A comprehensive overview on the state-of-the-art of waterborne polymer/graphene nanocomposites focusing on high performance coatings and adhesives is presented by R. Tomovska et. al.
Microfluidics and Macromolecules
Microfluidics and Macromolecules topical issue published in Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics and guest-edited by Sebastian Seiffert.
Polymer Reaction Modeling and The Origins of Life
A mechanistic model of nonenzymatic polynucleotide replication is developed using methods of polymer engineering
Solvent Dependence of Propagation Rate Coefficients
New insights into theoretical and experimental aspects of radical polymerization kinetics are presented
How To Do An Acyclic Diene Metathesis Reaction
Acyclic diene metathesis or ‘ADMET’ is a special type of olefin metathesis used to polymerize terminal dienes to polyenes.
A Fresh Collection of Review Articles for the New Year
Macromolecular Journals – For a limited time you can now take a look at this article collection for free!
Salt Drives Directional Particle Transport
Directional motion and transport can be achieved using a salt concentration gradient and an appropriately designed self‐assembling system, without substantial synthetic effort or a matrix.
Thiol-Ene versus Binary Thiol–Acrylate Chemistry
Thiol-ene photopolymers provide a uniform network structure due to the well-defined step-growth mechanism of the photopolymerization between thiol and alkene monomers.
How to Calibrate your Random Walk
A self-avoiding random walk simulator for branched polymers allows to compare experimental data with simulation results.
Janus Droplets for Delicate Biomolecules
Researchers report on a new approach to generate Janus droplets.