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Soft matter, polymers, and self-assembly

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Andrew J. Lovinger

Andrew J. Lovinger is a polymer physicist known for demonstrating ferroelectric behavior in poly(vinylidene fluoride) and for structural work on organic transistors on flexible plastic substrates.

C. Jeffrey Brinker

C. Jeffrey Brinker is an American materials scientist at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico, known for sol-gel processing and evaporation-induced self-assembly.

Chaoji Chen

Chaoji Chen (陈朝吉) is a Chinese materials scientist and full professor at Wuhan University since 2021, known for densified super wood published in Nature in 2018.

Dean DeLongchamp

Dean DeLongchamp is an American materials scientist at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland, who leads the Polymer Processing Group and studies polymer thin films for organic electronics.

Edwin Chan

Edwin Chan, also known as Edwin Pak-Nin Chan, is an American materials scientist at NIST who received the 2019 PECASE for measuring soft polymer films.

Edwin L. Thomas

Edwin L. Thomas, also known as Ned Thomas, is an American polymer materials scientist who determined block copolymer morphology, including the gyroid, and holds a chair at Texas A&M.

Emmanuel P. Giannelis

Emmanuel P. Giannelis, also published as E. P. Giannelis, is a materials scientist who is the Walter R. Read Professor of Engineering at Cornell University, known for pioneering polymer nanocomposites.

Eric Duoss

Eric Duoss is an American materials scientist who directs the Center for Engineered Materials and Manufacturing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and received a PECASE award.

Hermann Klare

Hermann Klare (1909–2003) was a German chemist who helped build the first large-scale Perlon plant and led East Germany's Academy of Sciences from 1968 to 1979.

Hilaire de Chardonnet

Hilaire de Chardonnet (Louis-Marie Hilaire Bernigaud, comte de Chardonnet) was a French engineer who invented artificial silk and built the world's first man-made fiber factory at Besançon.

James Earl Smay

James Earl Smay is an American materials scientist and engineer at Oklahoma State University, a 2005 PECASE recipient known for direct ink writing of colloidal inks.

Jeong‐Yun Sun

Jeong-Yun Sun (선정윤) is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at Seoul National University known for papers on tough hydrogels and stretchable, transparent ionic conductors.

Kilwon Cho

Kilwon Cho (조길원) is a South Korean chemical engineer and professor at POSTECH, known for research on organic semiconductors and flexible electronics, who led the Center for Advanced Soft Electronics from 2011 to 2020.

Michael J. Fasolka

Michael J. Fasolka is an American materials scientist at NIST known for combinatorial gradient methods and nanoscale polymer metrology, a 2004 PECASE recipient, and Associate Director of its Material Measurement Laboratory.

Nissim Calderon

Nissim Calderon (1933–2020) was an American polymer scientist and Goodyear research executive who discovered the olefin metathesis reaction in 1964 and was named the 2020 Charles Goodyear Medalist.

Oleg Gang

Oleg Gang is a soft matter and nanomaterials researcher known for DNA-guided assembly of nanoparticles into designed 3D crystals, leading a Brookhaven group and teaching at Columbia since 2016.

Orlando J. Rojas

Orlando J. Rojas is a materials scientist working on nanocellulose and bio-based materials, Canada Excellence Research Chair at the University of British Columbia and winner of the Anselme Payen Award.

Qibing Pei

Qibing Pei (裴启兵) is a materials scientist known for dielectric elastomer artificial muscles and solid-state cooling, long a professor at UCLA and from 2026 at the University of Macau.

Richard A. Vaia

Richard A. Vaia is an American materials scientist at the Air Force Research Laboratory, a pioneer of polymer nanocomposites elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.

Scott R. White

Scott R. White was an American materials scientist and professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for self-healing polymers and frontal polymerization.

Shenqiang Ren

Shenqiang Ren is a materials scientist and professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, whose research on self-assembly and materials-by-design spans molecular magnets, high-energy magnets, and ultrahigh-temperature ceramics.

Shu Yang (materials scientist)

Shu Yang is a materials scientist at the University of Pennsylvania known for work on soft, stimulus-responsive materials and knotted soft robots that jump and fly.

Stanley Backer

Stanley Backer (1920–2003) was an American textile engineer and MIT professor who led its Fibers and Polymers Laboratory and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Yeon Sik Jung

Yeon Sik Jung (정연식) is a South Korean materials scientist and KAIST professor known for block copolymer self-assembly and nanoscale architectures for solar cells and electrocatalysts.