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Block copolymers and nanostructured polymeric materials

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Adi Eisenberg

Adi Eisenberg (1935–2022) was a physical polymer chemist at McGill University who pioneered the self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers, including crew-cut micelles and polymer vesicles, and earlier helped establish the science of ionomers.

Bradley D. Olsen

Bradley D. Olsen is an American polymer scientist and chemical engineer who holds the Kasser Chair in Chemical Engineering at MIT, known for protein-polymer block copolymers and engineered protein hydrogels.

Frank S. Bates

Frank S. Bates is an American polymer scientist and Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota, known for work on block copolymer thermodynamics and morphology.

Ian Manners

Ian Manners (1961–2023) was a British-Canadian chemist who pioneered organometallic polymers and crystallization-driven self-assembly, holding a Canada 150 Research Chair at the University of Victoria.

James J. Watkins

James J. Watkins is an American materials chemist and polymer scientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for supercritical-fluid processing and block-copolymer self-assembly as nanoscale templates.

Jin Kon Kim

Jin Kon Kim (김진곤) is a Korean polymer scientist and Professor Emeritus at POSTECH known for block copolymer self-assembly, mesoporous materials, and more than 300 papers.

Karen L. Wooley

Karen L. Wooley is an American polymer chemist, a University Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University since 2009, known for degradable polymers built from natural products.

Lewis J. Fetters

Lewis J. Fetters (1936–2023) was an American polymer chemist, professor at the University of Akron from 1967 to 1983 and then a Senior Research Associate at Exxon Research and Engineering.

Marc A. Hillmyer

Marc A. Hillmyer is an American polymer chemist at the University of Minnesota, a faculty member since 1997, known for sustainable polymers and nanoporous materials.

Michael D. Dickey

Michael D. Dickey is a chemical engineer at North Carolina State University who works on liquid metals, soft materials, and glassy gels introduced in 2024.

Mitchell Winnik

Mitchell A. Winnik is a polymer chemist and full professor at the University of Toronto, known for latex film research, living CDSA of block copolymer micelles, and Maxpar reagents.

Moon Jeong Park

Moon Jeong Park (박문정) is a South Korean polymer chemist at POSTECH known for polymer ionics and the 2024 realization of the plumber's nightmare structure.

Nico Sommerdijk

Nico Sommerdijk (Nico A. J. M. Sommerdijk) is a Dutch chemist and professor of Bone Biochemistry at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, known for biomineralization research.

Oren Scherman

Oren A. Scherman is a professor of supramolecular and polymer chemistry at the University of Cambridge, known for self-healing cucurbituril-based materials and directing the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Paul F. Nealey

Paul F. Nealey is an American chemical engineer, the Brady W. Dougan Professor at the University of Chicago, known for directed self-assembly of block copolymers for nanolithography.

Rachel A. Segalman

Rachel A. Segalman is an American polymer chemist and chemical engineer, Vice Chancellor for Research at UC Santa Barbara since 2025, known for block copolymer self-assembly and polymer thermoelectrics.

Richard J. Spontak

Richard J. Spontak is an American polymer scientist and Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University, known for work on nanostructured polymers and polymer membranes for carbon capture.

Ryan C. Hayward

Ryan C. Hayward is an American polymer scientist and PECASE awardee who works on ionotronic devices, light-driven shape-morphing polymers, and self-assembling nanostructures at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Sanat Kumar

Sanat K. Kumar is a chemical engineer at Columbia University who studies polymer nanocomposites and glass-forming polymers, and received the American Physical Society's 2022 Polymer Physics Prize.

Thomas P. Russell

Thomas P. Russell is an American polymer scientist and Silvio O. Conte Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008.

Timothy P. Lodge

Timothy P. Lodge is an American polymer chemist and Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota, known for block copolymer self-assembly, polymer dynamics, and micelles in ionic liquids.

Todd Emrick

Todd S. Emrick is an American polymer chemist, professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and winner of the 2015 Carl S. Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award.

Yueh-Lin Loo

Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo is a Malaysian-born American chemical engineer at Princeton University known for organic solar cells and smart windows, who led its Andlinger Center from 2016 to 2021.

Yushu Matsushita

Yushu Matsushita (松下 裕秀) is a Japanese polymer chemist known for creating the first quasicrystalline tiling in soft materials, a dodecagonal quasicrystal from block terpolymers.