Polyurethane can be made more biocompatible for medical devices by grafting chitosan on it.
A Living Cartilage Scaffold
Professor Dong-An Wang and co-workers seek to revolutionize cartilage surgery through the development of a new type of surgical graft.
Book Review: Handbook of Stimuli-Responsive Materials
Prof. Sergiy Minko of Clarkson University reviews the new Handbook of Stimuli-Responsive Materials.
Giving Order to Hybrid Materials
A new hybrid structure of ZnO nanowires and polythiophenes with nanometer-scale ordering and a high crystallinity could be used for hybrid photovoltaics.
Surface Functionalization of Nanotube Fillers: A Review
Professor Dmitri Golberg reviews the first volume of the new Polymer Nano, Micro- & Macrocomposites series, edited by Dr. Vikas Mittal.
Heavy Metal Free Environment with Plasma-Modified Carbon Nanotubes
Scientists at Institute of Plasma Physics, CAS, have developed a way to modify multiwalled carbon nanotubes to enhance their dispersion properties and adsorption capacities
Watchmakers in Polymer Science – On the Road to Precision Macromolecular Chemistry
Get free access to selected articles of an exciting special issue in Macromolecular Rapid Communications.