TEW GROUP LITERATURE: April 2012

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1818 (2012) 1633–1641 Asymmetric liposome particles with highly efficient encapsulation of siRNA and without nonspecific cell penetration suitable for target-specific delivery Amir Abbas Mokhtarieh, Sinyoung Cheong, Semi Kim, Bong Hyun Chung, Myung Kyu Lee

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1818 (2012) 1603–1612 Physicochemical characterization of anionic lipid-based ternary siRNA complexes Mamta Kapoor, Diane J. Burgess

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, Volume 64, Issue 1, Pages 1-126

Delivery of nanomedicines to extracellular and intracellularcompartments of a solid tumor
Yinghuan Li, Jie Wang, M. Guillaume Wientjes, Jessie L.-S. Au

Volume 64, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 29–39

Nonviral delivery of genetic medicine for therapeuticangiogenesis
Hyun-Ji Park, Fan Yang, Seung-Woo Cho

Volume 64, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 40–52

How to improve exposure of tumor cells to drugs — Promoterdrugs increase tumor uptake and penetration of effector drugs
Fabrizio Marcucci, Angelo Corti

Volume 64, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 53–68

Lessons from innovation in drug-device combination products
Daniela S. Couto, Luis Perez-Breva, Pedro Saraiva, Charles L. Cooney

Volume 64, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 69–77

Bioconjugate Chemistry, Volume 23, Issue 3, Pages 309-670

StimulatedRelease of Cholesterol from Liposomal Membranes by a PEGylated Phospholipid

Vaclav Janout, Trevor A. Daly, Lauren L. Cline, Leah J. Kulp, and Steven L. Regen

Bioconjugate Chem., 2012, 23 (3), pp 336–339

HyperbranchedPolyglycerols as Trimodal Imaging Agents: Design, Biocompatibility, and TumorUptake

Katayoun Saatchi, Peter Soema, Nikolaus Gelder, Ripen Misri, Kelly McPhee, Jennifer H.E. Baker, Stefan A. Reinsberg, Donald E. Brooks, and Urs O. Häfeli

Bioconjugate Chem., 2012, 23 (3), pp 372–381

Roleof the Methoxy Group in Immune Responses to mPEG-Protein Conjugates

Merry R. Sherman, L. David Williams, Monika A. Sobczyk, Shawnya J. Michaels, and Mark G. P. Saifer

Bioconjugate Chem., 2012, 23 (3), pp 485–499

DualPeptide Nucleic Acid- and Peptide-Functionalized Shell Cross-LinkedNanoparticles Designed to Target mRNA toward the Diagnosis and Treatment ofAcute Lung Injury

Ritu Shrestha, Yuefei Shen, Kevin A. Pollack, John-Stephen A. Taylor, and Karen L. Wooley

Bioconjugate Chem., 2012, 23 (3), pp 574–585

Facilitationof Gene Transfection with Well-Defined Degradable Comb-Shaped Poly(glycidylmethacrylate) Derivative Vectors

X. C. Yang, M. Y. Chai, Y. Zhu, W. T. Yang, and F. J. Xu

Bioconjugate Chem., 2012, 23 (3), pp 618–626

EngineeredPolymer-Supported Synthesis of 3′-Carboxyalkyl-ModifiedOligonucleotides and Their Applications in the Construction of Biochips forDiagnosis of the Diseases

Satyakam Patnaik, Sandip K. Dash, Dalip Sethi, Ashok Kumar, K. C. Gupta, and Pradeep Kumar

Bioconjugate Chem., 2012, 23 (3), pp 664–670

Bioconjugate Chemistry, Volume 23, Issue 4, 661-880

TracelessCross-Linker for Photocleavable Bioconjugation

Rong Wang, Funing Yan, Dengli Qiu, Jae-Sun Jeong, Qiaoling Jin, Tae-Young Kim, and Liaohai Chen

Bioconjugate Chem., 2012, 23 (4), pp 705–713

DepositionGene Transfection Using Bioconjugates of DNA and Thermoresponsive CationicHomopolymer

Ryosuke Iwai, Shota Kusakabe, Yasushi Nemoto, and Yasuhide Nakayama

Bioconjugate Chem., 2012, 23 (4), pp 751–757

Design,Synthesis, and Initial Biological Evaluation of a SteroidalAnti-Estrogen–Doxorubicin Bioconjugate for Targeting Estrogen Receptor-PositiveBreast Cancer Cells

Kinh-Luan Dao, Rupa R. Sawant, J. Adam Hendricks, Victoria Ronga, Vladimir P. Torchilin, and Robert N. Hanson

Bioconjugate Chem., 2012, 23 (4), pp 785–795

CellularUptake of Gold Nanoparticles Bearing HIV gp120 Oligomannosides

Blanca Arnáiz, Olga Martínez-Ávila, Juan M. Falcon-Perez, and Soledad Penadés

Bioconjugate Chem., 2012, 23 (4), pp 814–825

Tris[2-(acryloyloxy)ethyl]isocyanurateCross-Linked Low-Molecular-Weight Polyethylenimine as Gene Delivery Carriers inCell Culture and Dystrophic mdx Mice

Mingxing Wang, Jay D. Tucker, Peijuan Lu, Bo Wu, Caryn Cloer, and Qilong Lu

Bioconjugate Chem., 2012, 23 (4), pp 837–845

Monday, April 23, 2012

Advanced Materials, 2012, issue 17

Three-Dimensional Biomimetic Patterning in Hydrogels to Guide Cellular Organization (pages 2344–2348)
James C. Culver, Joseph C. Hoffmann, Ross A. Poché, John H. Slater, Jennifer L. West and Mary E. Dickinson

Advanced Materials, 2012, issue 14

Controlled Hierarchical Architecture in Surface-initiated Zwitterionic Polymer Brushes with Structurally Regulated Functionalities (pages 1834–1837)
Chun-Jen Huang, Norman D. Brault, Yuting Li, Qiuming Yu and Shaoyi Jiang

Advanced Materials, 2012, issue 13

Engineering of Micro- and Nanostructured Surfaces with Anisotropic Geometries and Properties (pages 1628–1674)
Sameh Tawfick, Michael De Volder, Davor Copic, Sei Jin Park, C. Ryan Oliver, Erik S. Polsen, Megan J. Roberts and A. John Hart

Soft Matter, 2012, issue 18

Beyond the lipid-bilayer: interaction of polymers and nanoparticles with membranes
Matthias Schulz, Adekunle Olubummo and Wolfgang H. Binder
Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 4849-4864
Supramolecular hydrogels based on antimycobacterial amphiphiles
Andreas Bernet, Marina Behr and Hans-Werner Schmidt
Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 4873-4876
Magnesium ions and alginate do form hydrogels: a rheological study
Fuat Topuz, Artur Henke, Walter Richtering and Jürgen Groll
Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 4877-4881
How to make a cylinder roll uphill
Dipabali Hore, Abhijit Majumder, Subrata Mondal, Abhijit Roy and Animangsu Ghatak
Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 5038-5042
Hydrophobically associated hydrogels based on acrylamide and anionic surface active monomer with high mechanical strength
Wenbo Li, Huiyong An, Ying Tan, Cuige Lu, Chang Liu, Pengchong Li, Kun Xu and Pixin Wang
Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 5078-5086

Soft Matter, 2012, issue 17

Glucono-δ-lactone controlled assembly of graphene oxide hydrogels with selectively reversible gel–sol transition
Huan Huang, Shaoyi Lü, Xuetong Zhang and Ziqiang Shao
Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 4609-4615
Influence of adsorbed polyelectrolytes on pore size distribution of a water-swollen biomaterial
Niko Aarne, Eero Kontturi and Janne Laine
Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 4740-4749

Soft Matter, 2012, issue 16

Novel “soft” biodegradable nanoparticles prepared from aliphatic based monomers as a potential drug delivery system
Alessandro Jäger, Daniel Gromadzki, Eliézer Jäger, Fernando Carlos Giacomelli, Agnieszka Kozlowska, Libor Kobera, Jiří Brus, Blanka Říhová, Miroslawa El Fray, Karel Ulbrich and Petr Štĕpánek
Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 4343-4354
Role of pH gradients in the actuation of electro-responsive polyelectrolyte gels
P. J. Glazer, M. van Erp, A. Embrechts, S. G. Lemay and E. Mendes
Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 4421-4426
Behaviors of liposomes in a thermo-responsive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) hydrogel
Yun Liu, Zichen Li and Dehai Liang
Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 4517-4523

Soft Matter, 2012, issue 15

Solid particles in an elastomer matrix: impact of colloid dispersion and polymer mobility modification on the mechanical properties
Aurélie Papon, Hélène Montes, François Lequeux, Julian Oberdisse, Kay Saalwächter and Laurent Guy
Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 4090-4096

ACS Nano, 2012, 6 (3), pp 2693–2703

Macroscopic Multifunctional Graphene-Based Hydrogels and Aerogels by a Metal Ion Induced Self-Assembly Process Huai-Ping Cong, Xiao-Chen Ren, Ping Wang, and Shu-Hong Yu* Division of Nanomaterials and Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Department of Chemistry, National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, People's Republic of China

ACS Nano, 2012, 6 (3), pp 2656–2664

Silver-Coated Engineered Magnetic Nanoparticles Are Promising for the Success in the Fight against Antibacterial Resistance Threat Morteza Mahmoudi†‡* and Vahid Serpooshan§ † Nanotechnology Research Center, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran ‡ National Cell Bank, Pasteur Institute of Iran, #69 Pasteur Avenue, Tehran 13164, Iran § Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5101, United States

ACS Nano, 2012, 6 (3), pp 2289–2301

Influence of Geometry, Porosity, and Surface Characteristics of Silica Nanoparticles on Acute Toxicity: Their Vasculature Effect and Tolerance Threshold Tian Yu†‡, Khaled Greish†‡, Lawrence D. McGill, Abhijit Ray†‡, and Hamidreza Ghandehari†‡§* †Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, ‡Utah Center for Nanomedicine, Nano Institute of Utah, and §Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108, United States, Animal Reference Pathology Division, ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108, United States

Journal of Materials Chemistry

2012 Issue 15, Page 7059 to 7634

Synthesis of fluorinated amphiphilic triblock copolymer and its application in high temperature PEM fuel cells - Dong Youb Oh, Jea Uk Lee and Won Ho Jo, 7187-7193

Durable cross-linked copolymer membranes based on poly(benzoxazine) and poly(2,5-benzimidazole) for use in fuel cells at elevated temperatures - Sung-Kon Kim, Taeyun Ko, Seong-Woo Choi, Jung Ock Park, Ki-Hyun Kim, Chanho Pak, Hyuk Chang and Jong-Chan Lee, 7194-7205

Near-infrared light sensitive polypeptide block copolymer micelles for drug delivery - Surjith Kumar, Jean-Francois Allard, Denis Morris, Yves L. Dory, Martin Lepage and Yue Zhao, 7252-7257

Synthesis and characterization of elastic star shape-memory polymers as self-expandable drug-eluting stents - Liang Xue, Shiyao Dai and Zhi Li, 7403-7411

2012 Issue 16, Page 7635 to 8146

Biofabrication: programmable assembly of polysaccharide hydrogels in microfluidics as biocompatible scaffolds - Yi Cheng, Xiaolong Luo, Gregory F. Payne and Gary W. Rubloff, 7659-7666

Creating suprapolymer assemblies: nanowires, nanorings, and nanospheres prepared from symmetric block-copolymers confined in spherical particles - Hiroshi Yabu, Shunsuke Sato, Takeshi Higuchi, Hiroshi Jinnai and Masatsugu Shimomura, 7672-7675

Novel polysiloxane and polycarbosilane aerogels via hydrosilylation of preceramic polymers - Gian Domenico Sorarù, Federico Dalcanale, Renzo Campostrini, Amélie Gaston, Yigal Blum, Sara Carturan and Parakkulam Ramaswamy Aravind, 7676-7680

Gradient semi-interpenetrating polymer networks based on polyurethane and poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) for biomedical applications - Lyudmyla V. Karabanova, Sergey V. Mikhalovsky and Andrew W. Lloyd, 7919-7928

Loading of single-walled carbon nanotubes in cationic cholesterol suspensions significantly improves gene transfection efficiency in serum - Santosh K. Misra, Parikshit Moitra, Bhupender S. Chhikara, Pataru Kondaiah and Santanu Bhattacharya, 7985-7998

Stable single domain Co nanodisks: synthesis, structure and magnetism - Miguel Comesaña-Hermo, Diana Ciuculescu, Zi-An Li, Sven Stienen, Marina Spasova, Michael Farle and Catherine Amiens, 8043-8047

An effective approach for the fabrication of reinforced composite hydrogel engineered with SWNTs, polypyrrole and PEGDA hydrogel - Yinghong Xiao, Lei He and Jianfei Che, 8076-8082

2012 Issue 17, Page 8147 to 8688

Making shape memory polymers reprocessable and reusable by a simple chemical method - M. Ahmad, J. K. Luo, H. Purnawali, W. M. Huang, P. J. King, P. R. Chalker, M. Mireftab and J. Geng, 8192-8194

A high-performance anion exchange membrane based on bi-guanidinium bridged polysilsesquioxane for alkaline fuel cell application - Chao Qu, Huamin Zhang, Fengxiang Zhang and Bo Liu, 8203-8207

High capacity carbon dioxide adsorption by inexpensive covalent organic polymers - Hasmukh A. Patel, Ferdi Karadas, Ali Canlier, Joonho Park, Erhan Deniz, Yousung Jung, Mert Atilhan and Cafer T. Yavuz, 8431-8437

Transfection of luciferase DNA into various cells by cationic cyclodextrin polyrotaxanes derived from ionene-11 - Thomas Albuzat, Manuel Keil, James Ellis, Cameron Alexander and Gerhard Wenz, 8558-8565

The increase of antifouling properties of ultrafiltration membrane coated by star-shaped polymers - Dong-Gyun Kim, Hyo Kang, Sungsoo Han and Jong-Chan Lee, 8654-8661

2012 Issue 18, Page 8689 to 9396

Glycoconjugate-functionalized carbon nanotubes in biomedicine - Narasimha Murthy Bandaru and Nicolas Hans Voelcker, 8748-8758

Hydrophilic poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) membrane by in situ polymerisation of 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) and micro-phase separation - Mimi Tao, Fu Liu and Lixin Xue, 9131-9137

The effect of the side-chain ratio on main-chain-type and side-chain-type sulfonated poly(ether ether ketone) for direct methanol fuel cell applications - Chien-Kung Lin and Jie-Cheng Tsai, 9244-9252

Tumor-binding prodrug micelles of polymer–drug conjugates for anticancer therapy in HeLa cells - Bokyung Jung, Yong-Cheol Jeong, Jun-Hong Min, Jung-Eun Kim, Yoon-Jae Song, Jung-Ki Park, Jung-Hwan Park and Jong-Duk Kim, 9385-9394

ACS Nano, 2012, 6 (3), pp 2441–2451

Presence of Nano-Sized Silica during In Vitro Digestion of Foods Containing Silica as a Food Additive Ruud Peters†, Evelien Kramer†, Agnes G. Oomen‡, Zahira E. Herrera Rivera†, Gerlof Oegema†, Peter C. Tromp§, Remco Fokkink, Anton Rietveld‡, Hans J. P. Marvin†, Stefan Weigel†, Ad A. C. M. Peijnenburg†, and Hans Bouwmeester†* † Institute of Food Safety, RIKILT, Wageningen UR, P.O. Box 230, 6700 AE Wageningen, The Netherlands ‡ National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, RIVM, P.O. Box, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands § TNO Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences, P.O. Box 80015, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Colloid Science, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 8038, 6700 EK Wageningen, The Netherlands

ACS Nano, 2012, 6 (3), pp 2198–2214

Cationic Nanohydrogel Particles as Potential siRNA Carriers for Cellular Delivery Lutz Nuhn†, Markus Hirsch‡, Bettina Krieg‡, Kaloian Koynov§, Karl Fischer, Manfred Schmidt, Mark Helm‡, and Rudolf Zentel†* †Institute of Organic Chemistry and ‡Institute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Staudingerweg 5, D-55099 Mainz, Germany § Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, D-55128 Mainz, Germany Institute of Physical Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Welder Weg 11, D-55021 Mainz, Germany

ACS Nano, 2012, 6 (3), pp 2174–2188

Delivery of Small Interfering RNA by Peptide-Targeted Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticle-Supported Lipid Bilayers Carlee E. Ashley†*, Eric C. Carnes‡§, Katharine E. Epler§, David P. Padilla§, Genevieve K. Phillips, Robert E. Castillo§, Dan C. Wilkinson§, Brian S. Wilkinson§, Cameron A. Burgard§, Robin M. Kalinich, Jason L. Townson§, Bryce Chackerian, Cheryl L. Willman#, David S. Peabody, Walker Wharton#, and C. Jeffrey Brinker‡§* † Biotechnology and Bioengineering Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551-0969, United States ‡ Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States § Center for Micro-Engineered Materials, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States Cancer Research and Treatment Center, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States Ceramic Processing and Inorganic Materials Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1349, United States # Department of Pathology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States Self-Assembled Materials Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1349, United States

ACS Nano, 2012, 6 (3), pp 2150–2156

Penetration of Amphiphilic Quantum Dots through Model and Cellular Plasma Membranes Aliaksei Dubavik†‡, Erdinc Sezgin§, Vladimir Lesnyak†*, Nikolai Gaponik†, Petra Schwille§, and Alexander Eychmüller† † Physical Chemistry, TU Dresden, Bergstrasse 66b, 01062 Dresden, Germany ‡ Photonics and Optoelectronics Group, Department of Physics and CeNS, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Amalienstrasse 54, 80799 Munich, Germany § Biophysics Group, BIOTEC, TU Dresden, Tatzberg 47-51, 01307 Dresden, Germany Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany

ACS Nano, 2012, 6 (3), pp 2136–2149

Polymeric Multilayer Capsule-Mediated Vaccination Induces Protective Immunity Against Cancer and Viral Infection Bruno G. De Geest†*, Monique A. Willart‡§, Hamida Hammad‡§, Bart N. Lambrecht‡§, Charlotte Pollard#, Pieter Bogaert§, Marina De Filette§, Xavier Saelens§, Chris Vervaet†, Jean Paul Remon†, Johan Grooten, and Stefaan De Koker †Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Technology, Department of Pharmaceutics and ‡Laboratory of Immunoregulation and Mucosal Immunology, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium § Department of Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB, Zwijnaarde, Belgium Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Zwijnaarde, Belgium # Institute of Tropical Medicine of Antwerp, Department of Microbiology, Unit Virology, Antwerp, Belgium

ACS Nano, 2012, 6 (3), pp 2104–2117

Poly-l-lysine Functionalized Large Pore Cubic Mesostructured Silica Nanoparticles as Biocompatible Carriers for Gene Delivery Sandy B. Hartono†, Wenyi Gu†, Freddy Kleitz§, Jian Liu†, Lizhong He*, Anton P. J. Middelberg, Chengzhong Yu†*, Gao Qing (Max) Lu†, and Shi Zhang Qiao†‡* † ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia ‡ School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, SA5005, Australia § Department of Chemistry and Centre de Recherche sur les Matériaux Avancés (CERMA), Université Laval, Quebec City, G1 V 0A6, QC, Canada Centre for Biomolecular Engineering, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia

ACS Nano, 2012, 6 (3), pp 1988–1999

Long-Range Electron Transport of Ruthenium-Centered Multilayer Films via a Stepping-Stone Mechanism Kei-ichi Terada†, Hisao Nakamura‡, Katsuhiko Kanaizuka§, Masa-aki Haga§, Yoshihiro Asai‡*, and Takao Ishida†* † Nanosystem Research Institute (NRI), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-2-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8564, Japan ‡ Nanosystem Research Institute (NRI), “RICS”, AIST, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan § Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan Department of Material and Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, 1-4-12 Kozirakawa-machi, Yamagata, 990-8560, Japan

ACS Nano, 2012, 6 (3), pp 1925–1938

Microsomal Glutathione Transferase 1 Protects Against Toxicity Induced by Silica Nanoparticles but Not by Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles Jingwen Shi†, Hanna L. Karlsson†, Katarina Johansson†, Vladimir Gogvadze†, Lisong Xiao‡, Jiangtian Li‡, Terrance Burks§, Alfonso Garcia-Bennett, Abdusalam Uheida§, Mamoun Muhammed§, Sanjay Mathur‡, Ralf Morgenstern†, Valerian E. Kagan, and Bengt Fadeel†* † Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden ‡ Inorganic and Materials Chemistry, University of Cologne, 50939 Cologne, Germany § Functional Materials Microelectronics and Applied Physics, School of Information and Communication Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, 16440 Kista, Sweden Nanotechnology and Functional Materials, Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, 75121 Uppsala, Sweden Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219, United States

Nano Lett., 2012, 12 (4), pp 2107–2111

Mapping Intracellular Temperature Using Green Fluorescent Protein Jon S. Donner†, Sebastian A. Thompson†, Mark P. Kreuzer†, Guillaume Baffou‡, and Romain Quidant*†§ † ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Mediterranean Technology Park, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain ‡ Institut Fresnel, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Domaine Universitaire Saint Jérôme, 13197 Marseille Cedex 20, France § ICREA − Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, 08010 Barcelona, Spain

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 3862 –3866

Surface-Engineered Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Capsules: Synthetic Vaccines Mimicking Microbial Structure and Function** Bruno G. De Geest,* Monique A. Willart, Bart N. Lambrecht, Charlotte Pollard, Chris Vervaet, Jean Paul Remon, Johan Grooten, and Stefaan De Koker

Nano Lett., 2012, 12 (4), pp 2171–2175

Ultrasoft 100 nm Thick Zero Poisson’s Ratio Film with 60% Reversible Compressibility Chieu Nguyen†, Vivek Maheshwari†, and Ravi F. Saraf*†‡ †Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and ‡Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68512, United States

Nano Lett., 2012, 12 (4), pp 1983–1989

Painting with Biomolecules at the Nanoscale: Biofunctionalization with Tunable Surface Densities Robert Schlapak†, Jürgen Danzberger‡, Thomas Haselgrübler†, Peter Hinterdorfer†§, Friedrich Schäffler‡, and Stefan Howorka*† † Center for Advanced Bioanalysis GmbH, 4020 Linz, Austria ‡Institute for Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, §Institute for Biophysics, Johannes Kepler University, 4040 Linz, Austria Department of Chemistry, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London, England

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 3842 –3845

Observation of Methanol Behavior in Fuel Cells In Situ by NMR Spectroscopy** Oc Hee Han,* Kee Sung Han, Chang Woo Shin, Juhee Lee, Seong-Soo Kim, Myung Sup Um, Han-Ik Joh, Soo-Kil Kim, and Heung Yong Ha

Nano Lett., 2012, 12 (4), pp 2003–2012

Surface-Engineered Gold Nanorods: Promising DNA Vaccine Adjuvant for HIV-1 Treatment Ligeng Xu†, Ye Liu‡, Zhiyun Chen†, Wei Li§, Ying Liu†, Liming Wang†§, Yong Liu‡, Xiaochun Wu*, Yinglu Ji, Yuliang Zhao†§, Liying Ma‡, Yiming Shao‡, and Chunying Chen*† † CAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China, Beijing, 100190, China ‡ National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention of China CDC, Beijing, 102206, China § CAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, 100049, China CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China, Beijing, 100190, China

Nano Lett., 2012, 12 (4), pp 1946–1952

Highly Active and Durable Core–Corona Structured Bifunctional Catalyst for Rechargeable Metal–Air Battery Application Zhu Chen, Aiping Yu, Drew Higgins, Hui Li, Haijiang Wang, and Zhongwei Chen* Department of Chemical Engineering, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, and Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1

Nano Lett., 2012, 12 (4), pp 1826–1830

DNA Conjugated SWCNTs Enter Endothelial Cells via Rac1 Mediated Macropinocytosis Santanu Bhattacharya†, Daniel Roxbury‡, Xun Gong†, Debabrata Mukhopadhyay*†§, and Anand Jagota*‡ † Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, 55905, United States ‡ Department of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering Program, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, United States § Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, United States

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 3716 –3720

Cell Adhesion Behavior on Enantiomerically Functionalized Zeolite L Monolayers** Jehad El-Gindi, Kathrin Benson, Luisa De Cola, Hans-Joachim Galla, and Nermin Seda Kehr*

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 3596 –3600

Mechanoradicals Created in “Polymeric Sponges” Drive Reactions in Aqueous Media** H. Tarik Baytekin, Bilge Baytekin, and Bartosz A. Grzybowski*

Biomacromolecules

April 9, 2012 - Volume 13, Issue 4, Pages 947-1232

Stem Cell-Derived Extracellular Matrix Enables Survival and Multilineage Differentiation within Superporous Hydrogels - Melanie Köllmer, Vandana Keskar, Thomas G. Hauk, John M. Collins, Brenda Russell, and Richard A. Gemeinhart, pp 963–973

Gel Formation Driven by Tunable Hydrophobic Domain: Design of Acrylamide Macromonomer with Oligo Hydrophobic Segment - Kyohei Nitta, Junpei Miyake, Junji Watanabe, and Yoshiyuki Ikeda, pp 1002–1009

Block Copolymer Micelles with Pendant Bifunctional Chelator for Platinum Drugs: Effect of Spacer Length on the Viability of Tumor Cells - Vien T. Huynh, Jing Yang Quek, Paul L. de Souza, and Martina H. Stenzel, pp 1010–1023

Effective Gene Delivery Using Stimulus-Responsive Catiomer Designed with Redox-Sensitive Disulfide and Acid-Labile Imine Linkers - Xiaojun Cai, Chunyan Dong, Haiqing Dong, Gangmin Wang, Giovanni M. Pauletti, Xiaojing Pan, Huiyun Wen, Isaac Mehl, Yongyong Li, and Donglu Shi, pp 1024–1034

Tuftsin-Modified Alginate Nanoparticles as a Noncondensing Macrophage-Targeted DNA Delivery System - Shardool Jain and Mansoor Amiji, pp 1074–1085

Ultralow Fouling Polyacrylamide on Gold Surfaces via Surface-Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization - Qingsheng Liu, Anuradha Singh, Reza Lalani, and Lingyun Liu, pp 1086–1092

Polymer Chain Length Effects on Fibroblast Attachment on Nylon-3-Modified Surfaces - Runhui Liu, Kristyn S. Masters, and Samuel H. Gellman, pp 1100–1105

Systematic Study of Fluorescein-Functionalized Macrophotoinitiators for Colorimetric Bioassays - Jungkyu K. Lee, Brandon. W. Heimer, and Hadley D. Sikes, pp 1136–1143

Squaric Acid Mediated Synthesis and Biological Activity of a Library of Linear and Hyperbranched Poly(Glycerol)–Protein Conjugates - Frederik Wurm, Carsten Dingels, Holger Frey, and Harm-Anton Klok, pp 1161–1171

Hemocompatible Poly(NIPAm-MBA-AMPS) Colloidal Nanoparticles as Carriers of Anti-inflammatory Cell Penetrating Peptides - Rush L Bartlett, II, Matthew R. Medow, Alyssa Panitch, and Brandon Seal, pp 1204–1211

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 3591 –3595

Spherical Ordered Mesoporous Carbon Nanoparticles with High Porosity for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries** Jçrg Schuster, Guang He, Benjamin Mandlmeier, Taeeun Yim, Kyu Tae Lee, Thomas Bein,* and Linda F. Nazar*

Nature Materials

April 2012, Volume 11 No 4 pp259-352

7Li MRI of Li batteries reveals location of microstructural lithium - pp311 – 315; S. Chandrashekar, Nicole M. Trease, Hee Jung Chang, Lin-Shu Du, Clare P. Grey & Alexej Jerschow

Self-assembled RNA interference microsponges for efficient siRNA delivery - pp316 – 322; Jong Bum Lee, Jinkee Hong, Daniel K. Bonner, Zhiyong Poon & Paula T. Hammond

Ultrastable nanostructured polymer glasses - pp337 – 343; Yunlong Guo, Anatoli Morozov, Dirk Schneider, Jae Woo Chung, Chuan Zhang, Maike Waldmann, Nan Yao, George Fytas, Craig B. Arnold & Rodney D. Priestley

Mesoporous organohydrogels from thermogelling photocrosslinkable nanoemulsions - pp344 – 352; Matthew E. Helgeson, Shannon E. Moran, Harry Z. An & Patrick S. Doyle

May 2012, Volume 11 No 5 pp353-476

Nature Materials Insight – Spintronics

Liquid–liquid transition without macroscopic phase separation in a water–glycerol mixture - pp436 – 443; Ken-ichiro Murata & Hajime Tanaka

Polyvalent choline phosphate as a universal biomembrane adhesive - pp468 – 476; Xifei Yu, Zonghua Liu, Johan Janzen, Irina Chafeeva, Sonja Horte, Wei Chen, Rajesh K. Kainthan, Jayachandran N. Kizhakkedathu & Donald E. Brooks

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 3130 –3133

Cooperative Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Peptide Dendrimers and Linear Polypeptides into Nanoarchitectures Mimicking Viral Capsids ** Xianghui Xu, Hui Yuan, Jing Chang, Bin He,* and Zhongwei Gu*

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 3125 –3129

In Vitro and In Vivo Uncaging and Bioluminescence Imaging by Using Photocaged Upconversion Nanoparticles** Yanmei Yang, Qing Shao, Renren Deng, Chao Wang, Xue Teng, Kai Cheng, Zhen Cheng, Ling Huang, Zhuang Liu, Xiaogang Liu,* and Bengang Xing*

Accounts of Chemical Research; vol. 45, issue 4

Analysis of Enzymatic Transacylase Brønsted Studies with Application to the Ribosome
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Soft Vesicles in the Synthesis of Hard Materials
-RENHAO DONG, WEIMIN LIU, AND JINGCHENG HAO; pg 504-513

Large Organized Surface Domains Self-Assembled from Nonpolar Amphiphiles
-MARIE PIERRE KRAFFT; pg 514-524

Rational Design of Surface/Interface Chemistry for Quantitative in Vivo Monitoring of Brain Chemistry
-MEINING ZHANG, PING YU, AND LANQUN MAO; pg 533-543

Amphiphilic Building Blocks for Self-Assembly: From Amphiphiles to Supra-amphiphiles
-CHAO WANG, ZHIQIANG WANG, AND XI ZHANG; pg 608-618

pH-Responsive Nanoparticles Shelled with Chitosan for Oral Delivery of Insulin: From Mechanism to Therapeutic Applications
-HSING-WEN SUNG, KIRAN SONAJE, ZI-XIAN LIAO, LI-WEN HSU, AND ER-YUAN CHUANG; pg 619-629

New Journal of Chemistry; vol. 36, issue 5

A chemodosimetric gelation system showing fluorescence and sol-to-gel transition for fluoride anions in aqueous media
-Miae Park, Donghak Jang, Soon Young Kim and Jong-In Hong; pg 1145-1148

Post-polymerisation modification of surface chemical functionality and its effect on protein binding
-Cleo Choong, J. S. Foord, Jon-Paul Griffiths, Emily M. Parker, Luo Baiwen,
Meghali Bora and Mark G. Moloney; pg 1187-1200

Enhancement of cumulative photoirradiated and ac magnetic-field induced cancer (HeLa) cell killing efficacy of mixed a and c-Fe2O3 magnetic nanoparticles
-Md. Shariful Islam, Yoshihumi Kusumoto, Md. Abdulla-Al-Mamun, Yuji Horieb
and Hirotaka Manaka; pg 1201-1209

A spherosilicate oligomer with eight stable silanol groups as a building block of hybrid materials
-Kazufumi Kawahara, Hiroki Tachibana, Yoshiaki Hagiwara and Kazuyuki Kuroda; pg 1210-1217

A green approach to Fenton chemistry: mono-hydroxylation of salicylic acid in aqueous medium by the electrogeneration of Fenton’s reagent
-Janjira Panchompoo, Leigh Aldous, Mikhail Kabeshov, Ben S. Pilgrim, Timothy J. Donohoe and Richard G. Compton; pg 1265-1272

A facile route to mechanically durable responsive surfaces with reversible wettability switching
-Xiaotao Zhu, Zhaozhu Zhang, Kun Wang, Jin Yang, Xianghui Xu, Xuehu Men and Xiaoyan Zhou; pg 1280-1284

ACS Chem Biol

Chemically Modified Peptides Targeting the PDZ Domain of GIPC as a Therapeutic Approach for Cancer

Chitta Ranjan Patra, Chamila N. Rupasinghe, Shamit K. Dutta, Santanu Bhattacharya, Enfeng Wang, Mark R. Spaller, and Debabrata Mukhopadhyay

pp 770–779

PNAS

Calcium and pH-dependent packing and release of the gel-forming MUC2 mucin
Daniel Ambort, Malin E. V. Johansson, Jenny K. Gustafsson, Harriet E. Nilsson, Anna Ermund, Bengt R. Johansson, Philip J. B. Koeck, Hans Hebert, and Gunnar C. Hansson
PNAS 2012 109 (15) 5645-5650

Finessing the fracture energy barrier in ballistic seed dispersal
Robert D. Deegan
PNAS 2012 109 (14) 5166-5169

Reactive polymer enables efficient in vivo bioorthogonal chemistry
Neal K. Devaraj, Greg M. Thurber, Edmund J. Keliher, Brett Marinelli, and Ralph Weissleder
PNAS 2012 109 (13) 4762-4767

Lipid-derived nanoparticles for immunostimulatory RNA adjuvant delivery
David N. Nguyen, Kerry P. Mahon, Ghania Chikh, Phillip Kim, Hattie Chung, Alain P. Vicari, Kevin T. Love, Michael Goldberg, Steve Chen, Arthur M. Krieg, Jianzhu Chen, Robert Langer, and Daniel G. Anderson
PNAS 2012 109 (14) E797-E803

Coupling of the fusion and budding of giant phospholipid vesicles containing macromolecules
Hidetoshi Terasawa, Kazuya Nishimura, Hiroaki Suzuki, Tomoaki Matsuura, and Tetsuya Yomo
PNAS 2012 109 (16) 5942-5947

Selective esterase–ester pair for targeting small molecules with cellular specificity
Lin Tian, Yunlei Yang, Laura M. Wysocki, Alma C. Arnold, Amy Hu, Balaji Ravichandran, Scott M. Sternson, Loren L. Looger, and Luke D. Lavis
PNAS 2012 109 (13) 4756-4761

Nature Nanotechnology

Stochastic sensing of proteins with receptor-modified solid-state nanopores
Ruoshan Wei, Volker Gatterdam, Ralph Wieneke, Robert Tampé & Ulrich Rant
Nature Nanotechnology 7, 257–263 (2012)

The emergence of multifrequency force microscopy
Ricardo Garcia & Elena T. Herruzo
Nature Nanotechnology 7, 217–226 (2012)

Journal of Polymer Science, Part A

4-dimethylaminopyridine-based organoactivation: From simple esterification to lactide ring-opening “Living” polymerization
Olivier Coulembier, Philippe Dubois
Volume 50, Issue 9, pages 1672–1680

Strategies toward well-defined polymer nanoparticles inspired by nature: Chemistry versus versatility
Mahmoud Elsabahy, Karen L. Wooley
Volume 50, Issue 10, pages 1869–1880

Crosslinked polynorbornene particles synthesis by ring-opening metathesis polymerization in dispersion
Anne-Claire Le Meur, Cyril Aymonier, Valérie Heroguez
Volume 50, Issue 9, pages 1746–1754

One-pot, facile synthesis of well-defined molecular brush copolymers by a tandem RAFT and ROMP, “Grafting-through” strategy
Ang Li, Jun Ma, Guorong Sun, Zhou Li, Sangho Cho, Corrie Clark, Karen L. Wooley
Volume 50, Issue 9, pages 1681–1688

A novel polymerization approach via thiol-yne addition
Oğuz Türünç,Michael A. R. Meier
Volume 50, Issue 9, pages 1689–1695

Facile synthesis and responsive behavior of PDMS-b-PEG diblock copolymer brushes via photoinitiated “thiol-ene” click reaction
Muquan Yang, Jun Mao, Wei Nie, Zhixin Dong, Dapeng Wang, Ziliang Zhao, Xiangling Ji
Volume 50, Issue 10, pages 2075–2083

Nature Reviews Microbiology Vol. 10 No. 4 April 2012

Modulating immunity as a therapy for bacterial infections

Robert E. W. Hancock, Anastasia Nijnik & Dana J. Philpott

The rise of the Enterococcus: beyond vancomycin resistance

Cesar A. Arias & Barbara E. Murray

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Volume 56 No 4 April 2012

Temporal Interplay between Efflux Pumps and Target Mutations in Development of Antibiotic Resistance in Escherichia coli

Renu Singh, Michelle C. Swick, Kimberly R. Ledesma, Zhen Yang, Ming Hu, Lynn Zechiedrich, and Vincent H. Tam

Deciphering the Magainin Resistance Process of Escherichia coli Strains in Light of the Cytosolic Proteome

Simone Maria-Neto, Elizabete de Souza Cândido, Diana Ribas Rodrigues, Daniel Amaro de Sousa, Ezequiel Marcelino da Silva, Lidia Maria Pepe de Moraes, Anselmo de Jesus Otero-Gonzalez, Beatriz Simas Magalhães, Simoni Campos Dias, and Octávio Luiz Franco

Pharmacological Inhibition of the ClpXP Protease Increases Bacterial Susceptibility to Host Cathelicidin Antimicrobial Peptides and Cell Envelope-Active Antibiotics

Shauna M. McGillivray, Dan N. Tran, Nitya S. Ramadoss, John N. Alumasa, Cheryl Y. Okumura, George Sakoulas, Micah M. Vaughn, Dawn X. Zhang, Kenneth C. Keiler, and Victor Nizet

NLRP3 Inflammasome Is a Target for Development of Broad-Spectrum Anti-Infective Drugs

James D. Thacker, Brian J. Balin, Denah M. Appelt, Sihem Sassi-Gaha, Mitali Purohit, Richard F. Rest, and Carol M. Artlett

In Vitro and In Vivo Antimalarial Activities of T-2307, a Novel Arylamidine

Akiko Kimura, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Nobuhiko Nomura, Junichi Mitsuyama, Shinya Fukumoto, Noboru Inoue, and Shin-ichiro Kawazu

In Vitro Potency and In Vivo Efficacy of a Novel Bis-Indole Antimicrobial Compound in Reducing Catheter Colonization

Mohammad D. Mansouri, Timothy J. Opperman, John D. Williams, Charles Stager, and Rabih O. Darouiche

Nature Chemistry Volume 4 No 4 April 2012

Electron-transfer processes in dendrimers and their implication in biology, catalysis, sensing and nanotechnology - pp255 - 267

Didier Astruc

Autonomous movement of platinum-loaded stomatocytes - pp268 - 274

Daniela A. Wilson, Roeland J. M. Nolte & Jan C. M. van Hest

A two-dimensional polymer prepared by organic synthesis - pp287 - 291

Patrick Kissel, Rolf Erni, W. Bernd Schweizer, Marta D. Rossell, Benjamin T. King, Thomas Bauer, Stephan Götzinger, A. Dieter Schlüter & Junji Sakamoto

Genetically encoded norbornene directs site-specific cellular protein labelling via a rapid bioorthogonal reaction - pp298 - 304

Kathrin Lang, Lloyd Davis, Jessica Torres-Kolbus, Chungjung Chou, Alexander Deiters & Jason W. Chin

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