SCHEMA PDRAs from our partner universities are currently on a two-day visit to the University of Oxford. The researchers are presenting updates on their work while the newly appointed PDRAs are introducing their research to the group. The group has also toured the Oxford team's labs:

The SCHEMA Hub Team is delighted to be exhibiting at the upcoming CHEMUK2026 Expo in Birmingham — the UK's largest expo supporting the chemicals, process engineering and formulated product sectors. Register for your free tickets here: bit.ly/4evOB7Q

#CHEMUK2026 #Chemicals #Chemistry #Innovation

Prof Charlotte Williams delivered the 2026 Cheetham Lecture titled "Insights into Selective Polymerization and Depolymerization Catalysis to Prepare Block Oxygenated Polymersat" at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social earlier this year.

📸 Profs Charlotte Williams, Angela Pitenis, & Christopher Bates

Meet The Startups Hoping To Rid The World Of Microplastics Italian start-up Naturbeads is one of a growing number of early-stage businesses determined to tackle the global problem of toxic microplastics threatening human health

One of our industry partners, @naturbeads.bsky.social, was recently featured in @forbes.com in a story about companies that are working to eliminate microplastics.

📰 Read the full article with quotes from co-founder and CEO Giovanna Laudisio here:

www.forbes.com/sites/davidp...

Thank you to everyone who attended the SCHEMA Spring Conference 2026 in Cambridge! A special thank you to our sponsors and exhibitors Agilent Technologies, Asynt, JULABO GmbH, and the team at @ceb.cam.ac.uk.

SCHEMA at Cardiff University | Reactor Equipment and High Throughput Catalyst Testing Facility Tour YouTube video by SCHEMA Hub

Tour research facilities at the Cardiff Catalysis Institute and learn more about different reactors used by our researchers. You will also get an in-depth look at the High Throughput Catalyst Testing Facility with reactors designed and manufactured by Integrated Lab Solutions.

📲 bit.ly/4rWcGI6

PDRA at the University of Bath

🚨 We’re hiring! Research Associate (Postdoctoral) – Sustainable Microcapsule Manufacturing at @uniofbath.bsky.social

👉 Apply here: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

#Postdoc #ResearchJobs #Academia #Chemistry #ChemicalEngineering #PolymerScience #SustainableMaterials

🧪 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 🚨

📄 Graph-Based Machine Learning Identifies Oxygenated Block Polymer Replacements for Conventional Plastics and Elastics

📚 Journal of the American Chemical Society

🔗 Read the paper: doi.org/10.1021/jacs...

#PolymerScience #MaterialsScience #MachineLearning

SCHEMA Process Chemistry & Engineering Lead, Prof Laura Torrente Murciano from Cambridge University Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, has been announced as one of the inaugural Green Future Fellows by the Royal Academy of Engineering.

SCHEMA's Prof Laura Torrente Murciano from @ceb.cam.ac.uk has been announced as one of the inaugural Green Future Fellows by the Royal Academy of Engineering. Thirteen Green Future Fellows will each receive up to £3 million over ten years.

🔗 Read more here: raeng.org.uk/news/pioneer...

The need for science diplomacy in a fragmenting world After receiving a US science diplomacy prize, Chemistry World talks to Martyn Poliakoff and Richard Catlow about global scientific challenges, their love of technicians and being astounded by children...

The @aaas.org awarded chemists Martyn Poliakoff, from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, and our co-investigator Richard Catlow, from @ucl.ac.uk and Cardiff University, the David and Betty Hamburg Award for Science Diplomacy.

📲Read more in @chemistryworld.com: bit.ly/4aBEYlV

#Chemistry #SciComm #AAAS

Controlled Polymerization Catalysis for the Synthesis of Degradable Amphiphilic Polycarbonates from CO2 Synthetic water-soluble polymers are ubiquitous in solution-based applications, but their petroleum origin and nondegradable bonds create environmental concerns. Here, CO2- and glycerol-derived polyca...

🔬 Read our latest JACS @pubs.acs.org paper!

📄 Controlled Polymerization Catalysis for the Synthesis of Degradable Amphiphilic Polycarbonates from CO2

📲 Read it here: doi.org/10.1021/jacs...
🌍 View SCHEMA publications: schemahub.ac.uk/publications

#PolymerScience #Catalysis #SustainableMaterials

Earlier this week, the SCHEMA team visited researchers and affiliates from the Cardiff Catalysis Institute, based at Cardiff University. We were given a tour of facilities including the High Throughput Reactor, the Translational Research Hub, and the Microscopy Suite. Thank you for hosting us!

⏱️ 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗔𝗕𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗦 🧪

Our Spring 2026 conference poster session at the University of Cambridge is now open for abstract submissions — this is your chance to showcase what you’re working on.

📅 Deadline: 11 March 2026
📲 Register for the conference: https://forms.office.com/e/31Q72TLAAL

🔬 New Publication❗

📄 Photo-initiated solvent-mediated depolymerization of consumer poly(methyl methacrylate) without chlorinated reagents

📚 Nature Communications

🔗 Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-

#ChemicalRecycling #GreenChemistry #PolymerChemistry #PlasticCircularity

Dr Hannah Leese is a finalist in the Innovator category of the Every Woman in Tech Awards

Congratulations to our Co-Investigator Dr Hannah Leese, Reader in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the @uniofbath.bsky.social for being named a finalist in the Innovator category of the 2026 Every Woman in Technology Awards.

📲 More here: bit.ly/3MIXvn7

#ewTechAwards #WomenInTech #STEM

SCHEMA Co-Investigator Sir Richard Catlow and Sir Martyn Poliakoff

Congratulations to SCHEMA Co-Investigator Sir Richard Catlow for being awarded the @aaas.org David and Betty Hamburg Award for Science Diplomacy along with Sir Martyn Poliakoff.

🔗Read more here: bit.ly/4aIzd5P

#AAAS2026 #AAASawards #AdvancingScience #Chemistry #Catalysis #SciComm #ScienceNews

"Many Voices, One Science" is the theme for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Global Women’s Breakfast 2026.

🌍 Use the IUPAC GWB event search function to find an event near you: https://iupac.org/gwb/

#IUPACGWB #GlobalWomensBreakfast #WomenInChemistry #WomenInSTEM

🧪 New publication 🚨

"Hydrolytic degradation of amorphous PLA: Effect of mechanical loads" in 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲

👉 Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2025.111751
🌐 View all SCHEMA publications: bit.ly/4rpg0M2

We’re thrilled to announce Linda Broadbelt, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University, as a keynote speaker at our upcoming spring conference in Cambridge.

🔗 Join us: https://lnkd.in/ddMTG5Fm
🌐 More info: https://bit.ly/4to1G8w

#Chemistry #Engineering #Conference

🧪 New publication 🚨

"Pressure-sensitive adhesives from polyester pentablock copolymers" by Chang Gao, Kam C. Poon, Charlotte K. Williams in Polymer Chemistry, @rsc.org

👉 Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1039/D5PY01006C
🌐 View SCHEMA publications: https://bit.ly/4rpg0M2

#Chemistry #PolymerScience

Swiss Embassy in London

Affiliate and doctoral researcher Katherine Morton presented some of her research at the Swiss Embassy in London late last year. The presentation was delivered for Unione Ticinese and was titled "Sustainable Plastics".

📸 Unione Ticinese London and FDFA/Swiss Embassy London

SCHEMA Spring Conference Prof Gabriella Pizzuto announced as speaker

We’re delighted to welcome Gabriella Pizzuto, Assistant Professor in Robotics & Chemistry Automation and Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at @liverpooluni.bsky.social, as speaker at our Spring Conference.

📍 University of Cambridge | 📅 24–25 March 2026
🔗 Register here: bit.ly/3ZwSb9b

Rosie and Katharina

UKCC2026 (photo by the UK Catalysis Hub)

Two doctoral affiliates presented at the recent UK Catalysis Conference:

🧪📈R Thorogood: Linear Free Energy Relationships for Accelerated Ring-opening Polymerisation Catalyst Design

🫧📊K Eisenhardt: Quantifying the Influences of Epoxide Binding in Epoxide/CO2 Ring Opening Copolymerization Catalysis

We’re delighted to welcome Erwin Reisner, Professor of Energy & Sustainability (University of Cambridge) as a speaker at our upcoming Spring conference

🎤 Meet Our Speakers | SCHEMA Spring Conference

We’re delighted to announce Erwin Reisner, Professor of Energy & Sustainability at @cam.ac.uk, as a speaker at our Spring Conference.

📍 Cambridge | 📅 24–25 March 2026
🔗 Register here: bit.ly/3ZlEVUJ

#Chemistry #MechanicalEngineering #Sustainability

🔬New Publication❗

📄 Effects of Molecular Weight Distribution on the Thermal–Mechanical Performance and Recycling of CO2-Derived Poly(cyclopentene carbonate)

🌱📗 Macromolecules @acs.org

Read it here: doi.org/10.1021/acs....

#GreenChemistry #Polymers #Research #NewPublication

⏱️ Call for Abstracts 🧪

PhD students, postdocs & ECRs: Submit a poster to our Spring 2026 conference at @cam.ac.uk.

🏆 Two £200 prizes
📅 Deadline: 11 March 2026
🔗 Register and submit abstract: bit.ly/4bwZPaI

#Chemistry #GreenChemistry #CallForAbstracts #Academia

SCHEMA Co‑Investigator Prof Graham Hutchings recently appeared on BBC Radio 4 to discuss gold, and more specifically, its usefulness in non-decorative applications.

🎧 Full episode: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

#ScientificResearch #Chemistry #Catalysis #ScienceCommunication

#SCHEMAYearInReview: Prof Buchard and Prof Williams co-hosted the RSC Faraday Discussion in Oxford and authored the preface to the themed collection "Polymerisation and depolymerisation chemistry: the second century Faraday Discussion".

👉 News: bit.ly/4bk1twg
📕 Collection: bit.ly/4poJBUw

Happy New Year from SCHEMA 🎆

You can now register for our Spring Conference at @ceb.cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge from 24-25 March 2026 — attendance is free. Tickets for the conference dinner at @corpuscambridge.bsky.social will be released soon.

👉 Register here: forms.office.com/e/31Q72TLAAL

#SCHEMAYearInReview: EDI Lead & Co-Investigator Prof Kylie Vincent and the Biocatalytic Nitro Hydrogenations team were awarded the 2025 @rsc.org Biology Interface Horizon Prize.

🔗 Read an interview with the team here: bit.ly/49cBMuX