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Structure-property correlations can be helpful in gaining higher efficiencies in polymer solar cells. Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill analyze these correlations in terms of LUMO-reducing moieties, and effectively using electron withdrawing and side-chain substituents.
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Carbon nanotube-based ethylene sensor establishes fruit ripeness
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An international research team have designed and developed a method for synthesizing photocatalysts with tunable heteroatom distribution.
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A special issue in Macromolecular Rapid Communications presents the diverse research of young talents working in polymer science around the globe.
Polyurethane can be made more biocompatible for medical devices by grafting chitosan on it.
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Nico Bruns from the Department of Chemistry of the University of Basel reviews Biocatalysis in Polymer Chemistry, edited by Katja Loos.
Zhishan Bo of Beijing Normal University, China reviews Conjugated Polymer Synthesis:Methods and Reactions, edited by Yoshiki Chujo.
BASF are looking to expand into the South American engineering plastics market.
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Researchers from KIT (Germany) present for the first time the preparation of polymeric boronic acid-functionalized microspheres.
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Many new entries in the Top 40 most-read papers in Advanced Materials last week, including work on graphene, organic and oxide semiconductors, plasmonics, and nanostructures.
Issue 1 of Advanced Optical Materials features twelve papers from leading research groups, covering all aspects of light–matter interactions.
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