Polymer Chemistry Blog

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!

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)

RSC Materials Chemistry Division Poster Symposium

This is your last chance to attend RSC Materials Chemistry Division Poster Symposium as the final registration deadline is just a few days away. Be sure to register by 15 November 2016 to secure your place.

For full details of speakers and conference themes, please visit the event web page.

Congratulations to Brian Donovan, a PhD student in the Patton Group at the University of Southern Mississippi, USA, who was awarded the Polymer Chemistry Best Poster Award at the Photopolymerization Fundamentals Conference 2015 in Boulder, Colorado, USA. Brian received the award from Polymer Chemistry Associate Editor, Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik, in the presence of the conference chair, Professor Christopher Bowman, for his work on the effects of phosphonic acid monomers on the network properties of UV polymerizable adhesives.

Pictured (left to right): Professor Christopher Bowman, Brian Donovan and Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik.

Congratulations go to Dr Alejandro Gimenez who won the Polymer Chemistry Poster Prize at Macromex 2014, which was held on the 3-6 December 2014 in Nuevo Vallarta, Jalisco, México. Alejandro received a year’s subscription to Polymer Chemistry, which will help him keep up to date with the most exciting developments in the field.

Alejandro is based in Mexico at CINVESTAV, the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute. His research interests lie in materials science, carbon nanotubes and surfactant science and technology.

Dr Alejandro J. Gimenez, left, receiving his Polymer Chemistry Poster Prize from Prof Brent Summerlin

Congratulations to Robert Deller, who was awarded the Polymer Chemistry prize for best poster at last week’s Recent Appointees in Polymer Science (RAPS) 2014 meeting.

The winning poster, titled ‘Cryopreservation of cells using peptidomimetic macromolecules’, was based on Robert’s PhD project, which he recently completed at the University of Warwick under the supervision of Matthew Gibson, a former RAPS committee member. Robert’s research into cell cryopreservation led to publications in Biomaterials Science and Nature Communications – click on the link below to read the former:

Robert will soon be moving to the University of Bristol to take on a postdoc position in Adam Perriman’s research group.

RAPS 2014, which took place on 3rd-5th September at the University of Reading, was the 15^th annual meeting organised by Recent Appointees in Polymer Science– a group set up to help polymer science researchers just starting out in their careers to forge links and networks for the future. This year’s meeting featured a diverse array of talks from early career researchers working in a variety of polymer-related fields, as well as talks from more established members of the polymer community eager to share advice and lessons learnt from their own careers.

For more information on RAPS- including how to join (for free!)- take a look at the RAPS website.

1st place:

Boyu Zhang, Tulane University
“Exploring the effect of amphiphile architecture: Synthesis, characterization, and self-assmebly of both cyclic and linear poly(ethylene glycol)-b-polycaprolactone”

2nd place:

Ravinder Elupula, Tulane University
“Multi-arm globes via ‘click’ coupling”

3rd place:

Takahiro Ogawa, Tokyo Tech.
“Rational Synthesis of cyclic polymer via rotaxanation of linear polymer directed towards linear-cyclic reversible topology conversion.”

Each prize winner received a Polymer Chemistry Poster Prize certificate as well as 1 year electronic subscription to the journal.