The RACI Polymer Division is delighted to announce that the inaugural Division Lectureship recipient is Dr Changkui Fu from the University of Queensland. The Division lectureship was created in 2023 to provide an opportunity for an exceptional early career researcher working in polymer science here in Australia to undertake an national lecture tour to showcase their…
2024 David Sangster Polymer Science and Technology Award Recipient – A/Prof Matthew Griffith
The RACI Polymer Division is pleased to announce that the 2024 recipient of the David Sangster Polymer Science and Technology award is Associate Professor Matthew Griffith, University of South Australia. Matthew is an internationally recognised leader in the application of printable organic conductors to electronic devices, with a multitude of high-impact research outputs that have…
2023 Solomon Lecturer – Professor Brigitte Voit
The 2023 Solomon Lecturer is Prof. Dr. Brigitte Voit, who will be touring Australia in late 2023. Brigitte Voit received her PhD in Macromolecular Chemistry 1990 from University Bayreuth, Germany. After postdoctoral work in 1991/1992 at Eastman Kodak in Rochester, USA, she joined Technische Universität München. After habilitation in 1996, she was appointed 1997 full…
Call for Nominations – David Sangster Award
The RACI Polymer Division is currently receiving nominations for the David Sangster Polymer Science and Technology Achievement Award. The deadline for applications is the 24th of June 2022, as the division would like to present the award at the Pacific Polymer Congress (PPC17), to be held in Brisbane from 11-14 December 2022. The Sangster Award…
Graeme Moad awarded Companion of the Order of Australia (AC)
Dr Graeme Moad has been awarded the Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in the 2022 Australia Day Honours List. This is the highest honour given in the Order of Australia Honours and Awards. Graeme’s award was for “eminent service to science, particularly polymer design and synthesis and radical polymerization, education through mentoring, and to professional scientific organisations.”…
37th APS: The Science was Burning
37th APS Summary by Dr Nathan Boase (Queensland University of Technology) It was a hot and smoky day on the 10th of November, but despite the fires surrounding the area everyone was excited for the start of the 37th Australasian Polymer Symposium on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Despite the weather, the delegates were greeted…
36th APS: The wrap-up
36th APS: The wrap up by Anna Gemmell (PhD Student, University of Queensland) On Sunday November 20th the 36th Australiasian Polymer Symposium began in Lorne. From our arrival at Melbourne airport we piled into a bus and were transported to gorgeous ocean views as we made our way along the Great Ocean Road. Around 300…
Polymer Chemistry at the RACI Centenary Congress
The RACI Centenary Congress, to be held from 23rd-28th July 2017 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, will bring together several thousand delegates from across the breadth of the chemical sciences and technologies. The Congress will encompass the RACI National Centenary Conference, which will feature 2 parallel sessions of Polymer Division programming running over 4…
2016 CRC FOR POLYMERS PRIZE ROUND OPEN
The Cooperative Research Centre for Polymers is a collaborative research venture bringing together 24 partners, drawn from Government research laboratories, universities, industrial manufacturers and end users, our network unites Australia’s leading polymer researchers to create real world solutions. Its research covers health therapies and delivery, water and food security and polymer solar cells. The Centre…
Registrations are now open for the 18th Australasian Polymer Summer School (18APSS)
The 18APSS is being held on February 14-16 2017 at the University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, South Australia. The 18APSS is jointly funded by the CRC for Polymers and the RACI Polymer Division and sponsored by PerkinElmer and Agilent Technologies. This event provides an excellent opportunity to gain an overview of important developments in…