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] Layer-by-Layer-Assembled Polyaniline/MXene Thin Film and Device for Improved Electrochromic and Energy Storage Capabilities
• [ASAP] An Affordable Amperometric Gas Sensor Based on Polyvinylidene Fluoride Solid-State Electrolyte for Highly Selective Detection of ppm-Level H2 at Room Temperature
• [ASAP] Fabrication of Phthalocyanine Polymers with Abundant Nitrogen Active Sites as the Cathode Materials for Aqueous Zinc-Organic Batteries
• [ASAP] Scalable Film Based on Thermochromic and Radiative Cooling Effects for Anti-Counterfeiting and Low Temperature Preservation
• [ASAP] Synthesis of Cross-Linkable Norbornenyl Copolymers via ROMP for Fabricating Cyclic Olefin Vitrimers

ACS Macro Letters

• [ASAP] General and Mild Method for the Synthesis of Polythioesters from Lactone Feedstocks
• [ASAP] Helical Star-Shaped Bottlebrush Polymers: From Controlled Synthesis to Tunable Photoluminescence and Circularly Polarized Luminescence
• [ASAP] Core–Shell Confined Stable Polymer Nanoparticles with Tunable Clusteroluminescence
• [ASAP] Degradable N-Vinyl Copolymers through Radical Ring-Opening Polymerization of Cyclic Thionocarbamates
• [ASAP] A Total Internal Reflection Microscopy (TIRM)-Based Approach for Direct Characterization of Polymer Brush Conformational Change in Aqueous Solution

ACS Polymers Au

• [ASAP] Design of Highly Conductive PILs by Simple Modification of Poly(epichlorohydrin-co-ethylene oxide) with Monosubstituted Imidazoles
• [ASAP] Investigation of Antibacterial Coatings Based on Chitosan/Polyacrylic Acid/Chlorhexidine for Orthopedic Implants
• [ASAP] Polysaccharide-Based Hydrogels for Advanced Biomedical Engineering Applications

Biomacromolecules

• [ASAP] Comparative In Vivo Biocompatibility of Cellulose-Derived and Synthetic Meshes in Subcutaneous Transplantation Models
• [ASAP] High-Throughput Synthesis and Evaluation of Antiviral Copolymers for Enveloped Respiratory Viruses
• [ASAP] Exploiting Materials Binding Peptides for the Organization of Resilient Biomolecular Constructs
• [ASAP] From Cellulose Solutions to Aerogels and Xerogels: Controlling Properties for Drug Delivery
• [ASAP] Accelerated Ten-Gram-Scale Synthesis of One-Component Multifunctional Sequence-Defined Ionizable Amphiphilic Janus Dendrimer 97
• [ASAP] Poly(lactide) Upcycling Approach through Transesterification for Stereolithography 3D Printing

Bioconjugate Chemistry

• [ASAP] Inhibitory Effects on RNA Binding and RNase H Induction Activity of Prodrug-Type Oligodeoxynucleotides Modified with a Galactosylated Self-Immolative Linker Cleavable by β-Galactosidase
• [ASAP] Comprehensive Review on Bubbles: Synthesis, Modification, Characterization and Biomedical Applications
• [ASAP] Drug Delivery Targeting Neuroinflammation to Treat Brain Diseases
• [ASAP] A Novel Bifunctional Chelating Agent for Tyrosine-Specific Radiolabeling of Peptides and Proteins
• [ASAP] Linker and Conjugation Site Synergy in Antibody–Drug Conjugates: Impacts on Biological Activity
• [ASAP] Identification of a Novel Transasparaginase Activity of Bacillus subtilis (bTG) for Sequence-Specific Bioconjugation

Macromolecules

• [ASAP] Correction to “Glass Formation in Ring Polymer Melts Having Variable Knot Complexity and Molecular Mass”
• [ASAP] Predicting Chemical Recyclability Thermodynamics via Molecular Simulations
• [ASAP] From Fully Stretched to Collapsed Chains: Bottlebrush Polymer Grafted Particles
• [ASAP] High Molecular Weight Protein-Like Semiflexible Chains via Bioorthogonal Polymerization of Coiled-Coil Peptides
• [ASAP] Molecular Dynamics Study of the Role of Nanoparticle Assemblies on Polymer Nanocomposite Rheology
• [ASAP] NIR-Light-Induced ATRP Using Phenothiazine-Based Hollow Conjugated Microporous Polymer Networks as Photocatalysts for Aerobic Photobiocatalysis