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Kramer. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT in 2003 for studies of structure− property relationships and self-assembly of liquid crystalline block copolymers, supervised by Prof. Edwin L. Thomas. After MIT he spent 21/2 years as a Senior Scientist at Surface Logix Inc., where he conducted research on the use of soft lithography and microfluidics for fabricating cell-based assays and other devices. Prof. Osuji conducted postdoctoral work on shear-induced structure formation and dynamics of colloidal gels with Prof. David A. Weitz in Applied Physics at Harvard from 2005 to 2007. From 2007 to 2018 he was on the faculty at Yale University in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, and in 2018 he joined the University of Pennsylvania as the Eduardo D. Glandt Presidential Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
appy new year! I have thoroughly enjoyed my new role at Macromolecules this past year, and I am very thankful for all the support and kind words from such a broad swath of the polymer community. My thanks to our authors for submitting their best work to the journal and to our reviewers for their timely and careful evaluations of submitted manuscripts. Now that this first year is behind me, I feel very prepared and excited to continue to raise the profile of the journal and solidify our leadership position in publishing original polymer science research. My commitment to this is as strong as possible. Along those lines, some exciting new Perspectives are in the works for 2019 including the new one in this issue on high throughput controlled/living radical polymerization techniques. 1 I hope you enjoyed the compilation of our 50th Anniversary Perspective Series https://pubs.acs.org/page/mamobx/vi/ macro50thperspectives; be on the lookout for new virtual issues this year. I promoted the journal near and far in 2018, and I plan to continue these outreach activities in 2019. I like to emphasize our commitment to rigorous peer review, to expeditious handling of manuscripts, and to publishing the top cut of polymer science the community has to offer. I have been doing my best to promote the journal on social media, too. I am not going to win any awards on that front and would certainly appreciate help from those of you more active on Twitter. Remember us at @Macro_ACS in your next tweet about an exciting publication in Macromolecules! I will also take this opportunity to welcome ACS Applied Polymer Materials and their new Deputy Editor Prof. Jodie Lutkenhaus to the ACS Publications family. They will be publishing their first issue in 2019, and I am excited about this new addition of a polymerfocused journal to the ACS portfolio. I wish them much success, and I am looking forward to a strong relationship between our journals. In 2018, we continued our successful partnership with the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry (POLY),ACS Macro Letters and Biomacromolecules in honoring two early career researchers who have made major impacts in polymer science. Winners of the 2018 Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator Award were Prof. Matthew Gibson from University of Warwick and Prof. Jeremiah Johnson from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They were recognized during an award symposium held at the 2018 ACS Fall National Meeting in Boston. We are currently accepting nominations for the 2019 award through January 16, 2019, at https://acspubs.formstack.com/forms/2019_ macromolecules_lectureship. I highly encourage you to nominate your deserving colleagues. I am very happy to report that 2019 also brings a new member to our outstanding team of Associate Editors. It is my pleasure to welcome Prof. Chinedum Osuji as a new Associate Editor for Macromolecules. Prof. Osuji received his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University with a senior thesis supervised by the late Prof. Edward J. © 2019 American Chemical Society
Prof. Osuji has broad knowledge and expertise in polymer science and is a leader in directed self-assembly and structural characterization of polymer materials, including liquid crystalline materials, using a diverse range of scattering and microscopy tools. He leads an experimental research group focused on structure and dynamics of soft materials and complex fluids. His current interests include structure− property relationships in ordered soft materials, directed selfassembly of block copolymers and other soft mesophases, and rheology of colloidal suspensions, including gels and glasses. Professor Osuji recently coauthored an article in Macromolecules on sub-10 nm self-assembly of liquid crystalline bottlebrush copolymers that provide new routes to direct the self-assembly of useful nanostructures for applications in patterning and membranes.2 Prof. Osuji is a fellow of the American Physical Society, received a 3M Nontenured Faculty award in 2012, and was awarded the Dillon Medal of the American Physical Society in 2015. Welcome to the team Chinedum; we are very much looking forward to working with you.
Marc A. Hillmyer, Editor-in-Chief
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b02693 Macromolecules 2019, 52, 1−2
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(1) Oliver, S.; Zhao, L.; Gormley, A. J.; Chapman, R.; Boyer, C. Macromolecules 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01864. (2) Rokhlenko, Y.; Kawamoto, K.; Johnson, J. A.; Osuji, C. O. Macromolecules 2018, 51 (10), 3680−3690, DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b00261.
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b02693 Macromolecules 2019, 52, 1−2
