Macromolecular science is a highly interdisciplinary field drawing from many areas of research that involve the synthesis, processing, properties and applications of polymers. Polymers form the basis of many everyday materials such as plastics, fibers, films, rubber, paints, and adhesives, and impact crucial aspects of life such as healthcare and medicine, energy, and the environment. […]
Macromolecular science is a highly interdisciplinary field drawing from many areas of research that involve the synthesis, processing, properties and applications of polymers. Polymers form the basis of many everyday materials such as plastics, fibers, films, rubber, paints, and adhesives, and impact crucial aspects of life such as healthcare and medicine, energy, and the environment. Given the significant role of polymer chemistry in our lives, Pacifichem 2015 will hold several dedicated ‘Macromolecular’ thematic sessions. We showcase here a compilation of recent articles published in relevant journals of the American Chemical Society, and authored by speakers and session organizers of the Macromolecular symposia at Pacifichem.
In line with this year’s theme, this collection highlights the collaborative and multidisciplinary nature of polymer science. These articles cover work in new synthetic routes, nanotechnology, deriving materials from renewable resources, and development of novel polymeric materials with a plethora of applications such as therapeutics, bioimaging, photonics, batteries and energy storage, and bio-based manufacturing. Through this themed collection we highlight impactful and most recent advances by polymer scientists with promise for future discoveries and developments.
ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
Polymeric Micelle Platform for Multimodal Tomographic Imaging to Detect Scirrhous Gastric Cancer
Yutaka Miura, Atsushi B. Tsuji, Aya Sugyo, Hitomi Sudo, Ichio Aoki, Masayuki Inubushi, Masakazu Yashiro, Kosei Hirakawa, Horacio Cabral, Nobuhiro Nishiyama, Tsuneo Saga, and Kazunori Kataoka
ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 2015 1 (11), 1067-1076
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.5b00142
Thermoresponsive Copolypeptide Hydrogel Vehicles for Central Nervous System Cell Delivery
Shanshan Zhang, Joshua E. Burda, Mark A. Anderson, Ziru Zhao, Yan Ao, Yin Cheng, Yi Sun, Timothy J. Deming, and Michael V. Sofroniew
ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 2015 1 (8), 705-717
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.5b00153
Macromolecular and Inorganic Nanomaterials Scaffolds for Carbon Monoxide Delivery: Recent Developments and Future Trends
Diep Nguyen and Cyrille Boyer
ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 2015 1 (10), 895-913
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.5b00230
ACS Macro Letters
Self-Reporting Degradable Fluorescent Grafted Copolymer Micelles Derived from Biorenewable Resources
Amandine Noel, Yannick P. Borguet, and Karen L. Wooley
ACS Macro Letters 2015 4 (6), 645-650
DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.5b00227
Inherently Photohealable and Thermal Shape-Memory Polydisulfide Networks
Brian T. Michal, Colin A. Jaye, Emily J. Spencer, and Stuart J. Rowan
ACS Macro Letters 2013 2 (8), 694-699
DOI: 10.1021/mz400318m
Stereocomplex Formation of Densely Grafted Brush Polymers
Benjamín R. Sveinbjörnsson, Garret M. Miyake, Amer El-Batta, and Robert H. Grubbs
ACS Macro Letters 2014 3 (1), 26-29
DOI: 10.1021/mz400568j
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
One-Pot Conversion of Cellulose into n-Hexane over the Ir-ReOx/SiO2Catalyst Combined with HZSM-5
Sibao Liu, Masazumi Tamura, Yoshinao Nakagawa, and Keiichi Tomishige
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2014 2 (7), 1819-1827
DOI: 10.1021/sc5001463
Kinetic Modeling of Switchgrass-Derived Xylose Oligomers Degradation during Pretreatment in Dilute Acid or in Water
Ching-Shuan Lau, Kris Bunnell, and Danielle Julie Carrier
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2015 3 (9), 2030-2035
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.5b00298
Acid-Catalyzed Chitin Liquefaction in Ethylene Glycol
Yann Pierson, Xi Chen, Felix D. Bobbink, Jiaguang Zhang, and Ning Yan
DOI: 10.1021/sc500334b
Biomacromolecules
Glucose-Containing Diblock Polycations Exhibit Molecular Weight, Charge, and Cell-Type Dependence for pDNA Delivery
Yaoying Wu, Miao Wang, Dustin Sprouse, Adam E. Smith, and Theresa M. Reineke
Biomacromolecules 2014 15 (5), 1716-1726
DOI: 10.1021/bm5001229
Development of Guanidinium-Rich Protein Mimics for Efficient siRNA Delivery into Human T Cells
Brittany M. deRonde, Joe A. Torres, Lisa M. Minter, and Gregory N. Tew
Biomacromolecules 2015 16 (10), 3172-3179
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.5b00795
ECM-Incorporated Hydrogels Cross-Linked via Native Chemical Ligation To Engineer Stem Cell Microenvironments
Jangwook P. Jung, Anthony J. Sprangers, John R. Byce, Jing Su, Jayne M. Squirrell, Phillip B. Messersmith, Kevin W. Eliceiri, and Brenda M. Ogle
Biomacromolecules 2013 14 (9), 3102-3111
DOI: 10.1021/bm400728e
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
Sulfated Mesoporous Niobium Oxide Catalyzed 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural Formation from Sugars
Ernest Lau Sze Ngee, Yongjun Gao, Xi Chen, Timothy Misso Lee, Zhigang Hu, Dan Zhao, and Ning Yan
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2014 53 (37), 14225-14233
DOI: 10.1021/ie501980t
Journal of Organic Chemistry
Tetraphenylethene-Based Star Shaped Porphyrins: Synthesis, Self-assembly, and Optical and Photophysical Study
Anushri Rananaware, Rajesh S. Bhosale, Kei Ohkubo, Hemlata Patil, Lathe A. Jones, Sam L. Jackson, Shunichi Fukuzumi, Sidhanath V. Bhosale, and Sheshanath V. Bhosale
The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2015 80 (8), 3832-3840
DOI: 10.1021/jo502760e
Two Stepwise Synthetic Routes toward a Hetero[4]rotaxane
Qian-Fu Luo, Lan Zhu, Si-Jia Rao, Hong Li, Qi Miao, and Da-Hui Qu
The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2015 80 (9), 4704-4709
DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.5b00627
Chemiluminescence Efficiency of Catalyzed 1,2-Dioxetanone Decomposition Determined by Steric Effects
Fernando Heering Bartoloni, Marcelo Almeida de Oliveira, Luiz Francisco Monteiro Leite Ciscato, Felipe Alberto Augusto, Erick Leite Bastos, and Wilhelm Josef Baader
The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2015 80 (8), 3745-3751
DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.5b00515
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Macroscopic Photocontrol of Ion-Transporting Pathways of a Nanostructured Imidazolium-Based Photoresponsive Liquid Crystal
Bartolome Soberats, Emi Uchida, Masafumi Yoshio, Junko Kagimoto, Hiroyuki Ohno, and Takashi Kato
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014 136 (27), 9552-9555
DOI: 10.1021/ja5041573
Improving Paclitaxel Delivery: In Vitro and In Vivo Characterization of PEGylated Polyphosphoester-Based Nanocarriers
Fuwu Zhang, Shiyi Zhang, Stephanie F. Pollack, Richen Li, Amelia M. Gonzalez, Jingwei Fan, Jiong Zou, Sarah E. Leininger, Adriana Pavía-Sanders, Rachel Johnson, Laura D. Nelson, Jeffery E. Raymond, Mahmoud Elsabahy, Dennis M. P. Hughes, Mark W. Lenox, Tiffany P. Gustafson, and Karen L. Wooley
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2015 137 (5), 2056-2066
DOI: 10.1021/ja512616s
Multifunctional Nanoworms and Nanorods through a One-Step Aqueous Dispersion Polymerization
Zhongfan Jia, Valentin A. Bobrin, Nghia P. Truong, Marianne Gillard, and Michael J. Monteiro
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014 136 (16), 5824-5827
DOI: 10.1021/ja500092m
Macromolecules
ABA Triblock Brush Polymers: Synthesis, Self-Assembly, Conductivity, and Rheological Properties
Christopher M. Bates, Alice B. Chang, Nebojša Momčilović, Simon C. Jones, and Robert H. Grubbs
Macromolecules 2015 48 (14), 4967-4973
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b00880
One-Pot “Click” Fabrication of Slide-Ring Gels
Takuya Murakami, Bernhard V. K. J. Schmidt, Hugh R. Brown, and Craig J. Hawker
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b0171
Characterization of Fibrous Aggregated Morphologies and Other Complex Architectures Self-Assembled from Helical Alkyne and Triazole Polycarbodiimides (R)- and (S)-Families in the Bulk and Thin Film
Oleg V. Kulikov, Dumindika A. Siriwardane, James F. Reuther, Gregory T. McCandless, Hao-Jan Sun, Yuanchao Li, Samsuddin F. Mahmood, Sergei S. Sheiko, Virgil Percec, and Bruce M. Novak
Macromolecules 2015 48 (12), 4088-4103
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b00407
