Elsevier celebrate Kris Matyjaszewski’s 65th Birthday with a Special Issue of polymer

Kris Matyjaszewski is one of the world’s top chemists and active and much appreciated partner of Elsevier in a range of high-profile projects. He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the No.1 polymer journal Progress in Polymer Science  (Impact Factor 26.932), Co-Editor-in-Chief of the recent 10-volume set Polymer Science: A Comprehensive Reference, Editorial Board Member of polymer, plenary speaker for the inaugural International Symposium  Frontiers in Polymer Science 2009 (679 participants), plenary, featured speaker and chair involved in all editions (in 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2015) of the International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials  (1274 participants).

We are delighted to bring to your attention the recent special issue on Macromolecular Engineering – Dedicated to Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski on the Occasion of his 65^th Birthday  published in polymer and guest-edited by Nicolay V. Tsaraevsky.

To celebrate Kris’s 65^th anniversary, we are pleased to offer you free promotional access (until March 2016) to the following papers from the Special issue in his honor:

• Introduction to the special issue of Polymer on “Macromolecular Engineering” dedicated to Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski on the occasion of his 65th birthday
  Nicolay V. Tsarevsky
• RDRP in the presence of Cu0: The fate of Cu(I) proves the inconsistency of SET-LRP mechanism
  Francesca Lorandi, Marco Fantin, Abdirisak Ahmed Isse, Armando Gennaro
• Synthesis and characterization of side-chain thermotropic liquid crystalline copolymers containing regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene)
  Taniya M.S.K. Pathiranage, Harsha D. Magurudeniya, Mahesh P. Bhatt, Elizabeth A. Rainbolt, Michael C. Biewer, Mihaela C. Stefan
• Developing recyclable pH-responsive magnetic nanoparticles for oil–water separation
  Xiaofeng Wang, Yi Shi, Robert W. Graff, Doyun Lee, Haifeng Gao
• Why synthesize protein–polymer conjugates? The stability and activity of chymotrypsin-polymer bioconjugates synthesized by RAFT
  Rebecca Falatach, Shaohua Li, Samantha Sloane, Cameron McGlone, Jason A. Berberich, Richard C. Page, Saadyah Averick, Dominik Konkolewicz
• Utilizing vapor swelling of surface-initiated polymer brushes to develop quantitative measurements of brush thermodynamics and grafting density
  Sara V. Orski, Richard J. Sheridan, Edwin P. Chan, Kathryn L. Beers
• Bulk morphologies of polystyrene-block-polybutadiene-block-poly(tert-butyl methacrylate) triblock terpolymers
  Tina I. Löbling, Panu Hiekkataipale, Andreas Hanisch, Francesca Bennet, Holger Schmalz, Olli Ikkala, André H. Gröschel, Axel H.E. Müller

To view all 34 papers in this special issue, please click here.

We sincerely wish Kris many more years of great contributions to science and society!