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 polymeric materials that make millions of products around the world function everyday.

ACS Fall 2025 Meeting & Expo (link)
August 17-21, 2025

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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  Congratulations to PMSE Members Honored as 2025 ACS Fellows
  PMSE is proud to introduce our members who have been selected as the new class of ACS Fellows for 2025. This honor recognizes outstanding achievements in, and contributions to, the science and the profession of chemistry, and equally exemplary service to the the American Chemical Society. The following distinguished PMSE members have been chosen: PMSE is actively committed to cultivating… Read More »Congratulations to PMSE Members Honored as 2025 ACS Fellows
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  2025 James Flack Norris Award For Outstanding Achievement In The Teaching Of Chemistry
  As part of PMSE mission, MACRO is supported through both volunteer hours and logistical support wherever possible to help communication polymer chemistry within academics. The following PMSE members were honored with their contribution to teach polymers by being awared the James Flack Norris Award. The James Flack Norris Award is given by the Northeast Section of the American Chemical Society… Read More »2025 James Flack Norris Award For Outstanding Achievement In The Teaching Of Chemistry
• Opportunities for Up To 20 Graduate Students to Participate in the 2025 BIP Forum
  Opportunity for up to 20 Graduate Students (PMSE/RUBB/BMGT members) to participate in the 2025 Breakthrough in Polymers (BIP) Forum. PMSE Chair Announces an Exciting New Forum for Industry, Government, and Non-academic organizations – Updated 6/3/25 – PMSE We are excited to invite you to participate in this BIP Forum, held on August 18 (1:30-4:15 pm), 2025, in DC as part… Read More »Opportunities for Up To 20 Graduate Students to Participate in the 2025 BIP Forum
• 2026 Breakthrough in Polymers (BIP) Forum
  The 2026 Breakthrough in Polymers (BIP) forum will be convening next summer at the Chicago, IL, ACS Fall Meeting. The forum will take place on August 24th or 25th, 2026, and will include meals and refreshments. The Breakthrough in Polymers (BIP) Forum aims to advance professional development of early career polymer scientists and engineers and to enhance interactions between emerging… Read More »2026 Breakthrough in Polymers (BIP) Forum
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  Meet PMSE’s Spring 2025 Best Poster Winners
  A distinguished group of Judges from industry, academia, and government laboratories had the task of determining the winners of the PMSE Best Poster Competitions at the Spring ACS Meeting in San Diego. Congratulations to our winners, who were also recognized at the POLY/PMSE Awards Reception. Graduate Student Best Poster Award Winners JASON M. KRONENFELDStanford UniversityScalable microparticle fabrication via r2rCLIP: Enabling a… Read More »Meet PMSE’s Spring 2025 Best Poster Winners
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  2025 Future Faculty Honorees Announced
  The 2025 Future Faculty Honorees have been annouced. A symposium highlighting the honorees will be held at the ACS Fall Meeting in Washington DC on August 18-21, 2025. A list of honorees and university affiliations are listed below. PMSE congratulates all winners and looks forward to seeing their presentations in August.
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  2025 Early Investigators Honorees Announced
  The 2025 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 2025 Fall ACS National Meeting. The full list from all years can be found at the Early Investigator Symposium page.
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  2025 Awardees for the ACS Global Outstanding Graduate Student and Mentor Award
  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 »2025 Awardees for the ACS Global Outstanding Graduate Student and Mentor Award

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

What’s New in ACS Journals

ACS Applied Polymer Materials

• [ASAP] Magnetoelectric Nanoengineered PEEK Implant for Accelerated Osseointegration
• [ASAP] Eco-Friendly Nanocomposite Hydrogel Beads Filled with Organobentonite as Potential Multicomponent Adsorbents for Water Remediation
• [ASAP] Constructing Self-Covalent Locking and Mechanically Tunable Hydrogel Coatings with Antibacterial and Oil–Water Separation Properties
• [ASAP] Shape-Editable and Healable Polyethylene-Based Ionomers for Flexible Supercapacitor Substrates
• [ASAP] Enhancing the Performance of Thermoplastic Polyurethanes Using Renewable Aromatic Moieties

ACS Macro Letters

• [ASAP] Non-Newtonian Behavior of Spherical Coacervate Micelle Dispersions in Aqueous Media
• [ASAP] Sustainable Long-Spaced Polycondensates toward Polyethylene-Like Materials
• [ASAP] Visible Light-induced Living Cationic Polymerization Using Boranil Complex as a Robust Photocatalyst
• [ASAP] Intrinsic Doping and Electrostatic Complexation of Sulfonated Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophenes) (PEDOTs)
• [ASAP] Modulation of Depolymerizable Poly(thioether-thioester) Properties in Reversible Covalent Composites

ACS Polymers Au

• [ASAP] Metal Oxide-Functionalized Photopolymers: A Perspective in 3D Printing
• [ASAP] Nitrile-Functionalized Polysiloxanes with Controlled End Groups for Elastomeric Networks
• [ASAP] Comonomer Discrimination in Copolymerization of β-Myrcene: Ethylene Inhibition, Spectators, and Soft Elastomers with Isoprene
• [ASAP] Exploiting Machine Learning and Automated Synthesis in Continuous Flow for Process Optimization of the Organocatalyzed Ring-Opening Polymerization of l-Lactide
• [ASAP] Vitrimer as a Sustainable Alternative to Traditional Thermoset: Recent Progress and Future Prospective

Biomacromolecules

• [ASAP] Well-Defined Amylose Acetate-graft-polylactide Graft Polymers as Compatibilizers for Renewable Polymer Blends
• [ASAP] Glucose/Glucuronate Copolymers Stripped from Oxidized Cell Wall Cellulose by Mechanical Shearing
• [ASAP] A-BioHPG: A Hydrophilic Biodegradable and Hemocompatible Hyperbranched/Dendritic Polyketal Polyglycerol with Tunable Degradation
• [ASAP] Sodium Alginate-Based Frost-Resistant and Antidry Conductive Hydrogel for Human Motion Monitoring and Human–Computer Interaction
• [ASAP] Phosphorus–Nitrogen Synergistic Flame-Retardant Cellulose Nanofibers from a Reactive Ternary Deep Eutectic Solvent Containing Guanidine Phosphate
• [ASAP] Simultaneous Removal of Endotoxin and Circulating Histones by Heparin-Grafted Chitosan-Cellulose Composite Microspheres for Multitargeted Hemoperfusion in Septic Blood

Bioconjugate Chemistry

• [ASAP] Cysteine-Targeting Gd-Based Spin Label and Its Application in Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
• [ASAP] Light-Controlled Promiscuous Cell Adhesion through the Plasma Membrane-Binding Protein BcLOV4
• [ASAP] Novel Disulfide-Containing Linkages of Pyrimidine Nucleobases to Solid Supports: A Versatile Platform for Oligonucleotide Conjugation
• [ASAP] Molecular Imaging of Diabetes-Associated Glutathione S-Transferase Dysregulation Using a Smart Activatable Probe
• [ASAP] Membrane Protein-Binding and Membrane-Inserting Chimeras for Cancer Therapy
• [ASAP] SPARC: A Multipayload ADC Architecture for Programmable Drug Combinations

Macromolecules

• [ASAP] The Emergent Dynamics of Double-Folded Randomly Branching Ring Polymers
• [ASAP] Unlocking the Potential of Organic Semiconductors: Synergistic Alkylthio-Halogen Substitutions for Superior Photoelectrochemical Cathodic Protection
• [ASAP] Coherent State Field Theory for Reversible Gelation of Star Polymers
• [ASAP] Depolymerized Poly(ethylene-2,5-furanoate) as a Sustainable Feedstock for Biobased Unsaturated Polyester Resins
• [ASAP] Biomineralization-Inspired Ultra-tough and Robust Self-healing Waterborne Polyurethane Elastomers
• [ASAP] Positional Correlation Length-Induced Morphological Transformation of Interpolyelectrolyte Complexes (IPECs) Made of Polysaccharides: The Role of Molar Charge Ratio