Our group’s first self-assembly paper by manon rolland on making shape-controlled polymeric nanoparticles via low-energy emulsion polymerization. Click on the video below to see how we can beautifully shake and bake! pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.102…

Fat, normal, skinny. All molecular weight distributions are beautiful and Maria-Nefeli makes them a reality: Concurrent control over sequence and dispersity in multiblock copolymers Nature Chemistry Link: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Have you ever thought of adding a transformer to a polymeric nanoparticle? Transformer-Induced Metamorphosis of Polymeric Nanoparticle Shape at Room Temperature. #RSCPoster #RSCPosterLive #RSCMat #RSCpolymer Royal Society of Chemistry

Have you ever fancied knowing the secret recipe of baking low-energy shape-controlled nanoemulsion? Check my #RSCPoster which describes it step by step! #RSCMat #RSCPosterLive #Polymer #Science ETH Polymeric Materials

Contrats!! Athina Anastasaki Hyun Suk Wang ETH Polymeric Materials Nghia Truong Phuoc

PhD student M.-N. Antonopoulou is now presenting her interesting work about Concurrent control over sequence and dispersity in multiblock copolymers in Amphi. D. #BPC2022

It does not happen often but sometimes ATRP wins RAFT: Photoinduced Iron-Catalyzed ATRP of Renewable Monomers in Low-Toxicity Solvents: A Greener Approach Project idea conceived & executed by Kostas Parkatzidis #Proudsupervisor ETH Polymeric Materials ACS Macro Letters Link:pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.102…

Congratulations to Dr Manon Rolland manon rolland on passing her PhD defence and becoming the #1 PhD student graduating from our group! I am very proud to have witnessed her evolution into an independent scientist and very grateful to all her contributions to our lab. A thread.

So happy to see our work decorating the front of the ACS Macro Letters. Thank you ACS Macro Journals! Find our #openaccess article below. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Thank you Hyun Suk Wang and ETH Polymeric Materials

Congratulations to Athina Anastasaki Athina Anastasaki ETH Department of Materials ! She receives the #RuzickaPrize 2022 ETH Zurich for constructing & deconstructing polymers made by controlled radical polymerization. Join the ceremony/lecture on Dec 19, 5 pm, G3 (HCI)! More details will follow

Reminder: On Dec 19, 5 pm, G3 (HCI) Athina Anastasaki ETH Department of Materials will receive the #RuzickaPrize 2022 sponsored by Firmenich .Want to learn more about new ways to construct & recycle plastics? Read the article, join the lecture! See you there! ETH Zurich chab.ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

Complementary to the recent work by the amazing Sumerlin group Sumerlin Research Group we report the light-accelerated depolymerization catalysed by Eosin Y in Polymer Chemistry. Congrats to our visiting PhD student Valentina Valentina Bellotti and team! Athina Anastasaki pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Did you know that copper together with a bit of oxygen can make a super ATRP catalyst? Kostas Kostas Parkatzidis figured it out: Oxygen-Enhanced Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization through the Formation of a Copper Superoxido Complex ETH Polymeric Materials J. Am. Chem. Soc. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

APME 2023 was a blast! What made it even better was the fact that our PhD student Maria-Nefeli won the award for the best oral presentation! Big thanks to organizers & Polymer Chemistry RSC Applied journals Materials Horizons for sponsoring the award and we hope to see everyone again at Catania!🇮🇹

Congratulations Maria-Nefeli!

Happy to share our latest paper in Chemical Science: Controlling primary chain dispersity in network polymers: elucidating the effect of dispersity on degradation. Big thanks to @polykonkol for the collaboration! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… ETH Department of Materials ETH Zurich

Now online and open access: Article by Maria-Nefeli, Nghia Truong Phuoc, Athina Anastasaki & co-workers Acid-triggered radical polymerization of vinyl monomers nature.com/articles/s4416…

Acid-Triggered Radical Polymerization of Vinyl Monomers: Acid does it better than radical initiators! Nature Synthesis Congrats Maria-Nefeli and team! Big thanks to Michelle Coote’s group who we could not have done without! Athina Anastasaki nature.com/articles/s4416…

Enhanced synthesis of multiblock copolymers via acid-triggered RAFT polymerization Chemical Science! We are getting better and better at making these block copolymers🥳 Congrats Maria-Nefeli Nghia Truong Phuoc Athina Anastasaki! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… ETH Department of Materials ETH Zurich

Two in two days! Photocatalytic Upcycling and Depolymerization of Vinyl Polymers Angewandte Chemie! This Mini-review discusses light-catalyzed strategies to deconstruct vinyl polymers. Congrats Kostas Parkatzidis Hyun Suk Wang Athina Anastasaki! ETH Department of Materials ETH Zurich onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…