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Celebrate Chinese New Year With Polymer Chemistry

Last week was the start of the Chinese New Year, and the year of the Snake. To mark this occasion all the covers of the latest issue of Polymer Chemistry have been chosen to highlight some of the great work coming from our Chinese authors.

High-density and hetero-functional group engineering of segmented hyperbranched polymers via click chemistry
Sipei Li, Jin Han and Chao Gao
DOI: 10.1039/C2PY20951A

Facile hydrothermal synthesis of low generation dendrimer-stabilized gold nanoparticles for in vivo computed tomography imaging applications
Hui Liu, Yanhong Xu, Shihui Wen, Jingyi Zhu, Linfeng Zheng, Mingwu Shen, Jinglong Zhao, Guixiang Zhang and Xiangyang Shi
DOI: 10.1039/C2PY20993D

Synthesis and characterization of diazafluorene-based oligofluorenes and polyfluorene
Wei-Jie Li, Bin Liu, Yan Qian, Ling-Hai Xie, Jing Wang, Sheng-Biao Li and Wei Huang
DOI: 10.1039/C2PY20971C

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Introducing Polymer Chemistry Associate Editor Ben Zhong Tang

Ben Zhong Tang is Stephen Kam Chuen Cheong Professor of Science at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His research interests include polymer chemistry, materials science, and biomedical engineering. He received B.S. degree from South China University of Technology and Ph.D. degree from Kyoto University and conducted postdoctoral research at University of Toronto. He joined HKUST as an assistant professor in 1994 and was promoted to chair professor in 2008. He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009. He is listed by Institute for Scientific Information as a “Most Cited Scientist”. He received a Natural Science Award from Chinese Government and a Senior Research Fellowship from Croucher Foundation in 2007. He is serving as a science news contributor to Noteworthy Chemistry (ACS), Associate Editor of Polymer Chemistry (RSC) and Editor-in-Chief of RSC Polymer Chemistry Series and is sitting in the editorial advisory boards of a dozen of research journals.

His recent papers include:

Metal-free click polymerizations of activated azide and alkynes
Polym. Chem., 2013, Advance Article

Mesogen jacketed liquid crystalline polyacetylene containing triphenylene discogen: synthesis and phase structure
Polym. Chem., 2013, Advance Article

Stoichiometric imbalance-promoted synthesis of polymers containing highly substituted naphthalenes: rhodium-catalyzed oxidative polycoupling of arylboronic acids and internal diynes
Polym. Chem., 2013, Advance Article

Facile synthesis of soluble nonlinear polymers with glycogen-like structures and functional properties from “simple” acrylic monomers
Polym. Chem., 2013,4, 95-105

Functional polyacetylenes: hybrids with carbon nanotubes
Polym. Chem., 2013,4, 211-223

Hyperbranched conjugated poly(tetraphenylethene): synthesis, aggregation-induced emission, fluorescent photopatterning, optical limiting and explosive detection
Polym. Chem., 2012,3, 1481-1489

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Ben Zhong Tang is Stephen Kam Chuen Cheong Professor of Science at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His research interests include polymer chemistry, materials science, and biomedical engineering. He received B.S. degree from South China University of Technology and Ph.D. degree from Kyoto University and conducted postdoctoral research at University of Toronto. He joined HKUST as an assistant professor in 1994 and was promoted to chair professor in 2008. He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009. He is listed by Institute for Scientific Information as a “Most Cited Scientist”. He received a Natural Science Award from Chinese Government and a Senior Research Fellowship from Croucher Foundation in 2007. He is serving as a science news contributor to Noteworthy Chemistry (ACS), Associate Editor of Polymer Chemistry (RSC) and Editor-in-Chief of RSC Polymer Chemistry Series and is sitting in the editorial advisory boards of a dozen of research journals.
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Introducing Polymer Chemistry Editorial Board Member Masami Kamigaito

Masami Kamigaito was born in 1965 in Nagoya, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in polymer chemistry from Kyoto University under the direction of Professor Toshinobu Higashimura in 1993. After conducting postdoctoral research with Professor Mitsuo Sawamoto, he joined the faculty of Kyoto University in 1995. In 2003, he moved to Nagoya University and worked as an Associate Professor with Professor Yoshio Okamoto. In 2004, he was promoted to Professor. From 1997–1998, he worked as a visiting scientist at Stanford University with Professor Robert M. Waymouth. He was the recipient of the 2001 Arthur K. Doolittle Award of the ACS PMSE Division, the 2009 Wiley Polymer Science Award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan, and the 2010 Japan IBM Science Award (Chemistry). His research interests include controlled radical and cationic polymerizations, the development and application of new polymerizations to precision polymer synthesis, and controlled polymerizations of renewable vinyl monomers.

His recent papers include:

Nanocellular foaming of fluorine containing block copolymers in carbon dioxide: the role of glass transition in carbon dioxide
RSC Adv., 2012,2, 2821-2827

From-syndiotactic-to-isotactic stereogradient methacrylic polymers by RAFT copolymerization of methacrylic acid and its bulky esters
Polym. Chem., 2012,3, 1750-1757

Random copolymer of styrene and diene derivatives via anionic living polymerization followed by intramolecular Friedel–Crafts cyclization for high-performance thermoplastics
Polym. Chem., 2012,3, 190-197

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Happy holidays from Polymer Chemistry!

All of us in the Polymer Chemistry Editorial team would like to wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year! The Editorial office will be closed from 21 December 2012 and will reopen on 2 January 2013.

We’re really looking forward to 2013, which will see more high quality articles from top international polymer chemists, some great themed issues and much more.

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Supramolecular and Dynamic Covalent Polymers themed issue now published

The ‘Supramolecular and Dynamic Covalent Polymers’ themed issue was published last week. Guest editors Neil Ayres and Marcus Weck introduce the issue in their Editorial.

The front covers showcase work by Xi Zhang and co-workers (pH and enzymatic double-stimuli responsive multi-compartment micelles from supra-amphiphilic polymers) and Hideyuki Otsuka and co-workers (Dynamic covalent polymer brushes: reversible surface modifi cation of reactive polymer brushes with alkoxyamine-based dynamic covalent bonds).

The issue also includes the following Review articles:
Phase separation of supramolecular and dynamic block copolymers by Mihaiela C. Stuparu, Anzar Khan and Craig J. Hawker
Schiff’s base as a stimuli-responsive linker in polymer chemistry by Yan Xin and Jinying Yuan

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Poster prizes winners at IOESC:2012

Congratulations to the five Polymer Chemistry poster prize winners at The third International Organic Excitonic Solar Cell (IOESC:2012) conference. The winners from left to right were:

Prof Paul Meredith (presenting), Mr Yuliang Zhang, Dr Robert Borthwick, Ms Jesse Roth-Barton, Dr Tianshi Qin and Mr Mario Lemmer

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