Science, VOL 319, Issue 5866, Pages 1005-1123, 22 Feb 2008

U.S. BUDGET: House Panel Berates Science Adviser on 2009 'Shortfall'
J. Mervis
pg. 1023.

EDUCATION: A New Bottom Line For School Science
J. Mervis
pg. 1030-1033.

EDUCATION: From an Idea to a School
J. Mervis
pg. 1031.

EDUCATION: Money Doesn't Always Talk
J. Mervis
pg. 1032.

The Force Needed to Move an Atom on a Surface
M. Ternes, C. P. Lutz, C. F. Hirjibehedin, F. J. Giessibl, and A. J. Heinrich
pg. 1066-1069.

Bioinspired Design and Assembly of Platelet Reinforced Polymer Films
L. J. Bonderer, A. R. Studart, and L. J. Gauckler
pg. 1069-1073.

Self-healing rubber bounces back

A material that is able to self-repair even when it is sliced in two has been invented by French researchers.

Science, vol 319, Issue 5865, pages 861-992, 15 Feb 2008

The Gonzo Scientist
Can Scientists Dance?
J. Bohannon
pg. 905b.

Books
A Taste of the Gonzo Scientist
J. Bohannon (15 February 2008)
pg. 905a.

Perspectives
MATERIALS SCIENCE: Making Strong Fibers
H. G. Chae, and S. Kumar
pg. 908-909.

Perspectives
MATERIALS SCIENCE: On Mixing and Demixing
J. M. Ottino, and R. M. Lueptow
pg. 912-913.

Science, vol 319, Issue 5864

U.S. BUDGET 2009: A Science Budget of Choices and Chances
J. Mervis
pg. 714-715.

U.S. BUDGET 2009: A Broken Record?
J. Mervis
pg. 715.

U.S. BUDGET 2009: Near-Term Energy Research Prospers
E. Kintisch
pg. 716a-717a.

U.S. BUDGET 2009: NIH Hopes for More Mileage From Roadmap
J. Kaiser
pg. 716b

Perspectives
MATERIALS SCIENCE: Toward Flexible Batteries
H. Nishide, and K. Oyaizu
pg. 737-738.

Biomaterials, Volume 29, Issue 11, Pages 1553-1736 (April 2008)

Response of mesenchymal stem cells to the biomechanical environment of the endothelium on a flexible tubular silicone substrate
Pages 1610-1619
Eoin D. O'Cearbhaill, Marie A. Punchard, Mary Murphy, Frank P. Barry, Peter E. McHugh and Valerie Barron

Preparation and rheological characterization of a gel form of the porcine urinary bladder matrix
Pages 1630-1637
Donald O. Freytes, Jeffrey Martin, Sachin S. Velankar, Annie S. Lee and Stephen F. Badylak

JACS vol 130 no 6 (Feb 13, 2008)

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Lipid Bilayer Discs and Banded Tubules: Photoinduced Lipid Sorting in Ternary Mixtures
Jing Yuan, Steven M. Hira, Geoffrey F. Strouse, and Linda S. Hirst
pp 2067 - 2072
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Metallosupramolecular Polyelectrolytes Self-Assembled from Various Pyridine Ring-Substituted Bisterpyridines and Metal Ions: Photophysical, Electrochemical, and Electrochromic Properties
Fu She Han, Masayoshi Higuchi, and Dirk G. Kurth
pp 2073 - 2081

JACS vol 130 no 5 (Feb 6, 2008)

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Radially Diblock Nanotube: Site-Selective Functionalization of a Tubularly Assembled Hexabenzocoronene
Justin L. Mynar, Takuya Yamamoto, Atsuko Kosaka, Takanori Fukushima, Noriyuki Ishii, and Takuzo Aida
pp 1530 - 1531



Molecularly Defined Caprolactone Oligomers and Polymers: Synthesis and Characterization
Kenichi Takizawa, Chuanbing Tang, and Craig J. Hawker
pp 1718 - 1726



Well-Defined Liquid Crystal Gels from Telechelic Polymers
Yan Xia, Rafael Verduzco, Robert H. Grubbs, and Julia A. Kornfield
pp 1735 - 1740

Nano Letters, Vol. 8, Iss. 1, January 2008.

Silicon Nanowires-Based Fluorescence Sensor for Cu(II)

Lixuan Mu, Wensheng Shi, Jack C. Chang, and Shuit-Tong Lee, pp 104 – 109.

Highly Responsive Hydrogel Scaffolds Formed by Three-Dimensional Organization of Microgel Nanoparticles

Eun Chul Cho, Jin-Woong Kim, Alberto Fernández-Nieves, and David A. Weitz, pp 168 – 172.

Supramolecular Porphyrin Polymers in Solution and at the Solid-Liquid Interface

Richard van Hameren, Arend M. van Buul, Maria A. Castriciano, Valentina Villari, Norberto Micali, Peter Schön, Sylvia Speller, Luigi Monsù Scolaro, Alan E. Rowan, Johannes A. A. W. Elemans, and Roeland J. M. Nolte, pp 253 – 259.

Inherently Tunable Electrostatic Assembly of Membrane Proteins

Hongjun Liang, Gregg Whited, Chi Nguyen, Adam Okerlund, and Galen D. Stucky, pp 333 – 339.

Nature, Vol. 451, Number 7177.

How the world invests in R&D

Rachel Courtland, p378.

Broad-wavelength-range chemically tunable block-copolymer photonic gels

YOUNGJONG KANG1,2, JOSEPH J. WALISH1, TARAS GORISHNYY1 AND EDWIN L. THOMAS1*

nature materials VOL 6 DECEMBER 2007, 957

Electronic structure of single DNA molecules resolved by transverse scanning tunnelling spectroscopy

ERREZ SHAPIR1, HEZY COHEN1, ARRIGO CALZOLARI2, CARLO CAVAZZONI2,3, DMITRY A. RYNDYK4, GIANAURELIO CUNIBERTI4*, ALEXANDER KOTLYAR5, ROSA DI FELICE2† AND DANNY PORATH1†

nature materials VOL 7 JANUARY 2008, 68

Morphology evolution via self-organization and lateral and vertical diffusion in polymer:fullerene solar cell blends

MARIANO CAMPOY-QUILES1*, TOBY FERENCZI1, TIZIANO AGOSTINELLI2, PABLO G. ETCHEGOIN3, YOUNGKYOO KIM1,4, THOMAS D. ANTHOPOULOS1, PAUL N. STAVRINOU1, DONAL D. C. BRADLEY1* AND JENNY NELSON1*

nature materials VOL 7 FEBRUARY 2008, 158

Using polymeric materials to generate an amplified response to molecular recognition events

HADLEY D. SIKES1, RYAN R. HANSEN1, LEAH M. JOHNSON1, ROBERT JENISON2*, JOHN W. BIRKS3, KATHY L. ROWLEN4,5 AND CHRISTOPHER N. BOWMAN1,6†

nature materials VOL 7 JANUARY 2008, 52

Charging and discharging of single conjugated-polymer nanoparticles

RODRIGO E. PALACIOS, FU-REN F. FAN, JOHN K. GREY, JUNGDON SUK, ALLEN J. BARD, AND PAUL F. BARBARA*

nature materials VOL 6 SEPTEMBER 2007, 680

Reversible tuning of a block-copolymer nanostructure via electric fields

KRISTIN SCHMIDT1, HEIKO G. SCHOBERTH1, MARKUS RUPPEL2, HEIKO ZETTL1, HELMUT HA¨ NSEL1, THOMAS M. WEISS3†, VOLKER URBAN4, GEORG KRAUSCH1‡ AND ALEXANDER BO¨ KER1*

nature materials VOL 7 FEBRUARY 2008, 142

The emergence of spin electronics in data storage

Claude Chappert ^1,2*, Albert Fert ^2,3 and Frédéric Nguyen Van Dau ^2,3

nature materials | VOL 6 | NOVEMBER 2007,813

Nanoelectronics from the bottom up

Wei Lu¹ and Charles M. Lieber²

nature materials | VOL 6 | NOVEMBER 2007, 841

Growth Process and Molecular Packing of a Self-assembled Lipid Nanotube: Phase-Contrast Transmission Electron Microscopy and XRD Analyses

Hiroharu Yui,*,†,‡ Hiroyuki Minamikawa,‡,§ Radostin Danev,| Kuniaki Nagayama,| Shoko Kamiya,‡ and Toshimi Shimizu*,‡,§

Langmuir 2008, 24, 709-713

Polymer Brushes Grafted to “Passivated” Silicon Substrates Using Click Chemistry

Roxana-Viorela Ostaci,†,‡ Denis Damiron,† Simona Capponi,§ Guillaume Vignaud,‡ Liliane Le´ger,*,§ Yves Grohens,*,‡ and Eric Drockenmuller*,†

Langmuir 2008, ASAP

The Importance of the CTAB Surfactant on the Colloidal Seed-Mediated Synthesis of Gold Nanorods

Danielle K. Smith and Brian A. Korgel*

Langmuir 2008, 24, 644-649

Patterning of Magnetic Nanobeads on Surfaces by Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Stamps
Juliane Issle,*,† Mateu Pla-Roca,‡ Elena Martı´nez,‡ and Uwe Hartmann†

Langmuir 2008, 24, 888-893

Functionalized Silicone Nanofilaments: A Novel Material for Selective Protein Enrichment

Jan Zimmermann, Michael Rabe, Dorinel Verdes, and Stefan Seeger*

Langmuir 2008, 24, 1053-1057

Ozonolysis-Based Route to the In Situ Formation of Aldehyde-Bearing Self-Assembled Monolayer Surfaces

Anna Razgon,† Robert G. Bergman,‡ and Chaim N. Sukenik*,†

Langmuir 2008, ASAP

Self-Assembly of Virus-Structured High Surface Area Nanomaterials and Their Application as Battery Electrodes

Elizabeth Royston,†,‡ Ayan Ghosh,§ Peter Kofinas,| Michael T. Harris,† and

James N. Culver*,‡
Langmuir 2008, 24, 906-912

Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, Vol 209 (Feb 2008)

Antibacterial and Hemolytic Activities of Quaternary Pyridinium Functionalized Polynorbornenes
Tarik Eren, Abhigyan Som, Jason R. Rennie, Christopher F. Nelson, Yelena Urgina, Klaus Nüsslein, E. Bryan Coughlin, Gregory N. Tew

Novel Synthesis of HPMA Copolymers Containing Peptide Grafts and Their Self-Assembly Into Hybrid Hydrogels
Kuangshi Wu, Jiyuan Yang, estmír Koák, Pavla Kopeková, Jindich Kopeek

Biomacromolecules, Vol 9, Iss 1 (Jan 2008)

Modular Biodegradable Biomaterials from Surfactant and Polyelectrolyte Mixtures
Yakov Lapitsky, Tasneem Zahir, and Molly S. Shoichet
pp 166 - 174

Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, Vol 46, Iss 5 (March 2008)

Synthesis and ion-sensing phenomena of two new helical conjugated oligomers containing 1,10-phenanthroline and oligo-alkylthiophene
Chun-Guey Wu, Hung-Chieh Lu, Liang-Nien Chen, Yung-Chou Lin
p 1586-1597

Facile synthesis of core-shell organic-inorganic hybrid nanoparticles with amphiphilic polymer shell by one-step sol-gel reactions
M. Marini, M. Toselli, S. Borsacchi, G. Mollica, M. Geppi, F. Pilati
p 1699-1709

Well-defined complex macromolecular architectures by anionic polymerization of styrenic single and double homo/miktoarm star-tailed macromonomers
Paraskevi Driva, David J. Lohse, Nikos Hadjichristidis
p 1826-1842

New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 323–332

Poly(amidoamine)s carrying TEMPO residues for NMR imaging
applications
Maristella Gussoni, Fulvia Greco, Paolo Ferruti, Elisabetta Ranucci,
Alessandro Pontid and Lucia Zetta

New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 197

A single molecule magnet (SMM) with a helicate structure
Ghenadie Novitchi, Jean-Pierre Costes, Jean-Pierre Tuchagues, Laure Vendier and Wolfgang Wernsdorfer

ChemBioChem, 2008, 9,370

Using Fluorous Amino Acids to Modulatethe Biological Activity of an Antimicrobial Peptide


Lindsey M. Gottler,[a] Hyang-Yeol Lee,[a] Charles E. Shelburne,[b] Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy,*[a] and
E. Neil G. Marsh*[a]

Accounts of Chemical Research 41, 1, 60-68

Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes in Drug
Design and Discovery
MAURIZIO PRATO,*,† KOSTAS KOSTARELOS,*,‡ AND
ALBERTO BIANCO*,§

Organic letters, 2008,10,417

Enantiopure Anthrylene-Ethynylene Cyclic Tetramer and Racemization via
rotation of Anthracene Unit about Acetylenic Axes1


Takeharu Ishikawa,† Toshiaki Shimasaki,‡ Haruo Akashi,§ and Shinji Toyota*,†

Organic letters, 2008,10,389

Duplexiphane: A Polyaromatic Receptor Containing Two Adjoined ¢-Shaped Cavities for an Efficient Hopping of a Single Silver Cation


Susanna J. Emond, Paromita Debroy, and Rajendra Rathore*

Organic letters, 2008,10,633

Isomeric Boron-Fluorine Complexes with Donor-Acceptor Architecture: Strong Solid/Liquid Fluorescence and Large Stokes Shift


Ying Zhou,† Yi Xiao,*,† Shaoming Chi,§ and Xuhong Qian*,‡

Organic letters, 2008,10,609

Synthesis and Characterization of Cyclic Alkyl Tetraynes

Andreea Spantulescu,† Thanh Luu,† Yuming Zhao,‡ Robert McDonald,† and
Rik R. Tykwinski*,†

Biochemistry

Formation of a High Affinity Lipid-Binding Intermediate during the Early
Aggregation Phase of alpha-Synuclein
David P. Smith, Deborah J. Tew, Andrew F. Hill, Stephen P. Bottomley, Colin L. Masters,
Kevin J. Barnham, and Roberto Cappai
Biochemistry 2008, 47, 1425-1434

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

Conformationally rigid proteomimetics: a case study in designing
antimicrobial aryl oligomers
Gregory J. Gabriel and Gregory N. Tew*
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2008, 6, 417–423

Broad-wavelength-range chemically tunable block-copolymer photonic gels

YOUNGJONG KANG1,2, JOSEPH J. WALISH1, TARAS GORISHNYY1 AND EDWIN L. THOMAS1*

nature materials VOL 6 DECEMBER 2007, 957

Electronic structure of single DNA molecules resolved by transverse scanning tunnelling spectroscopy

ERREZ SHAPIR1, HEZY COHEN1, ARRIGO CALZOLARI2, CARLO CAVAZZONI2,3, DMITRY A. RYNDYK4, GIANAURELIO CUNIBERTI4*, ALEXANDER KOTLYAR5, ROSA DI FELICE2† AND DANNY PORATH1†

nature materials VOL 7 JANUARY 2008, 68

Morphology evolution via self-organization and lateral and vertical diffusion in polymer:fullerene solar cell blends

MARIANO CAMPOY-QUILES1*, TOBY FERENCZI1, TIZIANO AGOSTINELLI2, PABLO G. ETCHEGOIN3,

YOUNGKYOO KIM1,4, THOMAS D. ANTHOPOULOS1, PAUL N. STAVRINOU1, DONAL D. C. BRADLEY1*

AND JENNY NELSON1*

nature materials VOL 7 FEBRUARY 2008, 158

Using polymeric materials to generate an amplified response to molecular recognition events

HADLEY D. SIKES1, RYAN R. HANSEN1, LEAH M. JOHNSON1, ROBERT JENISON2*, JOHN W. BIRKS3, KATHY L. ROWLEN4,5 AND CHRISTOPHER N. BOWMAN1,6†

nature materials VOL 7 JANUARY 2008, 52

Charging and discharging of single conjugated-polymer nanoparticles

RODRIGO E. PALACIOS, FU-REN F. FAN, JOHN K. GREY, JUNGDON SUK, ALLEN J. BARD AND PAUL F. BARBARA*

nature materials VOL 6 SEPTEMBER 2007, 680

Reversible tuning of a block-copolymer nanostructure via electric fields

KRISTIN SCHMIDT1, HEIKO G. SCHOBERTH1, MARKUS RUPPEL2, HEIKO ZETTL1, HELMUT HA¨ NSEL1, THOMAS M. WEISS3†, VOLKER URBAN4, GEORG KRAUSCH1‡ AND ALEXANDER BO¨ KER1*

nature materials VOL 7 FEBRUARY 2008, 142

The emergence of spin electronics in data storage

Claude Chappert ^1,2*, Albert Fert ^2,3 and Frédéric Nguyen Van Dau ^2,3

nature materials | VOL 6 | NOVEMBER 2007,813

Nanoelectronics from the bottom up

Wei Lu¹ and Charles M. Lieber²

nature materials | VOL 6 | NOVEMBER 2007, 841

Growth Process and Molecular Packing of a Self-assembled Lipid Nanotube: Phase-Contrast Transmission Electron Microscopy and XRD Analyses

Hiroharu Yui,*,†,‡ Hiroyuki Minamikawa,‡,§ Radostin Danev,| Kuniaki Nagayama,|

Shoko Kamiya,‡ and Toshimi Shimizu*,‡,§

Langmuir 2008, 24, 709-713

Polymer Brushes Grafted to “Passivated” Silicon Substrates Using Click Chemistry

Roxana-Viorela Ostaci,†,‡ Denis Damiron,† Simona Capponi,§ Guillaume Vignaud,‡

Liliane Le´ger,*,§ Yves Grohens,*,‡ and Eric Drockenmuller*,†

Langmuir 2008, ASAP

The Importance of the CTAB Surfactant on the Colloidal

Seed-Mediated Synthesis of Gold Nanorods

Danielle K. Smith and Brian A. Korgel*

Langmuir 2008, 24, 644-649

Patterning of Magnetic Nanobeads on Surfaces by

Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Stamps

Juliane Issle,*,† Mateu Pla-Roca,‡ Elena Martı´nez,‡ and Uwe Hartmann†

Langmuir 2008, 24, 888-893

Functionalized Silicone Nanofilaments: A Novel Material for Selective Protein Enrichment

Jan Zimmermann, Michael Rabe, Dorinel Verdes, and Stefan Seeger*

Langmuir 2008, 24, 1053-1057

Ozonolysis-Based Route to the In Situ Formation of Aldehyde-Bearing Self-Assembled Monolayer Surfaces

Anna Razgon,† Robert G. Bergman,‡ and Chaim N. Sukenik*,†

Langmuir 2008, ASAP

Self-Assembly of Virus-Structured High Surface Area Nanomaterials and Their Application as Battery Electrodes

Elizabeth Royston,†,‡ Ayan Ghosh,§ Peter Kofinas,| Michael T. Harris,† and

James N. Culver*,‡

Langmuir 2008, 24, 906-912

J. Mater. Chem., 2008, 18, 560 - 566

Novel base-sensitive polymers generating amino groups from their side chains in a nonlinear manner and their application to photoimaging materials

Akira Igarashi, Koji Arimitsu, Takahiro Sekic and Kunihiro Ichimura

Chemistry - A European Journal

Cyanide Sensing with Organic Dyes: Studies in Solution and on Nanostructured Al2O3 Surfaces
Nélida Gimeno, Xiaoe Li, James R. Durrant, Ramón Vilar

Chemistry - A European Journal

Reactive Sieving with Foldamers: Inspiration from Nature and Directions for the Future (p NA)
Ronald A. Smaldone, Jeffrey S. Moore

Chem. Commun., 2008, 889 - 890.

Synthesis, characterization and molecular recognition of a bis-platinum terpyridine dimer.
Robert Trokowski, Shigehisa Akine and Tatsuya Nabeshima

JACS, vol 130 no 4 (Jan 30, 2008)

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Supramolecular Materials from Benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamide-Based Nanorods
Jorg Roosma, Tristan Mes, Philippe Leclère, Anja R. A. Palmans, and E. W. Meijer
pp 1120 - 1121

JACS, vol 130 no 3 (Jan 23, 2008)

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Designed Amino Acid ATRP Initiators for the Synthesis of Biohybrid Materials
Rebecca M. Broyer, Grace M. Quaker, and Heather D. Maynard
pp 1041 - 1047

JACS, vol 130 no 2 (Jan 16, 2008)

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Transition-Metal-Free Synthesis of Poly(phenylene Ethynylene)s with Alternating Aryl-Perfluoroaryl Units
Tanmoy Dutta, Kathy B. Woody, and Mark D. Watson
pp 452 - 453

JACS, vol 130 no 1 (Jan 9, 2008)

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Two- and Three-Dimensional Smectic Ordering of Single-Handed Helical Polymers
Hisanari Onouchi, Kento Okoshi, Takashi Kajitani, Shin-ichiro Sakurai, Kanji Nagai, Jiro Kumaki, Kiyotaka Onitsuka, and Eiji Yashima
pp 229 - 236

ACS Chemical Biology, vol 3 iss 1 (Jan 18, 2008)

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Peptide and Protein Building Blocks for Synthetic Biology: From Programming Biomolecules to Self-Organized Biomolecular Systems
Elizabeth H. C. Bromley, Kevin Channon, Efrosini Moutevelis, and Derek N. Woolfson
pp 38-50

Macromolecules

Easy Access to Bioactive Peptide-Polymer Conjugates via RAFT

Jens Hentschel, Katrin Bleek, Oliver Ernst,
Jean-Francüois Lutz, and Hans G. Bo1rner

Adv. Mater. 2008, 20, 409–414

Molecular Level Control over Hierarchical Structure Formation
and Polymerization of Oligopeptide-Polymer Conjugates

Eike Jahnke, Nikolai Severin, Paul Kreutzkamp, Jürgen P. Rabe, and Holger Frauenrath

Science, VOL 319, ISSUE 5863, PAGES 533-680, 1 Feb 2008

Perspectives
MATERIALS SCIENCE: Sweet, Hairy, Soft, and Slippery
S. Lee, and N. D. Spence
pg. 575-576

Perspectives
MATERIALS SCIENCE: Glass Surfaces Not So Glassy
J. R. Dutcher, and M. D. Ediger
pg. 577-578

Perspectives
MATERIALS SCIENCE: Nanowires in Nanoelectronics
D. K. Ferry
pg. 579-580

Reports
Measuring the Surface Dynamics of Glassy Polymers
Z. Fakhraai, and J. A. Forrest
pg. 600-604