A special issue in Macromolecular Rapid Communications highlights recent advances related to the synthesis, characterization, and applications of polymeric materials for fluorescence sensor applications.
About Kirsten Severing
Kirsten is an editor for the journals Macromolecular Rapid Communications and Macromolecular Bioscience. Further responsibilities include peer-review editing for Advanced Materials and Advanced Functional Materials.
A users’ guide to polymer post-modification: Read now for free!
May 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, Germany) critically review the current status of selected polymer post-modification techniques via orthogonal ligation chemistries
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Biotinylated Aldehyde Polymers for Bioconjugation
April 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Researchers from the University of California prepared cleavable aldehyde side chain, biotin end-group polymers by RAFT polymerization.
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Synergistic marriage of fluorescence sensing and molecular self-assembly
March 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Fluorescence sensing along with molecular self-assembly leads to a highly selective sensory system for biologically important molecules.
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Litmus paper for detecting organic solvents
February 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
A litmus-type sensor system for the detection of volatile organic compounds is developed using a common office inkjet printer.
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Boron Subphthalocyanine Polymers
February 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Researchers have discovered an unexpected side product during polmyer preparation that may have implications for styrene copolymerizations in general.
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Ratiometric fluorescence sensing
February 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Researchers from Coimbra (Portugal), Wuppertal (Germany), and Santa Barbara (USA) present a cationic fluorene-thiophene diblock copolymer for ratiometric sensing of both halide ions and DNA.
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Writing the click: reactive 3D microstructures
February 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Researchers from the KIT have fabricated 3D microstructures by direct laser writing employing a novel thiol-ene resin system.
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Synergy between supramolecular chemistry and polymer synthesis
November 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The reversibility of non-covalent interactions combined with the intrinsic macroscopic properties of covalent polymers opens new perspectives for the design of polymer materials.
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Metabolite-responsive hydrogels for medical diagnostics
October 29, 2012 By 2 Comments
A hydrogel that can tell good from bad: this material can distinguish between normal and pathological levels of urate, a salt related to gout arthritis.
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