The Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials (CMPW) is an institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, conducting activities pursuant to the Act on the Polish Academy of Sciences (Journal of Laws No. 96, item 619 from April 30, 2010). Our primary goal is to conduct interdisciplinary scientific research regarding polymers, various carbon forms, obtaining and testing the properties of new polymer and carbon materials, as well as to conduct development works and to implement their results in the economy.
The beginnings of the current Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CMPW PAN) date back to 1954 when the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw opened a Petrochemical Laboratory in Gliwice – the precursor of the current Center, thus initiating the research activity of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Silesia.
POLYMERS Special Issue "Multifunctional Polymer Composites Reinforced with Carbon Materials—Structure, Properties and Application"
will be guest edited by Dr. Urszula Szeluga, Dr. Marcin Godzierz
Topic "Advanced Polymer Materials for Sustainable Development and Health Care"
will be edited by prof. Grażyna Adamus, prof. Maria Letizia Focarete, prof. Marek M. Kowalczuk, prof. Iza Radecka
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES Special Issue Topical Collection "State-of-the-Art Materials Science in Poland"
will be guest edited by Prof. Ewa Schab-Balcerzak
HARMACEUTICS special Issue "Advances in Polymeric Drug Delivery Systems"
will be guest edited by Dr. Joanna Rydz
IJMS special Issue Biosynthesis and Biodegradation—Eco-Concept for Polymer Materials
will be guest edited by Ph.D. Wanda Sikorska, Ph.D. Joanna Rydz-Pawlak and Ph.D. Marta Musioł
POLYMERS special issue Polymeric Carriers for Delivery Systems in Biomedical Applications – in Memory of Professor Andrzej Dworak
will be guest edited by Prof. Marek Kowalczuk, Prof. Iza K. Radecka and Prof. Barbara Trzebicka.
MATERIALS special Issue Advances in Materials for Organic Optoelectronics and Photonics (Second Volume)
will be guest edited by Prof. Ewa Schab-Balcerzak
The Center belongs to category A of scientific facilities in Poland. It was established on January 1, 2007 as a result of a merger of the Center of Polymer Chemistry of PAN in Zabrze and the Institute of Carbochemistry of PAN in Gliwice – two centers of the Polish Academy of Sciences which, for many years, had been conducting systematic work on the production and properties of macromolecular polymer and carbon materials.