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Many congratulations to the winners at the 2013 International Symposium on Stimuli-Responsive Materials!
Chosen by an independent panel, the winners were: Akira Matsumoto (Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering at Tokyo Medical and Dental University) for the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B & C poster prize, Justin Poelma for Polymer Chemistry and Saemi Oh for Soft Matter (University of California, Santa Barbara).
The symposium which focuses on the field of stimuli-responsive materials from academia, industry, and government took place in October (20 – 22) this year at the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country in Santa Rosa, CA and was co-sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Akira Matsumoto receiving his poster prize for Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B, C
Justin Poelma receiving his prize for Polmer Chemistry
Saemi Oh winning the Soft Matter poster prize
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In this study, Liu and co-workers reported a new strategy for the synthesis of polyaniline (PANI) nanostructures on a flexible G–carbon nanotube (G-CNT) composite paper substrate, which can be directly used as flexible electrodes possessing both electric double layer (EDL) capacitance and pseudocapacitance. The ternary hybrid paper exhibited a reversible capacity of up to 432 F g-1 at a discharge rate of 0.5 A g-1, which was much larger than that of bare G–CNT composite paper (172.4 F g-1); and its cyclic performance was dramatically enhanced, sustaining greater than 96% of its original capacitance after 600 charge–discharge cycles. Besides, the good electrical conductivity of the G–CNT composite paper provided improved conductive pathways for charge transfer at the electrodes thus resulting in superior capacitance during charge–discharge processes. Therefore, the method reported here provides a simple and efficient approach to fabricating G–CNT–PANI ternary hybrid papers with designed hierarchical nanostructures, and may be easily extended to the design of next generation high performance flexible supercapacitors.
All-carbon composite paper as a flexible conducting substrate for the direct growth of polyaniline particles and its applications in supercapacitors by Chao Zhang, Weng Weei Tjiu and Tianxi Liu Polym. Chem. 2013, 4, 5785-5792.
Julien Nicolas is a web-writer and advisory board member for Polymer Chemistry. He currently works at Univ. Paris-Sud (FR) as a CNRS researcher.
Polymer Chemistry was delighted to award three Poster Prizes at the 13th Pacific Polymer Conference, held in Kaoshiung, Taiwan between 17-22nd November 2013. The winners were:
Daisuke Aoki
‘Synthesis and Characterization of Rotaxane-Linked Graft Polymers’
Hua Deng
‘The Electrical Property-Strain Sensing Behavior of CPCs Based on Polyurethane’
Chieh-Cheng Huang
‘Hypoxia-Induced Therapeutic Neovascularization in A Mouse Model of An Ischemic Limb Using Cell Aggregates Composed of HUVECs and cbMSCs’
Congratulations to all three winners!
In their paper, Lacroix-Desmazes and co-workers reported the synthesis of a CeO2/poly(vinylidene chloride) (PVDC) hybrid latex carried out via the functionalization of CeO2 nanoparticles by reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization from a phosphonated macro-RAFT agent, with very efficient formation of hybrid structures (neither free ceria nanoparticles nor free latex particles). This hybrid latex, obtained by emulsion polymerization with a reasonably high solid content (25%), represents a good candidate for the elaboration of high performance coatings. Furthermore, the authors also considered the use of such hybrid latexes as templates for the preparation of functional organic or inorganic porous materials with CeO2 nanoparticles (or other nanoparticles) evenly distributed in the porous matrix.
A CeO2/PVDC hybrid latex mediated by a phosphonated macro-RAFT agent by Jérôme Warnant, Jérôme Garnier, Alex van Herk, Pierre-Emmanuel Dufils, Jérôme Vinas and Patrick Lacroix-Desmazes Polym. Chem. 2013, 4, 5656-5663.
Julien Nicolas is a web-writer and advisory board member for Polymer Chemistry. He currently works at Univ. Paris-Sud (FR) as a CNRS researcher.
