Melt-processed fibres have been found to be biocompatible and biodegradable with no cytotoxicity.
Lisa Smith
Lisa Smith studied chemistry, creative writing and the classics at the University of Melbourne. She has been an editor for Wiley's Materials Science portfolio since 2010, and enjoys writing and editing both fiction and non-fiction in whatever spare time she can find.
Through the Looking Glass Transition: Structure–Property Relationships in Ionic Liquids
Glass transition temperature has been used as a guide to thermal stability in ionic liquids.
Wavelength-Dependent Shapeshifting: Plasmon-Mediated Growth Control
Selective growth of twinned silver nanocubes from high-energy incident light refined by Chad Mirkin and co-workers.
Micromotion Gets a Two-Faced Lift: Using Janus Particles for Chemical Power
Exploiting the two-faced nature of Janus particles leads to research in multi-fuelled locomotion.
Eggshells for Electronics: Portable Supercapacitors
Out of the trash and into your smartphone: supercapacitors from eggshell membranes.
Best of Macromolecular Journals 2011
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
Random branching theory enables the modelling of the solution structure of randomly hyperbranched polymers.
Defying Expectation – Cellular Uptake of Nanoparticles
Confocal microscopy and flow cytometry results suggest that nanoparticle uptake defies the expected size limits.