PhD researcher Giulia Vozzolo has just gained the CONCURSO DE FOTOGRAFIA CIENTIFICA 2024 organized by POLYMAT centre. In the photo Giulia with prof. Maria Paulis. The photo: To Gel or Not to Gel: the Luminous Dilemma in the pH Alcove The image shows the formation of twisted ribbon-type nanofibrils...

          On Friday, April 12th, a group of 4th year high school students from Sopelana Institute (Bizkaia) visited SardonLab. Last year, they received an award for one of the best projects at the Zientzia Azoka by Elhuyar, and the prize included a guided tour of POLYMAT....

Congratulations to our professor Haritz Sardon for receiving the 2024 Polymer Chemistry lectureship! This award, now in its tenth year, honours an early-career researcher who has made significant contribution to the polymer field. The recipient is selected by the Polymer Chemistry Editorial Board...

Seyedeh Maliheh Razavi Esfali is joining again our group! Welcome back Maliheh!

POLYMAT has been accredited as María de Maeztu unit of excellence! This is a prestigious accreditation that is obtained in a call open to all research centers in Spain. The application was led by Prof. David Mecerreyes and the other senior researchers involved were Prof. Alejandro J. Müller, Prof....

Researcher Akshaya Prasad is joining Sardon group as PhD student. Welcome in the team Akshaya!

Seminar coming soon! Is a circular economy for polymers possible? 🗓 May 22-23, 2024 📍 San Sebastian (Spain) 🏷 Registration available here or checking the events page in haritzsardonlab.com The transition towards a circular polymer economy is increasingly encouraged by the global concerns on the...

A Postdoctoral Fellowship in Macromolecular Science and Engineering is available at the Basque Center for Macromolecular Design and Engineering, POLYMAT Fundazioa, Catalysis and Sustainable Polymer Group. Check it out in their open positions!

European Polymer Journal is publishing the special issue Depolymerization and Polymer Degradation: Redefining the Future of Plastics. It involves contributions to the advancement of sustainable practices in harmony with the pressing global imperative for responsible material management. With guest...

Sien De Neve is joining our group for her internship! She is a last year Master student at the University of Ghent in Belgium and she is doing the internship at POLYMAT as a part of her curriculum. Her project involves the synthesis and copolymerisation of cyclo(ethylene succinate) with other...

We are so proud to announce that Doc. Gabriel Perli has obtained the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 with his proposal Isocyanate Free Self-Blowing Biobased Circular Foams. This year’s annual MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call has attracted considerable interest from the research community,...

Prof. Haritz Sardon has been invited to join the RSC Applied Polymers editorial board members, as a leader in his research field. RSC Applied Polymers is a leading international journal for the application of polymers, including experimental and computational studies on both natural and synthetic...

The Emakumeak Zientzian initiative took its first steps in 2017 and year after year has grown and strengthened. The United Nations General Assembly decided in 2016 to proclaim 11 February as the International Day of Women and the Girl Child in Science in order to achieve full and equal access to...

POLINA is an European Union’s Horizon EIC-Pathfinder Open project that will combine a novel, light-sensitive amino acid materials platform with established and emerging photolithographic techniques to offer an industry-ready solution and contribute to the growing biomedical market. Its aim is to...

On December 14th, Ion Olazabal defended his thesis: "Efficient and selective organocatalytic depolymerization under milder conditions." Haritz Sardon and Coralie Jehanno had supervised this doctoral thesis. Well done, Ion!

November 13th 2023, Xabier Lopez de Pariza defended his thesis: "Non-radical photopolymerizable systems; towards sustainable applications in light mediated additive manufacturing." Haritz Sardon Muguruza and David Mecerreyes have supervised this doctoral thesis. Well done, Xabier!

María Rosaría Caputo defended her thesis titled "Biodegradable polyesters with potential applications in 3D Printing: structure, morphology and crystallization" on Wednesday, November 8th, 2023. The doctoral thesis was supervised by Prof. Alejandro Jesús Muller Sánchez and Dr. Haritz Sardón...

Congratulations to our Ph.D. students Bige Batı and Gabriela Garbonova for taking part in the Circular Chemical Economy Summer School organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry between the 5th and the 7th of September in Newcastle and winning the first and second prize for the best poster! The...

Our PhD student Emelin Luna Barrios got the Best Poster Award in the category of sustainability at the recent IUPAC|CHAINS2023 conference. Congratulations!

Chemical Science is the flagship journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, whose wide-ranging scope covers the full breadth of the chemical sciences. The research published in this journal contains the sorts of novel ideas, challenging questions and progressive thinking that bring undiscovered...

The PhD entitled Sustainable Non-Isocyanate Polyurethane-Based Adhesives for Automotive Industry was carried out under the supervision of POLYMAT researcher Dr. Haritz Sardon and Dr. Iñigo Calvo, the R&D Director at Oribay Group. Well done, Álvaro!

Fermin Elizalde successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Polyurethane Materials: Insights on Dynamic Properties and Self-Healing Applications", under the supervision of Haritz Sardon and Robert Aguirresarobe. Congratulations!

Group member Elena Gabirondo has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "New trends in the synthesis of polyesters: from catalyst design to chemical recycling", supervised by Prof. Haritz Sardon and Prof. Agustin Etxeberria. Well cone, Elena!

A publication led by our group member Xabier Lopez de Pariza on photoacid generators has been selected by Polymer Chemistry as recent HOT article: " Novel imino- and aryl-sulfonate based photoacid generators for the cationic ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone". Congratulations, good...

Dr. Haritz Sardon has been awarded with the ‘2021 ACS Macro Letters/Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator’ Award. The ACS journals ACS Macro Letters, Biomacromolecules, and Macromolecules in partnership with the Division of Polymer Chemistry have selected Professors Bradley D. Olsen...

Yesterday Haritz Sardon was interviewed in the Basque radio station Euskadi Irratia on the occasion of the recently awarded Young Researcher Award - Group Leader category, granted by the Spanish Royar Society of Chemistry (RSEQ). Listen to the full interview (in Basque) here.

Our spin-off company POLYKEY is very proud to announce the start of the NATURE project, an ambitious initiative towards a more circular plastic economy. We are currently recruiting four highly motivated PhD candidates. The offered positions are available to start August-September 2021 with a...

Haritz Sardon, group leader of the Catalysis and Sustainable Polymers Group at POLYMAT, has been awarded by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) with the Young Researcher Award in the category of Group Leader. https://rseq.org/concesion-de-los-premios-rseq-2021/

Dr. Haritz Sardon has recently joined the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Applied Polymer Materials journal.

Dr. Haritz Sardon has been recently incorporated to the Editorial Advisory Board of one of the top polymer journal Macromolecules.