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Kam Poon
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biomimetic Polymer Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | DPhil Oxford | MSci UCL | He/Him | 🇬🇧🇭🇰🇪🇺
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schemahub.bsky.social
🧪 Publication Alert ❗

📄 High-Performance Recyclable Polyester Elastomers Through Transient Strain-Stiffening

📚 Advanced Materials

🔗 Read the research article: doi.org/10.1002/adma...

#PublicationAlert #AdvancedMaterials #SustainableTech #GreenChemistry
Advanced Materials: High performance Recyclable Polyester Elastomers Through Transient Strain-Stiffening
July 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Reposted by Kam Poon
schemahub.bsky.social
We recently caught up with Prof Charlotte Williams, Director of the @ukri.org EPSRC-funded SCHEMA Hub about the big challenges it seeks to tackle and how it will work with university partners and industry to achieve this 🎬#sustainability #materialsscience #chemicals #chemicalengineering
June 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
kampoon1.bsky.social
I am incredibly honoured to have won the Jon Weaver Prize!

I am so grateful to the Royal Society of Chemistry Macro Group UK for awarding me the prize, and to my supervisor Prof. Charlotte Williams and my external examiner Prof. Andrew Dove for nominating me!
williamsgroupox.bsky.social Williams Group @williamsgroupox.bsky.social · May 20
Congratulations to @kampoon1.bsky.social who has been awarded the 2025 Jon Weaver Prize for the best PhD in polymer chemistry in the UK! 🥳
May 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
kampoon1.bsky.social
So excited to see this paper out!

Unbelievably proud of @bonny-gao.bsky.social and so grateful for the I22 team at Diamond Light Source for their incredible assistance! 💚
April 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Reposted by Kam Poon
williamsgroupox.bsky.social
Our latest work on "Controlled Catalysis Delivering High Molecular Weight Polyesters as Recyclable Alternatives to Polystyrenes" is now online in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! 🧪🪢♻️

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
April 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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williamsgroupox.bsky.social
Congratulations to @kampoon1.bsky.social for receiving 1st Prize for his #RSCPoster in the #RSCMat category! 🏆💚

@rsc.org

www.linkedin.com/pulse/rscpos...
March 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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rsc.org
Follow all your favorite @rsc.org journals now on Bluesky! Let the posting begin! 🥳🧪 #chemsky go.bsky.app/QAaTTZ3
February 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Reposted by Kam Poon
forsgroup.bsky.social
Oh my 2,3-dihydrofuran,
I don’t know know any monomer cooler than
Thee.

Your cyclic vinyl ether,
Makes thermosetting so much easier
For me:

You ROMP in the dark, Crosslink in the light,
Recycle to monomer under vacuum overnight.
Degrade in acid or with a lot of O2,
Oh DHF this is an ode to you.
Degradable thermosets via orthogonal polymerizations of a single monomer - Nature
Degradable thermoset multimaterials can be synthesized from a commercially accessible, biosourced monomer using orthogonal polymerizations in a single pot; after selective degredation, the resulting s...
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
kampoon1.bsky.social
Thank you @newsagents.bsky.social for a fantastic evening last night! The perfect way for @maryknewman.bsky.social and I to celebrate our 3 year anniversary.
Brilliant to cap the trip off by bumping into @lewisgoodall.com in the hotel lift this morning!

@maitlis.bsky.social @jonsopel1.bsky.social
The stage of The New Agents Live on Stage before the show. Lewis Goodall with a cardboard cutout of himself, Jon Sopel, and Emily Maitlis on stage at the end of the show.
February 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
kampoon1.bsky.social
Welcome to BlueSky @mmwestwood.bsky.social! 🧪

And thank you for a wonderful long weekend in Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Streets of Gothenburg. Coffee and baked Swedish goods. Megan and Chalmers University. Streets of Haga neighbourhood.
February 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
kampoon1.bsky.social
Recovering from a brilliant and tiring week at Diamond Light Source’s I22 beam line!

We can’t wait to share our exciting results soon… 😁
Sign for Diamond Light Source. Experimental hitch for I22 beam line. Kam, Bonny, and Mati with I22.
February 1, 2025 at 9:34 AM
kampoon1.bsky.social
Yesterday I presented the latest work from the @williamsgroupox.bsky.social at The Sustainable Chemicals and Materials Manufacturing Hub (SCHEMA)’s Sustainable Elastomers & Plastics Workshop.

🧪♻️
Kam Poon presenting a slide on the sustainable synthesis is polyesters and polycarbonates.
January 23, 2025 at 7:19 AM
kampoon1.bsky.social
What an incredible week at #GYSS in Singapore!

I had a wonderful time presenting my recent work and moderating the discussion on Advanced Materials.

I got to know so many incredible young scientists and am leaving Singapore inspired by all the outstanding talks!
Kam Poon delivering his research talk on the additive manufacturing of sustainable polymers on the GYSS stage. Four speakers sat down on stage during the Advanced Materials panel discussion. The four speakers for the Advanced Materials panel discussion before the session begins. The Oxford delegation with the GYSS sign at NUS.
January 13, 2025 at 6:08 AM
kampoon1.bsky.social
So excited to be in Singapore for the Global Young Scientists Summit 2025!

Honoured to have been selected to represent @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social this week 🧪💚
Logo for the GYSS (Global Young Scientists Summit) in Singapore. View across Marina Bay, look at the Marina Bay Sands Hotel.
January 4, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Reposted by Kam Poon
aicooper.bsky.social
This #ChemSci TOC managed to work in a dual-wielding Mexican shark. As such, I give it 10/10. Feliz Navidad. #chemsky
December 18, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Reposted by Kam Poon
williamsgroupox.bsky.social
A very merry Christmas from the Williams Group! 🎄💚
The Williams group say around two tables on a stone walled pub.
December 6, 2024 at 3:29 PM
kampoon1.bsky.social
Very exciting work! Using machine learning to predict the mechanical properties of sustainable polymeric materials 👇
December 6, 2024 at 8:43 AM
kampoon1.bsky.social
A very exciting day getting to pick up these beauties 🤩🧪📚
Three copies of a PhD thesis stacked on a wooden desk. Reading “K. C. Poon DPhil 2024” on the spine and the Oxford coat of arms on the front.
December 5, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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professor-dave.bsky.social
It's been known in the sector for some time, but finally the BBC has caught up with the impending closure of Chemistry at Hull - a well-regarded department with very high local value to the East Yorkshire economy and chemicals industry.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
University of Hull to close its chemistry department
The university is also merging some of its schools following a drop in student numbers.
www.bbc.com
December 1, 2024 at 7:47 AM
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robertpalgrave.bsky.social
UCL quad looks best on a crisp winter day
November 29, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Reposted by Kam Poon
theguardian.com
An open letter to the microplastics living in my body
An open letter to the microplastics living in my body
If we are forced to house these tiny plastic interlopers, perhaps it’s time we sat down and had a chat Dear the microplastics that live in my body, How are you? I hope you are well and enjoying the unseasonable humidity of my lungs, kidneys and blood.…
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2024 at 8:18 AM
Reposted by Kam Poon
lizcurran.bsky.social
Very important interview with Kim Leadbeater, well worth a listen. She speaks with knowledge & compassion about this subject. She’s an impressive MP, drawn to public service by personal tragedy. Well done @lewisgoodall.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:27 PM
kampoon1.bsky.social
DMA or snow machine? ☃️

#ChemSky #RealTimeChem
Column of ice built up on DMA instrument exhaust.
November 22, 2024 at 4:03 PM
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acs.org
Hi #ChemSky! 👋 We see you! Please give us a moment to get settled here.
November 20, 2024 at 8:46 PM
kampoon1.bsky.social
I forgot to pack my notebook today and I leant I’m unable to function without it… can’t think without my little book of scribbles 🥴
November 20, 2024 at 8:31 PM