Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 1995-1007

Ultrasound-triggered water gelation with a modified nucleoside

by Sun Min Park and Byeang Hyean Kin

Advanced materials, 2008, 20: 1-17

Applications of Nanoparticles in Biology

By Mrinmoy De, Partha S. Ghosh, and Vincent M. Rotello

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1778 (2008) 2026–2031

Gramicidin A-based peptide vector for intracellular protein delivery
Tatiana B. Stoilova, Sergey I. Kovalchuk, Natalya S. Egorova, Andrey Y. Surovoy, Vadim T. Ivanov

New Journal Chemistry, 2008, 32,1509

AFM and TEM image of phenylacetylene polymerization on Rh/PVP colloidal nanoparticles


Marta Kopaczyn´ ska,a Jurgen H. Fuhrhop,a Anna M. Trzeciak,*b
Jo´ zef J. Zio´ $kowskib and Robert Choukrounc

Nature, Vol. 455, Number 7209.

Nanoscale double emulsions stabilized by single-component block copolypeptides

p85

Jarrod A. Hanson, Connie B. Chang, Sara M. Graves, Zhibo Li, Thomas G. Mason & Timothy J. Deming

Nature, Vol. 453, through Number 7212.

US election: Questioning the candidates

p446

Barack Obama accepted Nature's invitation to answer 18 science-related questions in writing; John McCain's campaign declined. Obama's answers to many of the questions are printed here; answers to additional questions (on topics including biosecurity, the nuclear weapons laboratories and US participation in international projects) can be found at http://www.nature.com/uselection. Wherever possible, Nature has noted what McCain has said at other times on these topics.

Alexandra Witze

Nanoletters, Vol. 8. Issue 10.

Electrospinning of Three-Dimensional Nanofibrous Tubes with Controllable Architectures

Daming Zhang and Jiang Chang. pp 3283 - 3287.

Bioeliminable Nanohydrogels for Drug Delivery

De Gao, Hao Xu, Martin A. Philbert, and Raoul Kopelman. pp 3320 - 3324.

J. AM. CHEM. SOC.

Highly Stable Organic Monolayers for Reacting Silicon with Further Functionalities: The Effect of the C-C Bond nearest the Silicon Surface
Sreenivasa Reddy Puniredd, Ossama Assad, and Hossam Haick*

Fragmentation of Fiberlike Structures: Sonication Studies of Cylindrical Block Copolymer Micelles and Behavioral Comparisons to Biological Fibrils
Gerald Guerin,† Hai Wang,† Ian Manners,*,‡ and Mitchell A. Winnik*,†


Cubic versus Spherical Magnetic Nanoparticles: The Role of Surface Anisotropy
G. Salazar-Alvarez, J. Qin,‡ V. Sepelak, I. Bergmann, M. Vasilakaki, K. N. Trohidou, J. D. Ardisson, W. A. A. Macedo, M. Mikhaylova, M. Muhammed, M. D. Baro , and J. Nogue´s

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

A photo-responsive hydrogelator having gluconamides at its peripheral branches
A newly designed anthracene derivative having gluconamides at its peripheral branches formed a photo-responsive hydrogel. SEM observation of the xerogel showed a network structure consisting of fibrils. Upon photoirradiation ( >300 nm) of the hydrogel, regioselective photodimerization of the anthracene moiety occurred to give head-to-tail photodimers and the physical state changed from the gel to the sol.

Design and synthesis of intrinsically cell-penetrating nucleopeptides†
Nucleopeptides, which are constituted of a-amino acids bearing nucleobases at their side chains, are able to penetrate into cells and to reach the nucleus without cytotoxic effects.

Langmuir, Vol 24, Iss 19, Oct 2008

Surface Modification of Polymeric Vesicles via Host−Guest Inclusion Complexation
Mingyu Guo, Ming Jiang, and Guangzhao Zhang
pp 10583 - 10586

Colloid-Templated Multisectional Porous Polymeric Fibers
Jung Hun Song and Ilona Kretzschmar
pp 10616 - 10620

Coupled Electrostatic, Hydrodynamic, and Mechanical Properties of Bacterial Interfaces in Aqueous Media
Fabien Gaboriaud, Michelle L. Gee, Richard Strugnell, and Jérôme F. L. Duval
pp 10988 - 10995

Langmuir, Vol 24, Iss 18, Sep 2008

Molecular Simulation Studies of Protein Interactions with Zwitterionic Phosphorylcholine Self-Assembled Monolayers in the Presence of Water
Yi He, Jason Hower, Shengfu Chen, Matthew T. Bernards, Yung Chang, and Shaoyi Jiang
pp 10358 - 10364

Assembly of Organic Monolayers on Polydicyclopentadiene
Mathew Perring and Ned B. Bowden
pp 10480 - 10487

Biomacromolecules, Vol 9, Iss 10, Oct 2008

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Biomacromolecules, Vol 9, Iss 9, Sep 2008

Synthesis of Bioinorganic Antimicrobial Peptide Nanoparticles with Potential Therapeutic Properties
D. Matthew Eby, Karen E. Farrington, and Glenn R. Johnson
pp 2487 - 2494

Organic letters, 2008, 10, 4283

Folding a Conjugated Chain: Oligo(ophenyleneethynylene-alt-p-phenyleneethynylene)

Ningbo Zhu, Wei Hu, Shuliang Han, Qi Wang, and Dahui Zhao*

New Journal Chemistry, 2008, 32, 571

Music of the elements

Santiago Alvarez

Do the chemical elements, Mendeleev or the Periodic Table play any role in the world of
music? Here are a few preliminary notes for an answer to that question, maybe just the
tip of an iceberg. Some suggestions are offered on music that is worth listening to,
although some of the works commented on may require more of a good sense of
humour than musical sensibility from the reader.

Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, Vol 46, Iss 20, Oct 2008

Synthesis of well-defined polymeric activated esters
Patrick Theato
p 6677-6687

Synthesis, characterization and cleavage of linear polymers attached to silica nanoparticles formed using thiol-acrylate conjugate addition reactions
Vaibhav S. Khire, April M. Kloxin, Charles L. Couch, Kristi S. Anseth, Christopher N. Bowman
p 6896-6906

One-pot synthesis of heterograft copolymers via graft onto by atom transfer nitroxide radical coupling chemistry
Qiang Fu, Chao Liu, Wencheng Lin, Junlian Huang
p 6770-6779

Synthesis, characterization and cleavage of linear polymers attached to silica nanoparticles formed using thiol-acrylate conjugate addition reactions
Vaibhav S. Khire, April M. Kloxin, Charles L. Couch, Kristi S. Anseth, Christopher N. Bowman
p 6896-6906