Bert Klumperman talks to Polymer Chemistry about the inspiration behind his work.
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Interested to know more? Why not read Bert Klumperman’s review on Mechanistic considerations on styrene–maleic anhydride copolymerization reactions.
The Polymer Chemistry emerging investigators themed issue is now published online. Guest editors Rachel O’Reilly and Andrew Dove introduce the issue in an Editorial (freely available). Click here to read the full listing of papers.
The front cover of the issue highlights Robust bonding and one-step facile synthesis of tough hydrogels with desirable shape by virtue of the double network structure by Junji Saito, Hidemitsu Furukawa, Takayuki Kurokawa, Rikimaru Kuwabara, Shinya Kuroda, Jian Hu, Yoshimi Tanaka, Jian Ping Gong, Nobuto Kitamura and Kazunori Yasuda.
Chris Barner-Kowollik talks to Dave Haddleton about losing sulfur, changing polymerisation mechanisms and mass spectrometry in polymer chemistry.
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The papers discussed are:
A variety of block copolymers that self assemble into hierarchal structures in solution as well as in the solid state have been created by a team of US and Chinese scientists.
The block copolymers contained poly(3-hexylthiophene) and poly(γ-benzyl L-glutamate) and were created from a straightforward procedure in good yield and with high purity. Polymers based on this chemistry could be suitable for organic photovoltaic applications the team claim.
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Zong-Quan Wu, Robert J. Ono, Zheng Chen, Zicheng Li and Christopher W. Bielawski, Polym. Chem., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0PY00299B (Advance Article)
A new method for decorating spores with polymer nanoparticles to create an intricate surface morphology has been developed by scientists at the University of Warwick, UK.
Nicholas Ballard and Stefan Bon investigated the behaviour of these hybrid particles at the liquid–liquid interfaces. The particles show very different behaviour from their spherical analogues which shows that roughness of the surface matters.
Read the full article here: Nicholas Ballard and Stefan A. F. Bon, Polym. Chem., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0PY00335B
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Interested to know more? Why not read Jay’s papers on ‘Self-healing and self-mendable polymers’ http://bit.ly/ii2lpS or ‘Self-healing polymers prepared via living radical polymerisation’ http://bit.ly/hPJeqk
Featured on the front cover of this issue is Separation of enantiomers on diastereomeric right- and left-handed helical poly(phenyl isocyanide)s bearing L-alanine pendants immobilized on silica gel by HPLC by Kazumi Tamura, Toshitaka Miyabe, Hiroki Iida and Eiji Yashima. In the paper diastereomeric left- and right-handed helical polyisocyanides were immobilized on silica gel via chemical bonding. They showed a complementary chiral recognition ability with the reversed elution order for some enantiomers when used as chiral stationary phases for HPLC.
The inside front cover features a communication on Thiol–isocyanate “click” reactions: rapid development of functional polymeric surfaces by Ryan M. Hensarling, Santosh B. Rahane, Arthur P. LeBlanc, Bradley J. Sparks, Evan M. White, Jason Locklin and Derek L. Patton. In the communication which was selected as a Hot Article they report that functional, micropatterned and multicomponent polymer brush surfaces can be rapidly fabricated via base-catalyzed thiol–isocyanate “click” reactions.
The back cover highlights the work of Manabu Tanaka, Masaki Koike, Kenji Miyatake and Masahiro Watanabe. Their paper which was also selected as a Hot Article is entitled Synthesis and properties of anion conductive ionomers containing fluorenyl groups for alkaline fuel cell applications.
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Interested to know more? Why not read Jian Ping Gong’s article in Polymer Chemistry.
A facile method for synthesizing free-shaped and tough double network hydrogels using physically crosslinked poly(vinyl alcohol) as an internal mold. Tasuku Nakajima, Naoyuki Takedomi, Takayuki Kurokawa, Hidemitsu Furukawa and Jian Ping Gong, Polym. Chem., 2010, 1, 693-697.
Polymer Chemistry is delighted to welcome another 9 outstanding polymer chemists to the Polymer Chemistry Advisory Board. These scientists run laboratories around the world and will help advise the Editorial Board on the direction of Polymer Chemistry as the journal grows.
The new Polymer Chemistry Advisory Board members are:
• Yoshinobu Tsujii, Kyoto University, Japan
• Masami Kamigaito, Nagoya University, Japan
• Bernadette Charleux, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
• Jean Fréchet, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
• Steven Holdcroft, Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Eva Malmström, Jonsson Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, Sweden
• Maria Vicent, Prince Filipe Research Centre, Spain
• Swaminathan Sivaram, National Chemical Laboratory, India
• Mathias Destarac, Université de Toulouse, France
The full list of Polymer Chemistry Editorial Board and Advisory Board members can be found here.
