Dr. Michael Hess

Member

• Polymer Division Committee (Secretary)

• SC on Polymer Terminology (Member)

• SC on Developing Polymer Materials (Member)

• SC on Polymer Education (Member)

Current Projects

• member: Project No. 2003-042-1-800: Source-based Nomenclature of Single-strand Organic Polymers

• member: Project No. 2003-060-2-400: Terminology on separation of macromolecules

• member: Project No. 2004-043-1-400: Terminology Relevant to Bio-related Polymer Science and Applications

• member: Project No. 2005-005-2-400: Definitions of terms relating to individual macromolecules, their assemblies, and dilute polymer solutions

• member: Project No. 2006-004-1-400: Recommendations on the Abbreviated Terms of Polymers

• member: Project No. 2006-028-1-400: Terminology for Conducting, Electroactive and Field-responsive Polymers

• chairman: Project No. 2006-041-1-400: Glossary of thermal and thermomechanical properties of polymers

• member: Project No. 2007-008-1-400: Development of a Multilingual Encyclopaedia of Polymer Terminology

• chairman: Project No. 2011-013-2-400: Updating Wikipedia: Synchronizing Polymer Definitions and Terminology

Completed Projects

• member: Project No. 1999-048-1-400: Definitions of Terms Relating to Reactions of Polymers and Functional Polymers

• member: Project No. 2000-006-1-400: Terminology of polymers with ionizable groups and polymers containing ions

• member: Project No. 2000-007-1-400: Glossary of terms relating to polymeric gels and networks, hybrid inorganic polymeric materials and the processing thereof

• member: Project No. 2002-006-2-400: Terminology for radical polymerizations with minimal termination - the so-called "living" and/or "controlled" radical polymerization

• member: Project No. 2002-014-1-400: Glossary of class names of polymers based on their chemical structure and molecular architecture

• member: Project No. 2002-016-1-400: Terminology for the kinetics, thermodynamics, and mechanism of polymerization

• member: Project No. 2002-048-1-400: Compendium of Macromolecular Terminology and Nomenclature (The Purple Book), 2nd Edition

• member: Project No. 2003-019-2-400: Definitions of terms relating to crystalline polymers - revision of IUPAC Recommendations 1988

• member: Project No. 2003-051-1-400: Structure and properties of polymer/clay nano-composite materials

• member: Project No. 2006-042-1-400: International tutorial in polymer characterization - 15th POLYCHAR short course (16-17 April 2007)

• member: Project No. 2007-027-1-400: International tutorial in polymer characterization - POLYCHAR 16

• member: Project No. 2008-022-1-400: Dispersity