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 Thermoresponsive polymers
will be guest edited by Prof. Barbara Trzebicka and Prof. Andrzej Dworak
PHARMACEUTICS special Issue Design of Novel Polymeric Systems for Controlled Drug Delivery
will be guest edited by Prof. Janusz Kasperczyk
MATERIALS special Issue Advances in Polymeric Materials for Biomedical Applications
will be guest edited by Prof. Iza K. Radecka and Prof. Marek M. Kowalczuk
POLYMERS special Issue Forensic Engineering of Advanced Polymer Materials
will be guest edited by Prof. Marek M. Kowalczuk and Ph.D. Wanda Sikorska
BIOMOLECULES special Issue Biodegradable Polyesters: From Synthesis to Application
will be guest edited by Prof. Grażyna Adamus and Prof. Marek M. Kowalczuk
MATERIALS special issue Advances in Materials for Organic Optoelectronics and Photonics
will be guest edited by Prof. Ewa Schab-Balcerzak
POLYMERS special issue Polymer Films for Photovoltaic Applications
will be guest edited by Prof. Bożena Jarząbek
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.