POLYMERS Vol.71 No.8
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COVER STORY
Polymer-Designing AI
Creating new values by use of information technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), which has been in the limelight for winning the Go champion, is becoming popular in various fields, as shown in AI speakers and home appliances. This trend is not limited to products and robots that are open to the public, but is also found in many cases such as transportation, manufacturing, and design. In the field of materials design, high-efficiency design by use of small data as well as big data is being carried out, and it is expected that many new materials will be produced in the future. In this special issue, we introduce materials informatics technologies that produce materials that show remarkable performance in terms of chemical, physical, and mechanical properties, etc..
Editors: IWASAKI, ISHIWARI, IDA, and HIGUCHI

Messages from 36th President
Polymer Science and Technology at a Historical Turning Point Kohzo ITO
371

Digest for English Readers
374

Hot Topics in Polymer Science in SPSJ
377
SPSJ PMF Poster Awards 2021

Commentary
Materials Platform Plan for Japan Kazuhito HASHIMOTO
378

COVER STORY: Highlight Reviews
Materials Research in Data Era Masahiko DEMURA
379
Lack of Data Resources in Data-Driven Polymer Materials Research: The Role of Simulation and Machine Learning Ryo YOSHIDA, Yoshihiro HAYASHI
382
Automatic Materials Design and its Application to Polymers Koji TSUDA
385

PolyMANGA
388

COVER STORY: Topics and Products
Materials Informatics Approach to Predictive Models for Elastic Modulus of Polypropylene Composites Tomohiro OSHIYAMA, Michihiro OKUYAMA
389
Data-Driven Approach for New Material Exploration Kenji NAGATA
391
Machine Learning for Modeling Glass Materials Shingo URATA
393
Machine-Learning-Assisted Synthesis of Novel MOFs Daisuke TANAKA
395

Polymer Science and I: A Personal Account
Going with the Flow Takuya MATSUMOTO
397

Messages: “Work and Life”
Diversity and Polymer Tomoyo OKUMURA
398

Front-Line Polymer Science
Chain Architecture and Association Behaviors of Amphiphilic Copolymers in Water Yukiteru KATSUMOTO
399

Messages from SPSJ
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