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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.

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.

Ilona Stengel

Ilona Stengel is a chemist who researches materials for organic light-emitting diodes and has served as OLED Intellectual Property Liaison at Merck Electronics KGaA in Darmstadt since October 2023.

Insung S. Choi

Insung S. Choi (최인성) is a South Korean chemist and KAIST professor working in biomimetic chemistry, known for founding single-cell nanoencapsulation of living cells in artificial shells.

Ivan Aprahamian

Ivan Aprahamian is the Roth Family Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Dartmouth College, an organic and materials chemist known for hydrazone-based molecular switches, molecular machines, and liquid-crystal materials.

J. Fraser Stoddart

Sir J. Fraser Stoddart (1942–2024) was a Scottish-born chemist who introduced the mechanical bond and won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for molecular machines.

J. Larry Duda

J. Larry Duda (John Larry Duda, 1936–2006) was an American chemical engineer and Penn State professor who co-created the Vrentas-Duda free-volume theory of molecular transport in polymers.

Jack F. Douglas

Jack F. Douglas is an American polymer physicist at NIST known for the string model of glass formation and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Jack L. Koenig

Jack L. Koenig (1933–2021) was an American polymer spectroscopist and founding faculty member of Case Western Reserve University's macromolecular science department, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.

Jagadese J. Vittal

Jagadese J. Vittal is an Indian-born solid-state chemist and Emeritus Professor at the National University of Singapore, known for the solid-state [2+2] photocycloaddition and metal–organic frameworks.

Jaime C. Grunlan

Jaime C. Grunlan is a materials scientist and professor at Texas A&M University, known for layer-by-layer polymer nanocoatings that serve as gas barriers, flame retardants, and thermoelectrics.

James D. D'Ianni

James D. D'Ianni was an American polymer and rubber chemist who spent his career at Goodyear in Akron, Ohio, retiring as director of research in 1978.

James E. Hutchison

James E. Hutchison is an American materials chemist at the University of Oregon who joined the faculty in 1994, known for DNA-scaffolded gold nanoparticle assemblies and founding greener nanoscience.

James E. McGrath

James E. McGrath (1934–2014) was an American polymer scientist and University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech who worked on block copolymers, fuel-cell materials, and desalination membranes.

James Economy

James Economy (1929–2021) was an American polymer chemist known for liquid crystalline aromatic copolyesters and boron nitride composites, who led the University of Illinois materials science department.

James Feast

William James Feast is a British polymer chemist at Durham University, best known for the 1980 Durham precursor route to polyacetylene and for applying ROMP to functional polymers.

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.

James L. Hedrick

James L. Hedrick is an American polymer chemist and Distinguished Research Staff Member at IBM's Almaden Research Center, known for pioneering metal-free organic catalysts for ring-opening polymerization.

James Lupton Hedrick

James Lupton Hedrick is a polymer chemist at IBM's Almaden Research Center and a Stanford visiting scholar, known for metal-free organocatalytic polymerization, biodegradable antimicrobial polymers, and recyclable thermosets.

James Tour

James M. Tour is an American synthetic organic chemist and nanotechnologist at Rice University, known for flash graphene and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.

Jan Feijén

Jan Feijén, also published as J. Feijen, is a Dutch polymer chemist who was professor of Polymer Chemistry and Biomaterials at the University of Twente from 1979.

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.

Jan van Hest

Jan van Hest is a Dutch bio-organic chemist at Eindhoven University of Technology, known as the first to produce polymersomes and a pioneer of artificial cells.

Jaume Veciana

Jaume Veciana is a Spanish chemist and materials scientist who led the NANOMOL group at ICMAB-CSIC in Barcelona, known for molecular magnets, molecular electronics, and nanomedicine.

Jay S. Siegel

Jay S. Siegel is an American organic chemist known for work on non-planar aromatic molecules like corannulene, now a vice-president at the University of Hong Kong.

Jean M. J. Fréchet

Jean M. J. Fréchet, born 1944 in Burgundy, France, is a polymer chemist known for convergent dendrimer synthesis, chemically amplified photoresists for microchips, and the 2019 King Faisal Prize in Science.

Jean Roncali

Jean Roncali is a French CNRS emeritus research director at the University of Angers known for π-conjugated systems and organic photovoltaics, including the 2014 'Small is Beautiful' paper.

Jean-François Lutz

Jean-François Lutz is a French polymer chemist, a CNRS research director who studies sequence-controlled and informational polymers, and director of the ISIS institute in Strasbourg since 2024.

Jean-Luc Brédas

Jean-Luc Brédas (born 1954) is a Belgian computational chemist known for his theory of the electronic structure of conjugated polymers, and a Regents Professor at the University of Arizona.

Jean-Pierre Sauvage

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, born in Paris in 1944, is a French supramolecular chemist known for template synthesis of interlocked molecules and the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.