Polymer Chemistry Blog

We are delighted to announce the following additions to the Polymer Chemistry Advisory Board:

• Yoshiko Chujo (Kyoto University, Japan)
  Recent papers include:
  Synthesis and tuning of optical properties of conjugated polymers involving benzo[h]quinoline-based neutral pentacoordinate organosilicon complexes in the main chain

• Franck D’Agosto (CNRS-University of Lyon, France)
  Recent papers include:
  Grafting of polyethylene onto graphite oxide sheets: a comparison of two routes

• Todd Emrick (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
  Recent papers include:
  Halogen-free ultra-high flame retardant polymers through enzyme catalysis

• Thomas Epps III (University of Delaware, USA)
  Recent papers include:
  Catalytic Y-tailed amphiphilic homopolymers – aqueous nanoreactors for high activity, low loading SCS pincer catalysts

• Nikos Hadjichristidis (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
  Recent papers include:
  Synthesis and characterization of an exact comb polyisoprene with three branches having the middle branch twice the molecular weight of the other two identical external branches

• Feihe Huang (Zhejiang University, China)
  Recent papers include:
  A self-healing supramolecular polymer gel with stimuli-responsiveness constructed by crown ether based molecular recognition

• Ming Jiang (Fudan University, China)
  Recent papers include:
  Polymeric vesicles mimicking glycocalyx (PV-Gx) for studying carbohydrate–protein interactions in solution

• Shiyong Liu (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
  Recent papers include:
  Asymmetrically functionalized β-cyclodextrin-based star copolymers for integrated gene delivery and magnetic resonance imaging contrast enhancement

• Timothy Long (Virginia Tech, USA)
  Recent papers include:
  Phosphonium ionenes from well-defined step-growth polymerization: thermal and melt rheological properties

• S. Ramakrishnan (Indian Institute of Science, India)
  Recent papers include:
  A novel photodegradable hyperbranched polymeric photoresist

• Martina Stenzel (The University of New South Wales, Australia)
  Recent papers include:
  Macromolecular platinum-drugs based on statistical and block copolymer structures and their DNA binding ability

• Per Zetterlund (The University of New South Wales, Australia)
  Recent papers include:
  Rate enhanced nitroxide-mediated miniemulsion polymerization: effect of nitroxide water solubility

• Wai-Yeung Wong
  Recent papers include:
  Recent Design Tactics for High Performance White Polymer Light-Emitting Diodes

These researchers are all making big advances in the field of polymer science and we are very pleased to welcome them to the team. For a full list of Polymer Chemistry board members, please click here.