Issue 12, 2007

Slide-ring gels and slide-ring materials comprising polyrotaxates have freely movable cross-links. Ordinary and swollen state of slide-ring gels (top, left and right), and slide-ring materials in which polyrotaxanes are incorporated in other polymer molecules (bottom).
DOI: 10.1039/b705688e

Issue 11, 2007

A highly ordered array of both nanowires and nanoparticles can be formed on an array of micropillars by a one-step dewetting process.
DOI: 10.1039/b709910j

Issue 10, 2007 (inside)

Photo-isomerization of an azobenzene-polymer, superimposed over a schematic of a film of azo-elastomer bending in response to light.
DOI: 10.1039/b713609a

Issue 10, 2007

Encapsulation of PEGylated quantum dots in hydrogel droplets stabilized by a shell of hydrophobic TOPO-covered quantum dots.
DOI: 10.1039/b706609k

Issue 9, 2007

Fifty-arm star-branched polyelectrolyte taking an anemone-like configuration upon adsorption to a planar charged substrate due to an intricate interplay between electrostatic attraction and steric repulsion.
DOI: 10.1039/b708788h

Issue 8, 2007 (inside)

Phospholipid bilayers and monolayers spontaneously spread over a hydrophobic-patterned substrate.
DOI: 10.1039/b710118j

Issue 8, 2007

Porous dry films of vitrified water resulting from the deposition of ice particles.
DOI: 10.1039/b704194b

Issue 7, 2007 (inside)

Lipid vesicles immobilised on surfaces can be used as nanofluidic systems for screening confined biochemical reactions.
DOI: 10.1039/b708472m

Issue 7, 2007

Highly ordered porous films coated onto particulate surfaces by utilizing a core cross-linked star polymer (CCS) with a low glass transition temperature.
DOI: 10.1039/b700597k

Issue 6, 2007

Schematic of a giant vesicle and nonlamellar aggregate composed of amphiphilic nicotinamide and its dihydronicotinamide derivate on a background displaying a cryo-scanning electron micrograph of hybrid vesicles.
DOI: 10.1039/b701147d

Issue 5, 2007 (inside)

Chitosan as an interconnect for hierarchical assembly: nanoscale components attached to the chitosan backbone can be assembled into macroscale assemblies in response to localized signals because this aminopolysaccharide possesses stimuli-responsive, film-forming properties.
DOI: 10.1039/b705446g

Issue 5, 2007

Directed actin polymerization from polymer nanopatterns produces high dimensional protein assemblies.
DOI: 10.1039/b618524j

Issue 4, 2007

3D real space structure of a lamellar block copolymer system subject to an external electric field superimposed over in situ synchrotron X-ray scattering data on the same process in reciprocal space.
DOI: 10.1039/b614143a

Issue 3, 2007 (inside)

Microtubules have been polymerized from oriented seeds within microchannels to serve as engineered tracks for the transport of nano- and microparticles by kinesin motor proteins.
DOI: 10.1039/b701884n

Issue 3, 2007

High ion concentrations near charged electrode surfaces can influence protein activity. Here, cytoskeletal protein F-actin filaments have polymerized from an electrode surface in response to an ac field.
DOI: 10.1039/b607279h

Issue 2, 2007

Superhydrophobic butterfly wings show directional adhesion due to the direction-dependent arrangement of flexible nano-tips on ridging nano-stripes and micro-scales overlapped on the wings.
DOI: 10.1039/b612667g

Issue 1, 2007 (inside)

Magnetically induced shape-memory effect of a polyetherurethane with embedded magnetic nanoparticles. Within 24 seconds the temporary fixed shape (rod) recovers into the original shape (spiral) inside a magnetic field of an inductor ring.
DOI: 10.1039/b617371n

Issue 1, 2007

The budding of vesicles that transport cargo within cells is one of the many examples of curvature generation in membrane environments, the biophysical causes and consequences of which are only beginning to be understood.
DOI: 10.1039/b608631d