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Andreas Fery
Andreas Fery is a physical chemist working on polymeric materials, colloids, and plasmonics, professor at TU Dresden and director at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden since 2015.
Andreas Walther
Andreas Walther (born 1980) is a polymer and soft matter chemist, professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since 2020, working on adaptive bioinspired materials and DNA-based synthetic cells.
Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh
Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh is an Indian supramolecular chemist known for introducing π-gels, light-emitting self-assembled soft materials, and for directing CSIR-NIIST; his honors include the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize and the Infosys Prize.
Boris Rybtchinski
Boris Rybtchinski (born 1971) is an Israeli materials chemist who heads the Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot.
Christian Nijhuis
Christian A. Nijhuis (born 1977) is a Dutch chemist in molecular electronics, professor at the University of Twente since 2020 after a decade at the National University of Singapore.
Christopher J. Bettinger
Christopher J. Bettinger (born 1981) is an American biomedical engineer and materials scientist, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University known for biodegradable electronics, ingestible devices, and polymeric biomaterials.
Darrin J. Pochan
Darrin J. Pochan is a materials scientist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Delaware who designs peptide-based supramolecular polymers that self-assemble in water into gels.
Dave J. Adams
Dave J. Adams is a supramolecular materials chemist and Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, known for work on self-assembled low-molecular-weight gels.
Eugenia Kumacheva
Eugenia Kumacheva is a Canadian chemist and University Professor at the University of Toronto known for soft matter chemistry, nanoparticle self-assembly, and microfluidic synthesis of polymer particles.
George M. Whitesides
George M. Whitesides, born 1939, is an American chemist at Harvard known for molecular self-assembly, soft lithography, and microfluidics, and a winner of the Kavli Prize.
Helmut Cölfen
Helmut Cölfen (1965–2023) was a German physical and colloid chemist, professor of physical chemistry at the University of Konstanz from 2010, known for discovering stable pre-nucleation clusters and the concept of mesocrystals.
Ian W. Hamley
Ian W. Hamley, born 1965, is a soft-matter physical chemist and Diamond Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Reading, known for research on block copolymer and peptide self-assembly.
Jan H. van Esch
Jan H. van Esch (Johannes Henricus van Esch) is a Dutch supramolecular chemist and professor at TU Delft, known for chemically fueled transient assembly of active materials.
Job Boekhoven
Job Boekhoven is a Dutch chemist and professor at the Technical University of Munich, known for chemically fueled self-assembly and the 2015 Science paper on transient assembly.
Kenneth A. Dawson
Kenneth A. Dawson is an Irish-based physical chemist and Full Professor at University College Dublin, known for founding the biomolecular corona concept in a 2012 Nature Nanotechnology review.
Matthew B. Francis
Matthew B. Francis, born 1971, is a chemist and distinguished professor at UC Berkeley, chair of chemistry since 2018, known for site-selective protein bioconjugation and virus-templated materials for drug delivery.
Matthew Tirrell
Matthew Tirrell is an American polymer scientist who founded the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and led it as dean from 2011 to 2023.
Mihail Barboiu
Mihail Barboiu is a Romanian-born French chemist, CNRS research director at the Institut Européen des Membranes in Montpellier, known for artificial water channels and the 2024 Prix André Collet.
Nathan C. Gianneschi
Nathan C. Gianneschi is an Australian-born chemist and the Jacob & Rosaline Cohn Professor at Northwestern University, working on programmable polymeric nanomaterials and enzyme-responsive drug delivery.
Nicolas Giuseppone
Nicolas Giuseppone is a supramolecular chemist, Distinguished Professor at the University of Strasbourg, who integrates light- and fuel-driven artificial molecular motors into polymer gels, winning the CNRS Silver Medal in 2024.
Nicolas Vogel
Nicolas Vogel is a materials chemist who leads the Self-assembled Materials Group at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, where he has been a full professor since 2023; his research covers colloidal lithography, emulsion droplet assembly, and plasmonic nanostructures.
Nobuo Kimizuka
Nobuo Kimizuka (君塚 信夫) is a Japanese chemist at Kyushu University known for photon upconversion based on triplet energy migration in molecular assemblies, including a 2026 solid-state material converting sunlight to ultraviolet light.
Pablo G. Debenedetti
Pablo G. Debenedetti is an Argentine-born American chemical engineer at Princeton University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000 and known for the singularity-free theory of supercooled water.
Pavel A. Levkin
Pavel A. Levkin is a German-based chemist and materials scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, known for droplet microarray surfaces where droplets act as miniaturized test tubes.
Philippe Poulin
Philippe Poulin is a French physical chemist at the Centre de recherche Paul Pascal, CNRS, near Bordeaux, known for colloids, liquid crystals, and carbon nanotube fibers.
Qian Chen
Qian Chen is a materials chemist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign known for electron videography, using liquid-phase electron microscopy to film nanoparticles and proteins as they self-assemble.
Samuel I. Stupp
Samuel I. Stupp, also known as Samuel Stupp, is a materials scientist and chemist at Northwestern University known for peptide amphiphiles, self-assembling materials for regenerative medicine.
Samuel Sanchez
Samuel Sánchez, also known as Samuel Sánchez Ordóñez, is a Spanish nanoscientist at IBEC in Barcelona who builds self-propelled nanobots for drug delivery and bladder cancer therapy.
Stacey F. Bent
Stacey F. Bent is an American surface and interfacial chemist, professor of chemical engineering at Stanford University, and winner of the 2018 ACS Award in Surface Chemistry.
Stephen A. Morin
Stephen A. Morin is an American materials chemist and associate professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, known for microfluidic camouflage skins for soft robots and screw-dislocation-driven nanomaterial growth.