Kam Poon
@kampoon1.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biomimetic Polymer Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | DPhil Oxford | MSci UCL | He/Him | 🇬🇧🇭🇰🇪🇺
🧪 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
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
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 · last yr.Congratulations to @kampoon1.bsky.social who has been awarded the 2025 Jon Weaver Prize for the best PhD in polymer chemistry in the UK! 🥳
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 · last yr.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/...
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/...
Congratulations to @kampoon1.bsky.social for receiving 1st Prize for his #RSCPoster in the #RSCMat category! 🏆💚 @rsc.org www.linkedin.com/pulse/rscpos...
Follow all your favorite @rsc.org journals now on Bluesky! Let the posting begin! 🥳🧪 #chemsky go.bsky.app/QAaTTZ3
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...
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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
Welcome to BlueSky @mmwestwood.bsky.social! 🧪 And thank you for a wonderful long weekend in Gothenburg 🇸🇪
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… 😁
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. 🧪♻️
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!
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 🧪💚
A very merry Christmas from the Williams Group! 🎄💚
Very exciting work! Using machine learning to predict the mechanical properties of sustainable polymeric materials 👇
Williams Group@williamsgroupox.bsky.social · 2y agoOur 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/...
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.
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An open letter to the microplastics living in my body
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.…
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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@thenewsagents.co.uk · 2y agoListen to today's full episode: Kim Leadbeater on assisted dying, fractious politics and Jo Cox www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...
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I forgot to pack my notebook today and I leant I’m unable to function without it… can’t think without my little book of scribbles 🥴
Our latest work on “Understanding the Effect of M(III) Choice in Heterodinuclear Polymerization Catalysts” is out now in Inorganic Chemistry! Congratulations to Kat and Fran! 🥳🧪 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Understanding the Effect of M(III) Choice in Heterodinuclear Polymerization Catalysts
The ring-opening copolymerization (ROCOP) of epoxides with CO2 or anhydrides is a promising strategy to produce sustainable polycarbonates and polyesters. Currently, most catalysts are reliant on scar...
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Fully funded PhD in biomaterials and polymer chemistry. Come join us at UCL 😊 rhoresearchgroup.uk www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Biomaterials/Polymer Self-assembly at University College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Biomaterials/Polymer Self-assembly at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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The PERIODically podcast has won the RSC's 2024 Horizon Prize for Education. www.rsc.org/prizes-fundi... You can find the podcast on major platforms here: t.co/YjvpoL2Pbq. Season 1: having periods while studying. Season 2: how reproductive health relates to careers. #iTeachChem #ChemSky
PERIODically: the podcast that covers all things periods and chemistry - 2024 Horizon Prize for Education winner
We are proud to announce PERIODically: the podcast that covers all things periods and chemistry as the Horizon Prize for Education winner. Read their full profile and share their achievement here.
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