To mark the 15th anniversary of Polymer Chemistry, we've brought together a series of collections showcasing some of the most popular work from some of our key regions across the globe.

Find out more about these regional spotlight collections on our blog!

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reaction of butadiene+isoprene mixtures with CO2 leads to lactones that, upon conjugate reduction, can undergo ROP to make CO2-derived copolymers. One of the heterotelomere isomers, EVMeP, inhibits polymerization through formation of a tertiary alkoxide chain end.

Congrats to Ryan and Takuya on publishing their work on the synthesis & ROP of lactones made from cotelomerization isoprene/butadiene w/CO2! This is part of an upcoming Faraday Discussion on polymerisation and depolymerisation in Fall, so here's the chemrxiv in the meantime! doi.org/10.26434/che...

Kathy is all ready at the @acspoly.bsky.social booth! Come visit the booth to collect some stuff and get to know about the division’s activities!!

Harnessing Self-Condensing Vinyl Copolymerization for Well-Defined Redox-Active Hyperbranched Polymers Enabled by Flow Chemistry

Authors: Yi Lv, Yuqin Zhang, Feichen Cui, Yipeng Zhang, Zixiao Wang, Junlong Yang, Qinzhe Liu, Yingshuai Zhao, Yijun Zheng, ...
DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-c7j5z

The thermodynamics and kinetics of depolymerization: what makes vinyl monomer regeneration feasible? Depolymerization is potentially a highly advantageous method of recycling plastic waste which could move the world closer towards a truly circular polymer economy. However, depolymerization remains ch...

Athina Anastasaki, Associate Editor of @polymerchem.rsc.org, and co-workers at ETH Zürich covered the thermodynamics and kinetics of depolymerisation in their Perspective article, which you can read for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D3SC...

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Biomimetic strain-stiffening in fully synthetic dynamic-covalent hydrogel networks Mechanoresponsiveness is a ubiquitous feature of soft materials in nature; biological tissues exhibit both strain-stiffening and self-healing in order to prevent and repair deformation-induced damage. These features remain challenging to replicate in synthetic and flexible polymeric materials. In recreating

Recent research from Rachel Ollier and colleagues at the University of Notre Dame investigated strain-stiffening in fully synthetic dynamic-covalent hydrogel networks, which could have potential impacts on the design of biomimetic materials.

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Excited to share that my colleagues and I are organizing the Early Career Investigators in Bioinorganic Chemistry symposium at ACS Fall 2025. Mark your calendars for August 20 and join us for an exciting lineup of talks!

Abstract Submission Deadline: March 31st, 2025

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Our grad student Sunipa will be presenting her research on Cu-directed oxidations at the GRS and GRC Metals in Biology this week. She will be finishing up her PhD this year and she is looking for postdoctoral positions. Don't miss out fellow bioinorganic chemists!!! 😊