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In celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Polymer Science language, a project sponsored by International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the University of Chemistry and Technnology (UCT) Prague was developed as an “Introduction of Polymer Science Language to Broader Chemical community through Arts (SciArt)“. The project intention was to combine the two traditionally related worlds of Science and Arts, in order to introduce a spectator with exact and often abstract language of chemical terminology.

Here, the chemist Jan Merna, painter Jan Pražan and graphic Luděk Joska committed their joint effort in attempt to introduce basic terms of Polymer Science to broader chemical community on the occasion of 100th years anniversary of publishing the groundbreaking concept of Polymer Science by German chemist Hermann Staudinger in 1920. The major idea of Staudinger lies in the understanding of the essence of chemical structure of classical polymers which is based on Macromolecules, giant molecules that form majority of synthetic plastics and rubbers which stands behind the quality and safety of our daily lives but also polymers made by Nature to create our bodies and store the genetic code of Life form known on the planet Earth, the macromolecules of proteins, cellulose and nucleic acids.

About the Artist: Jan Pražan is a Czech Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1979. See more of his work at: http://www.janprazan.com/