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SCHEMA Hub @schemahub.bsky.social · Jul 24

🧪 Publication Alert ❗

📄 High-Performance Recyclable Polyester Elastomers Through Transient Strain-Stiffening

📚 Advanced Materials

🔗 Read the research article: doi.org/10.1002/adma...

#PublicationAlert #AdvancedMaterials #SustainableTech #GreenChemistry

Advanced Materials: High performance Recyclable Polyester Elastomers Through Transient Strain-Stiffening

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SCHEMA Hub @schemahub.bsky.social · Jun 10

We recently caught up with Prof Charlotte Williams, Director of the @ukri.org EPSRC-funded SCHEMA Hub about the big challenges it seeks to tackle and how it will work with university partners and industry to achieve this 🎬#sustainability #materialsscience #chemicals #chemicalengineering

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Kam Poon @kampoon1.bsky.social · May 20

I am incredibly honoured to have won the Jon Weaver Prize!

I am so grateful to the Royal Society of Chemistry Macro Group UK for awarding me the prize, and to my supervisor Prof. Charlotte Williams and my external examiner Prof. Andrew Dove for nominating me!

Williams Group @williamsgroupox.bsky.social · May 20

Congratulations to @kampoon1.bsky.social who has been awarded the 2025 Jon Weaver Prize for the best PhD in polymer chemistry in the UK! 🥳

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Kam Poon @kampoon1.bsky.social · Apr 17

So excited to see this paper out!

Unbelievably proud of @bonny-gao.bsky.social and so grateful for the I22 team at Diamond Light Source for their incredible assistance! 💚

Williams Group @williamsgroupox.bsky.social · Apr 17

Our latest paper "High-Performance Recyclable Polyester Elastomers Through Transient Strain-Stiffening" is out now in Advanced Materials!

Congrats to @bonny-gao.bsky.social, @kampoon1.bsky.social, @matildeconcilio.bsky.social, Thomas, and George! 🧪💚♻️
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

High‐Performance Recyclable Polyester Elastomers Through Transient Strain‐Stiffening

Transient strain-crystallization simultaneously strengthens and toughens block polyester elastomers while conserving recyclability. Using controlled polymerization catalysis and commercial monomers, ...

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Williams Group @williamsgroupox.bsky.social · Apr 2

Our latest work on "Controlled Catalysis Delivering High Molecular Weight Polyesters as Recyclable Alternatives to Polystyrenes" is now online in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! 🧪🪢♻️

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Williams Group @williamsgroupox.bsky.social · Mar 18

Congratulations to @kampoon1.bsky.social for receiving 1st Prize for his #RSCPoster in the #RSCMat category! 🏆💚

@rsc.org

www.linkedin.com/pulse/rscpos...

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Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org · Feb 27

Follow all your favorite @rsc.org journals now on Bluesky! Let the posting begin! 🥳🧪 #chemsky go.bsky.app/QAaTTZ3

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Fors Group @forsgroup.bsky.social · Jan 29

Oh my 2,3-dihydrofuran,
I don’t know know any monomer cooler than
Thee.

Your cyclic vinyl ether,
Makes thermosetting so much easier
For me:

You ROMP in the dark, Crosslink in the light,
Recycle to monomer under vacuum overnight.
Degrade in acid or with a lot of O2,
Oh DHF this is an ode to you.

Degradable thermosets via orthogonal polymerizations of a single monomer - Nature

Degradable thermoset multimaterials can be synthesized from a commercially accessible, biosourced monomer using orthogonal polymerizations in a single pot; after selective degredation, the resulting s...

www.nature.com

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Kam Poon @kampoon1.bsky.social · Feb 18

Thank you @newsagents.bsky.social for a fantastic evening last night! The perfect way for @maryknewman.bsky.social and I to celebrate our 3 year anniversary.
Brilliant to cap the trip off by bumping into @lewisgoodall.com in the hotel lift this morning!

@maitlis.bsky.social @jonsopel1.bsky.social

The stage of The New Agents Live on Stage before the show.

Lewis Goodall with a cardboard cutout of himself, Jon Sopel, and Emily Maitlis on stage at the end of the show.

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Kam Poon @kampoon1.bsky.social · Feb 9

Welcome to BlueSky @mmwestwood.bsky.social! 🧪

And thank you for a wonderful long weekend in Gothenburg 🇸🇪

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Kam Poon @kampoon1.bsky.social · Feb 1

Recovering from a brilliant and tiring week at Diamond Light Source’s I22 beam line!

We can’t wait to share our exciting results soon… 😁

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Kam Poon @kampoon1.bsky.social · Jan 23

Yesterday I presented the latest work from the @williamsgroupox.bsky.social at The Sustainable Chemicals and Materials Manufacturing Hub (SCHEMA)’s Sustainable Elastomers & Plastics Workshop.

🧪♻️

Kam Poon presenting a slide on the sustainable synthesis is polyesters and polycarbonates.

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Kam Poon @kampoon1.bsky.social · Jan 13

What an incredible week at #GYSS in Singapore!

I had a wonderful time presenting my recent work and moderating the discussion on Advanced Materials.

I got to know so many incredible young scientists and am leaving Singapore inspired by all the outstanding talks!

Kam Poon delivering his research talk on the additive manufacturing of sustainable polymers on the GYSS stage.

Four speakers sat down on stage during the Advanced Materials panel discussion.

The four speakers for the Advanced Materials panel discussion before the session begins.

The Oxford delegation with the GYSS sign at NUS.

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Kam Poon @kampoon1.bsky.social · Jan 4

So excited to be in Singapore for the Global Young Scientists Summit 2025!

Honoured to have been selected to represent @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social this week 🧪💚

View across Marina Bay, look at the Marina Bay Sands Hotel.

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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · Dec 18

This #ChemSci TOC managed to work in a dual-wielding Mexican shark. As such, I give it 10/10. Feliz Navidad. #chemsky

Ellis Crawford @elliscrawford.bsky.social · Dec 18

The #ChemSci #PickoftheWeek is "SHARC meets TEQUILA: Mixed Quantum-Classical Dynamics on a Quantum Computer using a Hybrid Quantum-Classical Algorithm" by @letigonzalez.bsky.social and colleagues.

Read the manuscript for free here:
https://buff.ly/4fKXTLl

#ChemSky #CompChemSky 🧪 #CompChem

The graphical abstract for the Chemical Science paper SHARC meets TEQUILA: Mixed Quantum-Classical Dynamics on a Quantum Computer using a Hybrid Quantum-Classical Algorithm which shows CPU ship in blue on the left and QPU setup on the right in pink. In the middle is a happy cartoon shark wearing a sombrero with a bottle of tequila.

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Williams Group @williamsgroupox.bsky.social · Dec 6

A very merry Christmas from the Williams Group! 🎄💚

The Williams group say around two tables on a stone walled pub.

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Kam Poon @kampoon1.bsky.social · Dec 6

Very exciting work! Using machine learning to predict the mechanical properties of sustainable polymeric materials 👇

Williams Group @williamsgroupox.bsky.social · Dec 6

Our work on “Property Prediction of Bio-Derived Block Copolymer Thermoplastic Elastomers Using Graph Kernel Methods” is out now in Angewandte Chemie!

A huge congratulations to Shannon, David, George, Yichen, David and Clive!! 🧪💻🔧💚

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Property Prediction of Bio‐Derived Block Copolymer Thermoplastic Elastomers Using Graph Kernel Methods

Increasing the diversity of bio-based polymers is needed to address the combined problems of plastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. The magnitude of the problems necessitates rapid discovery...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Kam Poon @kampoon1.bsky.social · Dec 6

Oh no haha 3 x 1 volume 😅

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Kam Poon @kampoon1.bsky.social · Dec 5

A very exciting day getting to pick up these beauties 🤩🧪📚

Three copies of a PhD thesis stacked on a wooden desk. Reading “K. C. Poon DPhil 2024” on the spine and the Oxford coat of arms on the front.

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Kam Poon @kampoon1.bsky.social · Dec 4

Such a difficult decision… 🤔

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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · Dec 1

It's been known in the sector for some time, but finally the BBC has caught up with the impending closure of Chemistry at Hull - a well-regarded department with very high local value to the East Yorkshire economy and chemicals industry.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

University of Hull to close its chemistry department

The university is also merging some of its schools following a drop in student numbers.

www.bbc.com

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Robert Palgrave @robertpalgrave.bsky.social · Nov 29

UCL quad looks best on a crisp winter day

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Kam Poon @kampoon1.bsky.social · Nov 25

Done!! 🧪

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Nov 24

An open letter to the microplastics living in my body

If we are forced to house these tiny plastic interlopers, perhaps it’s time we sat down and had a chat Dear the microplastics that live in my body, How are you? I hope you are well and enjoying the unseasonable humidity of my lungs, kidneys and blood.…

www.theguardian.com

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Liz Curran @lizcurran.bsky.social · Nov 22

Very important interview with Kim Leadbeater, well worth a listen. She speaks with knowledge & compassion about this subject. She’s an impressive MP, drawn to public service by personal tragedy. Well done @lewisgoodall.com

The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · Nov 22

Listen to today's full episode: Kim Leadbeater on assisted dying, fractious politics and Jo Cox

www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...

The News Agents - Podcast | Global Player

<p>Next week, MPs will get their first opportunity in almost a decade to vote on extending the choices available to terminally ill people at the end of their lives. A contentious subject, The Assisted...

www.globalplayer.com

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