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Soft Matter Review Articles:
Polymers and macromolecules
This page presents review articles published in Soft Matter in 2005-2007 in the area of polymers and macromolecules
Reviews, Highlights and Emerging Areas
Access all the Reviews, Highlights and Emerging Areas published in Soft Matter
Control of dynamic helicity at the macro- and supramolecular level
Dirk Pijper and Ben L. Feringa, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 1349
DOI: 10.1039/b801886c
Stimuli-responsive polymer gels
Suk-kyun Ahn, Rajeswari M. Kasi, Seong-Cheol Kim, Nitin Sharma and Yuxiang Zhou, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 1151
DOI: 10.1039/b714376a
Self-healing materials: a review
Richard P. Wool, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 400
DOI: 10.1039/b711716g
Peptide- and protein-mediated assembly of heparinized hydrogels
Kristi L. Kiick, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 29
DOI: 10.1039/b711319f
Computational field theory of polymers: opportunities and challenges
Glenn H. Fredrickson, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 1329
DOI: 10.1039/b710604a
Polysilanes on surfaces
Masanobu Naito and Michiya Fujiki, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 211
DOI: 10.1039/b710423e
Segmental dynamics in miscible polymer blends: recent results and open questions
J. Colmenero and A. Arbe, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 1474
DOI: 10.1039/b710141d
Flexible macromolecules attached to lipid bilayers: impact on fluidity, curvature, permeability and stability of the membranes
Christophe Tribet and Florent Vial, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 68
DOI: 10.1039/b708431p
Autonomous microfluidics with stimuli-responsive hydrogels
Liang Dong and Hongrui Jiang, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 1223
DOI: 10.1039/b706563a
Recent advances in the preparation of cyclodextrin-based polyrotaxanes and their applications to soft materials
Jun Araki and Kohzo Ito, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 1456
DOI: 10.1039/b705688e
Photo-mechanical effects in azobenzene-containing soft materials
Christopher J. Barrett, Jun-ichi Mamiya, Kevin G. Yager and Tomiki Ikeda, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 1249
DOI: 10.1039/b705619b
Dielectric elastomers as next-generation polymeric actuators
Ravi Shankar, Tushar K. Ghosh and Richard J. Spontak, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 1116
DOI: 10.1039/b705737g
Electrochemically enabled polyelectrolyte multilayer devices: from fuel cells to sensors
Jodie L. Lutkenhaus and Paula T. Hammond, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 804
DOI: 10.1039/b701203a
Enzymatic control of the self-assembly of small molecules: a new way to generate supramolecular hydrogels
Zhimou Yang, Gaolin Liang and Bing Xu, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 515
DOI: 10.1039/b700138j
Non-covalent polymer assembly using arrays of hydrogen-bonds
Andrew J. Wilson, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 409
DOI: 10.1039/b612566b
Bioinspired functional block copolymers
Hans G. Börner and Helmut Schlaad, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 394
DOI: 10.1039/b615985k
Colloid–polymer mixtures in the protein limit
Kevin J. Mutch, Jeroen S. van Duijneveldt and Julian Eastoe, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 155
DOI: 10.1039/b611137h
Actively moving polymers
Marc Behl and Andreas Lendlein, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 58
DOI: 10.1039/b610611k
The interface in demixed colloid–polymer systems: wetting, waves and droplets
Dirk G. A. L. Aarts, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 19
DOI: 10.1039/b608479f
Self-assembly and applications of biomimetic and bioactive peptide-amphiphiles
Efrosini Kokkoli, Anastasia Mardilovich, Alison Wedekind, Emilie L. Rexeisen, Ashish Garg and Jennifer A. Craig, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 1015
DOI: 10.1039/b608929a
Polymer–surfactant complexation in polyelectrolyte multilayer assemblies
Malkiat S. Johal and Peter A. Chiarelli, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 34
DOI: 10.1039/b609045c
Conjugating self-assembling rigid rings to flexible polymer coils for the design of organic nanotubes
Julien Couet and Markus Biesalski, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 1005
DOI: 10.1039/b611846c
Transition metal ions: weak links for strong polymers
Dirk G. Kurth and Masayoshi Higuchi, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 915
DOI: 10.1039/b607485e
Formation of liquid core–polymer shell microcapsules
Huai Nyin Yow and Alexander F. Routh, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 940
DOI: 10.1039/b606965g
Biomimetic membranes designed from amphiphilic block copolymers
Almut Mecke, Christian Dittrich and Wolfgang Meier, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 751
DOI: 10.1039/b605165k
Progress in the characterization of synthetic (supramolecular) polymers by analytical ultracentrifugation
Mircea Ra
a and Ulrich S. Schubert, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 561
DOI: 10.1039/b601666a
Mineralized polysaccharide capsules as biomimetic microenvironments for cell, gene and growth factor delivery in tissue engineering
David W. Green, Stephen Mann and Richard O. C. Oreffo, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 732
DOI: 10.1039/b604786f
Friction and lubrication of hydrogels—its richness and complexity
Jian Ping Gong, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 544
DOI: 10.1039/b603209p
Morphology of multi-component polymer systems: single chain in mean field simulation studies
Kostas Ch. Daoulas, Marcus Müller, Juan J. de Pablo, Paul F. Nealey and Grant D. Smith, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 573
DOI: 10.1039/b602610a
Soft matter with soft particles
Christos N. Likos, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 478
DOI: 10.1039/b601916c
Surface initiated polymerizations from silica nanoparticles
Bindushree Radhakrishnan, Rajesh Ranjan and William J. Brittain, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 386
DOI: 10.1039/b516508c
Spider silk as archetypal protein elastomer
Fritz Vollrath and David Porter, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 377
DOI: 10.1039/b600098n
Selected successful approaches in combinatorial materials research
Michael A. R. Meier and Ulrich S. Schubert, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 371
DOI: 10.1039/b518304a
Layers of opportunity: nanostructured polymer assemblies for the delivery of macromolecular therapeutics
David M. Lynn, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 269
DOI: 10.1039/b517860f
Capturing nanoscopic length scales and structures by polymerization in microemulsions
Feng Yan and John Texter, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 109
DOI: 10.1039/b513914g
Towards structure–property–function relationships for eumelanin
Paul Meredith, Ben J. Powell, Jennifer Riesz, Stephen P. Nighswander-Rempel, Mark R. Pederson and Evan G. Moore, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 37
DOI: 10.1039/b511922g
RAFT mediated polymerisation in heterogeneous media
J. B. McLeary and B. Klumperman, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 45
DOI: 10.1039/b513575c
Utilizing polymers for shaping the interfacial behavior of carbon nanotubes
Rachel Yerushalmi-Rozen and Igal Szleifer, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 24
DOI: 10.1039/b513344k
Aggregation of colloidal nanoparticles in polymer matrices
Julian Oberdisse, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 29
DOI: 10.1039/b511959f
New properties from PLA–PEO–PLA hydrogels
Gregory N. Tew, Naomi Sanabria-DeLong, Sarvesh K. Agrawal and Surita R. Bhatia, Soft Matter, 2005, 1, 253
DOI: 10.1039/b509800a
Development and application of diazirines in biological and synthetic macromolecular systems
Anton Blencowe and Wayne Hayes, Soft Matter, 2005, 1, 178
DOI: 10.1039/b501989c
Nanoshells and nanotubes from block copolymers
I. W. Hamley, Soft Matter, 2005, 1, 36
DOI: 10.1039/b418226j
Polypeptide hydrogels via a unique assembly mechanism
Timothy J. Deming, Soft Matter, 2005, 1, 28
DOI: 10.1039/b500307e
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