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he big event this year, as I am sure you are aware, is the launch of the new online journal ACS Macro Letters. Our aim is to provide the most rapid outlet for exciting new developments in all areas of modern polymer science, including highly interdisciplinary topics. As a consequence, Macromolecules will no longer be publishing Communications. Although over the past decade we have managed, with your help, to reduce the processing time and increase the rejection rate for Communications, we feel that the new journal can impart more visibility and with even faster turnaround. Submissions to ACS Macro Letters are handled by the new Deputy Editor, Dr. Stuart Rowan (Case Western), and two new Associate Editors, Theresa Reineke (University of Minnesota) and Christoph Weder (Fribourg). The community has already responded enthusiastically to the new launch; submissions are running well above the previous rate for Communications to Macromolecules. The first issue has just appeared, and I encourage you to visit the Web page for more information about the journal and to read the latest research reports (http:// pubs.acs.org/journal/amlccd). Thanks in advance for submitting your best work and for contributing as reviewers to this new venture. The past year was also very successful for Macromolecules, with new records for the impact factor (4.838) and total citations (90 314), confirming our preeminent position in both quality and quantity.
he moved to Kyoto as Associate Professor and was made Full Professor in 2003. He has received many awards and recognitions, including the Japan Research Award from the Society of Rheology, Japan (1994), the Research Award from the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (2008), and Fellowship in the American Physical Society. He has also contributed his talents to the greater community in multiple ways, including as Director, Secretary, and currently Vice President of the Society of Rheology, Japan, and as Member-at-Large of the Executive Committee of the Society of Rheology (USA). I am particularly pleased to emphasize that Hiroshi represents the first Associate Editor for Macromolecules to be based in Japan, a country that has long been a strong leader in the field of polymer science. Timothy P. Lodge Editor
Hiroshi Watanabe
In addition to the new editors associated with ACS Macro Letters, there have been changes in the editorial team at Macromolecules. I am sad to report that, after almost 12 years of distinguished service, Coleen Pugh (University of Akron) has decided to step down to devote her energies to a variety of other projects. We are, however, very pleased to announce that Professor Hiroshi Watanabe, Vice Director of the Institute of Chemical Research, Kyoto University, joined us in March 2011. Hiroshi is well-known for his work in rheology, dynamics, and structures of homopolymers, block copolymers, suspensions, emulsions, gels, and aggregating systems, and he is coauthor of over 250 papers on these topics. After earning his PhD at Osaka University in 1985 under Professor Tadao Kotaka, he was promoted to Assistant Professor in that Department. In 1994, r 2012 American Chemical Society
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dx.doi.org/10.1021/ma202477f | Macromolecules 2012, 45, 1–1
