The paper featured on the front cover is “A functionally graded shape memory polymer” by Patrick Mather (Syracuse University, USA) and co-workers. Their paper (also reported in Highlights in Chemical Technology and selected as a Hot Article) describes the preparation and characterization of the first shape memory polymer with a graded range of transition temperatures.
The inside front cover features “Driving bioenergetic processes with electrodes” which reports the work of a team led by Lars Jeuken (University of Leeds, UK). This paper, also selected as a Hot Article, reports on surface-applied electrochemical potentials that are used to drive the formation of a proton gradient in adsorbed lipid vesicles.
In total the issue has a mammoth 7 Hot Articles. Here’s the full list. Click on the titles to read them.
- Very small bubbles at surfaces—the nanobubble puzzle
- Driving bioenergetic processes with electrodes
- A functionally graded shape memory polymer
- Suction of hydrosoluble polymers into nanopores
- Cassie–Wenzel and Wenzel–Cassie transitions on immersed superhydrophobic surfaces under hydrostatic pressure
- Solvent–gelator interactions—using empirical solvent parameters to better understand the self-assembly of gel-phase materials
- α-Helix unfolding in simple shear flow
You can read the whole issue here.
