Archive for June, 2024

Selfie Competition at IUPAC Macro 2024

24 Jun 2024

We are hosting a competition on social media as part of IUPAC Macro 2024. To get involved, simply take a selfie with one of our editors and post it to your preferred social media platform using #RSCAppliedPolymersSelfie. You can make one entry per editor and the prizes for best selfies will include an exclusive Ocean Bottle Brew Flask. These are made from 90% recycled stainless steel and every Brew funds the collection of 1000 ocean bound plastic bottles! 

Competition Terms and Conditions 

  1. Eligible posts must include the hashtag #RSCAppliedPolymersSelfie  
  2. One winner will be selected at random by each RSC Applied Polymers editor from all selfie image entries shared to social media by 23.59 BST on 3rd July 2024 
  3. Social media channels to include X, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram 
  4. Winners will be notified via their original social media post by 10:00 BST on 4th July with information about how to claim their prize 
  5. Unsuccessful entrants may not be notified 
  6. Only one entry per individual, per editor. Up to four entries in total 
  7. No cash prize alternatives are available 
  8. The name and image of entrants and winners may be used in RSC marketing activities 
  9. Employees of the RSC will not be eligible to enter this competition 
  10. The Royal Society of Chemistry will store any personal data you supply on its electronic records in order to contact you further about this competition and it will NOT be passed on to third parties. 

Get involved and follow RSC Applied Polymers on X (@RSCApplied) and LinkedIn 

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Insights from the authors of ‘Enhancing microplastic capture efficiencies with adhesive coatings on stainless-steel filters’

17 Jun 2024

 

To celebrate the growth and development of the RSC Applied Polymers community and to highlight the remarkable authors who continue to contribute their high quality work to the journal we would like to share the opinions and insights of these authors through this introductory blog post. Once dubbed #RSCAppliedfirst50, our blog posts aim to give a voice to the authors behind the research and hope that their insights might shed light upon growing challenges and progress in polymer science and its applications.

In this post we feature insights into ‘Enhancing microplastic capture efficiencies with adhesive coatings on stainless-steel filters‘ by Malavika Ramkumar

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Meet the authors of ‘Inherent limitations of the hydrogen-bonding UPy motif as self-healing functionality for polymer electrolytes’

17 Jun 2024

To celebrate the growth and development of the RSC Applied Polymers community and to highlight the remarkable authors who continue to contribute their high quality work to the journal we would like to share the opinions and insights of these authors through this introductory blog post. Once dubbed #RSCAppliedfirst50, our blog posts aim to give a voice to the authors behind the research and hope that their insights might shed light upon growing challenges and progress in polymer science and its applications.
In this post we feature an introduction to ”Inherent limitations of the hydrogen-bonding UPy motif as self-healing functionality for polymer electrolytes’ by Cuc Thu Mai, Harish Gudla, Guiomar Hernández, Kristina Edström and Jonas Mindemark.

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