2026 Fall POLY General Topics Award

Outstanding Presentations

The POLY Outstanding General Topics Presentation Award was established to recognize excellent presentations from graduate students during ACS National Meetings. A great deal of work goes into preparing high-quality presentations. POLY wishes to acknowledge and reward our outstanding students. One winner is selected during each POLY General Topics, half-day day session.

Below are the outstanding presentations recognized from the symposium. You can view their work below!

Allyson Cunningham

Colorado State University

Uncovering the Effects of Backbone Chemistry on the Properties of Polymer-Supported N-Aryl Phenoxazine Photocatalysts

Dhananjay Dileep

Iowa State University

Trojan terephthalates

for scalable

PET depolymerization

Noy Nechmad

Duke University

Post-Synthetic Crosslinking

of Polymer Strands with Mechanophores

Cunningham Abstract

Dileep Abstract

Nechmad Abstract

Claire Ogilvie

Duke University

Mechanophore-based

cross-links enhancing the

toughness of hydrogels

Sebastian Pusse

Saarland University

Star block copolymer architectures for the formation of complex morphologies and
pore design

Kevin Stewart

University of Utah

Side-chain engineering in

frontal ring-opening

metathesis polymerization

Ogilive Abstract

Pusse Abstract

Stewart Abstract

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