PMSE Best Poster Award
The PMSE Best Poster Award recognizes outstanding posters presented by an undergraduate and graduate students during the PMSE poster session at each Fall and Spring ACS National Meeting.
2022 Award Winners
A full write-up of the Spring 2022 poster award winners is here.
The Spring winners, in alphabetical order, are:
Claire Dingwell
University of Minnesota
Regiospecific and linear poly(ethylene-co-vinyl alcohol) via the ring-opening metathesis polymerization of 3-acetoxy cyclooctene
Robert Enright
University of Massachusetts
Self-wrinkling polymer films via initiated chemical vapor deposition
Hayden Houck
Western Washington University
Chemical and physical tailoring of guanidine-based covalent adaptable networks
Mara Kuenen
University of Virginia
Connecting molecular features of poly(beta-amino ester)s to their degradation and solution behavior to engineer functional materials with controlled lifetimes
Jasmine Lim
University of Southern Mississippi
Attaining infrared photodetection in devices with narrow bandgap conjugated polymers
Jaylene Martinez
University of Colorado
Bonding of membranes by viscous polymers: Infiltration kinetics and its impact on mechanical integrity of the bonded polymer/membrane structure
Kate McConnell
Western Washington University
Chemical and physical tailoring of guanidine-based covalent adaptable networks
Thivani Senathiraja
Iowa State University
Tuning the intermolecular interactions of sulfonated ionomer via salt in solvent systems
Award Details
Six posted awards will be made yearly, three at each of the National ACS Meetings. Each awardee will each receive a $200 award. Awardees will be acknowledged at the PMSE/POLY Awards Ceremony at the National ACS Meeting.
Nominations
Undergraduate and graduate students who present a PMSE poster are eligible. Posters from graduate and undergraduate students are identified based on a submission form communicated prior to the meeting.
Award Selection
Posters are evaluated by a group of judges, selected by the PMSE Executive Committee, during the poster session.
Finalists are identified and awardees selected before the conclusion of the poster session.
Past Recipients
Nominations and Award Process
Rules of Eligibility
This award is open to current graduate-level and undergraduate-level poster presenters at an ACS meeting.
Nominations Package
Nominations are defined by the submission process with poster presenters who are identified as undergraduate or graduate students. Presenters must be undergraduate or graduate students at a degree granting university, and need to be present during the poster session to be considered for the award.
Award Selection and Award Promotion
This award was established in 2017 to encourage poster presentations as a corrolary to the Arthur Dolittle Award. A total of 24 posters have been awarded to date.
Full List of Award Winners
2019 Fall Best Poster Award Winners
The American Chemical Society Division of Polymeric Materials:
Science and Engineering (PMSE) is pleased to announce the winners of the
PMSE Best Poster Awards presented at the 2019 ACS National Meeting in
San Diego, CA. Congratulations to Diego Luan Bertuzzi, Jessica Cashman,
and Yun Liu as presenters for the best posters.
Synthesis and self-assembly of
dendrimer-b-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) block copolymers containing
folates for applications in biosensors and drug delivery systems [PMSE
306]
Diego Luan Bertuzzi,1,2 Catia Ornelas,3 Bradley D Olsen2
- Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
- Chemical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas – UNICAMP, Campinas SP, Brazil
Increased flexibility in polyimide aerogel substrates for conformal, lightweight antennas [PMSE 328]
Jessica Cashman,1 Baochau N Nguyen,2 Bushara Dosa,1 Mary Ann Meador1
- NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- Ohio Aerospace Institute, North Royalton, Ohio, United States
Lewis pair-mediated ring-opening polymerization of cyclic
disulfides: Building high molar mass polymers with dynamic s–s bonds
[PMSE 394]
Yun Liu, Yuan Jia, Qiong Wu, Jeffrey Scott Moore
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology; Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States
2019 Spring Best Poster Award Winners
The American Chemical Society Division of
Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) is pleased to
announce the winners of the PMSE Best Poster Awards presented at the 2019 ACS National Meeting in Orlando, FL.
Increased Thermal Properties of Benzoxazine Polymers Cured with End-group Tosylated Polymers [PMSE 369]
Ayesha Nadeem1, Emily A. Brown1, David A. Rider2
1 Department of Chemistry and 2 Department of Engineering & Design, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
Fabrication, Optimization, and Analysis of Graphene Oxides Doped Polyvinylidene Flouride Nanocomposite for Surface Acoustic Wave Sensor Application [PMSE 450]
Omari Paul1, A. Thai1, A. Joaquin1, M. Ridley1, S. Jones1, C. Bufford1, A. Falconer1, A. Smith2, A. Ueda3, R. Mu1, F.R. Williams1
1 College of Engineering, Tennessee State University, Tennessee, United States
2 Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, Crane, Indiana, United States
3 Center for Chemistry and Physics of Materials, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Dynamic Control of Hydrogel Crosslinking Through Reversible Sortase-meditated Transpeptidation [PMSE 500]
Matthew R. Arkenberg1, Dustin M. Moore2, Chien-Chi Lin1,2
1 Wheldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
2 Department
of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering and
Technology, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis,
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
2018 Fall Best Poster Award Winners
The American Chemical Society Division of
Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) is pleased to
announce the winners of the PMSE Best Poster Awards presented at the 2018 ACS National Meeting in Boston, MA.
Vapor-printed polymers for flexible electronics
PMSE 557
Won Jun Jo1, Vladimir Bulovic3, Karen Gleason2
1 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States
2 Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
3 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Role of chain-end association life time in segmental and chain dynamics of associating telechelic polymers
PMSE 501
Kunyue Xing1, Martin Tress1, Pengfei Cao2, Fei Fan1, Shiwang Cheng2, Tomonori Saito2, Alexei P. Sokolov1,2
1 Department of Chemistry, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
2 Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Polymerization induced order-order and disorder-order transitions in diblock copolymer-monomer blends
PMSE 459
Everett Zofchak1,2, Robert Hickey2, Jacob LaNasa2, Wenwen Mei2
1 Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States
2 Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
2018 Spring Best Poster Award Winners
The American Chemical Society Division of
Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) is pleased to
announce the winners of the PMSE Best Poster Awards presented at the 2018 ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, LA.
Exploring “click” chemistry to synthesize and characterize cyclic polyethers
PMSE 366
Farihah Haque, Scott M. Grayson
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Synthesis, mechanical, and structural properties of
piezoelectric polyvinylidene fluoride doped with barium titanate
nanoparticles
PMSE 379
Akinwunmi Joaquim, Omari Paul, Robert Turner, Ranganathan Parthasarathy, Lizhi Ouyang, Yuri Barnakov, Frances Williams
Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Effect of phase separation on water barrier properties in epoxy/amine thermosetting polymers
PMSE 444
John Vergara2, Ian Donahue2, John J La Scala1, Joshua M Sadler1, Santosh Kumar Yadav2, Giuseppe Palmese2
1 Army Research Lab, RDECOM, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, United States;
2 Chemical and Biological Engineering, Drexel University, Downingtown, Pennsylvania, United States
2017 Fall Best Poster Award Winners
The American Chemical Society Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) is pleased to announce the winners of the PMSE Best Poster Awards presented at the 2017 ACS Washington DC National Meeting.
Fluorinated non-planer precursors for enhanced structural arrangement in two-dimensional (2D) azine-linked covalent organic frameworks PMSE 342
Sampath B. Alahakoon, G.T. McCandless, A. Karunathilake, C. Thompson, R. Smaldone
University of Texas at Dallas, United States
Development of phosphate-presenting citrate-based polymer for orthopaedic applications PMSE 397
Qiyao Li, Jinshan Guo and Jian Yang
Pennsylvania State University, United States
Shrink-wrapped encapsulation of proteins and triggered traceless release through reactive self-assembly approach PMSE 465
Kingshuk Dutta, D. Hu, B. Zhao, A. Ribbe, J. Zhuang, S. Thayumanavan
University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States
2017 Spring Best Poster Award Winners
The American Chemical Society Division of
Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) is pleased to
announce the winners of the PMSE Best Poster Awards presented at the Spring 2017 ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
Structural Characterization of Three-Helix Micelle Delivery Platform for Neurological Disease Treatment PMSE 385
Benson Jung, Joo Cuan Ang, and Ting Xu
UC Berkeley, United States
Physical, thermal, electrochemical and fuel cell performance study of sulfonated poly(phenelyne)s /novel branched polysulfone-based polymer blends PMSE 419
Behrooz Motealleh, Timothy Largier, Fei Huang, and Chris Cornelius
University of Nebraska, United States
Micellar thrombin-binding aptamers as reversible nanoscale anticoagulants PMSE 515
Alexander Roloff, Andrea Carlini, and Nathan Gianneschi
UC San Diego, United States