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Polymer Chemistry welcomes new Associate Editors Tanja Junkers and Jeremiah Johnson

We are delighted to welcome Professor Tanja Junkers (Monash University) and Professor Jeremiah A. Johnson (MIT) as Associate Editors for Polymer Chemistry!

 

Tanja JunkersProfessor Tanja Junkers studied chemistry and graduated with a PhD in physical chemistry from Göttingen University. In January 2018 she became full professor at Monash University in Melbourne, she remains guest professor at Hasselt University and her group is currently active at both locations.

Her main research interests are precision polymer synthesis, use of continuous flow chemistry approaches, light-induced chemistries, polymer surface modification and investigations on kinetics and mechanisms of radical reactions. To find out more about her research read some of her recent publications below!

Visible light-induced iniferter polymerization of methacrylates enhanced by continuous flow
Maarten Rubens,  Phanumat Latsrisaeng  and  Tanja Junkers
Polym. Chem., 2017,8, 6496-6505

RAFT multiblock reactor telescoping: from monomers to tetrablock copolymers in a continuous multistage reactor cascade
Evelien Baeten,  Joris J. Haven  and  Tanja Junkers
Polym. Chem., 2017,8, 3815-3824

 

 

Jeremiah Johnson
Professor Jeremiah Johnson is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at MIT. He was previously an Editorial Board member for Polymer Chemistry.

His research focuses on researching molecular design in three primary areas: nano-scale materials synthesis, macro-scale materials synthesis, and development of new chemical methods for modifying interfaces between bulk and nanoscale objects (surface chemistry). The tools of traditional organic and organometallic synthesis, synthetic polymer chemistry, photochemistry, surface science, and biopolymer engineering are combined to realize the design of target materials. To find out more about his research read some of his publications below!

Improving photo-controlled living radical polymerization from trithiocarbonates through the use of continuous-flow techniques
Mao Chen  and  Jeremiah A. Johnson
Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 6742-6745

Tailoring the structure of polymer networks with iniferter-mediated photo-growth
Awaneesh Singh,  Olga Kuksenok,  Jeremiah A. Johnson  and  Anna C. Balazs
Polym. Chem., 2016,7, 2955-2964

 

As Polymer Chemistry Associate Editors, Tanja and Jeremiah will be handling submissions to the journal. Why not submit your next paper to their Editorial Office?

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2018 Polymer Chemistry Lectureship awarded to Cyrille Boyer

It is with great pleasure that we announce Prof Cyrille Boyer (University of New South Wales) as the recipient of the 2018 Polymer Chemistry Lectureship.

This award, now in its fourth year, honours an early-career researcher who has made significant contribution to the polymer chemistry field. The recipient is selected by the Polymer Chemistry Editorial Board from a list of candidates nominated by the community.

Read on to find out more about Cyrille…
Professor Cyrille Boyer
Cyrille received his PhD in polymer chemistry from the University of Montpellier II (Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Montpellier) and he is currently Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), co-Director of Australian Centre for NanoMedicine and a member of the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD).

He has received a number of awards such as the Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the year 2015, the 2016 LeFevre Memorial Prize, 2016 ACS Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Award, the 2016 Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award and the 2018 Polymer International – IUPAC Award.

Cyrille has published over 200 articles and his research interests mainly cover the use of photoredox catalysts to perform controlled/living radical polymerization and polymer post-modification, the synthesis of polymeric nanoparticles for drug delivery (antimicrobial polymers) and hybrid organic–inorganic nanoparticles for imaging and energy storage. In the last few years, his team has pioneered photoinduced electron/energy transfer reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer polymerization (PET-RAFT) for the synthesis of functional polymers.

To learn more about Cyrille’s research have a look at some of his publications in Polymer Chemistry

The effects of polymer topology and chain length on the antimicrobial activity and hemocompatibility of amphiphilic ternary copolymers
Rashin Namivandi-Zangeneh, Rebecca J Kwan, Thuy-Khanh Nguyen, Jonathan Yeow, Frances L Byrne, Stefan H Oehlers, Edgar HH Wong, Cyrille Boyer
Polym. Chem., 2018, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C7PY01069A

Temperature programed photo-induced RAFT polymerization of stereo-block copolymers of poly(vinyl acetate)
Na Li,  Dongdong Ding,  Xiangqiang Pan,  Zhengbiao Zhang,  Jian Zhu,  Cyrille Boyer  and  Xiulin Zhu
Polym. Chem., 2017,8, 6024-6027
DOI: 10.1039/C7PY01531C

Oxygen tolerant photopolymerization for ultralow volumes
Jonathan Yeow,  Robert Chapman,  Jiangtao Xua  and  Cyrille Boyer
Polym. Chem., 2017,8, 5012-5022
DOI: 10.1039/C7PY00007C

RAFT-mediated, visible light-initiated single unit monomer insertion and its application in the synthesis of sequence-defined polymers
Changkui Fu,   Zixuan Huang,   Craig J. Hawker,   Graeme Moad,   Jiangtao Xu  and   Cyrille Boyer
Polym. Chem., 2017,8, 4637-4643
DOI: 10.1039/C7PY00713B

Application of oxygen tolerant PET-RAFT to polymerization-induced self-assembly
Gervase Ng,   Jonathan Yeow,   Jiangtao Xu   and Cyrille Boyer
Polym. Chem., 2017,8, 2841-2851
DOI: 10.1039/C7PY00442G

We would like to thank everybody who nominated a candidate for the 2018 Polymer Chemistry Lectureship. The Editorial Board had a very difficult task in choosing a winner from the many excellent and worthy candidates.

Please join us in congratulating Cyrille on winning this award!

 

 

 

 

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Photopolymerization Fundamentals 2017 Poster Prize Winner

Congratulations to Abishek Shete, who was awarded the Polymer Chemistry Best Poster Award at Photopolymerization Fundamentals 2017, in Boulder, Colorado, USA. Abishek is currently carrying out research in the CJK Polymer Research group at the University of Delaware.

In addition, due to the high number of exellent poster presentations, three candidates were given honourable mentions;

  • Dillon Love, University of Colorado,
  • Hanns Houck, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Ghent University, Queensland University of Technology,
  • Camila Uzcategui, University of Colorado.

Congratulations to all winners!

 

Polymer Chemistry Poster Prize Winners Photopolymerization Fundamentals 2017

Left to right: Christopher Barner-Kowollik (Editor in Chief of Polymer Chemistry), Abishek Shete, (Main Poster Prize Winner) Dillon Love, (Honorable Mention) Hanns Houck, (Honorable Mention) Camila Uzcategui, (Honorable Mention) Christopher Bowman (Chair of the 2017 Photopolymerization Fundamentals Conference)

 

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