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Recent Highlights in Macromolecular Rapid Communications
Read now for free the editor’s choice of recent feature and review articles in Macromolecular Rapid Communications.
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Book Review: Applied Polymer Rheology
Manfred Wilhelm and Roland Kadar of KIT review Applied Polymer Rheology: Polymeric Fluids with Industrial Applications edited by Marianna Kontopoulou.
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Snowballing Radical Generation
Klaus Tauer and co-workers (Golm, Germany) report the discovery of an unusually rapid and high-yielding emulsion polymerization reaction that does not follow...
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A New Playground for Particle Design
Researchers from the University of Jena (Germany) designed glycopolymeric materials with tailored properties to independently study the parameters that impact cellular uptake.
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Chemical modification of LPEI for gene delivery
The PEtOx-b-LPEI copolymer could have important applications in gene delivery and gene silencing as a polymeric vector.
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Stress Sensitive Polymers
German researchers found stress to be a new trigger for shape memory polymers.
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Book Review: Introduction to Polymer Rheology
Professor Manfred Wilhelm and Dr. Roland Kadar of KIT review Introduction to Polymer Rheology by Montgomery T. Shaw.
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When Polymers Bite Back: A Kinetic Model for Suspension Polymerization
The free-radical polymerization of vinyl chloride is investigated using quantum chemical methods.
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Toughening up DNA – Improving the Strength of Nanotechnology
Researchers develop a new, more stable method for synthesising nanoparticle lattices using DNA.
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Simply Better – Surface-Initiated Group Transfer Polymerization
Simply better - Surface-initiated group transfer polymerization allows fast and efficient preparation of thick and uniform polymer brushes.
