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

08 Aug 2024
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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

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

08 Aug 2024
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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

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Hear from the authors of ‘Polymeric biomaterials for periodontal tissue engineering and periodontitis’

10 Jul 2024
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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 Professor Nermin Seda Kehr, Yağmur Damla Demir and Gizem Yürük about their study entitled Polymeric biomaterials for periodontal tissue engineering and periodontitis.

 

 

 

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

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Congratulations to the prize winners at POLYMAT Spotlight 2024

04 Jul 2024
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The POLYMAT Spotlight 2024 International Workshop on Macromolecular Materials (POLYMAT Spotlight 2024) took place in San Sebastian, Spain during 11-14th June 2024. RSC Applied Polymers, Chemical Science and Chemical Communications were pleased to support prizes at this event and we would like to congratulate our winners!

Photo of Marco Caliari with Prof Luis Campos during award ceremony.

Marco Caliari (left) with Prof Luis Campos (right) during award ceremony.

Photo of Marcin A. Majewski with Prof Luis Campos during award ceremony.

Marcin A. Majewski (left) with Prof Luis Campos (right) during award ceremony.

Photo of Marina González Sánchez with Prof Luis Campos during award ceremony.

Marina González Sánchez (left) with Prof Luis Campos (right) during award ceremony.

Learn more about the prize winners below:

Photo of prize winner Marco-Caliari.

RSC Applied Polymers Prize

Marco Caliari (University of the Basque Country)

Marco Caliari completed his Bachelor studies at the University of Bologna in 2019 with a thesis on the development of biobased, super amphiphilic vitrimers carried out in an Erasmus framework at the University of Groningen. Interested in knowing more about sustainability and polymers, he enrolled at KU Leuven. After completing an Internship at the Adolphe Merkle Institute in Fribourg (CH) in the field of supramolecular polymers, he graduated in 2021 with a thesis exploring the synthesis of novel hyperbranched polymers with applications in catalysis. He is now MSCA Fellow in the NIPU-EJD framework working towards the development on new CO2-derived 3D printable resins.
Photo of prize winner Marcin A. Majewski.

Chemical Science Prize

Marcin A. Majewski (University of Wroclaw)

I have a Masters and a PhD degree in organic chemistry, done in the group of Prof Marcin Stępień at the University of Wroclaw (Poland), where I am now pursuing my own research project as an Assistant Professor. In 2020-2022 I joined Prof Harry Anderson in Oxford as a Marie Currie Fellow to create novel, three-dimensional nanoarchitectures based on porphyrin subunits, which could be studied as models for energy and electron transfer, inspired by natural light-harvesting systems. Currently, I’m trying to merge the worlds of dendrimers and macrocycles to build large, aromatic systems by means of covalent templating.

Follow me on X (formerly know as Twitter) @MajewskiMarcinA for more, including collaboration opportunities.
Photo of prize winner Marina González Sánchez.

Chemical Communications Prize

Marina González (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

My name is Marina González Sánchez, and I am currently in the final year of my PhD at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, within the research group of Prof David González Rodríguez (MSMn). My research focuses on the development of new π-functional supramolecular materials. Specifically, I study how non-covalent interactions between nucleobases contribute to the formation of ordered supramolecular structures at the nanometric level. The main objective is the creation and improvement of properties in materials and organic systems through rational molecular ordering at the nanometric scale using supramolecular self-assembly tools.

Outside of my research, I enjoy sharing scientific insights on my X account @Marina_chem, where I occasionally discuss various scientific topics.

We’d like to congratulate all the prize winners once more, it’s a great achievement for their work to be selected from all the excellent research presented at the event. Thanks to Prof Luis Campos (Associate Editor for Chemical Science) for presenting the awards! We’d also like to thank all organisers, especially Aurelio Mateo-Alonso (Koke) for organising this conference.

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Selfie Competition at IUPAC Macro 2024

24 Jun 2024
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We are hosting a competition on social media as part of IUPAC Macro 2024. To get involved, simply take a selfie with one of our editors and post it to your preferred social media platform using #RSCAppliedPolymersSelfie. You can make one entry per editor and the prizes for best selfies will include an exclusive Ocean Bottle Brew Flask. These are made from 90% recycled stainless steel and every Brew funds the collection of 1000 ocean bound plastic bottles! 

Competition Terms and Conditions 

  1. Eligible posts must include the hashtag #RSCAppliedPolymersSelfie  
  2. One winner will be selected at random by each RSC Applied Polymers editor from all selfie image entries shared to social media by 23.59 BST on 3rd July 2024 
  3. Social media channels to include X, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram 
  4. Winners will be notified via their original social media post by 10:00 BST on 4th July with information about how to claim their prize 
  5. Unsuccessful entrants may not be notified 
  6. Only one entry per individual, per editor. Up to four entries in total 
  7. No cash prize alternatives are available 
  8. The name and image of entrants and winners may be used in RSC marketing activities 
  9. Employees of the RSC will not be eligible to enter this competition 
  10. The Royal Society of Chemistry will store any personal data you supply on its electronic records in order to contact you further about this competition and it will NOT be passed on to third parties. 

Get involved and follow RSC Applied Polymers on X (@RSCApplied) and LinkedIn 

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Insights from the authors of ‘Enhancing microplastic capture efficiencies with adhesive coatings on stainless-steel filters’

17 Jun 2024
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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 feature insights into ‘Enhancing microplastic capture efficiencies with adhesive coatings on stainless-steel filters‘ by Malavika Ramkumar

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

17 Jun 2024
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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 feature an introduction to ”Inherent limitations of the hydrogen-bonding UPy motif as self-healing functionality for polymer electrolytes’ by Cuc Thu Mai, Harish Gudla, Guiomar Hernández, Kristina Edström and Jonas Mindemark.

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Welcome to our Advisory Board!

17 May 2024
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Introducing our inaugural Advisory Board for RSC Applied Polymers

We are delighted to introduce the inaugural Advisory Board for RSC Applied Polymers! Please welcome 59 internationally renowned researchers working across all applications of natural and synthetic polymers.

This Word Cloud represents keywords from the top 500 articles published by our Advisory Board members in the last 5 years, and it is a great visual demonstration of the scope of the journal.

Representing a range of career stages, subject expertise, we are grateful to welcome Advisory Board members from across 17 countries across the globe. They include both established and emerging leaders with impactful work addressing the application of polymers to address societal challenges. We look forward to their help informing the journal’s future activities.

The full list of who is on board can be found on the journal webpage here.

 

 

Read some of their articles published in RSC Applied Polymers here.

 

RSC Applied Polymers offers you an impactful platform for research focussing on the application of polymers, both natural and synthetic.

Read the first issues online here a find out more by visiting our webpage or contacting our Editorial Office by email. Make sure you never miss an update – sign up for our e-alerts and follow us on X and LinkedIn.

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Meet the Authors – ‘3D printed modular piezoionic sensors using dynamic covalent bonds’

15 May 2024
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RSC Applied Polymers has published its first articles. To celebrate this we wish to introduce some of our #RSCAppliedfirst50 authors and their recently published articles.

 

In this post we feature an introduction to 3D printed modular piezoionic sensors using dynamic covalent bonds by Alshakim Nelson et al.

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Meet the authors – ‘Assessing the performance of sustainable luminescent solar concentrators based on chemically recycled poly(methyl methacrylate)’

15 May 2024
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RSC Applied Polymers has published its first articles. To celebrate this we wish to introduce some of our #RSCAppliedfirst50 authors and their recently published articles.

 

In this post we feature an introduction to Assessing the performance of sustainable luminescent solar concentrators based on chemically recycled poly(methyl methacrylate) by Alberto Picchi, Marco Carlotti, Andrea Pucci et al.

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