Chemistry - A European Journal, Early View

Fluorescent Sensors for the Detection of Chemical Warfare Agents (p NA)

Mark Burnworth, Stuart J. Rowan, Christoph Weder

Chem. Commun., 2007, 3389 - 3391,

Lanthanide luminescent anion sensing: evidence of multiple anion recognition through hydrogen bonding and metal ion coordination
Cidália M. G. dos Santos, Pablo Barrio Fernández, Sally E. Plush, Joseph P. Leonard and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Volume 46, Issue 33 & 34

One-Pot Synthesis of Amphiphilic Polymeric Janus Particles and Their Self-Assembly into Supermicelles with a Narrow Size Distribution (p 6321-6324)
Lei Nie, Shiyong Liu, Wenming Shen, Daoyong Chen, Ming Jiang

Facially amphiphilic particles in one pot!

Forty Years of In Vitro Evolution (p 6420-6436)
Gerald F. Joyce

Great background reading

Controlling Network-Brush Interactions to Achieve Switchable Adhesion (p 6460-6463)
Rita La Spina, Michael R Tomlinson, Lorena Ruiz-P�rez, Arnaud Chiche, Sean Langridge, Mark Geoghegan

Interesting possible application of polyelectrolytes

Amplified Chiral Transformation through Helical Assembly (p 6476-6480)
Kunihiko Toyofuku, Md. Akhtarul Alam, Akihiko Tsuda, Norifumi Fujita, Shigeru Sakamoto, Kentaro Yamaguchi, Takuzo Aida
Published Online: 16 Jul 2007

Majority rules!

Biomacromolecules, Volume 8, Issue 8, pg 2618-2621 (July 2007)

Multifunctional Thermally Transitioning
Oligopeptides Prepared by Ring-Opening
Metathesis Polymerization

S. Kenny Roberts, Ashutosh Chilkoti, and Lori A. Setton

Biomacromolecules, Volume 8, Issue 7 (July 2007)

Nanostructured Biodegradable Polymer Networks Using
Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Templates

pg 2104-2111

Jason D. Clapper, Stephanie L. Iverson, and C. Allan Guymon


Simultaneously Physically and Chemically Gelling Polymer
System Utilizing a Poly(NIPAAm-co-cysteamine)-Based
Copolymer

pg 2294-2300

Stephanie A. Robb, Bae Hoon Lee, Ryan McLemore, and Brent L. Vernon

Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, Volume 45, Issue 17, pg 4091-4099

Thermogelling Hydrogels of Poly(e-caprolactone-co-D,Llactide)–
Poly(ethylene glycol)–Poly(e-caprolactone-co-D,Llactide)
and Poly(e-caprolactone-co-L-lactide)–
Poly(ethylene glycol)–Poly(e-caprolactone-co-L-lactide)
Aqueous Solutions

ZHIQIANG JIANG, XIANMO DENG, JIANYUAN HAO

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Volume 46, Issue 32, Pages 5985-6199 (August 13, 2007)

Encapsulation of Myoglobin in PEGylated Polyion Complex Vesicles Made from a Pair of Oppositely Charged Block Ionomers: A Physiologically Available Oxygen Carrier (p 6085-6088)
Akihiro Kishimura, Aya Koide, Kensuke Osada, Yuichi Yamasaki, Kazunori Kataoka

...fun stuff for the vesicle people!

Macromol.Rapid Commun., Volume 28, Issue 16, Pages 1585-1662 (August 14, 2007)

Morphological Analysis of Telechelic Ureidopyrimidone Functional Hydrogen Bonding Linear and Star-Shaped Poly(ethylene-co-propylene)s (p 1601-1606)
Brian D. Mather, Casey L. Elkins, Frederick L. Beyer, Timothy E. Long

...supramolecular J.M.Lehn-type chemistry. Variation on a theme, but not a bad paper....

Biomaterials, Volume 28, Issue 32, Pages 4739-4900 (November 2007)

A porous photocurable elastomer for cell encapsulation and culture
Pages 4826-4835
Sharon Gerecht, Seth A. Townsend, Heather Pressler, Han Zhu, Christiaan L.E. Nijst, Joost P. Bruggeman, Jason W. Nichol and Robert Langer

Permanent, non-leaching antibacterial surfaces—2: How high density cationic surfaces kill bacterial cells
Pages 4870-4879
Hironobu Murata, Richard R. Koepsel, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski and Alan J. Russell

Advances in Polymer Science, Vol. 207, 2007

Supramolecular Polymers and Networks with Hydrogen Bonds in the Main- and Side-Chain

p. 1-78
Wolfgang H. Binder1 and Ronald Zirbs1

Supramolecular Materials Based On Hydrogen-Bonded Polymers

p. 113-177
Gerrit ten Brinke1 , Janne Ruokolainen2 and Olli Ikkala2

Nano Letters: Vol. 7, Issue 8, August 2007

Electrostatic Potential in a Bent Piezoelectric Nanowire. The Fundamental Theory of Nanogenerator and Nanopiezotronics

Yifan Gao and Zhong Lin Wang*

JACS, vol. 129, no. 34 (August 29, 2007)

Facile Strategy to Well-Defined Water-Soluble Boronic Acid (Co)polymers

pp 10348 - 10349
Jennifer N. Cambre, Debashish Roy, Sudershan R. Gondi, and Brent S. Sumerlin

Self-Assembled Light-Harvesting Systems: Ru(II) Complexes Assembled about Rh-Rh Cores

pp 10479 - 10488
Michael W. Cooke, Garry S. Hanan, Frédérique Loiseau, Sebastiano Campagna, Masashi Watanabe, and Yasutaka Tanaka

Synthesis of High Molecular Weight Comb Block Copolymers and Their Assembly into Ordered Morphologies in the Solid State

pp 10551 - 10560
M. Brett Runge and Ned B. Bowden

NOTE: They did ROMP w/ oxanorbornene monomers having an ATRP initiator (diblock). Then did hydrogentation of the backbone. Then did ATRP off of this polymer. Did SEM and optical microscopy.

JACS, vol. 129, no. 33 (August 22, 2007)

Well-Defined Vinyl Ketone-Based Polymers by Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization

pp 10086 - 10087
Chong Cheng, Guorong Sun, Ezat Khoshdel, and Karen L. Wooley

JACS, vol. 129, no. 32 (August 15, 2007)

Rapidly in Situ Forming Biodegradable Robust Hydrogels by Combining Stereocomplexation and Photopolymerization

Christine Hiemstra, Wei Zhou, Zhiyuan Zhong, Mariëlle Wouters, and Jan Feijen
pp 9918 - 9926

JACS, vol. 129, no. 31 (August 8, 2007)

A Facile Procedure for Controlling Monomer Sequence Distribution in Radical Chain Polymerizations
Sebastian Pfeifer and Jean-François Lutz
pp 9542 - 9543
Supporting Info.

The Triangular Cylinder Phase: A New Mode of Self-Assembly in Liquid-Crystalline Soft Matter
Feng Liu, Bin Chen, Ute Baumeister, Xiangbing Zeng, Goran Ungar, and Carsten Tschierske
pp 9578 - 9579

DNA-Induced Programmable Fusion of Phospholipid Vesicles
Gudrun Stengel, Raphael Zahn, and Fredrik Höök
pp 9584 - 9585

Synthesis of Dendronized Diblock Copolymers via Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization and Their Visualization Using Atomic Force Microscopy
Sridhar Rajaram, Tae-Lim Choi, Marco Rolandi, and Jean M. J. Fréchet
pp 9619 - 9621

Biomaterials, Volume 28, Issue 31, November 2007

Self-assembled collagen–human mesenchymal stem cell microspheres for regenerative medicine
Pages 4652-4666
Barbara P. Chan, T.Y. Hui, C.W. Yeung, J. Li, I. Mo and G.C.F. Chan

Biological applications of quantum dots
Pages 4717-4732
Timothy Jamieson, Raheleh Bakhshi, Daniela Petrova, Rachael Pocock, Mo Imani and Alexander M. Seifalian

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, June 2007, Vol. 51, (6)

Targeted Drug-Carrying Bacteriophages as Antibacterial Nanomedicines

Iftach Yacoby, Hagit Bar, and Itai Benhar

p. 2156-2163

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Sep. 2007, Vol. 51 (9)

Use of a Bioluminescent Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strain within an In Vitro Microbiological System, as a Model of Wound Infection, To Assess the Antimicrobial Efficacy of Wound Dressings by Monitoring Light Production

R. M. S. Thorn, S. M. Nelson, and J. Greenman

p. 3217-3224

Macromolecules, Vol. 40, No. 17: August 21, 2007

Study of Hydrogen-Bonded Blend of Polylactide with Biodegradable Hyperbranched Poly(ester amide)

Ying Lin, Kun-Yu Zhang, Zhong-Min Dong, Li-Song Dong, and Yue-Sheng Li

pages 6257 to 6267

Science, Vol 317, Issue 5839, 10 August 2007

Direct Synthesis of Amides from Alcohols and Amines with Liberation of H2
Chidambaram Gunanathan, Yehoshoa Ben-David, and David Milstein
pp. 790-792.

Biomaterials, Volume 28, Issue 30, October 2007

Structural and rheological characterization of hyaluronic acid-based scaffolds for adipose tissue engineering
Pages 4399-4408
Assunta Borzacchiello, Laura Mayol, Piera A. Ramires, Andrea Pastorello, Chiara Di Bartolo, Luigi Ambrosio and Evelina Milella

Engineering RGD nanopatterned hydrogels to control preosteoblast behavior: A combined computational and experimental approach
Pages 4409-4417
Wendy A. Comisar, Nikolas H. Kazmers, David J. Mooney and Jennifer J. Linderman

Mechanical and structural characterisation of completely degradable polylactic acid/calcium phosphate glass scaffolds
Pages 4429-4438
Montse Charles-Harris, Sergio del Valle, Emilie Hentges, Pierre Bleuet, Damien Lacroix and Josep A. Planell

Physical properties of alginate hydrogels and their effects on in vitro follicle development
Pages 4439-4448
Erin R. West, Min Xu, Teresa K. Woodruff and Lonnie D. Shea

Langmuir, 23 (17), 8670 -8673, 2007

Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Exhibit Strong Antimicrobial Activity
Seoktae Kang, Mathieu Pinault, Lisa D. Pfefferle, and Menachem Elimelech*

Nature Materials 6, 609 - 614 (2007)

Self-assembly of metal–polymer analogues of amphiphilic triblock copolymers
Zhihong Nie, Daniele Fava, Eugenia Kumacheva, Shan Zou1, Gilbert C. Walker & Michael Rubinstein

Progress in Polymer Science, Volume 32, Issues 8-9

Polymeric biomaterials: Strategies of the past vs. strategies of the future
Michel Vert
pp. 755-761

Synthetic polypeptides for biomedical applications
Timothy J. Deming
pp. 858-875

Smart polymeric gels: Redefining the limits of biomedical devices
Somali Chaterji, Il Keun Kwon and Kinam Park
pp. 1083-1122

Temperature-responsive cell culture surfaces for regenerative medicine with cell sheet engineering
Masayuki Yamato, Yoshikatsu Akiyama, Jun Kobayashi, Joseph Yang, Akihiko Kikuchi and Teruo Okano
pp. 1123-1133

Polymers for bioimaging
Jong-Ho Kim, Kyeongsoon Park, Hae Yun Nam, Seulki Lee, Kwangmeyung Kim and Ick Chan Kwon
pp. 1031-1053

*This is a special issue for Polymers in Biomedical applications made up of review articles. I've only posted a few, to see them all, click here.

Advanced Materials,Volume 19, Issue 15, (p 1943-1946)

Generation of Sub-micrometer-scale Patterns by Successive Miniaturization Using Hydrogels

A. Lal Das, R. Mukherjee, V. Katiyer, M. Kulkarni, A. Ghatak, A. Sharma

Chem. Commun., 2007, 3063 - 3065, DOI: 10.1039/b706248f

Hot Article: Polysaccharide diblock copolymers

Clément Houga, Jean-François Le Meins, Redouane Borsali, Daniel Taton and Yves Gnanou

Chemistry - A European Journal, Volume 13, Issue 24, Pages 6817-6827

Choline-Derivative-Based Ionic Liquids
Juliusz Pernak, *, Anna Syguda, Ilona Mirska, Anna Pernak, Jan Nawrot, Aleksandra Prdzyska, Scott T. Griffin, Robin D. Rogers*

Organic Letters, 2007, ASAP

Reactivity-Based Fluoride Detection: Evolving Design Principles for Spring-Loaded Turn-On Fluorescent Probes
Xuan Jiang, Mario C. Vieweger, John C. Bollinger, Bogdan Dragnea, and Dongwhan Lee*



A Self-Associating ADADA Hydrogen-Bonded Double Helix
Jiaxin Li, James A. Wisner,* and Michael C. Jennings

Science, Vol 317, Issue 5838, 3 August 2007

Cylindrical Block Copolymer Micelles and Co-Micelles of Controlled Length and Architecture
Xiaosong Wang, Gerald Guerin, Hai Wang, Yishan Wang, Ian Manners, and Mitchell A. Winnik
pp. 644-647

Block Copolymer Assembly via Kinetic Control
Honggang Cui, Zhiyun Chen, Sheng Zhong, Karen L. Wooley, and Darrin J. Pochan
pp. 647-650

Capillary Wrinkling of Floating Thin Polymer Films
Jiangshui Huang, Megan Juszkiewicz, Wim H. de Jeu, Enrique Cerda, Todd Emrick, Narayanan Menon, and Thomas P. Russell
pp. 650-653

PNAS, 2007, 104, 12772-12777

Design of helical, oligomeric HIV-1 fusion inhibitor peptides with potent activity against enfuvirtide-resistant virus

John J. Dwyer, Karen L. Wilson, Donna K. Davison, Stephanie A. Freel, Jennifer E. Seedorff, Stephen A. Wring, Nicolai A. Tvermoes, Thomas J. Matthews, Michael L. Greenberg, and Mary K. Delmedico

Enfuvirtide (ENF), the first approved fusion inhibitor (FI) for HIV, is a 36-aa peptide that acts by binding to the heptad repeat 1 (HR1) region of gp41 and preventing the interaction of the HR1 and HR2 domains, which is required for virus–cell fusion. Treatment-acquired resistance to ENF highlights the need to create FI therapeutics with activity against ENF-resistant viruses and improved durability. Using rational design, we have made a series of oligomeric HR2 peptides with increased helical structure and with exceptionally high HR1/HR2 bundle stability. The engineered peptides are found to be as much as 3,600-fold more active than ENF against viruses that are resistant to the HR2 peptides ENF, T-1249, or T-651. Passaging experiments using one of these peptides could not generate virus with decreased sensitivity, even after >70 days in culture, suggesting superior durability as compared with ENF. In addition, the pharmacokinetic properties of the engineered peptides were improved up to 100-fold. The potent antiviral activity against resistant viruses, the difficulty in generating resistant virus, and the extended half-life in vivo make this class of fusion inhibitor peptide attractive for further development.

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2007, 5, 2523

To D or not to D?
On estimating the microenvironment polarity of biomolecular cavities
Renatus W. Sinkeldam and Yitzhak Tor*

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Nano Letters: Vol. 7, Issue 7, July 2007

Electronic Structure of Cobalt Nanocrystals Suspended in Liquid

p. 1919-1922
Hongjian Liu,† Jinghua Guo,*,‡ Yadong Yin,§ Andreas Augustsson,‡,
Chungli Dong,‡,^ Joseph Nordgren, Chinglin Chang,^ Paul Alivisatos,†,§,#
Geoff Thornton,r D. Frank Ogletree,†,§ Felix G. Requejo,O Frank de Groot,[ and
Miquel Salmeron*,†,§