Polymer Chemistry Blog

Polymer Chemistry is pleased to be sponsoring the 8th Symposium on Controlled Radical Polymerization, held during this year’s ACS Fall Meeting in Washington, DC and organised by Brent Sumerlin, Haifeng Gao, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski and Nicolay Tsarevsky.

The symposium, which will take place on Sunday 20 August, will also feature a talk from Polymer Chemistry 2017 Lectureship winner Dr Julien Nicolas, as well as sessions on:

• New macromolecular architectures and new ATRP initiating systems
• Kinetics of radical polymerizations deduced via SP-PLP-EPR
• RAFT 20 years later: Elements of RAFT navigation
• Ionic auxiliaries for stereocontrolled radical polymerization
• Mechanistic studies of transition metal catalyzed radical termination
• Living radical polymerization using organic catalysts: Synthesis and applications
• Electrochemistry for ATRP
• Iron mediated controlled radical polymerisation
• Designer polymers from palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions

Registration for this event is now open – please visit the ACS website to register.

At this year’s European Polymer Federation Congress, Polymer Chemistry is pleased to sponsor the Australian-European Polymer Symposium, which will take place on Tuesday 4 July. The workshop will include 12 lectures (six from Australia, six from Europe) to illustrate connections, interactions and collaborations between European and Australian polymer researchers and will also include the presentation of Polymer Chemistry and Soft Matter poster prizes.

Invited speakers include:

Emmanuel P. Giannelis (Cornell University, USA)
Gaetano Guerra (Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy)
Dave Haddleton (University of Warwick)
Tanja Junkers (Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium)
Simon Harrisson (Université de Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, France)
Felix Schacher (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)
Hans Heuts (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Leonie Barner (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Holger Schönherr (Universität Siegen, Germany)
Neil Cameron (Monash University, Australia)
Markus Muellner (University of Sydney, Australia)
Greg Qiao (University of Melbourne, Australia)

EPF 2017 will be held from 2-7 July at the Lyon Convention Center and will focus on the latest trends in the polymer science and technology industry, including macromolecular chemistry; physics of polymers and polymer materials; modelling and simulation and polymer characterisation.

To register now, click here or visit the EPF website for more details on the speaker list and other workshops.

The 12^th International Symposium on Ionic Polymerization (IP 2017) will be held at Durham University, UK from 17 – 22 September, organised and hosted by the Durham Centre for Soft Matter. 

The focus of IP 2017 will be on academic and industrial research in the areas of anionic, cationic and ring-opening polymerization mechanisms. Contributions related to other methods of living/controlled polymerization (catalytic, controlled free-radical, and step-growth polymerizations) will also be covered.

The third FPM series will bring together leaders in polymers and polymeric materials from around the world to describe their most recent and cutting edge discoveries.

The aim of the conference, which takes place in Rome, Italy from 7-10 July, is to capture the multidisciplinary nature of polymer chemistry with topics spanning “basic synthesis and methodology” to “nanoscale and bioinspired materials”.

This conference will appeal to academics, students, postdoctoral research associates, industrial scientists and leaders, governmental researchers and those currently involved in the development of polymeric material applications to address the most critical needs in areas such as medicine, energy and sustainability.

Talk submission ends 1 May – regsiter here

Poster submission ends 10 May – submit here

For more information and to see the full list of invited speakers, visit the conference website.

23-25 May 2017, Guangzhou, China

Polymer and Composite Materials 2017, which takes place at the South China University of Technology, is dedicated to cover all theoretical and experimental aspects of polymers and composite materials. Building on the hugely successful preceding conferences (PCM 2014 in Ningbo, PCM 2015 in Beijing, and PCM 2016 in Hangzhou), PCM 2017 will provide an ideal academic platform for researchers to present their latest findings, and to facilitate networking and in-depth discussion with peers from Asia, Europe and USA.

The scientific program will focus not only on current advances in the research, but also in the production and use of polymers and composite materials in different fields. The conference setting has a highly focused technical program through plenary, invited, contributed, and poster presentations, supported by Polymer Chemistry and Molecular Systems Design & Engineering.

In addition, the conference will also offer the possibility to publish your research either in the conference proceedings (Indexed by Ei, Scopus, Inspec, CPCI, etc) or in well-known journals with ISI impact factors. You can find out more about how to submit your paper via the publication guide.

Keynote speakers:

• Prof. Esteban Broitman, (Linköping University, Sweden)
• Prof. Kim Meow Liew, (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
• Prof. Nao-Aki Noda, (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Prof. Vural Butun, (Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Turkey)
• Prof. Cosimo Carfagna, (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)

Register for the event here.