The RACI Polymer Division is delighted to announce that the 2025 Bruce Guise award has been awarded to Dr Tim Davey of Dulux Australia. The Guise award is awarded to an Australian or New Zealand based scientist who has made an outstanding contribution to industrial research in polymer science over the course of their career….
Celebrating the 2025 Batteard-Jordan Polymer Medal to Prof Martina Stenzel
On Friday 31 October, a large gathering of students and colleagues both past and present gathered at the University of New South Wales to celebrate Scientia Professor Martina Stenzel’s award of the 2025 Batteard-Jordan Polymer Medal, the highest award in the RACI Polymer Division. An afternoon of scientific talks was held at the Colombo Lecture…
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…
Click Chemistry in the NIR
The ability to trigger the coupling of two molecules via light is an important tool in various fields of scientific research including chemistry, biology and material science. A range of efficient light induced ligation methodologies exist that allow fast, efficient and orthogonal linkage of two moieties in a spatial- and temporal- resolved manner. However, to…