N-Carboxyanhydride ring-opening polymerization enables the controlled generation of numerous distinctive block copolypeptides possessing potential biomedical applicability.
Macromolecular Rapid Communications
Metal-Containing Molecules for Two-Photon Absorption
Australian researchers present a divergent synthesis of ruthenium alkynyl dendrimers displaying an NLO dendritic effect.
How to solubilize hydrophobic dendrimers
How surfactants bearing an aromatic structure at the hydrophobic terminal solubilizes hydrophobic pi-conjugating dendrimers.
Low-Power Upconversion in Dye-Doped Polymer Nanoparticles
The fabrication of dye-doped cross-linked rubbery nanoparticles with light upconversion properties even at relatively low power densities has been reported by a Swiss/American research team.
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.
How to Enhance the Efficiency of Polymer Solar Cells
Understanding structure-property correlations can be helpful in gaining higher efficiencies in polymer solar cells.
Synthesizing Carbazole Oligomers
New carbazole oligomers for optoelectronics and polymer solar cells have been synthesized by modular chemistry.
Polymers for Anion Recognition and Sensing
New work highlights the unique effects that arise from incorporation of anion-binding moieties into polymeric systems.
Promising New Triblock Copolymers Based on Ionic Liquids
A symmetric triblock copolymer based on telechelic poly(propylene oxide) and end-functionalized ionic liquids is multi-stimuli responsive.
Horseradish and ATRP – a Green Combination
Researchers at the University of Basel have identified a peroxidase enzyme from the roots of the common horseradish plant which acts as a novel catalyst in atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP).
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