Simply better – Surface-initiated group transfer polymerization allows fast and efficient preparation of thick and uniform polymer brushes.
Kirsten Severing
Organoboron Polymers – Advanced Materials for Optoelectronic Devices
Yoshiki Chujo and Kazuo Tanaka present the state-of-the-art of the molecular design of organoboron polymers and their intriguing optoelectronic properties.
Variable Chain-Length Polyacetals from Plant Oils
Long-chain polyacetals with useful thermal properties and interesting degradation behavior are obtained from green precursors.
Polymer Science – The Next Generation
A special issue in Macromolecular Rapid Communications presents the diverse research of young talents working in polymer science around the globe.
Functional Polymeric Microspheres from Boronic Acid
Researchers from KIT (Germany) present for the first time the preparation of polymeric boronic acid-functionalized microspheres.
Alternative Catalyst System for Semiconducting Polymers
Researchers from the University of Michigan present a palladium catalyst that can mediate a living, chain-growth polymerization of pi-conjugated monomers.
Dumbbell-Shaped Thermoresponsive Microgels
Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum in Berlin present nearly monodisperse thermosensitive dumbbell-shaped core-shell microgels as a versatile model system for the dynamic study of the mildly anisotropic systems.
The Wonderful World of Metallo-Polymers
Get free access now to a selection of articles from the topical issue on “Macromolecules Containing Metal Ions”.
Onion Skin Structures in Poly(ionic liquid) Nanoparticles
Researchers from the MPI of Colloids and Interfaces in Golm present exciting cryo-TEM data revealing interesting mechanistic features of crosslinked poly(ionic liquid) nanoparticles.
A Plethora of Block Copolypeptides
N-Carboxyanhydride ring-opening polymerization enables the controlled generation of numerous distinctive block copolypeptides possessing potential biomedical applicability.