Advancing Polymer Science, Materials, and Engineering

The PMSE Division of the American Chemical Society brings together a worldwide community of scientists and engineers interested in the innovative solutions that can be provided by polymeric materials that make millions of products around the world function everyday.

100 Years of PMSE at ACS Spring 2024 is Complete!

Congratulations to the following poster winners
Graduate Student Best Poster - Kaylee E. Barr, Collette Gordon, Nehemie Guillomaitre, Husain Mithaiwala, Nath-Eddy Moody, Molly Warndorf
Undergraduate Student Best Poster - Simeon Newman, Anthony Radka
Early Career Researcher Poster Winner - Raquel Feliciano Crespo, University of Puerto Rico

And also to the winners of the New Member Contest: Francis Klincewicz, Amy Pollock, Ethan Rose. You can also join online from the link above.

Latest PMSE Award Announcements

Roy W. Tess Award: Dr. Wenjun Wu, Arkema

Journal of Polymer Science Award: Prof. Dr. Athina Anastaski, ETH Zurich

Henkel Award: Shu Wang, Duke University

PMSE Fellows
Prof. Jamie Grunlan, Texas A&M University
Prof. Enrique D. Gomez The Pennsylvania State University
Professor Joseph B. Schlenoff, Florida State University

Who We Are

The Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Division helps connect scientists seeking to leverage the unique design, functionality, engineering, and properties of macromolecules in challenging applications.

The Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering, a division of the American Chemical Society, was founded in 1924 as an association of scientists with an interest in understanding how to improve and understand paints and other polymeric coatings. The complex interactions and optimization between the polymeric material, solvents, substrates, and end use required a collaborative effort to understand fundamental property interactions. PMSE build and maintain relationships, arrange polymeric programs at professional meetings, and promotes the teaching of macromolecular chemistry at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Advancing Polymer Research

Focused on scientific discovery and research across macromolecular disciplines and their interaction with other scientific and engineering fields

Developing New Members

Developmental symposium and awards help promote new researchers and expose new ideas to the broader community

Connecting Our Community

Join PMSE and become a member of a supportive professional network of active and diverse members

News and Updates

If you have content or updates you would like to share with the PMSE community, please contact Bindu Krishnan and Samanvaya Srivastava at [email protected] with news to share.

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  2024 PMSE Early Investigators Selected
  The 2024 PMSE Early Investigators Award Committee selected twenty four members, consisting of professors, government researchers, and industry scientists across the field of polymer science. A symposium highlighting their work will be held at the 2024 Fall ACS National Meeting, located in Denver, Colorado. The list below contains affiliations and links to their lab, website, or employer.
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  Spring 2024 Arthur K. Doolittle Award Winner, Tae-Lim Choi
  The Arthur K. Doolittle Award recognizes an outstanding talk presented during a PMSE symposium at each of the Fall and Spring ACS National Meetings.  The award has two awardees, one per meeting.  Originally established by the Union Carbide Corporation as the Carbide Award, its name was later changed due to Arthur K. Dootlittle’s contribution to the ACS Division of PMSE, the field of polymeric… Read More »Spring 2024 Arthur K. Doolittle Award Winner, Tae-Lim Choi
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  2024 PMSE Future Faculty Scholar Class
  The twenty five members of the 2024 PMSE Future Faculty class are new faculty and industry/government hires across the field of polymer science. A symposium highlighting their work will be held at the Fall 2024 ACS National Meeting, located in Denver, Colorado. The list below contains affiliations and links to their lab, website, or employer.
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  Poster Award Winners from Centennial Poster Sessions
  A distinguished group of Judges from industry, academia, and government laboratories had the task of determining the winners of the PMSE Centennial Best Poster Competition at the Spring ACS Meeting in New Orleans.  Congratulations to our winners, who were also recognized at the POLY/PMSE Awards Reception. CENTENNIAL POSTER SESSION GRADUATE STUDENT BEST POSTER WINNERS KAYLEE E. BARRUniversity of Minnesota Bottlebrush polymer… Read More »Poster Award Winners from Centennial Poster Sessions
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  2024 Global Student and Mentor Award Announced
  The purpose of the ACS Global Outstanding Graduate Student and Mentor Award is to disseminate globally the latest knowledge of polymer research and to recognize at the ACS National Meeting not just two winning students, one from the USA and one from anywhere in the world, but also their mentors. Sponsored by Chemical Marketing & Economics, Inc. (CME), the awards,… Read More »2024 Global Student and Mentor Award Announced
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  Bioconjugate Chemistry Young Investigator Award
  The Bioconjugate Chemistry Young Investigator Award, established in 2023*, recognizes an outstanding young researcher who has made a major impact at the interface of synthetic and biological systems. Bioconjugate Chemistry is a peer reviewed journal published by the American Chemical Society.  Since 2018, the award has been cosponsored by Bioconjugate Chemistry and PMSE.  This year’s recipient is Professor Abhishek Chaterjee from Boston College Professor Chatterjee was born in India in 1979. He received… Read More »Bioconjugate Chemistry Young Investigator Award
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  Spring 2024 PMSE Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
  he PMSE Graduate Student Travel Award is given to provide partial travel support to women and/or under-represented (African American, Hispanic, or Native American) graduate students to attend and present their research at ACS national meetings in the Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering. PMSE is proud to announce the winners of this award for the Spring 2024 ACS Meeting… Read More »Spring 2024 PMSE Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
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  Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award to Prof. Dr. Athina Anastaski
  Athina AnastasakiETH Zurich Since its inception in 2012, the Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award recognizes polymer scientists under the age of 40 and celebrates their significant research innovations and achievements in the field.  Winners are recognized at a symposium in association with PMSE at the ACS Fall meeting. The editors of the Journal of Polymer Science and the Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Division… Read More »Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award to Prof. Dr. Athina Anastaski

What’s New in ACS Journals

ACS Applied Polymer Materials

• [ASAP] Exploring Waste Wool Derived-Keratin Nanofiber Architectures on Cotton Fabrics: Electrospinning Strategies for Enhanced Material Properties
• [ASAP] Preparation of Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane-Supported Ziegler–Natta Catalyst and Its Application for Stereoselective Propylene Polymerization
• [ASAP] Introgression of Lone Electron Pairs into π-Conjugated Structures Resulting in Giant Electron-Rich Clusters with High Trapping Capacity for Iodine Molecules
• [ASAP] Toughened and Recyclable Epoxy Networks Featuring Nanostructures and Dynamic Covalent Bonds
• [ASAP] Aptamer-Functionalized Hydrogel Biosensor Targeting Trace Antibiotics via UV Detection

ACS Macro Letters

• [ASAP] Stably Grafting Polymer Brushes on Both Active and Inert Surfaces Using Tadpole-Like Single-Chain Particles with an Interactive “Head”
• [ASAP] Glycopolymer with Sulfated Fucose and 6′-Sialyllactose as a Dual-Targeted Inhibitor on Resistant Influenza A Virus Strains
• [ASAP] Visible Light [2 + 2] Cycloadditions of Thermoresponsive Dendronized Styryltriazines To Exhibit Tunable Microconfinement
• [ASAP] Selective Ring-Opening Polymerization of Silyl Glycidyl Ether through Organocatalysis
• [ASAP] Diverse Approaches for the Difunctionalization of PPH Dendrimers, Precise Versus Stochastic: How Does this Influence Catalytic Performance?

ACS Polymers Au

• [ASAP] Solid-State Fluorescent Organic Polymers for Visual Detection and Elimination of Heavy Metals in Water
• [ASAP] Investigate the Processability of Biobased Thermoplastics Used in Nonwoven Fabrics
• [ASAP] Hierarchically Porous Polyacetylene Networks: Adsorptive Photocatalysts for Efficient Bisphenol A Removal from Water
• [ASAP] Microfluidic Controlled Self-Assembly of Polylactide (PLA)-Based Linear and Graft Copolymers into Nanoparticles with Diverse Morphologies
• [ASAP] Ampholytic Peptides Consisting of an Alternating Lysine/Glutamic Acid Sequence for the Simultaneous Formation of Polyion Complex Vesicles

Biomacromolecules

• [ASAP] Effects of Secondary Structures and pH on the Self-Assembly of Poly(ethylene glycol)-b-polytyrosine
• [ASAP] Structural Color Out of the Blue: A Quantitative Framework for the Self-Assembly Kinetics of Cholesteric Cellulosic Mesophases
• [ASAP] Poly(l-threonine-co-l-threonine Succinate) Thermogels for Sustained Release of Lixisenatide
• [ASAP] Polymer Nanoparticles for Preferential Delivery of Drugs Only by Exploiting the Slightly Elevated Temperature of Cancer Cells and Real-Time Monitoring of Drug Release
• [ASAP] Hyaluronic Acid Nanoparticles with Parameters Required for In Vivo Applications: From Synthesis to Parametrization
• [ASAP] Bletilla striata Polysaccharide-Containing Carboxymethyl Cellulose Bilayer Structure Membrane for Prevention of Postoperative Adhesion and Achilles Tendon Repair

Bioconjugate Chemistry

• [ASAP] Oriented Antibody Coupling to an Antifouling Polymer Using Glycan Remodeling for Biosensing by Particle Motion
• [ASAP] Ratiometric Fluorescence Probes for In Situ Imaging of Membrane Tension in Live Cells
• [ASAP] Recent Advances in Nanoimmunotherapy by Modulating Tumor-Associated Macrophages for Cancer Therapy
• [ASAP] Synergistic Polymer Blending Informs Efficient Terpolymer Design and Machine Learning Discerns Performance Trends for pDNA Delivery
• [ASAP] Organometallic Oxidative Addition Complexes for S-Arylation of Free Cysteines
• [ASAP] Duo-Chol: A Photoconvertible Live Cell Imaging Tool for Tracking Cholesterol

Macromolecules

• [ASAP] Crystal Structures of Nylon–Iodine Complexes
• [ASAP] Coupling of Ethylene-Oxide-Based Polymeric Network Structure and Counterion Chemistry to Ionic Conductivity and Ion Selectivity
• [ASAP] Poly(ether imide) Alumina Nanocomposites: Interphase Properties Determined from Free Volume Element Radius Distributions
• [ASAP] Effect of Corona Treatment on the Adhesion between a Two-Component Polyurethane Adhesive and Polypropylene
• [ASAP] Film Thickness Dependence of Surface and Internal Morphology Evolution in Polymer-Grafted Nanocomposites
• [ASAP] Thermal Activation of Zirconium(IV) Acetylacetonate Catalysts to Enhance Polyurethane Synthesis and Reprocessing