Each year, the editors of Wiley’s Macromolecular Journals select the best content published in the journals to be featured in a special collection, the Best of Macromolecular Journals.
Macromolecular Rapid Communications
Artificial Muscle is Light-Triggered, Redox-Actuated
A photoinduced redox reaction is used to cause the contraction of an artificial hydrogel muscle, leading to macroscale actuation and measurable work.
Dynamic Conformation Control
Prof. Lei Fang reviews how co-planar conformation in π-conjugated systems can be locked by using dynamic noncovalent bonds.
Synthetic Macromolecular Machines
A special issue in Macromolecular Rapid Communications guest-edited by David Bléger and Rafal Klajn highlights the diverse ways by which molecular switches can be incorporated into macromolecular architectures.
Polymer Research at Sichuan University
A Macromolecular Rapid Communications special issue, Polymer Materials and Engineering Research at Sichuan University, highlights recent research developments in novel polymer processing technologies; polymer nanocomposites; multicomponent polymer systems and solution thermodynamics; macromolecular synthetic methodology; and functional polymers for energy, sustainability, the environment, and biomedical applications.
Increasing the Lifetime of Self-Healing Materials
Lower healing temperatures lead to longer lifetimes in self-healing materials.
Tiny Caterpillar-Inspired Robot Inches Closer to Human-Friendly Light Robotics
Researchers develop a liquid crystalline elastomer robot fueled completely by visible light. The robot is capable of biomimetic locomotion resembling a caterpillar and can be operated directly on human skin.
Metal-Coordination Polymers from Controlled Radical Polymerization
Metal-coordination polymers are fabricated via reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer (RAFT) polymerization in a direct fashion.
Well-Defined fluorinated copolymers via organometallic mediated radical polymerization
The synthesis of fluorinated copolymers via organometallic mediated radical polymerization is reported in a new Communication published in Macromolecular Rapid Communications.
Photonic Crystals from Block Copolymer Brushes
Grubbs and co-workers review developments in brush block copolymer (BBCP) self-assembly toward photonic crystal applications. In this rapidly developing field, questions regarding the conformation of BBCPs and the formation of new morphologies provide further research opportunities.
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