Double win

Double win
Associate Professor Cyrille Boyer
7 September 2016

Associate Professor Cyrille Boyer has achieved an unprecedented feat by scooping two prestigious awards at the 252nd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition.  

Associate Professor Cyrille Boyer from the UNSW School of Chemical Engineering has won the Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award and the Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator Award. Both awards were honoured during an award symposium at the 252nd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition on August 21-25, 2016, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. 

From left to right, top row: Kotaru Satoh, Shiyong Liu, Eva Harth, Eugenia Kharlampieva, Stuart Rowan, Dave Adams; Lower row: Paulomi Majumder, Andrew Dove, Cyrille Boyer, Tim Lodge and Ann-Christine Albertsson.

Boyer was selected in recognition of his outstanding contributions in development of new functional polymers and new nanomaterials for biological applications.

Boyer has developed original methodologies for the synthesis of complex macromolecules, including star polymers, hyperbranched polymers, and biodegradable polymers and a new photoinduced polymerization techniques, photoinduced electron/energy transfer – reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer polymerization (PET-RAFT).  

Dual award recipients of the Biomacromolecules / Macromolecules Young Investigator Award, Associate Professor Boyer and Professor Andrew P. Dove from the University of Warwick are pictured across. This award is sponsored by the ACS journals Biomacromolecules, Macromolecules and ACS Macro Letters in partnership with the Division of Polymer Chemistry. 

Image: From left to right, top row: Kotaru Satoh, Shiyong Liu, Eva Harth, Eugenia Kharlampieva, Stuart Rowan, Dave Adams; Lower row: Paulomi Majumder, Andrew Dove, Cyrille Boyer, Tim Lodge and Ann-Christine Albertsson.

Watch our research video featuring Cyrille Boyer 


View selected articles published by Cyrile Boyer

•    CO-Releasing Polymers Exert Antimicrobial Activity. Biomacromolecules  

•    In-Situ Formation of Polymer-Gold Composite Nanoparticles with Tunable Morphologies. ACS Macro Letters 

•    Photoinduced Electron Transfer–Reversible Addition–Fragmentation Chain Transfer (PET-RAFT) Polymerization of Vinyl Acetate and N-Vinylpyrrolidinone: Kinetic and Oxygen Tolerance Study. Macromolecules 

•    Visible Light Photocatalytic Thiol–Ene Reaction: An Elegant Approach for Fast Polymer Postfunctionalization and Step-Growth Polymerization. Macromolecules