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Conference: Europolymer Conference 2012 (EUPOC 2012), 3rd – 7th June

Polymer Chemistry has organised a poster prize at EUPOC 2012. Organised by The European Polymer Federation the conference will be held near Lake Garda at the Palazzo Feltrinelli, Gargnano, Italy. The topic of the 2012 conference is: “Porous Polymer-based Systems: From Design to Application”

The organisers hope the conference will bring together the various disparate communities that work on porous polymers. These communities include those working on the development of materials for membranes, catalysis, absorption, microelectronics, drug delivery, tissue engineering, and lightweight materials. The conference will present topics with similar underlying themes that originate in a variety of research areas with very different perspectives.

The Invited Speakers include:
Markus Antonietti
, MPI-KG Golm (Germany); Alexander Bismarck, Imperial College (UK); Neil R. Cameron, University of Durham (UK); Andrew I. Cooper, University of Liverpool (UK); Herve Deleuze, Université Bordeaux I (France); Gaetano Guerra, Università di Salerno (Italy); Neil McKeown, Cardiff University (UK); Philippe Mesini, CNRS (France); Manuel Monleón Pradas, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain); Julio San Román, CSIC (Spain); Edwin L. Thomas, Rice University (USA); Mathias Ulbricht, Universität Essen (Germany); Ulrich Wiesner, Cornell University (USA).

For more information about the meeting, please see the web site: http://www.dcci.unipi.it/eupoc2012/ 

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Poster Prize winner at Dutch Polymer Days

Congratulations to Dr Yulan Chen (Eindhoven University of Technology) for winning the Polymer Chemistry poster prize at the recent Dutch Polymer Days conference in Lunteren, The Netherlands.

Dr Yulan Chen’s winning poster was on “Mechanically induced chemiluminescence  in polymers”.

 

 

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Themed Issue on Supramolecular and Dynamic Covalent Polymers: Call for Papers

We are delighted to announce a high-profile themed issue on Supramolecular and Dynamic Covalent Polymers to be published in 2012. The Guest Editors of the issue are Professor Neil Ayres (University of Cincinnati, USA) and Professor Marcus Weck (New York University, USA) and it is our pleasure to invite you to submit to this themed issue.

The themed issue will focus on supramolecular and dynamic covalent polymers, encompassing all aspects of the synthesis, characterization, and applications of these macromolecular systems.  Our objectives are not only to highlight current advances within this burgeoning field, but also to demonstrate how supramolecular and dynamic covalent polymers are being positioned at the intersection of diverse scientific arenas and stimulate different subsections of chemistry including synthetic organic chemistry, physical chemistry, and materials science.  We encourage our authors to promote how their novel chemistries can aid in areas ranging from understanding fundamental molecular properties to the creation of new soft materials and stimuli responsive assemblies.  It is our goal to bring together the preeminent scientists in this area to illuminate the leading edge of supramolecular and dynamic covalent polymer research and to demonstrate the potential for rapid future expansion into credible functional applications. 

The deadline for the receipt of manuscripts for this themed issue is: 2nd May 2012

Submissions, either communications or full papers, should be high-quality manuscripts of original, unpublished research, containing important new insight. All submissions will be subject to rigorous peer review to meet the usual high standards of Polymer Chemistry.

Manuscripts can be submitted using our online submission service. Please indicate on you submission letter that your manuscript is submitted in response to the call for papers for the Themed Issue on Supramolecular and Dynamic Covalent Polymers.

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Conference: 9th International Symposium on Polymer Therapeutics: From Lab to Clinic, 28th-30th May 2012

Conference Scope:

Polymer Therapeutics are amongst the most successful first generation “Nanomedicines”. A growing number of products have been approved by Regulatory Authorities for routine clinical use and others are progressing through clinical trials as single agents or as components of combination therapy regimes.

Polymer Therapeutics include inherently biologically active polymeric drugs and polymeric sequestrants, polymer-protein and polymer-drug conjugates, block copolymer micelles, and the supramolecular assemblies that form multi-component polyplexes designed to promote cytosolic delivery of genes, siRNAs and proteins.

Ever more sophisticated synthetic chemistry is leading to complex three dimensional polymeric architectures, including dendrimers, dendronised polymers and self-assembling nano-sized particles. Many polymeric carriers and hybrid polymer-coated systems are being developed as imaging agents and theranostics.

As clinical applications broaden to include treatments for infectious and inflammatory diseases, tissue repair and regeneration, and diseases of the ageing population there has been growing interest in the use of biodegradable polymers that are more suited to use for chronic treatments.

Plenary Lectures:

  • Virgil Percec (Univ. Pennsylvania) • Dendrimers, dendrimersomes and other complex architectures with potential for drug delivery
  • Bernhards Ogutu (Kenya Medical Research Inst.) •The challenge of diseases of poverty in Africa
  • Scott E. McNeil (Nanotech Characterization Lab, NCI) • Challenges for the translation of advanced nanomedicines into clinical development
  • Michelle Bradbury (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) • Development of Multimodal (including PET) Imaging platforms: Design, Evaluation and Translation from Lab to Clinic”

Please visit the conference website for additional information & registration:

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Conference: 3rd International Organic Excitonic Solar Cell (OESC2012)

The third international Organic Excitonic Solar Cell (OESC2012) conference will be held from the 3rd-7th September 2012. The organisers warmly invite you to join them at the Hyatt Coolum Resort on the beautiful Queensland Sunshine Coast, Australia, to present your latest results on ‘organic’ solar cells. The conference will include both Dye Sensitised and Solid-State Thin Film Solar Cells. The abstract submission deadline is 28 February 2012 and the organisers welcome presentations on:

  • Materials
  • Photophysics
  • Transport physics and interfacial phenomena
  • Morphology
  • Device architectures
  • Device Physics
  • Theory and computation
  • Progress towards large area devices
  • Encapsulation and device lifetimes
  • Stability and degradation processes

More information about the conference including information on speakers and registration details can be found on the conference website: www.opvaustralia.org

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Video Interview: Brent Sumerlin talks to Polymer Chemistry

Brent Sumerlin talks to Russell Johnson about his current research and why it’s an exciting time to by working in the field.

Brent Sumerlin

Watch the video interview on YouTube here.

 

Here is a selection of Brent Sumerlin’s recent research published in Polymer Chemistry.

 

Brent Sumerlin was also a guest editor with Jan van Hest for the Polymer bioconjugates themed issue. You can read their editorial introducing the topic here:

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Conference Feedback: IPST2011, the International Polymer Conference meets in Bali, Indonesia

The Innovation in Polymer Science and Technology 2011 (IPST2011) was held in Bali, Indonesia on November 28 – December 1, 2011. The event was organised by Indonesian Polymer Association (HPI) under the auspices of Asian Polymer Association (APA).

Photograph of the attendees at The Innovation in Polymer Science and Technology 2011

The format consisted of workshop and micro‐symposium on Polymer in Biomedical and Pharmacy Applications, Conference and Exhibition. IPST2011 was attended by more than 200 participants from 16 countries, presenting about 160 paper works consist of 80 oral and 80 poster presentations, including 10 plenary speakers, 30 keynote and invited speakers.

Plenary lectures were delivered by Jöns Hilborn (Sweden), Didier Letourneur (France) and Der‐Jang Liaw (Taiwan) at the first day, while Kell Mortensen (Denmark), Atsushi Suzuki (Japan) and Anil Kumar Bhowmick (India) in the second day. Suminar S. Achmadi (Indonesia) and William H. Starnes Jr. (USA) presented their lectures at the third day. Finally, Markus Meyer (Germany) and Asmuwahyu Saptorahardjo (Indonesia) delivered the plenary lectures on industrial applications of polymers.

The Asian Polymer Association presented a 2011 APA award to Prof. Atsushi Suzuki of Yokohama National University, Japan. Meanwhile, HPI award for the 2011 was presented to Ms. Nursyamsu Bahar from Research Center of Pulp and Paper, Ministry of Industry of Republic of Indonesia, Bandung, Indonesia for her lifetime contributions in polymer research as well as in the polymer society in Indonesia.

The best student posters were awarded to 5 students: Mohamad R. Ishak (Malaysia), Khairanissa Muchlis (Indonesia), Teenakrishna Sehgal (India), Geu‐Bim Lee (Korea) and Tomoki Yoshida (Japan). Tomoki Yoshida was also honored the Polymer Chemistry Best Poster Prize. Shuntaro Tsubaki (Japan) and Paula S. Rudati (Indonesia) were awarded the best oral presentation prize.

The IPST2011 was officially closed by Mr. Sudirman who elected on HPI Congress in Bali and succeeded Mr. Sunit Hendrana as the chairman of Indonesian Polymer Association.

Report by Edy Giri Rachman Putra

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Congratulations to Tomoki Yoshida for winning a Polymer Chemistry poster prize

photo of Tomoki Yoshida with his winning posterCongratulations to Tomoki Yoshida for winning a Polymer Chemistry poster prize at the International Conference on the Innovation in Polymer Science and Technology 2011 (IPST2011). His winning poster titled “Extraction of Hemicelluloses from Corn Pericarp by the NaOH-Urea Solvent System” was selected by the judges and awarded by Edy Giri Rachman Putra.

Tomoki Yoshida is a PhD student working in the group of Professor J. Azuma, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan. IPST2011 was held in Bali, Indonesia, November 28 – December 1, 2011.

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Hot Article: Multi-block copolymer stars via an iterative radical polymerization technique. No purification required!

Graphical abstract: Synthesis of multi-block copolymer stars using a simple iterative Cu(0)-mediated radical polymerization techniqueA simple and efficient route to well-defined multi-block star copolymers has been developed by scientists at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Based on copper(0)-mediated living radical polymerization, the method involves a core first approach using a multi-functional initiator in connection with iterative copper(0)-mediated radical polymerization steps. No purification is required between the successive chain extension steps as complete monomer conversion is reached before the addition of each consecutive monomer type.

Synthesis of multi-block copolymer stars using a simple iterative Cu(0)-mediated radical polymerization technique: Cyrille Boyer, Aurelia Derveaux, Per B. Zetterlund and Michael R. Whittaker, Polym. Chem., 2012, 3, 117-123

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Make the most of the last few weeks of free access to Polymer Chemistry

Polymer Chemistry issue 2 front coverFree online access to Polymer Chemistry will cease at the start of 2012, but there is still time to take a look at all the articles we’ve published so far free of charge.

 

We hope you’ve enjoyed – and will continue to enjoy – reading the articles we publish. One of the highlights of the last year was the Emerging Investigators Issue with Rachel O’Reilly and Andrew Dove as the guest editors which gives a flavour of some of the most exciting research being discovered in these recently established labs.  Another highlight was the polymer bioconjugates themed issue front coverPolymer Bioconjugates themed issue guest edited by Jan van Hest and Brent Sumerlin which gives an overview of this exciting and fast developing area.

 

Don’t forget all the latest Advanced Articles are listed on the Polymer Chemistry home page and the most popular articles are shown on the Most Read Articles tab.

 

If you would like to continue to receive access to Polymer Chemistry in 2012 please recommend Polymer Chemistry to your librarian.

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