Polymers and polymers science

30 November 2007

The first ChemComm International Symposium, on the subject of Polymers and Polymer Science, will be held in China from 12-17^th December 2007.

The symposium will comprise three one-day meetings:

Wednesday 12^th  December 

Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 

Friday 14^th  December 

Fudan University, Shanghai 

Monday 17^th December 

Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 

Attendance at the symposium is completely free. To register your interest or find out more, please contact Dr Chunxiao Zheng at the email address given at the base of this page.

ChemComm Editor Dr Sarah Thomas will be present at all three symposia, giving you chance to ask any questions you have regarding publishing in the journal and the RSC's activities.

Keynote speakers

Professor David Haddleton: "Combination of click chemistry, glyco reagents and copper mediated living radical polymerisation for polymers for bioconjugation"

David Haddleton is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Warwick, UK, and founder and Chief Technical Officer of Warwick Effect Polymers Ltd, a highly successful spin-off company. He is also a member of the ChemComm Editorial Board. 

Professor Heather Maynard: "Synthesis of well-defined peptide and protein-polymer hybrid nanomaterials"

Heather Maynard first joined the UCLA faculty as an Assistant Professor in August 2002 as the first Howard Reiss Career Development Chair in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and as a member of the California NanoSystems Institute. She is a member of the Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry Advisory Board.

Professor Alan Rowan: "The porphyrin foundry"

Alan Rown has been based in Nijmegen, The Netherlands since 1994 when he moved there as a Mare Curie Fellow. In 2005, he set up a new department of Molecular Materials in the Institute for Molecules and Materials. He is a member of the editorial board for the New Journal of Chemistry, member of the New Journals Advisory Board of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a member of the International Advisory Board of Chemistry World.

Professor Zhang Xi: "Single molecule world of polymers"

Zhang Xi is Professor of Chemistry at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He serves as an associate editor for the Chinese Science Bulletin, as well as a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of Langmuir and European Polymer Journal.