The Next 100 Years of Polymer Science

Alaa Abd‐el‐aziz , Markus Antonietti , Christopher Barner‐kowollik , Wolfgang Binder , Alexander Böker , Cyrille Boyer , Michael Buchmeiser , Stephen Cheng , Franck d'Agosto (1) , George Floudas , Holger Frey , Giancarlo Galli , Jan Genzer , Laura Hartmann , Richard Hoogenboom , Takashi Ishizone , David Kaplan , Mario Leclerc , Andreas Lendlein , Bin Liu , Timothy Long , Sabine Ludwigs , Jean-François Lutz (2) , Krzysztof Matyjaszewski , Michael Meier , Klaus Müllen , Markus Müllner , Bernhard Rieger , Thomas Russell , Daniel Savin , A. Dieter Schlüter , Ulrich Schubert , Sebastian Seiffert , Kirsten Severing , João Soares , Mara Staffilani , Brent Sumerlin , Yanming Sun , Ben Zhong Tang , Chuanbing Tang , Patrick Théato , Nicola Tirelli , Ophelia Tsui , Miriam Unterlass , Philipp Vana , Brigitte Voit , Sergey Vyazovkin , Christoph Weder , Ulrich Wiesner , Wai‐yeung Wong , Chi Wu , Yusuf Yagci , Jiayin Yuan , Guangzhao Zhang

1 C2P2 - Laboratoire de Chimie, Catalyse, Polymères et Procédés, R 5265
2 ICS - Institut Charles Sadron

The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the first article on poly merization, 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.

Domaines: Polymères

Alaa Abd‐el‐aziz, Markus Antonietti, Christopher Barner‐kowollik, Wolfgang Binder, Alexander Böker, et al.. The Next 100 Years of Polymer Science. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 2020, 221 (16), pp.2000216. ⟨10.1002/macp.202000216⟩. ⟨hal-02972764⟩