9 July 2026
Materials Webinar | Current Developments in Glassy Polymer Physics, 13 July 2026
The physics of glassy polymers has made enormous progress over the past 25 years. These advances have been made possible by the development of new experiments involving the dynamics of confined polymers, the dynamics of fluorescent probes, in situ dielectric spectroscopy or NMR spectroscopy, or calorimetric experiments. New techniques combining atomic force microscopy and dielectric or Raman spectroscopy are being developed to study the properties of polymers at the local scale. Studies on ultimate properties and the corresponding microscopic mechanisms have benefited from advances in electron microscopy, small-angle scattering techniques, and acoustic detection. For all these issues, experimental progress has been accompanied by theoretical developments and numerical simulation studies that have led to a better understanding of relaxation processes, mechanical and ultimate properties.
This webinar aims to bring together cutting-edge research in the field of glassy polymer physics that addresses some of these issues in this spirit.
Date: 13 July 2026 at 3:00 p.m. CEST | 9:00 a.m. EDT
Webinar ID: 867 6995 9684
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| Speaker/Presentation | Time in CEST | Time in EDT |
| Dr. Didier Long Chair Introduction |
3:00–3:10 p.m. | 9:00–9:10 a.m. |
| Prof. Dr. Simone Napolitano Macroscopic Equilibration Beyond Cooperative α-Modes: From Collective Small Displacements to the Slow Arrhenius Process (SAP) |
3:10–3:30 p.m. | 9:10–9:30 a.m. |
| Q&A Session | 3:30–3:35 p.m. | 9:30–9:35 a.m. |
| Prof. Dr. Valeriy V. Ginzburg Two-State Theories of Glass Transition — Current Status and New Opportunities |
3:35–3:55 p.m. | 9:35–9:55 a.m. |
| Q&A Session | 3:55–4:00 p.m. | 9:55–10:00 a.m. |
| Dr. Didier Long 1995-2025: Thirty Years of Experiments That Changed Our View of the Glass Transition in Polymers |
4:00–4:20 p.m. | 10:00–10:20 a.m. |
| Q&A Session | 4:20–4:25 p.m. | 10:20–10:25 a.m. |
| Prof. Dr. Shi-Qing Wang From Brittle-Ductile Transition to Fracture Mechanics of Glassy Polymers: The Latest Progress |
4:25–4:45 p.m. | 10:25–10:45 a.m. |
| Q&A Session | 4:45–4:50 p.m. | 10:45–10:50 a.m. |
| Q&A Session (all speakers) | 4:50–4:55 p.m. | 10:50–10:55 a.m. |
| Dr. Didier Long Closing of Webinar |
4:55–5:00 p.m. | 10:55–11:00 a.m. |
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Webinar Chair and Keynote Speakers:
- Dr. Didier Long, Materials Science Department, CNRS/INSA Lyon, Lyon, France;
- Prof. Dr. Simone Napolitano, Laboratory of Polymer and Soft Matter Dynamics, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium;
- Prof. Dr. Valeriy Ginzburg, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States;
- Prof. Dr. Shi-Qing Wang, School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, United States.
Relevant Special Issue:
“Current Development in Glassy Polymers Physics”
Guest Editor: Dr. Didier Long
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2026
