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Professor Costas Tzoganakis is the recipient of the 2015 Heinz List Award for “Significant Achievements in Polymer Devolatilization and Reactive Processing.”  His research on numerous reactive systems using screw extruders was recognized with this award from the Extrusion Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) during the 2015 Annual Technical Conference (ANTEC) in Orlando, Florida.

Professor Boxin Zhoa, academic member of the IPR, is developing a glue that may one day be used to engineer human tissues and organs.  Read the complete story: Zebra mussel is inspiration for human body super glue.

Pouyan Sardashti (PhD, Chemical Engineering, Feb 2014) receives the prestigious international ‘2014 Borealis Student Innovation Award’.

For more details, see…  Borealis Award

Chemical Engineering PhD students Hadi Izadi, Katherine Stewart, and Professor Alexander Penlidis, explain how dry adhesion works in a recent pioneering article in J. Roy. Soc. Interface. For more details, please check:

"How does dry adhesion work?"

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Institute for Polymer Research academic member, Prof. James Forrest was recently featured on the University of Waterloo’s website. His latest research discovery involving glassy polymers and nanomaterials was published in the prestigious journal Science. Follow link for the full article.

Institute for Polymer Research member, Professor Boxin Zhao was recently featured on the University of Waterloo's website highlighting his latest Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) collaboration in developing nano-glue for electronics. Follow link for the full article.