Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 10949 – 10957

Development of a Library of N-Substituted Maleimides for the Local
Functionalization of Linear Polymer Chains

Sebastian Pfeifer and Jean-FranÅois Lutz

Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 11274 – 11282

Anion-Responsive Supramolecular Gels

Hiromitsu Maeda

Chem. Eur. J. 2008,

Comparison of Facially Amphiphilic versus Segregated Monomers in the
Design of Antibacterial Copolymers

Gregory J. Gabriel,[a] Janet A. Maegerlein,[a] Christopher F. Nelson,[b]
Jeffrey M. Dabkowski,[b] Tarik Eren,[a] Klaus Nsslein,[b] and Gregory N. Tew*

Acc. Chem. Res. Vol. 41, Iss. 11

Cross Coupling

Large review on Cross Coupling reactions: reagents, catalysts, Suzuki, Sonogashira, etc.

Nanoletters, Vol. 8, No. 12

In-Fiber Semiconductor Filament Arrays

D. S. Deng, N. D. Orf, A. F. Abouraddy, A. M. Stolyarov, J. D. Joannopoulos, H. A. Stone and Y. Fink, pp 4265–4269

Chem. Eur. J. 2008,

Anion–p Slides for Transmembrane Transport

Jiri Mareda and Stefan Matile

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2008, 37, 2699 - 2715

Supramolecular gelling agents: can they be designed?

Parthasarathi Dastidar

J. Mater. Chem., 2009, 19, 60 - 62

Photomobile polymer materials—various three-dimensional movements

Munenori Yamada, Mizuho Kondo, Ryo Miyasato, Yumiko Naka, Jun-ichi Mamiya, Motoi Kinoshita, Atsushi Shishido, Yanlei Yu, Christopher J. Barrettc and Tomiki Ikeda

J. Mater. Chem., 2009, 19, 34 - 45,

Advances in combinatorial and high-throughput screening of biofunctional
polymers for gene delivery, tissue engineering and anti-fouling coatings

J. Carson Meredith

Nature Materials

Unexpected power-law stress relaxation of entangled ring polymers

M. Kapnistos^1,2,8, M. Lang^3,4, D. Vlassopoulos^1,5, W. Pyckhout-Hintzen⁶, D. Richter⁶, D. Cho^7,8, T. Chang⁷ & M. Rubinstein³

ACS Nano

Surface Morphology Diagram for Cylinder-Forming Block Copolymer Thin Films

Xiaohua Zhang†, Brian C. Berry†, Kevin G. Yager†, Sangcheol Kim†, Ronald L. Jones†, Sushil Satija‡, Deanna L. Pickel§, Jack F. Douglas†* and Alamgir Karim†*

ACS Nano

PEGylated Gold Nanoparticles Conjugated to Monoclonal F19 Antibodies as Targeted Labeling Agents for Human Pancreatic Carcinoma Tissue

Abstract

In this study, we describe optical detection of antibody-conjugated nanoparticles bound to surgically resected human pancreatic cancer tissue. Gold nanoparticles stabilized by heterobifunctional polyethylene glycol (PEG) were prepared using ∼15 nm spherical gold cores and covalently coupled to F19 monoclonal antibodies. The heterobifunctional PEG ligands contain a dithiol group for stable anchoring onto the gold surface and a terminal carboxy group for coupling of antibodies to the outside of the PEG shell. The nanoparticle−antibody bioconjugates form highly stable dispersions and exhibit long-term resistance to agglomeration. This has been demonstrated by dynamic light scattering, size exclusion chromatography, and transmission electron microscopy. The nanoparticle bioconjugates were used to label tumor stroma in approximately 5 μm thick sections of resected human pancreatic adenocarcinoma. After rinsing away nonbound nanoparticles and fixation, the tissue samples were imaged by darkfield microscopy near the nanoparticle resonance scattering maximum (∼560 nm). The images display pronounced tissue features and suggest that this novel labeling method could provide for facile identification of cancer tissue. Tumor samples treated with gold nanoparticles conjugated to nonspecific control antibodies and noncancerous pancreatic tissue treated with mAb-F19-conjugated gold nanoparticles both exhibited correctly negative results and showed no tissue staining.

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1778 (2008) 2749–2756

pH-sensitive non-phospholipid vesicle and macrophage-like cells:
Binding, uptake and endocytotic pathway
L. Di Marzio, C. Marianecci , B. Cinque , M. Nazzarri , A.M. Cimini, L. Cristiano, M.G. Cifone,
F. Alhaique, M. Carafa

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2009, 7

Switchable electrostatic interactions between gold nanoparticles and coiled
coil peptides direct colloid assembly†
Sara C. Wagner, Meike Roskamp, Helmut Colfen, Christoph Bottcher, Sabine Schlecht* and Beate Koksch*

Very long-chain fatty tails for enhanced transfection†
Aleksandra Liberska, Asier Unciti-Broceta and Mark Bradley*

ACS Chem. Bio.

Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Design of Small Peptide Antibiotics Effective against a Broad Spectrum of Highly Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs
Artem Cherkasov, Kai Hilpert, Håvard Jenssen, Christopher D. Fjell, Matt Waldbrook, Sarah C. Mullaly, Rudolf Volkmer, and Robert E.W. Hancock

New journal chemistry, 2008, 32, 1850

Selected recent developments in organo-cobalt chemistry

Caroline J. Scheuermann ne´ e Taylor*a and Benjamin D. Wardb

mini review of Cobalt chemistry

Small, 2008, 4, 1711-1715

Photodynamic Thermoresponsive Nanocarbon-polymer Gel hybrids

by Eijiro Miyako, Hideya Nagata, Ken Hirano, and Takahiro Hirotsu

Advanced materials, 2008, 20: 1-5

Nanoporous Biodegradable Elastomers

by Ryan A. Hoshi, Saloni Behl, and Guillermo A. Ameer

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1778 (2008) 2487–2495

Cellular uptake and membrane-destabilising properties of α-peptide/β-peptoid
chimeras: lessons for the design of new cell-penetrating peptides
Camilla Foged, Henrik Franzyk, Shervin Bahrami, Sven Frokjaer, Jerzy W. Jaroszewski,
Hanne M. Nielsen, Christian A. Olsen

Biochemistry 2008, 47, 11070–11076

Using an Amino Acid Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Pair To Probe Protein Unfolding: Application to the Villin Headpiece Subdomain and the LysM Domain
Julie M. Glasscock,‡ Yongjin Zhu,§ Pramit Chowdhury,§ Jia Tang,§ and Feng Gai*

JACS, Vol. 130, No. 45

Peptide-Based SAMs that Resist the Adsorption of Proteins
Rolf Chelmowski,† Stephan David Koster,‡ Andreas Kerstan,† Andreas Prekelt,† Christian Grunwald,§ Tobias Winkler,| Nils Metzler-Nolte,‡ Andreas Terfort,| and Christof Wo¨ ll*,†

Design of Polymeric Carriers for Cancer-Specific Gene Targeting: Utilization of Abnormal Protein Kinase Cr Activation in Cancer Cells
Jeong-Hun Kang, Daisuke Asai,§ Jong-Hwan Kim, Takeshi Mori, Riki Toita,
Tetsuro Tomiyama, Yoji Asami, Jun Oishi, Yuko T. Sato,Takuro Niidome,Byungdug Jun, Hideki Nakashima, and Yoshiki Katayama

Encapsulation Efficiency Measured on Single Small Unilamellar Vesicles
Brian Lohse, Pierre-Yves Bolinger, and Dimitrios Stamou

Anionic Amphiphilic Dendrimers as Antibacterial Agents
Steven R. Meyers, Frank S. Juhn, Aaron P. Griset, Nathanael R. Luman, and Mark W. Grinstaff*

Nernstian Adsorbate-like Bulk Layer of Organic Radical Polymers for High-Density Charge Storage Purposes
Kenichi Oyaizu, Yuko Ando, Hiroaki Konishi, and Hiroyuki Nishide

Langmuir, Vol 24, Iss 21, Nov 2008

Controlled Magnetic Nanofiber Hydrogels by Clustering Ferritin
Min Kyoon Shin, Sun I. Kim, Seon Jeong Kim, Sang Yoon Park, Young Hoon Hyun, YoungPak Lee, Kyung Eun Lee, Sung-Sik Han, Dong-Pyo Jang, Young-Bo Kim, Zang-Hee Cho, Insuk So, and Geoffrey M. Spinks
pp 12107 - 12111

Antifouling Properties of Poly(methyl methacrylate) Films Grafted with Poly(ethylene glycol) Monoacrylate Immersed in Seawater
O. Iguerb, C. Poleunis, F. Mazéas, C. Compère, and P. Bertrand
pp 12272 - 12281

How To Prevent the Loss of Surface Functionality Derived from Aminosilanes
Emily Asenath Smith and Wei Chen
pp 12405 - 12409

Diffusion of Macromolecules on Lipid Vesicles
W. T. Góźdź
pp 12458 - 12468

Langmuir, Vol 24, Iss 20, Oct 2008

Entrapping Desired Amounts of Actin Filaments and Molecular Motor Proteins in Giant Liposomes
Kingo Takiguchi, Ayako Yamada, Makiko Negishi, Yohko Tanaka-Takiguchi, and Kenichi Yoshikawa
pp 11323 - 11326

Particle Size Determination Using TEM: A Discussion of Image Acquisition and Analysis for the Novice Microscopist
William D. Pyrz and Douglas J. Buttrey
pp 11350 - 11360

Enhancing Amine Terminals in an Amine-Deprived Collagen Matrix
William H. C. Tiong, Gopinath Damodaran, Hemantkumar Naik, John L. Kelly, and Abhay Pandit
pp 11752 - 11761

Transmembrane Delivery of the Cell-Penetrating Peptide Conjugated Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Bo Chen, Qiaoling Liu, Yuliang Zhang, Li Xu, and Xiaohong Fang
pp 11866 - 11871

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

SPECIAL CHINESE SECTION HIGHLIGHTING PAPERS OF CHINESE AUTHORSHIP

All articles are very interesting. You can take a look.

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

Accounts of Chem. Research. Vol. 41. No. 8.

A New Generation of Sensors Based on Extraordinary Optical Transmission

Reuven Gordon, David Sinton, Karen L. Kavanagh, and Alexandre G. Brolo. pp 1049 - 1057.

Nanoletters, Vol. 8. Issue 8.

Highly Aligned Ultrahigh Density Arrays of Conducting Polymer Nanorods using Block Copolymer Templates

Jeong In Lee, Shin Hyo Cho, Su-Moon Park, Jin Kon Kim, Jai Kyeong Kim, Jae-Woong Yu, Young Chul Kim, and Thomas P. Russell. pp 2315 - 2320.

Nature, Vol. 453, through Number 7205.

Materials science: Protein gels on the move

Light-induced reactions enable three-dimensional objects to be built from simple compounds. Proteins have been added to the list of building blocks, and the resulting gels move in response to environmental cues.

April M. Kloxin & Kristi S. Anseth. p705.

Chem. Commun., 2008, 3507–3509

Dunking doughnuts into cells—selective cellular translocation and in vivo
analysis of polymeric micro-doughnutsw


Lois Alexander,a Kevin Dhaliwal,b John Simpsonb and Mark Bradley*a

Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 00, 0 – 0

Novel Hybrid Materials Consisting of Regioregular Poly(3-octylthiophene)s
Covalently Attached to Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes


Andreas A. Stefopoulos,[a, b] Christos L. Chochos,[a, c] Maurizio Prato,[d] George Pistolis,[e]
Kostas Papagelis,[f] Foteini Petraki,[b, g] Stella Kennou,[b, g] and Joannis K. Kallitsis*[a, b]

Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 00, 0 – 0

Strength Enhancement of Nanostructured Organogels through Inclusion of
Phthalocyanine-Containing Complementary Organogelator Structures and In
Situ Cross-Linking by Click Chemistry

David D)az D)az,*[b] Juan Jos0 Cid,[a] Purificaci1n V3zquez,[a] and Tom3s Torres*[a]
Introduction

Bioconjugate Chem., Vol. 19, No. 8, 2008

A
-Cyclodextrin “Click Cluster” Decorated with Seven Paramagnetic
Chelates Containing Two Water Exchange Sites

Joshua M. Bryson,† Wen-Jang Chu,§ Jing-Huei Lee,‡,§ and Theresa M. Reineke*,†

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1778 (2008) 1714–1734

Murein (peptidoglycan) structure, architecture and biosynthesis in
Escherichia coli
Waldemar Vollmer, Ute Bertsche

Biomaterials Volume 29, Issue 29, October 2008, Pages 3905-3913

Non-cytotoxic, in situ gelable hydrogels composed of N-carboxyethyl chitosan and oxidized dextran

Lihui Weng^a, Alexander Romanov^b, Jean Rooney^b and Weiliam Chen^a

Biochemistry 2008, 47, 9243–9250

Using Fluorous Amino Acids To Probe the Effects of Changing Hydrophobicity on
the Physical and Biological Properties of the
-Hairpin Antimicrobial Peptide
Protegrin-1
Lindsey M. Gottler,‡ Roberto de la Salud Bea,‡ Charles E. Shelburne,§ Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy,*,‡,| and
E. Neil G. Marsh*

Biochemistry 2008, 47, 8557–8565

Effect of Antimicrobial Peptides from Australian Tree Frogs on Anionic
Phospholipid Membranes
John D. Gehman,‡ Fiona Luc,‡ Kristopher Hall,§ Tzong-Hsien Lee,§ Martin P. Boland,‡ Tara L. Pukala, John H. Bowie,| Marie-Isabel Aguilar,§ and Frances Separovic*,‡