This week: Researchers build a biomimetic mechanical chameleon to test a new method for achieving invisibility via real-time active camouflage, while a study shows concentrations of rare earth elements used in new high-tech applications are rapidly building up in San Francisco Bay – and more!
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From Highly Crystalline to Outer Surface-Functionalized Covalent Organic Frameworks—A Modulation Approach
Mona Calik, Torben Sick, Mirjam Dogru, Markus Döblinger, Stefan Datz, Harald Budde, Achim Hartschuh, Florian Auras, and Thomas Bein
Am. Chem. Soc., Article ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b10708
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Combinatorial Optimization of Sequence-Defined Oligo(ethanamino)amides for Folate Receptor-Targeted pDNA and siRNA Delivery
Dongsheng He, Katharina Müller, Ana Krhac Levacic, Petra Kos, Ulrich Lächelt, and Ernst Wagner
Bioconjugate Chem., Article ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.5b00649
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Increases in Anthropogenic Gadolinium Anomalies and Rare Earth Element Concentrations in San Francisco Bay over a 20 Year Record
Vanessa Hatje, Kenneth W. Bruland, and A. Russell Flegal
Environ. Sci. Technol., Article ASAP
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Ion-Directed Synthesis of Indium-Derived 2,5-Thiophenedicarboxylate Metal–Organic Frameworks: Tuning Framework Dimensionality
Joseph J. Mihaly, Matthias Zeller, and Douglas T. Genna
Cryst. Growth Des., Article ASAP
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The Pathogenic Mutation T182A Converts the Prion Protein into a Molten Globule-like Conformation Whose Misfolding to Oligomers but Not to Fibrils Is Drastically Accelerated
Jogender Singh and Jayant B. Udgaonkar
Biochemistry, 2016, 55 (3), pp 459–469
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.5b01266
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Mechanical Chameleon through Dynamic Real-Time Plasmonic Tuning
Guoping Wang, Xuechen Chen, Sheng Liu, Chingping Wong, and Sheng Chu
ACS Nano, Article ASAP
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Synthesis and Diels–Alder Reactivity of Substituted [4]Dendralenes
Mehmet F. Saglam, Ali R. Alborzi, Alan D. Payne, Anthony C. Willis, Michael N. Paddon-Row, and Michael S. Sherburn
Org. Chem., Article ASAP
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