Issue 6, 2005

Ionic channels in living membranes are the elementary building blocks of brain function and play a crucial role in the existence of all living organisms.
DOI: 10.1039/b512455g

Issue 6, 2005 (inside)

Spreading of a liquid drop is enhanced on a surface covered with microdroplets of another immiscible or miscible liquid. This super spreading is due to the presence of a negative pressure field in the wetting film that is evidenced by the dislodgement and coalescence of the microdroplets under it.
DOI: 10.1039/b515948m

Issue 5, 2005

Incident light can have a dramatic effect on the self-assembly of specialised photosurfactants.
DOI: 10.1039/b510877m

Issue 5, 2005 (inside)

Photoswitching of a ferroelectric liquid crystal thin film between crossed polarizers.
DOI: 10.1039/b514445k

Issue 4, 2005

Assembled phospholipids/protein microcapsule serves as a model of a cell membrane.
DOI: 10.1039/b506092n

Issue 4, 2005 (inside)

These triblock copolymers form hydrogels in which the bulk properties are influenced by the crystallinity of the lactide domains. When these are crystalline a stiffer hydrogel is formed with large, non-spherical hydrophobic network junctions.
DOI: 10.1039/b513027c

Issue 3, 2005

A pictorial representation of diazirine functionalized fipronil within a cavity of b-ketoacyl carrier proteinsynthase.
DOI: 10.1039/b501989c

Issue 3, 2005 (inside)

An atomic force microscopy image of a directed wrinkle pattern with a directional order through coupling with the patterns fabricated by microsphere-array lithography.
DOI: 10.1039/b510744J

Issue 2, 2005

Spontaneous reaction-diffusion (RD) processes provide a viable basis for patterning and fabrication at micro- and nanoscales. The cover shows a color gradient micropattern developed by wet-stamping a mixture of inorganic salts onto a thin layer of dry gel; gradient patterns like this one are useful as nonbinary optical diffraction gratings.
DOI: 10.1039/b501769f

Issue 1, 2005

A cryogenic transmission electron micrograph of a block copolypeptide hydrogel overlaid with a schematic representation of the self-assembled polypeptide amphiphiles. The inset shows detail of the hydrophobic helix packing that gives rise to a fibrillar morphology.
DOI: 10.1039/b500307e

Issue 1 2005 (inside)

Millimetric water drop sitting on a hydrophobic textured surface. The texture consists of micropillars which are regularly spaced, providing both the irisations and super-hydrophobicity. The drop stands on the top of the pillars, minimising the contact with the solid substrate.
DOI: 10.1039/b506843f