Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3409 - 3411

Connecting micelles by metallo-supramolecular interactions: towards stimuli responsive hierarchical materials

Pierre Guillet,a Clement Mugemana,a Florian J. Stadler,b Ulrich S. Schubert,c Charles-Andre Fustin,*a Christian Bailly*b and Jean-Franc¸ois Gohy*ac

Nano Lett., 2009, 9 (9), pp 3359–3364

Domains in Ferroelectric Nanodots

A. Schilling,† D. Byrne,† G. Catalan,‡ K. G. Webber,§ Y. A. Genenko,§ G. S. Wu,‡ J. F. Scott,‡ and J. M. Gregg*,†
Centre for Nanostructured Media, School of Maths and Physics, Queen’s UniVersity Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN, U.K., Department of Earth Sciences, UniVersity of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, U.K., and Institute of Materials Science, Darmstadt UniVersity of Technology, Petersenstrasse 23, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany

Macromolecules 2009, 42, 6202–6208

Array of Magnetic Nanoparticles via Particle Co-operated Self-Assembly in Block Copolymer Thin Film

Mottakin M. Abul Kashem,†,‡ Jan Perlich,†,‡ Alexander Diethert,† Weinan Wang,†
Mine Memesa,§ Jochen S. Gutmann,§ Eva Majkova,^ Ignac Capek, Stephan V. Roth,‡ Winfried Petry,†,# and Peter M€uller-Buschbaum*,†
†Physik-Department LS E13, Technische Universit€atM€unchen, James-Franck-Strasse 1, Garching, Germany, ‡HASYLAB at DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22603 Hamburg, Germany, §Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany, ^Institute of Physics SAS, Dubravska 9, SK 84511 Bratislava, Slovakia, Polymer Institute, SAS, Dubravska 9, SK 84236 Bratislava, Slovakia, and #Forschungsneutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, Technische Universit€at M€unchen, Lichtenbergstrasse 1, 85747 Garching, Germany

Macromolecules 2009, 42, 5433–5436

Two Distinct, Reactive Polymers Derived from a Single Norbornenyl-Methacryloyl Bifunctional Monomer by Selective ATRP or ROMP

Ang Li,† Jun Ma,† and Karen L. Wooley*,†,‡
†Department of Chemistry and Department of Radiology, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri 63130, and ‡Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, P.O. Box 300012, College Station, Texas 77842

Macromolecules 2009, 42, 5416–5418

Electroactive Block Copolymer Brushes on Multiwalled
Carbon Nanotubes

Daisuke Izuhara and Timothy M. Swager*
Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Chem. Commun., 2009, 5272–5274

Phosphine-mediated one-pot thiol–ene ‘‘click’’ approachto polymer–protein conjugates
Mathew W. Jones, Giuseppe Mantovani, Sinead M. Ryan, Xuexuan Wang, David J. Brayden and David M. Haddleton

Chem. Commun., 2009, 5582–5584

Self-assembly of double hydrophobic block copolymers in water–ethanolmixtures: from micelles to thermoresponsive micellar gels
Richard Hoogenboom,* Sarah Rogers,d Aydin Can, C. Remzi Becer,Carlos Guerrero-Sanchez, Daan Wouters, Stephanie Hoeppeneraand Ulrich S. Schubert*

Journal of Materials Chemistry

2009 Vol 19 Issue 34
Zhiguo Xie, Aiying Zhang, Lin Ye, Xiang Wang and Zeng-guo Feng

C. Piccirillo, S. Perni, J. Gil-Thomas, P. Prokopovich, M. Wilson, J. Pratten and I. P. Parkin

Water-compatible imprinted polymers for selective depletion of riboflavine from beverages (6185 - 6193)

Panagiotis Manesiotis, Cristiana Borrelli, Carla S. A. Aureliano, Christian Svensson and Börje Sellergren


2009 Vol 19 Issue 35

Relaxation times of colloidal iron platinum in polymer matrixes (6381 - 6386)

Maria Puerto Morales, Matthieu F. Bédard, Alejandro G. Roca, Patricia de la Presa, Antonio Hernando, Feng Zhang, Marco Zanella, Abbasi Azhar Zahoor, Gleb B. Sukhorukov, Loretta L. del Mercato and Wolfgang J. Parak

A screening paradigm for the design of improved polymer-coated superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (6387 - 6392)

Suelin Chen, Fred Reynolds, Lingtau Yu, Ralph Weissleder and Lee Josephson

Antibiofouling amphiphilic polymer-coated superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles: synthesis, characterization, and use in cancer imaging in vivo (6412 - 6417)

Jinho Park, Mi Kyung Yu, Yong Yeon Jeong, Jin Woong Kim, Kwangyeol Lee, Vu Ngoc Phan and Sangyong Jon


2009 Vol 19 Issue 36

Preparation of nearly monodisperse microcapsules with controlled morphology by in situ polymerization of a shell layer (6605 - 6609)

Guoming Liu, Baoquan Xie, Dongsheng Fu, Yang Wang, Qiang Fu and Dujin Wang


Nature Materials

September 2009, Volume 8 No 9 pp 691-770

Mechanotransductive surfaces for reversible biocatalysis activation pp731 - 735

Damien Mertz, Cédric Vogt, Joseph Hemmerlé, Jérôme Mutterer, Vincent Ball, Jean-Claude Voegel, Pierre Schaaf & Philippe Lavalle

Many proteins have buried active sites in their folded states, which are only exposed when the protein is stretched. On mimicking this process with a combination of enzymes buried in polyelectrolyte layers on a silicone sheet, it is shown that enzymatic catalysis is possible only when the substrate is stretched to expose the enzymes, which enables reversible control of reaction progression.


Nanolitre liquid patterning in aqueous environments for spatially defined reagent delivery to mammalian cell
s pp736 - 741

H. Tavana, A. Jovic, B. Mosadegh, Q. Y. Lee, X. Liu, K. E. Luker, G. D. Luker, S. J. Weiss & S. Takayama

Biopatterning, which enables regulation of cell–material interaction, is usually achieved by techniques that rely on physical contact, which can seriously damage cells. A simple and efficient non-contact technique is now demonstrated using an aqueous two-phase polymer system.


Organic electronics for precise delivery of neurotransmitters to modulate mammalian sensory function

pp742 - 746

Daniel T. Simon, Sindhulakshmi Kurup, Karin C. Larsson, Ryusuke Hori, Klas Tybrandt, Michel Goiny, Edwin W. H. Jager, Magnus Berggren, Barbara Canlon & Agneta Richter-Dahlfors

An organic electronic device capable of precisely delivering neurotransmitters in vitroand in vivo is demonstrated. The device mimics the nerve synapse by converting electronic addressing in the delivery of neurotransmitters, thereby enabling exact dosage determination through electrochemical relationships. The system also ensures minimally disruptive delivery by avoiding fluid flow, and provides simple on–off switching.

Comparative materials differences revealed in engineered bone as a function of cell-specific differentiation pp763 - 770

Eileen Gentleman, Robin J. Swain, Nicholas D. Evans, Suwimon Boonrungsiman, Gavin Jell, Michael D. Ball, Tamaryn A. V. Shean, Michelle L. Oyen, Alexandra Porter & Molly M. Stevens

Creating laboratory-grown bone for implantation into injury sites is an aim of regenerative medicine. However, newly grown bone may not have the same structural and compositional properties as native bone. Materials characterization shows that the source of cells for the new bone growth has a significant effect on its properties.

Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 9451 – 9457

Alternating Ring-Opening Metathesis Copolymerization by Grubbs-Type
Initiators with Unsymmetrical N-Heterocyclic Carbenes



Martin Lichtenheldt,[a] Dongren Wang,[b] Kati Vehlow,[a] Ingrid Reinhardt,[b]
Christa Khnel,[b] Ulrich Decker,[b] Siegfried Blechert,*[a] and
Michael R. Buchmeiser

Bioconjugate Chem. 2009, 20, 1307–1314

Synthesis and Studies on Cell-Penetrating Peptides


Jean-Remi Bertrand, Claude Malvy, Tiphanie Auguste, Ga´bor K. To´th, Orsolya Kiss-Iva´nkovits, Eszter Illye´s, Miklo´s Hollo´si, Sa´ndor Bottka, and Ilona Laczko

Adv. Funct. Mater. 2009,19, 2560–2568

Adhesive, Flexible, and Robust Polysaccharide Nanosheets Integrated for Tissue-Defect Repair
Toshinori Fujie, Noriyuki Matsutani, Manabu Kinoshita, Yosuke Okamura,
Akihiro Saito, and Shinji Takeoka

Adv. Funct. Mater. 2009,19, 2584–2591

Spontaneous Lamellar Alignment in Thickness-Modulated Block Copolymer Films
Hoon Kim, Hyung Min Lee, Joo-Hyung Lee, Seung-Woo Son,Seong-Jun Jeong, Sumi Lee, Dong Il Lee, Sin Ung Kwak, Hawoong Jeong,Hyunjung Shin, Jun-Bo Yoon, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, and Sang Ouk Kim

Langmuir, Volume 25, Issue 18 (Sep 09)

On the Release of Hydrogen from the S−H groups in the Formation of Self-Assembled Monolayers of Thiols
Laxman Kankate, Andrey Turchanin and Armin Glzhuser
pp 10435–10438

Population Analysis of Structural Properties of Giant Liposomes by Flow Cytometry
Kazuya Nishimura, Tomohiro Hosoi, Takeshi Sunami, Taro Toyota, Masanori Fujinami, Koichi Oguma, Tomoaki Matsuura, Hiroaki Suzuki and Tetsuya Yomo
pp 10439–10443

Langmuir, Volume 25, Issue 17 (Sep 09)

Adsorption and Diffusion of Plasma Proteins on Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Surfaces: Effect of Trifluoroethanol on Protein Structure
Euridice P. Vieira, Sandra Rocha, M. Carmo Pereira, Helmuth Mhwald and Manuel A. N. Coelho pp 9879–9886

Physicochemical Properties of (Ethylene Glycol)-Containing Self-Assembled Monolayers Relevant for Protein and Algal Cell Resistance
Soeren Schilp, Axel Rosenhahn, Michala E. Pettitt, James Bowen, Maureen E. Callow, James A. Callow and Michael Grunze
pp 10077–10082

Controlled Release from Modified Amino Acid Hydrogels Governed by Molecular Size or Network Dynamics
Sam Sutton, Neil L. Campbell, Andrew I. Cooper, Mark Kirkland, William J. Frith and Dave J. Adams
pp 10285–10291

Antimicrobial Behavior of Polyelectrolyte−Surfactant Thin Film Assemblies
Charlene M. Dvoracek, Galina Sukhonosova, Michael J. Benedik and Jaime C. Grunlan
pp 10322–10328

Langmuir, Volume 25, Issue 16 (Aug 09)

End Terminal, Poly(ethylene oxide) Graft Layers: Surface Forces and Protein Adsorption
Paul Hamilton-Brown, Thomas Gengenbach, Hans J. Griesser and Laurence Meagher
pp 9149–9156

Anti-biofouling Properties of a Telomer Brush with Pendent Glucosylurea Groups
Hiromi Kitano, Atsushi Hayashi, Hajime Takakura, Hisatomo Suzuki, Naoki Kanayama and Yoshiyuki Saruwatari
pp 9361–9368

Interactions of Zoospores of Ulva linza with Arginine-Rich Oligopeptide Monolayers
T. Ederth, M. E. Pettitt, P. Nygren, C.-X. Du, T. Ekblad, Y. Zhou, M. Falk, M. E. Callow, J. A. Callow and B. Liedberg
pp 9375–9383

Effect of Microphase Separation on the Protein Resistance of a Polymeric Surface
Chunfeng Ma, Yi Hou, Shi Liu and Guangzhao Zhang
pp 9467–9472

Amphiphilic Cross-Linked Networks Produced from the Vulcanization of Nanodomains within Thin Films of Poly(N-vinylpyrrolidinone)-b-Poly(isoprene)
Jeremy W. Bartels, Peter L. Billings, Biswajit Ghosh, Marek W. Urban, C. Michael Greenlief and Karen L. Wooley
pp 9535–9544

Langmuir, Volume 25, Issue 15 (Aug 09)

Special Issue - Gels

The collage on the cover of this Molecular and Polymer Gels: Materials with Self-Assembled Fibrillar Networks Special Issue includes images by Xia Tong from manuscript, "Self-Assembled Liquid-Crystal Gels in an Emulsion"; Santanu Bhattacharya from manuscript, "Choice of the End Functional Groups in Tri(p-phenylenevinylene) Derivatives Controls Its Physical Gelation Abilities"; Pierre Terech from manuscript, "Metallo-Supramolecular Gels Based on a Multitopic Cyclam Bis-Terpyridine Platform"; Emiliano Carretti from manuscript, "Gels for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage"; Braja Gopal Bag from manuscript, "Self-Assembly of Esters of Arjunolic Acid into Fibrous Networks and the Properties of their Organogels"; Stuart Rowan and Lauren Buerkle from manuscript, "Tailoring the Properties of Guanosine-Based Supramolecular Hydrogels".