Welcoming Professor Ho Bum Park to the RSC Applied Polymers Editorial Board

We are delighted to welcome Professor Ho Bum Park (Hanyang University, Republic of Korea) to the Editorial Board of RSC Applied Polymers as a new Associate Editor. He will be handling papers in the journal related to applications of polymeric membranes.

Meet Professor Ho Bum Park

Ho Bum Park is a full professor of Energy Engineering at Hanyang University, Republic of Korea, where he currently serves as Chair of the department. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from HYU in 2002 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin from 2005 to 2008. Since 2008, he has established a state-of-the-art research laboratory for advanced membrane research. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed SCI papers, contributed 10 book chapters, and filed more than 110 patents. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Membrane Society of Korea for 17 years. He has organized many international and national conferences and served as an editorial board member of five scientific journals related to chemical engineering and materials science and engineering.

He currently leads a multidisciplinary research group focusing on the rapid and selective transport of small molecules and ions in a variety of novel membrane materials including polymers, nanomaterials and inorganic materials for carbon dioxide separation, desalination, fuel cell and battery applications. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the HYU Distinguished Research Fellow Award (2016), MSIP National Excellent Research Award (Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning) (2014), HYU Outstanding Teachers Award (2013), MOST National Outstanding Research Award (Ministry of Science and Technology) (2007), and Outstanding Young Scientist Award (North American Membrane Society) (2007).

 

Discover some of Ho Bum Park’s membrane-related research published in RSC journals:

Advances in high permeability polymeric membrane materials for CO2 separations
Ho Bum Park et al.
Energy Environ. Sci., 2012, DOI: 10.1039/C1EE02668B

 

 

 

 

 

 

High-performance CO2-philic graphene oxide membranes under wet-conditions
Ho Bum Park et al.
ChemComm, 2014. DOI: 10.1039/C4CC06207H

 

 

 

Metal–organic frameworks grown on a porous planar template with an exceptionally high surface area: promising nanofiller platforms for CO2 separation
Ho Bum Park et al.
J. Mater. Chem. A., 2017. DOI: 10.1039/C7TA06049A

 

 

Introducing the ‘Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation’ ongoing collection, featuring papers from across RSC Applied Polymers and RSC Applied Interfaces

RSC Applied Polymers and RSC Applied Interfaces are pleased to announce the launch of a new addition to the series of themed collections in support of the Global Sustainable Development Goals initiated by the United Nations.

These collections highlight the current research taking place by scientists across the globe which demonstrates the ways in which chemical science is helping to make the world a better place.

RSC Applied Polymers and RSC Applied Interfaces are delighted to share the new collection centred around:

Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

This SDG collection focuses on Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation. Articles in this collection showcase the efforts of our chemical scientists in meeting this global need, from providing innovative measures to detect and extract harmful chemicals from the worlds water sources, to developing sustainable methods in sanitation and waste management.

 

 

Don’t forget that RSC Applied Polymers and RSC Applied Interfaces are both Gold open access journals, that means all our articles are free to read, including our new Sustainable Development Goals collections! The highly applied and interdisciplinary work included in these collections serve as a perfect example of the kind of papers we would like to see more of in RSC Applied Interfaces and RSC Applied Polymers.

 


Currently working towards one of the UN global sustainability goals? Submit your manuscript to RSC Applied Polymers or RSC Applied Interfaces to have it included in this ongoing collection!

Please check the journal websites for scope and submission details.

We hope you enjoy reading from our new sustainable development goals collections.

Keep an eye out for our other Sustainable Development Goals collections.

Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing

Sustainable Development Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy 

Sustainable Development Goal 12: Responsible Production and Consumption

These collections are not curated in affiliation with the United Nations but are representative of Royal Society of Chemistry’s support for the Global Sustainability Goals initiated by the United Nations.

To find out more about the United Nations Global Sustainability Goals visit https://sdgs.un.org

Meet the authors of ‘Advancements in Polymer Nanoconfinement: Tailoring Material Properties for Advanced Technological Applications’

 

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 John Maiz and Dr. Alberto Alvarez-Fernandez about their study entitled ‘Advancements in Polymer Nanoconfinement: Tailoring Material Properties for Advanced Technological Applications’

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Meet the author of ‘Acidic Polymers Reversibly Deactivate Phages due to pH Changes.’

 

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 Professor Matthew Gibson as they discuss their work entitled ‘Acidic Polymers Reversibly Deactivate Phages due to pH Changes.’

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Meet the authors of ‘Investigation of the influence of substituents on the dielectric properties of polyethylene derivatives’

 

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 Bing Zhong, Yu Wang, Yin Zhang and Wei You in a short introduction to their study entitled ‘Investigation of the influence of substituents on the dielectric properties of polyethylene derivatives.’

Read more »

Insight from the authors of ‘Poly(L-glutamic acid) augments the transfection performance of lipophilic polycations by overcoming tradeoffs among cytotoxicity, pDNA delivery efficiency, and serum stability.’

 

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 Ramya Kumar in a short interview about their study entitled ‘Poly(L-glutamic acid) augments the transfection performance of lipophilic polycations by overcoming tradeoffs among cytotoxicity, pDNA delivery efficiency, and serum stability.’

Read more »

Hear from the authors of ‘The Luminous Frontier: Transformative NIR-IIa Fluorescent Polymer Dots for Deep-Tissue Imaging.’

 

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 Richardson Lawrance and Partha Chowdhury about their study entitled The Luminous Frontier: Transformative NIR-IIa Fluorescent Polymer Dots for Deep-Tissue Imaging.

Want to know more about their work? Read the full paper here

Read more »

Introducing the ‘Sustainable Development Goal 12: Responsible Production and Consumption’ ongoing collection, featuring papers from across RSC Applied Polymers and RSC Applied Interfaces

RSC Applied Polymers and RSC Applied Interfaces are pleased to announce the launch of a new series of themed collections in support of the Global Sustainable Development Goals initiated by the United Nations.

These collections highlight the current research taking place by scientists across the globe which demonstrates the ways in which chemical science is helping to make the world a better place.

RSC Applied Polymers and RSC Applied Interfaces are delighted to share the new collection centred around:

Sustainable Development Goal 12: Responsible Production and Consumption

This SDG collection focuses on Sustainable Development Goal 12: responsible production and consumption. Articles in this collection showcase the inventive means in which chemical scientists are striving to improve the synthesis and consumption of materials across various industries by developing sustainable sources and processes which do not rely upon the destruction of the Earth’s resources, and which provides cleaner environmental outcomes.

Don’t forget that RSC Applied Polymers and RSC Applied Interfaces are both Gold open access journals, that means all our articles are free to read, including our new Sustainable Development Goals collections! The highly applied and interdisciplinary work included in these collections serve as a perfect example of the kind of papers we would like to see more of in RSC Applied Interfaces and RSC Applied Polymers.


Take a look at some of the articles featured in the collection:

 

Rare-metal-free high-performance water-activated paper battery: a disposable energy source for wearable sensing devices

Kosuke Ishibashi, Shimpei Ono, Jun Kamei, Koju Itod  and Hiroshi Yabu

RSC Appl. Interfaces, 2024,1, 435-442

DOI: 10.1039/D4LF00039K

 

Pristine coconut husk biowaste and 2-ethylhexyl acrylate/methyl acrylate-based novel oleophilic gels for oil spill cleanup

Kavita Devi, Ghanshyam S. Chauhan, Sunita Ranote, Sandeep Chauhan and Kiran Kumar

RSC Appl. Polym., 2023,1, 325-337

 

DOI: 10.1039/D3LP00118K

 

Cyclic ketal bridged bisepoxides: enabling the design of degradable epoxy-amine thermosets for carbon fiber composite applications

Benjamin M. Alameda, Margaret S. Kumler, J. Scott Murphy, Jeffrey S. Aguinaga and Derek L. Patton

RSC Appl. Polym., 2023,1, 254-265

DOI: 10.1039/D3LP00095H


Currently working towards one of the UN global sustainability goals? Submit your manuscript to RSC Applied Polymers or RSC Applied Interfaces to have it included in this ongoing collection!

Please check the journal websites for scope and submission details.

We hope you enjoy reading from our new sustainable development goals collections.

Keep an eye out for our other Sustainable Development Goals collections.

Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing

Sustainable Development Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy 

These collections are not curated in affiliation with the United Nations but are representative of Royal Society of Chemistry’s support for the Global Sustainability Goals initiated by the United Nations.

To find out more about the United Nations Global Sustainability Goals visit https://sdgs.un.org

Introducing the ‘Sustainable Development Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy’ ongoing collection, featuring articles from across RSC Applied Polymers and RSC Applied Interfaces

RSC Applied Polymers and RSC Applied Interfaces are pleased to announce the launch of a new series of themed collections in support of the Global Sustainable Development Goals initiated by the United Nations.

These collections highlight the current research taking place by scientists across the globe which demonstrates the ways in which chemical science is helping to make the world a better place.

RSC Applied Polymers and RSC Applied Interfaces are delighted to share the new collection centred around:

Sustainable Development Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy

This SDG collection focuses on Sustainable Development Goal 7: affordable and clean energy. These articles reflect the intensive work and strategies being developed to tackle the worlds energy needs and the initiatives devised to improve the efficiency of clean sustainable energy sources.

Don’t forget that RSC Applied Polymers and RSC Applied Interfaces are both Gold open access journals, that means all our articles are free to read, including our new Sustainable Development Goals collections! The highly applied and interdisciplinary work included in these collections serve as a perfect example of the kind of papers we would like to see more of in RSC Applied Interfaces and RSC Applied Polymers.


Take a look at some of the articles featured in the collection:

 

Recent advances in semiconductor heterojunctions: a detailed review of the fundamentals of photocatalysis, charge transfer mechanism and materials

Aniket Balapure, Jayati Ray Dutta and Ramakrishnan Ganesan

RSC Appl. Interfaces, 2024,1, 43-69

DOI: 10.1039/D3LF00126A

 

 

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

Cuc Thu Mai, Harish Gudla, Guiomar Hernández, Kristina Edström and Jonas Mindemark

RSC Appl. Polym., 2024,2, 374-383

DOI: 10.1039/D4LP00017J

 

 

 

The effects of selectively blocking the electron transport layer of n-i-p perovskite solar cells with polymer particles on device performance

Amal Altujjar, Ran Wang, Xuelian Wang,  Jennifer M. Saunders,a   Zhenyu Jia, Ben Spencer, Nigel Hodson,  Janet Jacobs, Osama M. Alkhudhari, Andrew Thomas, Richard Curry  and Brian R. Saunders

RSC Appl. Interfaces, 2024,1, 591-599

DOI: 10.1039/D4LF00062E

 


Currently working towards one of the UN global sustainability goals? Submit your manuscript to RSC Applied Polymers or RSC Applied Interfaces to have it included in this ongoing collection!

Please check the journal websites for scope and submission details.

We hope you enjoy reading from our new sustainable development goals collections.

Keep an eye out for our other Sustainable Development Goals collections.

Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing

Sustainable Development Goal 12: Responsible Production and Consumption

These collections are not curated in affiliation with the United Nations but are representative of Royal Society of Chemistry’s support for the Global Sustainability Goals initiated by the United Nations.

To find out more about the United Nations Global Sustainability Goals visit https://sdgs.un.org

Introducing the ‘Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing’ ongoing collection, featuring papers across RSC Applied Polymers and RSC Applied Interfaces

RSC Applied Polymers and RSC Applied Interfaces are pleased to announce the launch of a new series of themed collections in support of the Global Sustainable Development Goals initiated by the United Nations.

These collections highlight the current research taking place by scientists across the globe which demonstrates the ways in which chemical science is helping to make the world a better place.

RSC Applied Polymers and RSC Applied Interfaces are delighted to share the new collection centred around:

Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing

This Sustainable Development Goal collection focuses on Sustainable Development Goal 3: good health and well-being, with articles that explore procedures, practices and technology in modern medicine which can help address the growing concerns for world health and ensure sustainable and affordable future health outcomes for everyone.

Don’t forget that RSC Applied Polymers and RSC Applied Interfaces are both Gold open access journals, that means all our articles are free to read, including our new Sustainable Development Goals collections! The highly applied and interdisciplinary work included in these collections serve as a perfect example of the kind of papers we would like to see more of in RSC Applied Interfaces and RSC Applied Polymers.


Take a look at some of the articles featured in the collection:

 

Triblock copolymer micelles enhance solubility, permeability and activity of a quorum sensing inhibitor against Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms

Karolina Kasza, Fadi Soukarieh, Manuel Romero, Kim R. Hardie, Pratik Gurnani, Miguel Cámara and Cameron Alexander

RSC Appl. Polym., 2024,2, 444-455

DOI: 10.1039/D3LP00208J

 

Recent advances in removal of pharmaceutical pollutants in wastewater using metal oxides and carbonaceous materials as photocatalysts: a review

Suneel Kumar Srivastava

RSC Appl. Interfaces, 2024,1, 340-429

DOI: 10.1039/D3LF00142C

 

Matrix metalloproteinase responsive hydrogel microplates for programmed killing of invasive tumour cells

Alexander B. Cook, Annalisa Palange, Michele Schlich, Elena Bellotti, Sayanti Brahmachari,a   Martina di Francescoa and Paolo Decuzzia

RSC Appl. Polym., 2023,1, 19-29

DOI: 10.1039/D3LP00057E


Currently working towards one of the UN global sustainability goals? Submit your manuscript to RSC Applied Polymers or RSC Applied Interfaces to have it included in this ongoing collection!

Please check the journal websites for scope and submission details.

We hope you enjoy reading from our new sustainable development goals collections.

 

Keep an eye out for our other Sustainable Development Goals collections.

Sustainable Development Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy

Sustainable Development Goal 12: Responsible Production and Consumption

These collections are not curated in affiliation with the United Nations but are representative of Royal Society of Chemistry’s support for the Global Sustainability Goals initiated by the United Nations.

To find out more about the United Nations Global Sustainability Goals visit https://sdgs.un.org