ACS PMSE Division

PMSE History Week 10: The Spring 2020 Philly ACS meeting, scheduled for March 22-26 and meant to celebrate 100 years of polymer science, was cancelled 2 weeks prior. Among lost @acspmse programming was this symposium honoring my workplace. Next week: More on Pandemic-era PMSE.

How does research become a commercial solution? 🔬 Join MACRO’s free, interactive web panel with Tomonori Saito (ORNL), Adam Grzesiak (Dow), and Thaeisha Wright (UCLA). 📅 Nov. 5 | 1 p.m. ET Scan the QR code in the graphic to register. #PMSE #ACSPOLY

🗳️ Last week to vote in the PMSE Fall 2026 election! Voting closes November 1 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Eligible Regular PMSE members, including student and emeritus members, should have received a ballot from Vote-Now.com. Check your inbox and cast your vote! #PMSE

🗳️ Last week to vote in the PMSE Fall 2026 election! Voting closes November 1 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Eligible Regular PMSE members, including student and emeritus members, should have received a ballot from Vote-Now.com. Check your inbox and cast your vote! #PMSE

Polymer science takes on the heat! ✈️ Congratulations to Tierney McArdle of the University of Bristol, a PMSE Fall 2026 Early Career Researcher Best Poster winner! Her research develops high-temperature siliconized phenolic triazine resins for aerospace applications. #PMSE

How does isotopic substitution change polyethylene? 🔬 Congratulations to Dr. Haley W. Jones of Savannah River National Laboratory, a PMSE Fall 2026 Early Career Researcher Best Poster winner! Her work explores its thermal and mechanical effects. #PMSE

From astrophysics to polymer science! 🧪 Congratulations to Tanya M. Llanas of The University of Texas at El Paso, a PMSE Fall 2026 undergraduate award winner! Her poster explores 3D-printed bismuth-containing polymer networks for tunable X-ray attenuation. #PMSE

Engineering meets medicine! 🔬 Congratulations to Sarah Hartwig of The Ohio State University, a PMSE Fall 2026 undergraduate award winner! Her winning poster explores electrohydrodynamic routes to controlled polymer nanoparticles. #PMSE #UndergraduateResearch

Waste plastics, new possibilities for energy storage! 🔋 Congratulations to Samantha Alderden of the University of Chicago, a PMSE Fall 2026 undergraduate award winner! Her poster explores permeability and conductivity in membranes for redox flow batteries. #PMSE

Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Krajovic of MIT, winner of the 2026 Eastman Chemical Student Award in Applied Polymer Science! 🏆 Sponsored by Eastman Chemical Company, the PMSE award recognizes the best paper presented at its award symposium. #PMSE #ACSFall2026

Strong materials that can heal themselves? 🔧 Congratulations to Hanshu Wu of Carnegie Mellon University, a PMSE Fall 2026 Poster Award winner! Her work uses asymmetric interparticle hydrogen bonding to create robust, self-healing polymer brush particle solids. #PMSE

Connecting polymer processing to composite performance! 🔬 Congratulations to MJ Lee of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a PMSE Fall 2026 Poster Award winner! Their work explores resin incubation for topology control and low-void fraction composites. #PMSE

A new approach to plasticizing charged polymers! 🧪 Congratulations to Sarriah Hassoun of Florida State University, a PMSE Fall 2026 Poster Award winner! Her research explores formamide as a robust alternative to water for plasticizing polyelectrolyte complexes. #PMSE

Polymer flowers with an electrochemical purpose! 🌸 Congratulations to Yuqian Chen of the Institute of Science Tokyo, a PMSE Fall 2026 Poster Award winner, for research turning self-assembled polymer particles into active carbon flowers for 2-electron ORR. #PMSE

🏆 Congratulations to Professor Megan Robertson (Univ. of Houston)--recipient of the 2027 PMSE Distinguished Service Award, honoring her decade of outstanding contributions and leadership to PMSE. The award will be presented at the Spring 2027 ACS National Meeting in New Orleans!

What if a thermoset could be strong and durable in use—but flow like a thermoplastic when it’s time to reprocess it? That’s the vision behind the winning team’s pioneering work, recognized with the 2027 Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science & Engineering. #PMSE

🏆 Congrats to Prof. Austin M. Evans— winner of the 2026 Chemistry of Materials Lectureship & Best Paper Award! Their groundbreaking work on latently curable ultra-high molecular weight polymers is paving the way for aerospace, electronics & high-performance materials. #ACS #PMSE

📣 Deadline extended to Sept. 30! Want to get more involved with PMSE? Apply for one of three 2027–2028 Member-at-Large positions and contribute to PMSE leadership and activities. 🔗 Apply: buff.ly/phkc6I3 #PMSE #PolymerScience #ACS

🏆 Congrats to Prof. Melissa Grunlan of Texas A&M University — winner of the Arthur K. Doolittle Award at the #ACSFall2026 National Meeting! Prof. Grunlan was recognized for her outstanding talk: 📌 "Self-fitting, silicon-containing shape memory polymer bone scaffolds" #PMSE

🔬 Join the Advanced Polymer Characterization Workshop at #CERM2026! 🗓️ Nov. 16, 2026 📍 Northern Kentucky Convention Center Explore SEC, NMR, IR, X-ray & neutron scattering, rheology, microscopy & more—plus an afternoon panel discussion. #PMSE #PolymerScience #ACS