Kam Poon

Advanced Materials: High performance Recyclable Polyester Elastomers Through Transient Strain-Stiffening

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📄 High-Performance Recyclable Polyester Elastomers Through Transient Strain-Stiffening

📚 Advanced Materials

🔗 Read the research article: doi.org/10.1002/adma...

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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!

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! 💚

Our latest work on "Controlled Catalysis Delivering High Molecular Weight Polyesters as Recyclable Alternatives to Polystyrenes" is now online in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! 🧪🪢♻️

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Congratulations to @kampoon1.bsky.social for receiving 1st Prize for his #RSCPoster in the #RSCMat category! 🏆💚

@rsc.org

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Follow all your favorite @rsc.org journals now on Bluesky! Let the posting begin! 🥳🧪 #chemsky go.bsky.app/QAaTTZ3

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...

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.

The stage of The New Agents Live on Stage before the show.

Lewis Goodall with a cardboard cutout of himself, Jon Sopel, and Emily Maitlis on stage at the end of the show.

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

Streets of Gothenburg.

Coffee and baked Swedish goods.

Megan and Chalmers University.

Streets of Haga neighbourhood.

Welcome to BlueSky @mmwestwood.bsky.social! 🧪

And thank you for a wonderful long weekend in Gothenburg 🇸🇪

Sign for Diamond Light Source.

Experimental hitch for I22 beam line.

Kam, Bonny, and Mati with I22.

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… 😁

Kam Poon presenting a slide on the sustainable synthesis is polyesters and polycarbonates.

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.

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Kam Poon delivering his research talk on the additive manufacturing of sustainable polymers on the GYSS stage.

Four speakers sat down on stage during the Advanced Materials panel discussion.

The four speakers for the Advanced Materials panel discussion before the session begins.

The Oxford delegation with the GYSS sign at NUS.

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!

Logo for the GYSS (Global Young Scientists Summit) in Singapore.

View across Marina Bay, look at the Marina Bay Sands Hotel.

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 🧪💚

This #ChemSci TOC managed to work in a dual-wielding Mexican shark. As such, I give it 10/10. Feliz Navidad. #chemsky

The Williams group say around two tables on a stone walled pub.

A very merry Christmas from the Williams Group! 🎄💚

Very exciting work! Using machine learning to predict the mechanical properties of sustainable polymeric materials 👇

Oh no haha 3 x 1 volume 😅

Three copies of a PhD thesis stacked on a wooden desk. Reading “K. C. Poon DPhil 2024” on the spine and the Oxford coat of arms on the front.

A very exciting day getting to pick up these beauties 🤩🧪📚

Such a difficult decision… 🤔

University of Hull to close its chemistry department The university is also merging some of its schools following a drop in student numbers.

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.
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UCL quad looks best on a crisp winter day

Done!! 🧪

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.…

An open letter to the microplastics living in my body

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

Column of ice built up on DMA instrument exhaust.

DMA or snow machine? ☃️

#ChemSky #RealTimeChem

Thank you so much for compiling this! I have also made one for polymer chemistry 🧪

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Hi #ChemSky! 👋 We see you! Please give us a moment to get settled here.

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 🥴