Ren Liu: New Advisory Board Member

We are delighted to introduce to you our new RSC Applied Polymers Advisory Board member, Professor Ren Liu (Jiangnan University, China).   

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Professor Ren Liu currently holds the positions of Dean of the School of Chemistry and Materials Engineering at Jiangnan University and Director of the International Research Center for Photoresponsive Molecules and Materials. His primary research interests cover fundamental studies on photopolymerization, as well as the research, development and industrialization of photosensitive materials for coatings, microelectronic chemicals, and additive manufacturing applications. Dr. Liu has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and holds more than 50 granted national patents. He has won the China Patent Excellence Award, the Second Prize of the Ministry of Education Science and Technology Progress Award, and the Youth Science and Technology Award from the Chinese Society for Imaging Science and Technology.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

 

 

 

 

Discover Prof. Liu’s recent work 

 One-step preparation of hydrophilic–hydrophobic asymmetric bilayer microcapsules via photopolymerization 

Kaiyun Wu, Yongbin He, Jiangqing Liu, Guanqing Sun, Ren Liu and Jing Luo 

Polym. Chem., 2024 

 

Photothermal synergy mechanism in near-infrared photopolymerization for 3D printing acceleration and mechanical enhancement 

Wei Wu, Hang Xu, Jia-Tao Miao, Xiucheng Zou and Ren Liu

Mater. Chem. C, 2024

 

A facile one-pot strategy for the preparation of porous polymeric microspheres via UV irradiation-induced polymerization in emulsions 

Junjie Tao, Kaiyun Wu, Yaxin Chen, Wei Li, Yao Gu, Ren Liu and Jing Luo 

Soft Matter, 2023 

 

Explore related works in RSC Applied Polymers 

 

Thermoplastic-like mechanical performance of heterogeneous photopolymers for additive manufacturing with tailored hyperbranched rubbers 

Vojtěch Musil, Dominik Laa, Mojtaba Ahmadi, Jürgen Stampfl, Robert Liska, Jan Merna and Katharina Ehrmann 

RSC Appl. Polym., 2025 

 

Toward sustainable SLA 3D printing: glycerol-based 1,3-diether-2-methacrylates with solvent capability for in situ polymer blend formation 

Zahra Sekhavat Pour, Pravin S. Shinde, Jun Wang, Mustapha Iddrisu, Tibor Szilvási and Jason E. Bara 

RSC Appl. Polym., 2026 

 

Sustainable and efficient preparation of eugenol-based resin and its application in UV-thermally cured 3D printing 

Jieyuan Zheng, Xingfen Huang, Pingwei Liu, Wenjun Wang and Hong Fan 

RSC Appl. Polym., 2025 

 

Please join us in welcoming Professor Liu to the RSC Applied Polymers Advisory Board! 

Hear from the authors of ‘Chloroform outperforms chlorobenzene for enhanced mobility in amphiphilic polymer OFETs’

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 Preeti Yadav, from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, as they discuss their recently published article, ‘Chloroform outperforms chlorobenzene for enhanced mobility in amphiphilic polymer OFETs‘.

 

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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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