Hear from the authors of ‘Multi-responsive polymers with degradable side-chain functionality for controlled hydrolysis and tunable thermal transition’

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 edition, we hear from Maryam Behzad Khoshgoee, Mithun Kumar Debnath, Griffin Pardo, Yichun (Lucia) Yuan, Muhammad Zeeshan, Erqian Mao, Burcu (Eksioglu) Gurkan, Matthew Bertin and Metin Karayilan as they discuss their recently published article, ‘Multi-responsive polymers with degradable side-chain functionality for controlled hydrolysis and tunable thermal transition‘.

 

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Hear from the authors of ‘A thiophene-based and sulfur-enriched highly conjugated hyper-crosslinked polymer for efficient sequestration of iodine from various media’

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 edition, we hear from Sk Abdul Wahed, Mustafa Maqbool, Atikur Hassan and Neeladri Das as they discuss their recently published article, ‘A thiophene-based and sulfur-enriched highly conjugated hyper-crosslinked polymer for efficient sequestration of iodine from various media‘.

 

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Hear from the authors of ‘Sustainable synthesis methods of lignin-based copolymers: recyclable non-carbodiimide catalytic systems in aqueous solvent’

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 edition, we hear from Christian Gonzalez, Arijit Ghorai and Hoyong Chung as they discuss their recently published article, ‘Sustainable synthesis methods of lignin-based copolymers: recyclable non-carbodiimide catalytic systems in aqueous solvent‘.

 

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Hear from the authors of ‘Poly(ethyl glyoxylate)-derived self-immolative elastomers’

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 edition, we hear from Anna L. Watson, Chuanfeng Li, Adnan Sharif, Elizabeth R. Gillies and Helen Tran as they discuss their recently published article, ‘Poly(ethyl glyoxylate)-derived self-immolative elastomers‘.

 

 

Hear from our authors: Anna L. Watson, Chuanfeng Li, Adnan Sharif, Elizabeth R. Gillies & Helen Tran

 

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Hear from the authors of ‘Dual end-functionalisation of poly(beta-amino ester) gene delivery vectors using multicomponent chemistry’

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 edition, we hear from Lewis O’Shaughnessy, Rahman Khosravi, James Robins, Akosua Anane-Adjei, Mariarosa Mazza, Naoto Hori, Pratik Gurnani and Cameron Alexander as they discuss their recently published article, ‘Dual end-functionalisation of poly(beta-amino ester) gene delivery vectors using multicomponent chemistry‘.

 

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Hear from the authors of ‘High-throughput bioprinted 3D cultures for probing host-pathogen interactions in bioinspired microenvironments’

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 edition, we hear from Jodi Graf, DeVonte Moore, Catherine L. Grimes, Catherine A. Fromen and April M. Kloxin as they discuss their recently published article, ‘High-throughput bioprinted 3D cultures for probing host–pathogen interactions in bioinspired microenvironments‘.

 

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Hear from the authors of ‘Vitrimer-like acrylic glass with fast stress relaxation by high-speed carboxy exchange reaction’

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 edition, we hear from Dr Yasuhiro Kohsaka and Dr Mikihiro Hayashi as they discuss their recently published article, ‘Vitrimer-like acrylic glass with fast stress relaxation by high-speed carboxy exchange reaction‘.

Dr Yasuhiro Kohsaka and Dr Mikihiro Hayashi have developed vitrimers-like acrylic glass, that is, crosslinked acrylic polymers with rapid stress relaxation performance and excellent processability. These properties are achieved by fast covalent bond exchanges on methacrylate moieties, known as conjugate substitution reactions.

 

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Hear from the authors of ‘Tandem CO2 valorisation to polycarbonate vitrimer and ethylene carbonate’

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 edition, we hear from Seiyoung Yoon as they discuss their recently published article, ‘Tandem CO2 valorisation to polycarbonate vitrimer and ethylene carbonate‘.

 

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Hear from the authors of ‘Hypercrosslinked polymers for oil adsorption: The influence of porosity and fluorine incorporation’

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 edition, we hear from Robert Woodward as they discuss their current research, potential steps for the future, and the challenges of balancing research with academic responsibilities.

 

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Celebrating our prize winners from 2025

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.

 

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