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The Next 100 Years of Polymer Science

  • Alaa S. Abd-El-Aziz
  • , Markus Antonietti
  • , Christopher Barner-Kowollik
  • , Wolfgang H. Binder
  • , Alexander Böker
  • , Cyrille Boyer
  • , Michael R. Buchmeiser
  • , Stephen Z.D. Cheng
  • , Franck D’Agosto
  • , George Floudas
  • , Holger Frey
  • , Giancarlo Galli
  • , Jan Genzer
  • , Laura Hartmann*
  • , Richard Hoogenboom
  • , Takashi Ishizone
  • , David L. Kaplan
  • , Mario Leclerc
  • , Andreas Lendlein
  • , Bin Liu
  • Timothy E. Long, Sabine Ludwigs, Jean François Lutz, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Michael A.R. Meier*, Klaus Müllen, Markus Müllner, Bernhard Rieger, Thomas P. Russell, Daniel A. Savin, A. Dieter Schlüter, Ulrich S. Schubert, Sebastian Seiffert, Kirsten Severing, João B.P. Soares, Mara Staffilani*, Brent S. Sumerlin, Yanming Sun, Ben Zhong Tang, Chuanbing Tang, Patrick Théato, Nicola Tirelli, Ophelia K.C. Tsui, Miriam M. Unterlass, Philipp Vana, Brigitte Voit, Sergey Vyazovkin, Christoph Weder, Ulrich Wiesner, Wai Yeung Wong, Chi Wu, Yusuf Yagci, Jiayin Yuan, Guangzhao Zhang
*Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Prince Edward Island
  • Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
  • Queensland University of Technology
  • Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
  • Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research
  • University of New South Wales
  • University of Stuttgart
  • German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research Denkendorf
  • University of Akron
  • South China University of Technology
  • Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1
  • University of Ioannina
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • University of Pisa
  • North Carolina State University
  • Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
  • Ghent University
  • Institute of Science Tokyo
  • Tufts University
  • Université Laval
  • Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
  • University of Potsdam
  • National University of Singapore
  • Arizona State University
  • Université de Strasbourg
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
  • The University of Sydney
  • Technical University of Munich
  • University of Massachusetts
  • University of Florida
  • ETH Zurich - Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics (IPA)
  • Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  • Wiley-VCH
  • University of Alberta
  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • University of South Carolina
  • Italian Institute of Technology
  • TU Wien
  • University of Göttingen
  • Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • University of Fribourg
  • Cornell University
  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Istanbul Technical University
  • Stockholm University

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Abstract

The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the first article on polymerization, published by Hermann Staudinger. It is Staudinger who realized that polymers consist of long chains of covalently linked building blocks. Polymers have had a tremendous impact on the society ever since this initial publication. People live in a world that is almost impossible to imagine without synthetic polymers. But what does the future hold for polymer science? In this article, the editors and advisory board of Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics reflect on this question.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2000216
JournalMacromolecular Chemistry and Physics
Volume221
Issue number16
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Aug 2020

Keywords

  • Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
  • Staudinger
  • polymer properties and applications
  • polymer synthesis
  • sustainability

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