Welcome to PMSE
The Polymer Science, Materials, and Engineering (PMSE) Division of the American Chemical Society brings together a worldwide community of scientists and engineers interested in the in polymeric materials that make millions of products around the world function everyday.
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.
- Submission to Early Investigator and Future Faculty Nominations are Now Open
Nominations for the selection of PMSE Future Faculty and Early Investigator awardees for 2025 are now open. Links to their respective applications are provided below. FUTURE FACULTY https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pfvfsq0P2w-gmwkh8-N__pFYYzfnZTIAU-t1sYqWmjk PMSE Future Faculty Symposium: The PMSE Future Faculty Symposium highlights and provides a forum for postdocs working in polymeric materials that are applying to academic positions during that year. The symposium features… Read More »Submission to Early Investigator and Future Faculty Nominations are Now Open - Nominations Access for ACS Global Outstanding Student and Mentor Award, Future Faculty, and Early Investigator Symposia
Nominations for the ACS Global Outstanding Student and Mentor Award are open until January 31, 2025. Please see the flyer below for further details. Nominations should be sent via email as described in the flyer below. Nominations for the selection of PMSE Future Faculty and Early Investigator awardees for 2025 will open on January 1. Links to their respective applications… Read More »Nominations Access for ACS Global Outstanding Student and Mentor Award, Future Faculty, and Early Investigator Symposia - 2025 Cooperative Research Award to Dr. James L Hedrick and Prof. Yi Yan Yang
The Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science and Engineering recognizes the cooperative research among industrial, academic, and national laboratory scientists. The winner of the 2025 Cooperative Research Award is the collaborative research team of Dr. James L Hedrick of the IBM Almaden Research Center and Prof. Yi Yan Yang of Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI) of A*STAR, Singapore. Dr. James Hendrick, IBM Almaden Research Center Prof. Yi… Read More »2025 Cooperative Research Award to Dr. James L Hedrick and Prof. Yi Yan Yang - Fall 2024 Graduate Student Travel Awardees
The 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 Fall 2024 ACS Meeting in… Read More »Fall 2024 Graduate Student Travel Awardees - 2024 Eastman Chemical Student Award in Applied Polymer Science to Dr. Rachel Huang
Dr. Rachel HuangStanford UniversityNow at University of Texas at Austin The PMSE Division is pleased to announce that Rachel Huang is the winner of the 2024 Eastman Chemical Student Award in Applied Polymer Science. This award, sponsored by Eastman Chemical Company and administered by the PMSE Division, is given for the best paper presented at the Eastman Chemical Student Award Symposium as part of the… Read More »2024 Eastman Chemical Student Award in Applied Polymer Science to Dr. Rachel Huang - 2024 ACS Fellows – 5 PMSE Members Announced
We The American Chemical Society (ACS) Fellows Program was created by the ACS Board of Directors in December 2008 to recognize members of the ACS for outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the profession and the Society. The 2024 ACS Fellows were recognized by an award ceremony and reception at the Fall 2024 ACS meeting. The PMSE Division would… Read More »2024 ACS Fellows – 5 PMSE Members Announced - Fall 2024 Arthur K. Doolittle Award Winner
We are pleased to announce the winner of the Doolittle Award from the Fall 2024 ACS meeting, Dr. Wenhui Niu. Wenhui NiuMax Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics Topological Engineering of Graphene Nanoribbons for Next-Generation Electronics Wenhui Niu was born in China in 1994. She obtained her B.Sc. in polymer engineering from Sichuan University in 2016 and her Ph.D. in chemistry… Read More »Fall 2024 Arthur K. Doolittle Award Winner - 2024 PMSE Early Investigators SelectedThe 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.