Dr. Michael Hess

• Polymer Division (Secretary)
• Subcommittee on Polymer Education (Member)
• Subcommittee on Developing Polymer Materials (Member)
• Subcommittee on Polymer Terminology (Member)

• chairman: Project No. 2011-013-2-400: Updating Wikipedia: Synchronizing Polymer Definitions and Terminology
• member: Project No. 2010-062-1-400: POLYCHAR Short Course on Polymer Characterization
• member: Project No. 2008-022-1-400: Dispersity
• member: Project No. 2007-027-1-400: International tutorial in polymer characterization - POLYCHAR 16
• member: Project No. 2007-008-1-400: Development of a Multilingual Encyclopaedia of Polymer Terminology
• chairman: Project No. 2006-041-1-400: Glossary of thermal and thermomechanical properties of polymers
• member: Project No. 2006-042-1-400: International tutorial in polymer characterization - 15th POLYCHAR short course (16-17 April 2007)
• member: Project No. 2006-029-1-800: Revision of "Principles of Chemical Nomenclature"
• member: Project No. 2006-028-1-400: Terminology for Conducting, Electroactive and Field-responsive Polymers
• member: Project No. 2006-004-1-400: Recommendations on the Abbreviated Terms of Polymers
• member: Project No. 2005-043-2-400: Terminology for self-assembly and aggregation of polymers
• member: Project No. 2005-005-2-400: Definitions of terms relating to individual macromolecules, their assemblies, and dilute polymer solutions
• member: Project No. 2004-043-1-400: Terminology Relevant to Bio-related Polymer Science and Applications
• member: Project No. 2003-060-2-400: Terminology on separation of macromolecules
• member: Project No. 2003-051-1-400: Structure and properties of polymer/clay nano-composite materials
• member: Project No. 2003-042-1-800: Source-based Nomenclature of Single-strand Organic Polymers
• member: Project No. 2003-019-2-400: Definitions of terms relating to crystalline polymers - revision of IUPAC Recommendations 1988
• 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. 2002-048-1-400: Compendium of Macromolecular Terminology and Nomenclature (The Purple Book), 2nd Edition
• 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. 2002-017-1-400: Polymerization processes and polymers in dispersed systems
• 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. 2000-006-1-400: Terminology of polymers with ionizable groups and polymers containing ions
• member: Project No. 1999-048-1-400: Definitions of Terms Relating to Reactions of Polymers and Functional Polymers