PolyChar’31
31th edition of PolyChar World Forum on Advanced Materials
It is our pleasure to invite you to attend the 31th edition of PolyChar World Forum on Advanced Materials (PolyChar’31) organized between 10 and 12 September 2025 at UMONS in Mons (Belgium)
We are waiting for you in Mons!
Chairpersons of PolyChar’31
Jean-Marie RAQUEZ, Rosica MINCHEVA, Nathalie VANDEREST
Carl Klason Student Award
for young scientists
Bruce Hartmann Prize
for young scientists
Svante Arrhenius International Materials Research Prize
for senior scientists and engineers
Paul J. Flory International Materials Research Prize
for senior scientists and engineers
PolyChar’31 Prize Committee
Chair: Liubov P. MYASNIKOVA, Abram Yoffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Rusia
Vice Chair: Cosimo CARFAGNA, Federico II University of Naples, Italy
President: Alice MIJA, Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France
Vice Presidents:
Veronica AMBROGI, Federico II University of Naples, Italy
Elizabete F. LUCAS, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Cyrille SOLLOGOUB, Conservatoire National des Arts and Métiers, Paris, France
Honorary President: Witold BROSTOW, University of North Texas, Denton
Chair of the Industrial Relations Committee: Kevin P. MENARD, Mary Kay Corp., Dallas, USA
Chair of the Membership Committee: Masaru MATSUO, Nara Women’s University & Dalian University of Technology
Professor Giada Lo Re, Chalmers University of Technology (Goteborg, Sweden)
Key-note speaker on Sustainable-by-design Polymer-based Materials
Professor Ke-Ke Yang, College of Chemistry – Sichuan University (Sichuan, China)
Key-note speaker on Materials for Additive Manufacturing and/or Smart Materials
Professor Halima Kerdjoudj, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (Reims, France)
Key-note speaker in Polymers for biomedical applications
Professor Karine Glinel, Catholic University of Louvain (Louvain, Belgium)
Oral presentation on Biofunctional, stimuli-responsive and antibacterial surfaces and cell-surface interactions