This week in the C&EN Magazine: C&EN’s 2025 Talented 12 + Making fabrics fire resistant + The FDA’s new COVID-19 vaccine guidance is here. Read more: cen.acs.org/magazine/103... #chemsky 🧪

📢 Program drop! The full schedule for the European Polymer Congress 2025 is online at www.epf2025.org Huge gratitude to every speaker & the 1200 + attendee powering #EPF2025 and our theme “Polymers for a Sustainable Future.” Groningen welcomes you 22–27 June—see you in ~3 weeks! 🌱🔬

But it does not beat the ultimate @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social experience: We came across a very interesting manuscript of yours „Retracted:…“ and invite you … (unfortunately no joke).

Our first cover in @acs.org Macro Letters! Big shoutout to Veronique Buclin for this great take of our newest reversible adhesive in action! pubs.acs.org/toc/amlccd/1...

Happy Songkran everyone!

Today, on my way to work… Actually, right in front of the Petroleum and Petrochemical College of Chulalongkorn University, the first stage of my sabbatical.

Just out in pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... New paper led by Thanos Skandalis on super simple, super strong, and super debondable and rebondable adhesives. Read why shellac inspired this design!

Congratulations to Xueqian Hu on his successful PhD defense today! Great work on upconverting and scintillating polymers, which he will also present at the @acs.org spring meeting this Sunday!

A new paper from the group on nanostructured polymers that enable broadband-to-blue upconversion by triplet-triplet annihilationjust appeared in Advanced Science. Big shoutout to Xueqian Hu and to our collaborators from Angelo Monguzzi’s group in Milan! More here: doi.org/10.1002/advs...