data Science and Machine Learning in Polymer Research, guest edited by Professor Nicholas Warren (University of Sheffield) and Professor Ying Li (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Polymer science encompasses a vast design space of molecular structures, processing conditions, and resulting properties which is ripe …

Zhao et al. accelerate antimicrobial polymer design with a novel database and machine learning. Drug-resistant microorganisms pose increasing pressure on healthcare systems, underscoring the urgent need for effective disinfectants. In this vein, antimicrobial polymers (AMPs) offer a promising solution by inhibiting or eradicating microbes through diverse mechanisms without fostering resistance. W…

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. …

Read Maciek’s Emerging Investigator article, Strands vs. crosslinks: topology-dependent degradation and regelation of polyacrylate networks synthesised by RAFT polymerisation, DOI D3PY01008B. Check out of interview with Maciek below: How do you feel about Polymer Chemistry as a place to publish research on this topic? I think it’s perfect. Polymer Chemistry is a go-to journal for any quality poly…

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Dr. Mintu Porel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences and Sustainable Engineering Center, Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, Kerala, India. After receiving her M.Sc. from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, she joined University of Miami, Florida, USA for the Ph.D. program. She completed her Ph.D. on Organic Supramolecular […]

Sankarasekaran Shanmugaraju is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad (IITPKD), Kerala, India. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2013 with a gold medal for the best Ph.D. thesis in Inorganic Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. He then moved to Trinity College Dublin, Ireland as an […]

Leena studied Chemistry at the University of Rajasthan and Polymer Science & Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. She completed a PhD in Polymer Chemistry in 2010 from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. She has received several awards and scholarships during her studies, including a DAAD scholarship to undertake a […]

Zi-Hao Guo received his B.Sc. degree in 2008 from Nankai University. In 2013, he earned his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Jian Pei at Peking University. He worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Texas A&M University in 2014–2016 and Yale University in 2016-2018. From 2018, he started his independent career as […]

Takuya Isono is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering at Hokkaido University in Japan. He earned his Ph.D. degree in polymer chemistry from the Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at Hokkaido University in 2014. During his Ph.D. studies from 2012 to 2014, he was a JSPS research fellow (DC1). After completing […]

James M. Eagan is an assistant professor at the University of Akron School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering. His research focuses on improving the performance of recycled polymer blends and in the development of new polymers derived from sustainable feedstocks, such as olefins and carbon dioxide. In the community, he and his group promote […]

Abad et al. develop formulations of self-assemblies containing nucleobase analogues via seeded RAFT in water.     Polymer chemists have long exploited the specific hydrogen bonding interactions between nucleobase pairs to control polymer structure or sequence, to template polymerizations or drive self-assembly. Although several approaches have been employed for the synthesis of nucleoba…

Kocaarslan et al. employ a heterogeneous near-infrared catalytic system using up-conversion glass (UCG) and g-CN to synthesize (macro)molecules via click chemistry.     The efficiency and accessibility of “click” chemistry, and more specifically the copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition reaction (CuAAC), have been valorized in synthetic macromolecular chemistry via a plethora of a…

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dominik Konkolewicz (Miami University, USA) has joined the Editorial Board of Polymer Chemistry as an Associate Editor   Dominik Konkolewicz is currently a Professor of Chemistry at Miami University in Oxford Ohio (USA). He earned a PhD from the University of Sydney in 2011, advised by Prof. Sébastien Perrier, and […]