Polymers Best Paper Award 2015

Polymers is instituting an annual award to recognize the outstanding papers in the area of polymer science published in Polymers.

We are pleased to announce the second “Polymers Best Paper Award” for 2015 [1]. Nominations were selected by the Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board members of Polymers from all papers published in 2011. The awards are issued to reviews and articles respectively. We are pleased to announce that the following five papers were chosen:

Article Award

First Prize

Taili T. Thula, Felicia Svedlund, Douglas E. Rodriguez, Jacob Podschun, Laura Pendi and Laurie B. Gower

Mimicking the Nanostructure of Bone: Comparison of Polymeric Process-Directing Agents

Polymers 2011, 3(1), 10-35; doi:10.3390/polym3010010

Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/3/1/10

Second Prize

Nathalie Bock, Maria A. Woodruff, Dietmar W. Hutmacher and Tim R. Dargaville

Electrospraying, a Reproducible Method for Production of Polymeric Microspheres for Biomedical Applications

Polymers 2011, 3(1), 131-149; doi:10.3390/polym3010131

Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/3/1/131

Third Prize

Toshimasa Suzuka, Kosuke Kimura and Takuya Nagamine

Reusable Polymer-Supported Terpyridine Palladium Complex for Suzuki-Miyaura, Mizoroki-Heck, Sonogashira, and Tsuji-Trost Reaction in Water

Polymers 2011, 3(1), 621-639; doi:10.3390/polym3010621

Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/3/1/621

Review Award

First Prize

Hirenkumar K. Makadia and Steven J. Siegel

Poly Lactic-co-Glycolic Acid (PLGA) as Biodegradable Controlled Drug Delivery Carrier

Polymers 2011, 3(3), 1377-1397; doi:10.3390/polym3031377

Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/3/3/1377

Second Prize

Stefan Egli, Helmut Schlaad, Nico Bruns and Wolfgang Meier

Functionalization of Block Copolymer Vesicle Surfaces

Polymers 2011, 3(1), 252-280; doi:10.3390/polym3010252

Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/3/1/252

After its introduction in 2014, we are happy to be able to present to you the results of an extensive voting process that led to the selection of the best papers and best reviews published in Polymers in 2011. Before I comment on the papers, I would like to take the opportunity to thank our very active members of the editorial board for their continuous support in the development of the journal. This fact has again been shown in the lively voting procedure and respective discussion, which constitutes an extra-ordinary case for an open access journal. Moreover, the members of the committee had a difficult task as indeed with the help of a rigorous prescreening and review process, Polymers has ensured the high quality of the papers published in our journal. This fact is also reflected in the citation indices of the respective articles, which have also contributed to the continuously increasing impact factor assigned to Polymers.

On behalf of the Prize Awarding Committee and the Editorial Board of Polymers, I would like to congratulate the winners and thank all authors for choosing Polymers as publication platform for their high quality research and review papers. In recognition of their great work, Dr. Laurie B. Gower and Dr. Steven J. Siegel will receive prizes of 400 CHF as the first prize winners, respectively, and the opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in open access format in Polymers, after peer review. As the winners of second prize, Dr. Tim R. Dargaville and Dr. Wolfgang Meier will be awarded 200 CHF respectively, they also win the opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Polymers after peer review. Congratulations also to the winner of the third prize, Dr. Takuya Nagamine, which includes the opportunity of free publication in Polymers after peer review.

Prize Awarding Committee

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Dr. Alexander Böker

DWI – Leibniz-Institut für Interaktive Materialien, Lehrstuhl für Makromolekulare Materialien und Oberflächen, RWTH Aachen University, Forckenbeckstrasse 50, D-52056 Aachen, Germany;

E-Mail: [email protected]

Editorial Board Members

Prof. Dr. Martin Kröger

Polymer Physics, Department of Materials, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland

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Dr. Andrzej Stasiak

Center for Integrative Genomic, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

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Dr. Alexander B. Morgan

Applied Combustion and Energy Group, Energy Technology and Materials Division, University of Dayton Research Institute, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469-0170, USA

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Prof. Dr. Walter Remo Caseri

Department of Materials, HCI H 509, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland

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Prof. Dr. Carlo Cavallotti

Politecnico di Milano, Departement of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical > Engineering, via Mancinelli 7, 20131 Milano, Italy

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Dr. Shin-ichi Yusa

Department of Materials Science and Chemistry, University of Hyogo, 2167 Shosha, Himeji, Hyogo, Japan

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Prof. Dr. Ernst Wagner

Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Munich Center for System-based Drug Research, Center for Nanoscience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Butenandtstr. 5-13, Building D, Room 3.030 D-81377 Munich, Germany

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Prof. Dr. George R. Newkome

Departments of Polymer Science & Chemistry, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325-4717, USA

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Prof. Dr. Richard Hoogenboom

Supramolecular Chemistry group, Department of Organic Chemistry, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 S4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium

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Prof. Dr. Francoise M. Winnik

Faculte de Pharmacie et Departement de Chimie, Universite de Montreal, CP 6128 Succursale Centre Ville, Montreal QC H3C 3J7, Canada

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Dr. Wei Min Huang

School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798 Singapore

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Prof. Dr. Shiyong Liu

Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, 96 Jinzhai Road, Hefei, Anhui Province 230026, China

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Prof. Dr. Jean-François Carpentier

Institute of Chemistry, Organometallics: Materials and Catalysis Group, UMR 6226, University of Rennes, 1 - 35042 Rennes Cedex, France

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Dr. Naozumi Teramoto

Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Chiba Institute of Technology, 2-17-1 Tsudanuma, Narashino, Chiba 275-0016, Japan

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Prof. Dr. Paschalis Alexandridis

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, NY 14260-4200, USA

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Prof. Dr. Sebastien Lecommandoux

Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques (LCPO), UMR CNRS 5629, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie, de Biologie et de Physique de Bordeaux (ENSCBP-IPB), Université de Bordeaux, 16 Avenue Pey Berland, 33607 Pessac cedex, France

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Prof. Dr. Gürkan Hizal

Istanbul Technical University, Department of Chemistry, Maslak, 34469, Istanbul, Turkey

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Prof. Dr. Helmut Schlaad

Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Department of Colloid Chemistry, Research Campus Golm, 14424 Potsdam, Germany

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Prof. Dr. Frank Wiesbrock

PCCL - Polymer Competence Center Leoben GmbH, Roseggerstrasse 12, 8700 Leoben, Austria

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