RSC Applied Polymers Blog

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 Amanda Muñoz-Juan, Daniela Díaz, Nerea Murugarren, Judith Marin Ortega, Felipe Zamorano, Consuelo Guardiola, Martín Pérez, and Anna Laromaine Sagué as they discuss their recently published article, ‘Engineering deuterated bacterial cellulose via biosynthesis for neutron applications‘.

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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 Carlos M. Costa as they discuss their recently published review, ‘Polymer-based smart materials for adaptive and sustainable robotic systems: a review‘.

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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 Tejasvi Venkat as they discuss their recently published article, ‘Ionogel thin films as a compatibilizing pretreatment for electrospray deposition‘.

Hear from our RSC Applied Polymers authors: Tejasvi Venkat

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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 hear from Adam T. Caridi, Amelia Kurowska, Dr. Erlantz Lizundia and Dr. Joshua C. Worch who have developed polyester biocomposites containing fungal nanochitin using an industrially scalable melt-compounding process. This innovative work supports the transition towards biobased and sustainable materials with enhanced mechanical functionality and performance.

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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 Eric Chia, Jayesh M. Sonawane, Trevor L. Woodard, Meng-Chen Chiang, Jessica D. Schiffman and Stephen S. Nonnenmann as they discuss their recently published article, ‘Mechanical properties of individual conductive protein nanowires and their percolation behavior in elastomer nanocomposites‘.

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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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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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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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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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