Prof. S.E. Mallakpour, the faculty at IUT Department of Chemistry, presented the latest achievements in the field of synthetic polymers in an article entitled ”Progress in Synthetic Polymers Based on Natural Amino Acids”. The paper, coauthored by Mr. M. Dinari, the PhD student at IUT Department of Chemistry, is published now in the prestigious international Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part A, appearing on the Taylor & Francis website.