Researchers from South Korea and from Italy present recent progress in sensing principles.
Stefan Spiegel
I am Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Polymer Science. As Editor of the Macromolecular Journals family, my additional responsibilities focus on the titles Macromolecular Theory & Simulations, Macromolecular Reaction Engineering and, now to a lesser degree, Macromolecular Materials & Engineering.
A New Approach to Resins for Biomedical Applications
Canadian researchers present a new approach to the copolymerization of methacrylic esters.
Unexpected Polymer Degradation Mechanisms
Canadian authors show that primary amines are not essential for imidization decomposition reactions.
A Double Anniversary: 25 years of Macromolecular Theory and Simulations, and 10 years of Macromolecular Reaction Engineering
Two special anniversary issues have been published, authored by the journals’ advisory board members
Polymer Reaction Modeling and The Origins of Life
A mechanistic model of nonenzymatic polynucleotide replication is developed using methods of polymer engineering
Solvent Dependence of Propagation Rate Coefficients
New insights into theoretical and experimental aspects of radical polymerization kinetics are presented
How to Calibrate your Random Walk
A self-avoiding random walk simulator for branched polymers allows to compare experimental data with simulation results.
The importance of kinetic modeling for understanding and designing RAFT polymerizations
Researchers from Belgium and Germany have investigated the impact of RAFT agent and reaction conditions on the RAFT polymerization rate and microstructural control.
On the randomness and blockiness of copolymers
Canadian researchers demonstrate the importance of randomness for the phase behavior of block copolymers.
Batch to conti transfer of polymer production processes
Macromolecular Reaction Engineering presents recent trends in industrial polymer production, guest-edited by Alain Durand and Sebastian Engell