Celebrating the first RSC Applied Symposium!

RSC Applied Polymers and RSC Applied Interfaces were delighted to host the inaugural RSC Applied Symposium at Burlington House, London on Thursday 23rd July 2026, welcoming more than 70 attendees, 10 speakers, and 30 poster presenters. It was a fantastic day of networking filled with fascinating talks linked to sustainability in materials and polymer science. 

We would like to extend our thanks to all our speakers for sharing their exciting research with us and to our session chairs for facilitating the question and answer sessions. You can explore their recent research below! 

🔸Claire Carmalt  🔸Serena Margadonna 
🔸Pengfei Cao  🔸Jenny Nelson 
🔸Matthew Davies  🔸Emily Pentzer 
🔸Andrew Dove  🔸Ryan Richards 
🔸Rachel Evans  🔸Federico Rosei 
🔸Marina Freitag  🔸Magdalena Titirici 
🔸Matthew Gibson  🔸Peter Wich 

 

Congratulations to our poster prize winners! 

We would like to congratulate our poster prize winner Meiyi Chen, University of Edinburgh and runner-ups Megan GutmanQueen Mary University of London and Francesca Patel BurrowsUniversity of Manchester. Well done on this excellent achievement and thank you to all that attended and took part in the flash presentations and poster session. The standard of work was incredibly high which was great to see at our first symposium! 

 

Congratulations to our winner Meiyi Chen (left) and runner-ups Francesca Patel Burrows (right) and Megan Gutman (bottom).

 


RSC Applied Interfaces is a dedicated, interdisciplinary reference journal for cutting-edge research on the applications of surfaces and interfaces. In addition to the applied focus, work considered for publication in RSC Applied Interfaces is expected to be highly original and of top quality. The journal seeks to report major scientific advances beyond the state of the art, at the cutting edge of this interdisciplinary field.

 


RSC Applied Polymers is a leading international journal for the application of polymers, including experimental and computational studies on both natural and synthetic systems. In this journal, you can discover cross-disciplinary scientific research that leverages polymeric materials in a range of applications. This includes high impact advances made possible with polymers across materials, biology, energy applications and beyond.