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.

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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.

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  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
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  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
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  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
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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

What’s New in ACS Journals

ACS Applied Polymer Materials

• [ASAP] Polymer Electrolyte Membranes of Polystyrene with Directly Bonded Alkylenephosphonate Groups on the Side Chains
• [ASAP] High-Performance Composite Aerogels with CaSO4 Whisker and Nanofiller Synthesized from Lepidolite Lithium Slag
• [ASAP] Cyano-Functionalized Polyarylether-Based Covalent Organic Framework for Highly Efficient Photocatalytic Uranium Extraction
• [ASAP] 3D Printing with Light for Personalized Drug Delivery Systems and Medical Devices
• [ASAP] Efficient One-Pot Synthesis of Carboxymethyl Chitosan Hydrogel for Sustained Release of Ibuprofen and Sulfadiazine

ACS Macro Letters

• [ASAP] Correction to “Cross-Linked Polyolefins through Tandem ROMP/Hydrogenation”
• [ASAP] Direct Monomer Recovery from Ring-Closing Depolymerization of Thermosets
• [ASAP] Highly Ordered Bimodal Mesoporous Carbon from ABC Triblock Terpolymers with Phenolic Resol
• [ASAP] Rational Design of Self-Reporting Polymersomes for the Controlled Release of Sulfur Dioxide
• [ASAP] A Macrocycle-Mediated Protein Cage

ACS Polymers Au

• [ASAP] Tuning the Morphology of Immiscible Polymer Blend-Based Hybrid Nanocomposite for Improving Microwave Absorption Response
• [ASAP] Reactivity Ratios of Biobased Dialkyl Itaconate Radical Polymerizations Derived from In-Line NMR Spectroscopy and Size-Exclusion Chromatography
• [ASAP] Exploiting Online Spatially Resolved Dynamic Light Scattering and Flow-NMR for Automated Size Targeting of PISA-Synthesized Block Copolymer Nanoparticles
• [ASAP] Photoinduced Rayleigh Light Scattering by Hyperbranched Poly(phenylene sulfide) Solutions: A Model for a Light Scattering Switch
• [ASAP] Photocurable Oil-Based Thermosets Containing Modifiers from Renewable Sources for Coating Applications

Biomacromolecules

• [ASAP] Biological Condensate Growth: Examining the Impact of Solute Crowder on Size Expansion
• [ASAP] Retraction of “Solubilization of Docetaxel in Poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(butylene/styrene oxide) Micelles”
• [ASAP] Harnessing Dual-Responsive Polymeric Micelles for Precision Oxidative Stress Amplification in Targeted Cancer Therapy
• [ASAP] Protein-Specific Crowding Accelerates Aging in Protein Condensates
• [ASAP] Fracture Behavior and Biocompatibility of Cellulose Nanofiber-Reinforced Poly(vinyl alcohol) Composite Hydrogels Cross-Linked with Borax
• [ASAP] YAP/TAZ Inhibitor-Based Drug Delivery System for Selective Tumor Accumulation and Cancer Combination Therapy

Bioconjugate Chemistry

• [ASAP] Gallic Acid-Encapsulated PAMAM Dendrimers as an Antioxidant Delivery System for Controlled Release and Reduced Cytotoxicity against ARPE-19 Cells
• [ASAP] Renally Excretable Molybdenum Disulfide Nanoparticles as Contrast Agents for Dual-Energy Mammography and Computed Tomography
• [ASAP] Site-Specific Immobilization Boosts the Performance of a Galectin-1 Biosensor
• [ASAP] Three Is a Magic Number: Tailored Clickable Chelators Used to Determine Optimal RGD-Peptide Multiplicity in αvβ6-Integrin Targeted 177Lu-Labeled Cancer Theranostics
• [ASAP] 99mTc-Labeled D-Type PTP as a Plectin-Targeting Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography Probe for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Imaging
• [ASAP] Modular Display of Plasmodium yoelii Circumsporozoite Surface Protein and Merozoite Surface Protein-1 on Norovirus-like Particles

Macromolecules

• [ASAP] Colorimetric Sensing of Chirality Based on Synergistic Effect of Multiple Chiral Amide Receptors Consecutively Organized along Poly(phenylacetylene) Backbone
• [ASAP] Synthesis of Heterografted Amphiphilic Cyclic Polymers via the Self-Folding Cyclization Technique and Their Application as Oil-in-Water Emulsion Stabilizers
• [ASAP] Impact of Long-Chain Branching on Polypropylene Nucleation and Crystallization over a Wide Temperature Range without the Influence of Shear
• [ASAP] High-Performance Adhesive with Wide Working Temperature Range Enabled by the Multivalent Supramolecular Network around Lignin-Derived Noncoplanar Triaryl-imidazolium
• [ASAP] Highly Regioselective Ring-Opening Polymerization of an Asymmetric Diester
• [ASAP] Reversible-Deactivation Radical Polymerization of Vinyl Monomers Mediated by Schiff Bases