Advances in Electrospun Functional Nanofibers

Special Issue on Functional Nanofibers

Macromolecular Materials and Engineering has published a new special issue on functional nanofibers, guest-edited by Il-Doo Kim.

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Spotlight on Polymer Chemistry, Issue 12

Cover of the Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry Volume 51 Issue 12

The Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry highlights some important research in the latest issue.

Spotlight on Polymer Chemistry, May 2013

POLA 51-11

The Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry highlights some important research in the latest issue.

Fluorescent Sensors – Free Access to Recent Highlights

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A special issue in Macromolecular Rapid Communications highlights recent advances related to the synthesis, characterization, and applications of polymeric materials for fluorescence sensor applications.

A users’ guide to polymer post-modification: Read now for free!

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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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Brush copolymers for gene delivery

Fluorescence images of transfected HeLa cells

Novel pH sensitive brush copolymers with biodegradable polyphosphoester side chains for use as nonviral gene vectors have been developed.

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Nanosphere lithography towards selective protein recognition

Schematic description of the nanosphere lithography method.

Researchers propose to create materials capable of protein recognition by means of a new technique based on nanosphere lithography.

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Paint-on semiconducting polymers

Fabrication method could pave the way for cheaper, greener, “paint-on” plastic electronics.

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Welding polymers using nanofibers and light

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Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a way to melt or “weld” specific portions of polymers by embedding aligned nanoparticles within the materials.

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Biotinylated Aldehyde Polymers for Bioconjugation

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Researchers from the University of California prepared cleavable aldehyde side chain, biotin end-group polymers by RAFT polymerization.

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