During 2025, RSC Applied Polymers was thrilled to sponsor a range of conferences and events around the world. We were pleased to award many prizes for excellent posters, presentations and research during each event, and we would like to congratulate all our 2025 prize winners once again for their excellent work.
Dan Eley Symposium 2025
In May, RSC Applied Polymers was delighted to sponsor the Dan Eley Symposium alongside Polymer Chemistry and RSC Advances.
Find out more about the prize winners and their research in our blog post, here: https://blogs.rsc.org/lp/2025/06/12/daneley2025prizes/
- RSC Applied Polymers Prize – Dr Madasamy Thangamuthu
- RSC Advances Prize – Dr Joseph Ogar
- Polymer Chemistry Prize – Dr Benjamin Weare
London Polymer Group Annual Symposium
We were also pleased to sponsor the London Polymer Group Annual Symposium in May, alongside Polymer Chemistry and Soft Matter.
Congratulations again to the prize winners from the event:
- Poster Prize – Yeyang Sun
- Poster Prize – Sinead McCabe
- Oral Presentation Prize – Xiang Xu
European Polymer Congress
In June, RSC Applied Polymers and Polymer Chemistry sponsored the European Polymer Congress held in The Netherlands. The participants produced some really insightful posters, with Malak Jaber (pictured) and Gkreti Manesi being awarded prizes for their work.
15th International Nanomedicine Conference
We were also thrilled to sponsor the 15th International Nanomedicine Conference held in Sydney, Australia, in June 2025. Congratulations to Shiyao Li, Irma Vermeijlen, and Franco Centurion Rodriguez who were awarded poster prizes sponsored by Biomaterials Science, RSC Applied Interfaces & RSC Applied Polymers, and the Nanoscale Journal Family.
Two of the winners are pictured below with our RSC Applied Polymers Associate Editor, Professor Peter Wich.
PPC19
In July, we sponsored PPC19, held in Fukuoka, Japan. We were delighted to award a prize alongside Materials Horizons, Polymer Chemistry and Soft Matter, and extend our congratulations to all the winners:
- RSC Applied Polymers prize – Maytawee Malineerat, Institute of Science Tokyo
- Material Horizons prize – Yuto Nakamura, Waseda University
- Polymer Chemistry prize – Moeno Sugiyama, Hokkaido University
- Soft Matter prize – Jiayi Luo, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
- Soft Matter prize – Abdul Hafeez, Kanazawa University
Recent Appointees in Polymer Science (RAPS 2025)
In September, we were pleased to sponsor the 25th Annual RAPS Meeting held at University College London.
The quality of the talks and posters presented at the event was excellent, with Neshat Moslehi and P. Stephen Patrick being awarded oral presentation prizes while Georgia Lucy Maitland was awarded a poster prize.
Bayreuth Polymer Symposium
We were delighted to award an RSC Applied Polymers poster prize to Alain Bapolisi at the Bayreuth Polymer Symposium in September 2025 for their work on ‘Non-Amphiphilic Antimicrobial Polymers’.
8th International Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells and Optoelectronics
We were also proud to award a prize at the 8th International Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells and Optoelectronics in September 2025, alongside EES Solar, RSC Applied Interfaces, Materials Horizons, Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances.
Please join us in congratulating all of our 2025 prize winners! We look forward to connecting with more members of our journal community in 2026 and awarding more prizes for outstanding research and presentations.