Researcher from New York and Xiamen review the current status and future challenges of glucose-responsive materials for insulin delivery.
Kirsten Severing
Fluorescent Sensors – Free Access to Recent Highlights
A special issue in Macromolecular Rapid Communications highlights recent advances related to the synthesis, characterization, and applications of polymeric materials for fluorescence sensor applications.
A users' guide to polymer post-modification: Read now for free!
Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, Germany) critically review the current status of selected polymer post-modification techniques via orthogonal ligation chemistries
Biotinylated Aldehyde Polymers for Bioconjugation
Researchers from the University of California prepared cleavable aldehyde side chain, biotin end-group polymers by RAFT polymerization.
Synergistic marriage of fluorescence sensing and molecular self-assembly
Fluorescence sensing along with molecular self-assembly leads to a highly selective sensory system for biologically important molecules.
Litmus paper for detecting organic solvents
A litmus-type sensor system for the detection of volatile organic compounds is developed using a common office inkjet printer.
Boron Subphthalocyanine Polymers
Researchers have discovered an unexpected side product during polmyer preparation that may have implications for styrene copolymerizations in general.
Ratiometric fluorescence sensing
Researchers from Coimbra (Portugal), Wuppertal (Germany), and Santa Barbara (USA) present a cationic fluorene-thiophene diblock copolymer for ratiometric sensing of both halide ions and DNA.
Writing the click: reactive 3D microstructures
Researchers from the KIT have fabricated 3D microstructures by direct laser writing employing a novel thiol-ene resin system.
Synergy between supramolecular chemistry and polymer synthesis
The reversibility of non-covalent interactions combined with the intrinsic macroscopic properties of covalent polymers opens new perspectives for the design of polymer materials.