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NOTE FROM PROFESSOR JEAN DUHAMEL, IPR DIRECTOR ……………………………………. 2  \n2. ANNUAL IPR SYMPOSIUM …………………………………………………………………………………….. 3  \n3. IPR PREPRINTS ………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3  \n4. RESEARCH PROGRAMS …………………………………………………………………………………………… 3  \n5. RECENTLY GRADUATED GRADUATE STUDENTS …………………………………………………… 3-4  \n6. ACADEMIC MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH ……………………… 4  \n7. MEMBER COMPANIES – 2025 …………………………………………………………………………….… 4  \n8. STUDENT AWARDS …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 5-6  \n9. FACULTY AWARDS …………………………………………………………………………………………………. 6  \n10. FULL REFEREED JOURNAL PAPERS …………………………………………………………….……….. 7-17  \n11. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS/INVITED SEMINAR ……………………………………..……..17-21  \n12. PATENTS/MAJOR TECHNICAL REPORT/CHAPTERS IN BOOKS……………………….…… 22-23  \n13. OTHER HGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR………………………………………………………………………. 23-25  \n14. APPENDIX 1 …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 26-28  \n15. APPENDIX 2 …….…………………………………………………………………………………………………… 29  \nINSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH (IPR)  \nUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO  \nWATERLOO, ONTARIO N2L 3G1  \nNEWSLETTER 2025  \n1. NOTE FROM PROFESSOR JEAN DUHAMEL, IPR DIRECTOR  \nLast year was a year of renewal for the IPR with four new members joining the IPR bringing the total headcount to 16 colleagues on the Waterloo campus. Our new members are Profs. Hamed Shahsavan, Elisabeth Prince, and Milad Kamkar from Chemical Engineering and Prof. Yangju Lin from Chemistry. Their expertise spans several research fields from rheology to hydro and aerogels, sustainable materials and plastics, smart polymers, and polymers for batteries. This additional and most valuable expertise will no doubt unlock new collaborations, broadens the breadth of expertise offered by the IPR, and further establishes the IPR as a powerhouse in polymer research.  \nThe last IPR Symposium, which was held on April 30th and May 1st, 2025, was most successful in terms of  \nquality and number of presentation offerings. With 28 student presenters, the IPR Symposium had a record student participation in 2025, reflecting the lively atmosphere in polymer research at the institute! Among the presenters where the two IPR Awardees, Negin Bouzari supervised by Prof. Hamed Shahsavan and Yonglin Wang supervised by Prof. Yuning Li, both from Chemical Engineering. Negin gave a presentation on small-scale robots for medical applications and Yonglin explained how coordination polymers can be incorporated into organic cathodes used in lithium-ion batteries. Our two keynote speakers gave fantastic presentations. They were Dr. Nicholas Lanigan from Davwire, who discussed the formulation of photocurable resins for the fabrication of ferroelectrets, and Prof. Megan Roberts from Western University, who described the use of nanocellulose for precision applications. The student and keynote presentations concluded the first part of the symposium on April 30th. On May 1st, Profs. Leonardo Simon, Xianshe Fang, and Tizazu Mehonnen gave fascinating talks about industrial hemp and the development of sustainable materials, a unified approach toward mass transfer, perstraction, and sorption, and engineered polysaccharides and the modification of polysaccharides and poly(lactic acid) . This concluded what was a spectacular 2025 IPR Symposium.  \nAmong the highlights of 2025, Prof. Mekonnen garnered national attention by creating greener  \nsuperabsorbent hydrogels for personal hygiene products based on cellulose and citric acid as crosslinker. This new material can be used for diapers and decomposes over a time scale of months compared to centuries for the current products based on crosslinked polymethacrylate salts. Links to his televised interviews can be found on the IPR website.  \nWe certainly hope to break the record of student presenters for the next IPR Symposium which will take place on May 6th and 7th, 2026. 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