Covestro Lectures
Thomas Epps, University of Delaware
- Advanced Recycling — Understanding Fundamentals to Valorize Biomass and Plastics Waste
- Responsive Polymer Nanoplexes —Linking In Vitro Experiments into Vivo Outcomes
Fall 2022
Craig Hawker, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Entrepreneurial Polymer Chemistry -- From Fundamental Science to Applications
Fall 2019
Heather D. Maynard, University of California, Los Angeles
- Synthetic Strategies for Biomolecule Conjugation
- Functional Polymers, Hydrogels and Nanoparticles for Protein Stabilization
Spring 2018
Oren Scherman, Cambridge University
- Functional Soft Materials through Molecular Design
- Exploiting Dynamic Self-Assembly at Interfaces
Spring 2017
Karen Wooley, Texas A&M University
- Translation of Fundamental Chemistry to Functional Nanoscopic Macromolecules Designed for Advanced Applications
- Expanding the Scopes of Synthetic Organic and Polymer Chemistries: Utilization of the Inherent Stereochemical and Functional Diversities of Natural Products
Spring 2016
Bob Waymouth, Stanford University
- Catalysis: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainability
- Catalysis: The Key to Selectivity in Polymer Syntheses
Bayer Lectures
Spring 2015
Dieter Schlüter, ETH Zürich
- Synthetic Two-Dimensional Polymers
Fall 2013
Marc A. Hillmyer, University of Minnesota
Spring 2013
Tobin Marks, Northwestern University
Spring 2011
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Carnegie Mellon University
- Tempering Radicals Behavior in ATRP
- Macromolecular Engineering for Functional Nanostructured Materials
Spring 2010
Timothy Swager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Triptycene: A Versatile Building Block for Sensory, Optical, Electronic and Structural Polymers
- Carbon Nanotubes in Chem/Bio/Rad Sensing.
Spring 2009
Jimmy Mays, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Branched Block Copolymers: Synthesis, Morphology, and Properties
- Novel Charged Polymers: From Mineralization to Fuel Cell Membranes
Spring 2008
Jeffrey S. Moore, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Mechanophore-Linked Polymers and Mechanically Responsive Materials
- Dynamic Covalent Chemistry of Linear and Cyclic Oligomers
Spring 2007
George M. Whitesides, Harvard University
- Electron Transfer across Self-Assembled Monolayers. The Development of a Junction Based on Sams Sandwiched Between Two Metal Electrodes – One Gold or Silver and the other Liquid Mercury
- And the Use of These Systems to Study Mechanisms of Electron Transfer In Organic Materials
Spring 2005
Takuzo Aida, The University of Tokyo
- Fabrication of Soft Carbon Nanomaterials
- Artificial and Biological Nanomachines
Spring 2003
Hans Brintzinger, University of Konstanz
- Catalyst Models and the Development of Metallocene Catalysts
- Recent Results and Unsolved Questions in Metallocene – Catalyzed Olefin Polymerization
Fall 2001
Reland J.M. Nolte, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Supramolecular Catalysts
- Molecular Materials from Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
- Hierarchical Macromolecular Programming
Fall 2000
David A. Tirrell, California Institute of Technology
A Polymer Chemist’s View of Protein Synthesis and Design:
- In Praise of Permissiveness – Building Proteins from Non-Natural Amino Acids
- Encoded Self-Assembly – Design of Crystals, Liquid Crystals and Interfaces
- Molecular and Cellular Recognition in Macromolecular Materials