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.
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 pmsecorner@pmsedivision.org with news to share.
- Spring 2024 PMSE Graduate Student Travel Award Winnershe 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
- Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award to Prof. Dr. Athina AnastaskiAthina 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
- 2024 Henkel Award to Dr. Shu WangShu WangAdvised by: Prof. Stephen L. Craig and Prof. Michael Rubinstein, Duke University The Henkel Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Polymer Science and Engineering is given to recognize a graduate student or recent graduate who has completed an outstanding Ph.D. thesis in polymeric research. PMSE is proud to introduce the 2024 winner, Dr. Shu Wang, who obtained his doctoral… Read More »2024 Henkel Award to Dr. Shu Wang
- 2024 Roy W. Tess Award to Dr. Wenjun WuPMSE is pleased to announce the 2024 Roy Tess Award to Dr. Wenjun Wu of Arkema Coating Resins. Dr. Wenjun Wu received her B.S. degree (1986) and M.S. degree (1990) in Chemistry from Peking University, and Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California in 1995. Upon completing her post-doctoral research at Henkel Corporation Research, she joined Union Carbide in… Read More »2024 Roy W. Tess Award to Dr. Wenjun Wu
- PMSE Fellows for 2024The American Chemical Society Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) has selected a new class of PMSE Fellows for 2024. The following distinguished PMSE members have been chosen: PMSE will honor at the next ACS Meeting during the joint PMSE/POLY Awards Reception. PMSE is pleased to welcome this distinguished group of polymer scientists and engineers to the ranks… Read More »PMSE Fellows for 2024
- 2024 Cooperative Research Award Winner to Frank S. Bates, Hung-Jue Sue, Nikhil Verghese and Ha PhamFrank S. Bates1, Hung-Jue Sue2, Nikhil Verghese3, Ha Pham4 1University of Minnesota, 2Texas A&M University, 3 Dow Chemical Company (Currently SABIC), 4 Dow Chemical Company (retired) The Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science and Engineering recognizes the cooperative research between industrial and academic or industrial and national laboratory scientists. The winners of the 2024 Cooperative Research Award are the collaborative… Read More »2024 Cooperative Research Award Winner to Frank S. Bates, Hung-Jue Sue, Nikhil Verghese and Ha Pham
- 2024 PMSE Future Leaders Announced for 100th Centennial CelebrationSixteen graduate and post-doctoral researchers have been selected to present at the special PMSE 100th Centennial symposium, Future Leaders of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering. These sixteen presenters will highlight their current contributions to their respective fields.
- 2023 Fall Arthur K. Doolittle Award to Prof Hiroshi JinnaiThe Arthur K Doolittle Award recognizes an outstanding presentation during a PMSE symposium at each of the Fall and Spring ACS National Meetings. For the 2023 Fall ACS National Meeting, the award committee is pleased to announce Prof. Hiroshi Jinnai as the Arthur K. Doolittle Award winner. Professor Hiroshi JinnaiTohoku University “Nanoscale Static and Dynamic Characterization of Polymer Hierarchical Structures for Sustainable… Read More »2023 Fall Arthur K. Doolittle Award to Prof Hiroshi Jinnai