POLY Division Webinar Series
Upcoming Webinar
June 25, 2026 @ 2-3:30 pm ET
High-Performance Polymer Design: AI Meets Sustainable Materials
Speaker: Brett Savoie
Coyle Mission Collegiate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame
Speaker: Benjamin Harvey
SSTM Distinguished Scientist, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division
Moderator: Travis Thornell
Research Physical Scientist, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
If you have any topics you would like to see in an upcoming webinar, please contact the webinar team: Bob Lambeth (robert.h.lambeth2.civ@army.mil), Tomonori Saito (saitot@ornl.gov), Rebecca Olson Short (RAShort@PPG.com), and Brent Sumerlin (sumerlin@chem.ufl.edu).
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Previous Webinars Available on ACS Website:
How to Build Smarter Polymer Nanocomposites (March 2026)
Featuring Prof. Robert Hickey and Prof. Robert Macfarlane
Polymers at the Interface of Sustainability and Health: Degradable Design & Synthetic Insights (October 2025)
Featuring Prof. Kevin Edgar and Prof. Kamil Godula
Some Polymers Like It Hot (July 2025)
Featuring Prof. Austin Evans and Prof. Dana Medina
Flow Chemistry: How Fluid Dynamics, AI, and Automation are Driving Polymer Discovery (April 2025)
Featuring Prof. Damien Guironnet and Prof. Frank Leibfarth
Better Biodegradable Vinyl Polymer Materials by Improving Radical Ring-Opening Polymerization (rROP) (May 2024)
Featuring Prof. Julien Nicolas and Prof. Jia Niu
Better Ion Transport Through Polymer Chemistry: Polymer Electrolytes and Ion-conducting Membranes (February 2024)
Featuring Dr. Alexei Sokolov and Prof. Michael A. Hickner
Unbreakable Design: The Polymer Mechanochemistry of Self-healing Materials
Featuring Prof. Jeff Moore and Prof. Stephen Craig
Engineering Polymers that Prevent Rejection of Gene Therapy and 3-D Printed Implants
Featuring Prof. Ke Zhang and Prof. Matthew Becker
Designing Polyelectrolyte Coatings: Coacervates, Assemblies, and Complex Materials
Featuring Prof. Jaime Grunlan and Prof. Sarah Perry
How Polymeric Materials Protect Our Armed Forces
Featuring Prof. Joseph Lenhart and Dr. Davide Simone
Role of Polymer Science in Water Purification Membranes
Featuring Prof. Dr. Abhishek Roy and Prof. Geoffrey Geise
Designing Bio-Sourced Polymers that Enable Recycling (July 2021)
Featuring Prof. Dr. Stefan Mecking and Dr. Mark Jones
Polymers of the Pandemic (June 2021)
Featuring Dr. Emilie Rexeisen and Prof. Michael Schulz
Solving the Plastic Waste Problem (Jan 2021)
Featuring Dr. Katrina Knauer and Dr. Philippe Reutenauer
Bioconjugation in Polymer Chemistry (Aug 2020)
Featuring Prof. Coray Colina and Prof. Theresa Reineke
Self-Healing Polymers and Vitrimers (June 2020)
Featuring Prof. Christopher Bowman and Prof. Marek Urban
The 3D Printing Revolution: Advances in Material Design and Methods (April 2020)
Featuring Prof. Timothy Long and Prof. Rigoberto Advincula
Previous Webinars Available on YouTube:
Innovations in the Photochemistry of Polymers (Jan 2019)
Featuring Prof. Brett Fors and Prof. Julia Kalow
High Impact Nanotechnology Applications of Layer-by-Layer Assemblies (Sep 2018)
Featuring Prof. Jaime Grunlan and Prof. Paula Hammond
Semi-Conducting Polymers: The New Horizons and Unmet Future Challenges (April 2018)
Featuring Prof. Christine Luscombe and Prof. Wei You
How to Design Better Biomedicine: Polymeric Materials and Nanomaterials (Nov 2017)
Featuring Prof. Andrea Kasko and Prof. Nathan Gianneschi
How to Design the Next Generation of Sustainable Polymers (July 2017)
Featuring Prof. Stephen Miller and Prof. Megan Roberston
The Power of Plastics: Polymerized Ionic Liquids and Nanostructured Polymers (May 2017)
Featuring Prof. Yossef Elabd and Prof. Thomas H. Epps, III