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Making use of cells “vices” for enhanced implants

Making use of cells “vices” for enhanced implants

The materials scientists at Jena University are exploring new implant materials and aim to improve the ones currently in use...
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New Properties for Plastics

New Properties for Plastics

Materials scientists at the University Jena generate new copolymer morphology...
T. Keller, C. Semmler, K. D. Jandt, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2008, 29, 876
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Mulitplexing in Dip-Pen Nanolithography

Mulitplexing in Dip-Pen Nanolithography

Dip-pen nanolithography (DPN) allows for the direct printing of biomaterials onto a surface with sub-50 nm resolution; this facilitates the generation of large-scale nanoarrays for a wide range of applications...
C. A. Mirkin et al., Small, DOI: 10.1002/smll.200800770
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20 years of Advanced Materials!

20 years of Advanced Materials!

Join us in celebrating 20 years of excellence in materials science and read our anniversary special...
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International Materials Forum 2008 held in Bayreuth, Germany

International Materials Forum 2008 held in Bayreuth, Germany

The International Materials Forum conference was held in Bayreuth on August 4–5...
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Patterned Colloidal Photonic Domes and Balls

Patterned Colloidal Photonic Domes and Balls

Patterns of photonic hemispheres, such as Janus or triple-faced hemisphere patterns are prepare...
S.-M. Yang et al., Advanced Materials, DOI: 10.1002/adma.200800782
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Fundamental Molecular Weight Distribution of RAFT Polymers

Fundamental Molecular Weight Distribution of RAFT Polymers

The new concept of overall active/dormant periods is introduced to describe the effect of repetition of active radical periods in RAFT polymerizations...
H. Tobita, Macromolecular Reaction Engineering, DOI: 10.1002/mren.200800020
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Breaking down Barriers

Breaking down Barriers

The heterolytic dissociation process associated with the activation of single-electron-transfer living-radical polymerization is examined through the use of energy profile modeling...
V. Percec et al., Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, DOI: 10.1002/pola.22888
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Gel undergoes Peristalsis

Gel undergoes Peristalsis

As though alive: polymer gel moves without external stimulus...
Shingo Maeda, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2008, 47, 6690
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Bouquet of Nanoflowers

Bouquet of Nanoflowers

A family of multi-domain, “flowerlike” Fe3O4/Au nanoparticles is synthesized...
B. A. Grzybowski et al., Small, DOI: 10.1002/smll.200800511
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Doping Molecular Monolayers

Doping Molecular Monolayers

The investigation of D. Cahen and coworkers suggests a way to extend basic studies in electronic transport through organic molecules and, possibly, to extend the use of self-assembled monolayers in molecular electronics.
D. Cahen et al., Advanced Functional Materials , 2008, 18, 2102
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Novel Families of N-Rich Plasma Polymers

Novel Families of N-Rich Plasma Polymers

Atmospheric pressure-dielectric barrier discharge has been used to deposit thin films of three novel families of plasma polymers...
M. Wertheimer et al., Plasma Processes & Polymers, DOI: 10.1002/ppap.200800054
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Ionic Liquids for Anionic Polymerizations

Ionic Liquids for Anionic Polymerizations

Anionic polymerization reactions of MMA in ionic liquids were carried out by utilizing alkyl lithium initiators...
Wanatabe et al., DOI: 10.1002/pat.1210
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High-Performance Thermosets

High-Performance Thermosets

U. Jonas and coworkers report on new cyanate ester thermosets...
U. Jonas et al., Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, DOI: 10.1002/macp.200800155
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 Scientists Overcome Nanotech Hurdle

Scientists Overcome Nanotech Hurdle

When you make a new material on a nanoscale how can you see what you have made? A team lead by a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences research Council (BBSRC) fellow has made a significant step toward overcoming this major challenge faced by nanotechnology scientists.
L. Duchesne et el., ChemBioChem, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200800326
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Click Chemistry in Polymer Science – FREE ACCESS to Selected Articles from the Special Issue of Macromolecular Rapid Communications

Click Chemistry in Polymer Science – FREE ACCESS to Selected Articles from the Special Issue of Macromolecular Rapid Communications

Macromolecular Rapid Communications has dedicated a topical Special Issue to click chemistry in polymer science, guest-edited by Wolfgang H. Binder...
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Fullerene Resist Materials

Fullerene Resist Materials

Dr Alex P. G. Robinson talks to Nanowerk about recent work, published in Advanced Functional Materials and Small, about reserach into fullerene-based molecular resists and its implications for miniturization of circuits...
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Spinning in Control

Spinning in Control

Wang and co-workers show that the diameter of nanofibers formed by electrospinning depends greatly on the surface tension...
S.-Q. Wang et al., Polymer International, DOI: 10.1002/pi.2447
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The Quick Cocaine Test

The Quick Cocaine Test

A novel bioassay strategy based on gold nanoparticles...
C. Fan et al., Small, DOI: 10.1002/smll.200800057
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FREE ACCESS to selected articles from  the Advanced Materials Special Issue on the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

FREE ACCESS to selected articles from the Advanced Materials Special Issue on the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Guest-edited by ICCAS Director Li-Jun Wan, this issue features cutting-edge research on energy storage, polymeric materials, nanostructures, biomimetic materials, alloys, solar cells, and biosensors...
Special Issue, Advanced Materials, 2008, 20, 2803
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FREE ACCESS to selected articles from the Advanced Materials Special Issue on the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guest-edited by ICCAS Director Li-Jun Wan, this issue features cutting-edge research on energy storage, polymeric materials, nanostructures, biomimetic materials, alloys, solar cells, and biosensors...
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Advanced Materials 20th Anniversary
Join us in celebrating 20 years of excellence in materials science! In forthcoming issue 16 of Advanced Materials...
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