NJC is delighted to present this month’s issue. Whether you are a materials scientist, biologist, physicist or medicinal chemist, you are guaranteed to find articles of relevance to your specialist interests.
The outside front cover highlights our latest article by Yukikazu Takeoka and co-workers. In their Letter article, the authors describe the preparation of an amorphous array composed of thermo-responsive fine core–shell particles in which the core is a monodisperse silica particle and the shell is a high-density polymer brush of uniform thickness made from thermally responsive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPA). After observing the optical behaviours of the amorphous array, it was found that the position and the strength of the angle-independent PBG from the array can reversibly change depending on the environmental temperature. This system has promising application in light switching, sensors, and displays.
An amorphous array of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) brush-coated silica particles for thermally tunable angle-independent photonic band gap materials by Yoshie Gotoh, Hiromasa Suzuki, Naomi Kumano, Takahiro Seki, Kiyofumi Katagiri and Yukikazu Takeoka, New J. Chem., 2012,36, 2171-2175, DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40368D
The inside front cover was produced by Kenta Adachi and co-workers, and highlights a new approach to induce chirality in H-aggregates of achiral methylene blue (MB) dyes by chiral phenylalanine (Phe) molecules. The results demonstrate a chirality transfer and amplification from only the pre-adsorbed Phe molecules to MB aggregates formed on the WO3 colloid surface via non-covalent interactions. These findnings open new promising ways towards the design of efficient chiral supramolecular sensors and devices.
Chirality induction and amplification in methylene blue H-aggregates viaD– and L-phenylalanine pre-adsorbed on the tungsten oxide nanocolloid surface by Kenta Adachi, Shohei Tanaka, Suzuko Yamazaki, Hideaki Takechi, Satoshi Tsukahara and Hitoshi Watarai, New J. Chem., 2012, 36, 2167-2170, DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40415J
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