PhD Candidate Hongyi Cai and Prof Silberstein participated in the Fall ACS meeting in San Francisco earlier this month. Hongyi focused on his polyelectrolyte synthesis and characterization. Prof Silberstein participated in the “Polymer Mechanochemistry Symposium” and the “Polymeric Materials: From Synthesis to Application: USA-Israel Joint Symposium”, and snuck out after her talk on modeling mechanochemically responsive elastomer networks to catch Hongyi’s great presentation and take this picture that doesn’t do it justice.