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.

POLYMAT researcher Haritz Sardon awarded with the Excellence of Young Researcher in Polymers Award on its first edition, by the Specialized Group of Polymers of the RSEQ and RSEF For additional information http://www.gpolimeros.org/home/español/premios-y-reconocimientos/

Haritz Sardon has been awarded a Leonardo Grant by the BBVA Foundation to research on 'Smart plastic recycling: Using waste to produce new materials'. He has been selected together with other 5 researchers in the field of Basic Research, in the Chemistry subarea. A total of 59 awardees have...