Prof. dr. ir. Stefan Bon is invited to speak at the 64th conference of the High Polymer Research Group (HPRG) in April 2026.

Mars Poxon from BonLab will speak at Surcon 2025

The 2025 MacroGroup Annual Symposia and Medal Lectures will be hosted at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology. Here, the UK polymer and macromolecular community will gather for two jam-packed days of talks, posters, and discussions. We have a line-up of leading UK researchers, Prof. dr. ir. Stefan Bon from the University of Warwick will give a short talk on small organic eutectic materials that can act like plastics.

The annual ECIS conference is the flagship event of the European Colloids and Interface Society (ECIS). Its 39th edition will be jointly held with the 5th UK Colloid Science Conference in the historical city centre of Bristol on 7th-12th September 2025.

Prof. dr. ir. Stefan Bon is invited as a speaker at the 2025 International Polymer Colloids Group meeting, to be held in Montpellier (France), 22-26 June 2025.

The High Polymer Research Group (HPRG) exists to promote polymer science, broadly defined, through the organisation of annual conferences which are held at Pott Shrigley in the Peak District, a picturesque part of Northern England. Prof. dr. ir. Stefan A. F. Bon will be attending this meeting.

We have been working hard to expand our portfolio in the environmental behavior of polymer colloids. reactions. Mars Poxon, a talented 1st year PhD researcher in our team, will present their results on obtaining detailed particle size distribution data of polymer colloids dispersed in water using an analytical technique called AF4. The CENTA 2024 meeting is held in Birmingham NEC.

We have been working hard to expand our portfolio in polymer synthesis beyond radical polymerization reactions. Yutong Niu, a talented 1st year PhD researcher in our team, will present his results on synthesizing hydrophobic polyethers from alkanediols using acid catalysts at the Polycondensation 2024 meeting in Lyon, France. His poster is poster number 24, and will be on display on Monday, 16th September 2024, 18h25-19h25 during the poster session.

Emily Brogden will attend the UK Colloids 2023 meeting in Liverpool and talk about her and Caterina’s Dasmi’s work on how to fabricate linerless pressure sensitive adhesive labels using a binary mixture of hard and soft polymer latexes.

The international conference organized by the International Polymer Colloids Group (IPCG) traditionally is one of the highlights where BonLab showcases their latest work. This year the meeting is held at Queens University in Canada.

Emily Brodgen and Josh Davies, both PhD researchers, will be representing our team and showcase some of the latest research work from our team. Emily will talk and the Graduate Research Seminar on linerless pressure sensitive adhesives made from mixtures of “hard” and “soft” polymer latexes, and both Emily and Josh will have posters at the main conference.

The team will show their latest research highlights at the annual Macrogroup UK YRM, this year to be held at Warwick University. We will have a talk from Emily Brodgen on linerless adhesives made using mixtures of hard and soft polymer latexes. All BonLab team members will present posters with topics including eutectic hydrophobic glasses and liquids, phase separation and crystallization of polymer solutions in organic solvents, and how to keep polyester water-based dispersions colloidally stable if they are semi-crystalline.