This special issue on low-dimensional carbon materials for Small is dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Center for Nanochemistry at Peking University.
Look Both Ways: Metallic Janus Particles Reviewed
May 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Patchy particles, and Janus particles in particular, already have such broad application potential that it’s hard to believe they are a relatively young concept to nanoscience.
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Spinning for Safety: Biocompatible Fibres from Renewable Sources
February 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Melt-processed fibres have been found to be biocompatible and biodegradable with no cytotoxicity.
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Through the Looking Glass Transition: Structure–Property Relationships in Ionic Liquids
February 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Glass transition temperature has been used as a guide to thermal stability in ionic liquids.
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Wavelength-Dependent Shapeshifting: Plasmon-Mediated Growth Control
January 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Selective growth of twinned silver nanocubes from high-energy incident light refined by Chad Mirkin and co-workers.
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Micromotion Gets a Two-Faced Lift: Using Janus Particles for Chemical Power
November 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Exploiting the two-faced nature of Janus particles leads to research in multi-fuelled locomotion.
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Eggshells for Electronics: Portable Supercapacitors
March 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Out of the trash and into your smartphone: supercapacitors from eggshell membranes.
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Best of Macromolecular Journals 2011
February 6, 2012 By 2 Comments
The top 10 articles published in the Macromolecular Journals Family over the past 18 months are now freely available from the Wiley Online Library.
Random Branching Theory
January 10, 2012 By 1 Comment
Random branching theory enables the modelling of the solution structure of randomly hyperbranched polymers.
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Defying Expectation – Cellular Uptake of Nanoparticles
November 24, 2011 By 1 Comment
Confocal microscopy and flow cytometry results suggest that nanoparticle uptake defies the expected size limits.
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