Articles
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- Feb 04, 2022 Self-templating, solvent-free supramolecular polymer synthesis
- A green method for producing crystalline supramolecular fibers promises to make polymer production more sustainable
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- Mar 06, 2020 Temperature-responsive polymer points the way to sustainable plastics
- Computation analysis unravels the complex behavior of a polymer with great potential for greener plastic production
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- Jan 18, 2019 Photoreactions activate magnetic nanoswitches
- Light induces photoreactions that activate the switch of the magnetic orientation of 2D materials dispersed in water
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- Mar 23, 2018 A mechanically robust but readily repairable polymer
- A robust polymer that can be readily repaired unites two properties that seemed mutually exclusive
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- Sep 22, 2017 Useful new supramolecular polymer responds to heat and alcohol
- An intriguing new plastic that forms by either cooling or heating its components in alcohol promises numerous applications
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- Jan 22, 2016 Microwave synthesis ‘zaps’ graphene to perfection
- A simple procedure turns bulk graphite crystals into atomically thin super materials and magnetically aligned gels
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- Dec 18, 2015 Helical pores make perfect hosts
- A porous framework consisting of liquid crystals aids the study of intriguing optical phenomena
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- Dec 04, 2015 Building better bilayers
- A strategy for generating stable lipid bilayers could simplify the study of biologically important membrane proteins
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- Jun 19, 2015 A bundled attraction
- A magnetic field and a protein jacket are all that is needed to create bundles of one-dimensional arrays of ‘superparamagnetic’ nanoparticles
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- Apr 03, 2015 One at a time, please
- Polymers held together by multiple weak intermolecular interactions but with tight control over the number of monomer units in each chain have been prepared for the first time
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- Mar 09, 2015 Nanosheets line up to mimic nature
- A composite material mimics the properties of natural cartilage by exploiting the repulsion of like charges
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- Aug 29, 2014 Separating the buckybowl twins
- Selective enrichment of one of the mirror-image forms of corannulene molecules could lead to exciting new possibilities in nanotechnology