The latest top ten most downloaded Polymer Chemistry articles
See the most-read papers of December 2010 here:
The latest top ten most downloaded Polymer Chemistry articles
See the most-read papers of November 2010 here:
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from the Polymer Chemistry Editorial team
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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I would like to introduce our new web writer, Remzi Becer (University of Warwick, UK). Remzi will be contributing articles to the Polymer Chemistry blog on the latest news of interest to the polymer chemistry community.
Remzi Becer
Remzi was born in 1980 in Izmir, Turkey. He received his BSc degree in 2003 at the Chemistry Department of the Istanbul Technical University (ITU). In 2005, he received his MSc degree in Polymer Science and Technology at the ITU. He completed his PhD study titled as Controlling Polymer Architectures in 2009 under the supervision of Ulrich S. Schubert at the Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) and the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (Germany). Recently, he is a Marie Curie Research Fellow in the University of Warwick (United Kingdom). His research interests include high-throughput experimentation, stimuli-responsive polymers, and synthesis of glycopolymer and their interactions with lectins.
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Watch the full video interview here on YouTube
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.
The latest top ten most downloaded Polymer Chemistry articles
See the most-read papers of October 2010 here:
Watch the video interview of Peter Budd (University of Manchester) as he talks about polymer membranes for gas separation.
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If you’d like to know more about this topic why not read the review on ‘Highly permeable polymers for gas separation membranes‘ by Peter M. Budd and Neil B. McKeown, Polym. Chem., 2010, 1, 63-68.
Watch the video interview of Filip Du Prez as he talks with Dave Haddleton about the use of click chemistry in polymer synthesis.
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