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Polymers, Volume 3, Issue 4

December 2011 - 32 articles

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Articles (32)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,052 Views
16 Pages

20 December 2011

Colloidal gels are intermediates in the production of highly porous particle systems. In the production process, the gels are fragmented after their creation. These gel fragments consolidate to particles whose application-technological properties are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,857 Views
14 Pages

Plasma Treated Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNTs) for Epoxy Nanocomposites

  • Andrew C. Ritts,
  • Qingsong Yu,
  • Hao Li,
  • Stephen J. Lombardo,
  • Xu Han,
  • Zhenhai Xia and
  • Jie Lian

19 December 2011

Plasma nanocoating of allylamine were deposited on the surfaces of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) to provide desirable functionalities and thus to tailor the surface characteristics of MWCNTs for improved dispersion and interfacial adhesion i...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,973 Views
9 Pages

Design of Improved Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) H2 Adsorbents

  • Terumi Furuta,
  • Izuru Kanoya,
  • Hiroshi Sakai and
  • Mitsuya Hosoe

12 December 2011

We attempted synthesis of the hydrogen adsorption material suitable for the fuel cell vehicles (FCEVs). The designed and synthesized Cu2(3,5-Pyridinedicarboxylate)2 (=Cu2PDC2) metal complex showed an extremely high volumetric uptake density for a phy...

  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
12,752 Views
26 Pages

Water Soluble Responsive Polymer Brushes

  • Michael P. Weir and
  • Andrew J. Parnell

7 December 2011

Responsive polymer brushes possess many interesting properties that enable them to control a range of important interfacial behaviours, including adhesion, wettability, surface adsorption, friction, flow and motility. The ability to design a macromol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,571 Views
19 Pages

6 December 2011

Despite their potent antimicrobial activity, the usefulness of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) as antibiotics has been limited by their toxicity to eukaryotic cells and a lack of stability in vivo. In the present study we examined the effects of introd...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,963 Views
25 Pages

5 December 2011

Since their earliest synthesis, much interest has arisen in the use of dendritic and structurally allied forms of polymer for light energy harvesting, especially as organic adjuncts for solar energy devices. With the facility to accommodate a prolife...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,275 Views
10 Pages

Embryonic Stem Cells Maintain an Undifferentiated State on Dendrimer-Immobilized Surface with d-Glucose Display

  • Shohreh Mashayekhan,
  • Mee-Hae Kim,
  • Masahiro Kino-oka,
  • Jun-ichi Miyazaki and
  • Masahito Taya

5 December 2011

In serial passaging cultures of mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells, we employed a dendrimer-immobilized substrate that displayed d-glucose as a terminal ligand. The d-glucose-displaying dendrimer (GLU/D) surface caused the ES cells to form loosely attac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,375 Views
14 Pages

The Influence of Synthesis Parameters on Particle Size and Photoluminescence Characteristics of Ligand Capped Tb3+:LaF3

  • Kyle Gipson,
  • Courtney Kucera,
  • Derek Stadther,
  • Kathryn Stevens,
  • John Ballato and
  • Phil Brown

29 November 2011

Organic ligand surface-treated Tb3+:LaF3 was synthesized in water and methanol for subsequent incorporation into polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) via solution-precipitation chemistry in order to produce optically active polymer nanocomposites. Nanopart...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
12,157 Views
21 Pages

Incorporation of Hyperbranched Supramolecules into Nafion Ionic Domains via Impregnation and In-Situ Photopolymerization

  • Nadzrinahamin A. Nazir,
  • Thein Kyu,
  • Anna M. Reinsel,
  • Matthew Espe,
  • Mami Nosaka,
  • Hiruto Kudo and
  • Tadatomi Nishikubo

28 November 2011

Nafion membranes were impregnated with photocurable supramolecules, viz., hyperbranched polyester having pendant functional carboxylic acid groups (HBPEAc-COOH) by swelling in methanol and subsequently photocured in-situ after drying. Structure-prope...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,258 Views
8 Pages

Role of Antimicrobial Peptides in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

  • Jan-Michel Otte and
  • Stefan Vordenbäumen

16 November 2011

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are characterized by a chronic relapsing inflammation of the gastrointestinal mucosa. The etiology and pathogenesis of these disorders such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis are incompletely understood. Recen...

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