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Previous News:
13/05/2024
Lecture:
Simply Black Magic: Functional carbocatalyst to replace noble metals and expanding the options of chemistry as such
by Prof. Markus Antonietti, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany
08/03/2024
Phd defense of Alyssa Ghielmetti: Green light induced Chemistry for the Design of Light-Stabilised Dynamic Materials
30/08/2023
2nd CMAC pitch event
25/05/2023
Phd defense of Matthieu Soete: Reading Information Stored in Synthetic Macromolecules
30/01/2023
Phd defense of Filip Van Lysebetten: A Highly Dynamic Covalent Polymer Network without Creep: Mission Impossible?
30/01/2023
Lecture: Dynamic covalent bonds in functional polymers by
Prof. Hans Heuts
08/09/2022
Phd defense of Melissa Reith: Sequence-defined macromolecules: From linear to precise three-dimensional architectures
08/09/2022
Lecture:
What gummy bears and Corona have in common - glycopolymers for biomedical applications
by Prof. Laura Hartmann, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany
26/08/2022
Check out our
new video on Smart design of plastics for improved recycling
in the framework of the
PUReSmart
project about recycling of PUfoams
10/05/2022
Lecture: Controlling silicone material properties using sulfur chemistry by
prof. Michael Brook
28/04/2022
New newsletter about the PuReSmart project (Horizon2020) in which our group is participating
28/04/2022
The PCR group published numerous high impact papers in JACS and Angewandte Chemie in the spring of 2022,
check here
29/03/2022
Lecture: From supramolecular polymers to advanced materials by
prof. Bert Meijer
.
08/03/2022
Lecture: New Generation of Recyclable Polymers for a Circular Economy by prof. Filip Du Prez Register
HERE
15/12/2021
Phd defense of Chiel Mertens: Expanding the realm of thiolactone-based sequence-defined macromolecules: from synthesis towards applications
30/09/2021
Lecture by
Assoc. Prof. Maarten Smulders
about his research on vitrimers
17/09/2021
Phd defense of Christian Taplan: Polymer Chemistry and Materials Design for Covalent Adaptable Networks
31/05/2021
Online Phd defense of Jing Huang: Engineering Dynamic Bonds into Elastomeric Materials Reinforcement and Reprocessability
17/05/2021
Third and last part of our webinar series on Discrete synthetic macromolecules: Synthesis and applications
10/05/2021
Second part of our webinar series on Discrete synthetic macromolecules: Synthesis and applications
03/05/2021
First part of our webinar series on Discrete synthetic macromolecules: Synthesis and applications
22/04/2021
Filip received an
ERC Advanced Grant
to work on "Circular thermosets" for the next 5 years. If you would like to find out more about our project, read the
press release of UGent
12/02/2021
PCR-group is organizer of the first VITRIMAT virtual training school entitled “Vitrimers: high performance materials for cutting-edge applications