Leanne Mullen presents a talk on Polymer, the sponsor of the Feng Xinde Prize.The Feng Xinde Polymer Prize was established by Professor Charles C. Han in 2006. The winners of the 11th Feng Xinde Polymer Prize for the Best Chinese Paper published in Polymer during 2016 were Professor Rong-Ming Ho and his co-authors Tao Wen, Hsiao-Fang, Wanga Yung-Cheng Mao, Wei-Tsung Chuang, Jing-Cherng Tsa for their paper Directed crystallization of isotactic poly(2-vinylpyridine) for preferred lamellar twisting by chiral dopants published in Polymer, vol.107, pg 44-53 (2016) .
Rong-Ming Ho received his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Polymer Science, University of Akron (USA), in 1995 under the supervision of Prof. Stephen Z. D. Cheng. He then moved to Minneapolis and worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota (USA), with Profs. Christopher W. Macosko and Frank S. Bates. Currently, he is a distinguished professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) (Taiwan).
The Award Ceremony took place on 10 December 2017 during the specially organized Elsevier Polymer Symposium for the Feng Xinde Prize, International symposium called Polymer and Condensed Matter Physics held at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Shenzhen University in Shenzhen, China
Feng Xinde Prize Winner, Professor Rong-Ming Ho (fourth from left)
Professor Charles C. Han (Asian Editor for China of Polymer, farthest right);
Professor Erqiang Chen (Editor for China, the third from right);
Professor Yongming Chen (Editor for China, the sixth from left) ;
Professor Zichen Li (Board member of Polymer, standing beside Prof. Han);
Dr Leanne Mullen (Publisher of Polymer, Elsevier, fifth from left)
The photo includes our winner, seven nominees and Polymer representatives.I would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude to the Executive Committee who assessed over 200 excellent papers to select the nominees and winner.
Executive Committee:
Professor Charles C. Han
Professor Erqiang Chen
Professor Yongming Chen
Professor Zichen Li
I would also like to thank the conference organizers: Professor Shanshan Xu, Ms Yain Wang and Ms Rongrong Bao for all their help arranging a high quality event.
Finally, congratulations to our nominees and winner, and thank you to all of our authors, referees, readers, journal Editors and Editorial Board members for their contribution to Polymer.
We look forward to receiving and publishing more top papers from China!