THE CARL S. MARVEL CREATIVE POLYMER CHEMISTRY AWARD

2013

The Polymer Division of the American Chemical Society was delighted to present the 2013 Carl S. Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award to Professor Zhenan Bao from Stanford University.

Professor Bao leads a dynamic research program focused on the synthesis, characterization, and processing of polymeric and other soft materials for myriad flexible electronic applications. She has successfully translated fundamental findings in her laboratory into useful technologies for carbon nanotube electronic type sorting, pressure and chemical sensing, and stretchable electronic devices. Professor Bao is without a doubt among the world leaders in the field of organic semiconductor polymers and materials, and the POLY Division is proud to have her join the ranks of Carl S. Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Awardees. Professor Bao received her Ph.D. degree in chemistry from The University of Chicago in 1995 and joined the Materials Research Department of Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. She became a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in 2001. She joined the faculty of the Stanford University, Chemical Engineering Department in 2004. Professor Bao has more than 300 refereed publications and more than 40 US patents. She was elected a SPIE Fellow in 2008 ACS PMSE fellow in 2011, ACS Fellow in 2011 and AAAS Fellow in 2012. A few of her many awards include the ACS Cope Scholar Award in 2011, the Royal Society of Chemistry Beilby Medal and Prize in 2009, and the IUPAC Creativity in Applied Polymer Science Prize in 2008.

The Carl S. Marvel Award is sponsored by Albemarle and POLY was honored to have Kevin Coppola in attendence to present the award. The award was established in 1980 to recognize and encourage accomplishments and/or innovation of unusual merit in the field of basic or applied polymer science by younger scientists.

A symposium to recognize Dr. Bao was held at the 2013 Spring ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, LA.